More Freebies - Life Is Good

 A few goodies for you this morning.  There's free fiction (text and/or audio) by notable authors Ramsey Campbell and Paul Di Filippo. There's flash fiction (including a reading of a Lovecraft poem), e-books, and comics.

 And be sure to check out SF Signal and  Free SF Reader for more free fiction links and Best Science Fiction Stories and Variety SF for free fiction reviews with links.

  [Art from "Men and Fire" in Comics below]

Fiction

At Nightmare Magazine: "At Lorn Hall" by Ramsey Campbell. Horror.

       "Randolph hadn’t expected the map to misrepresent the route to the motorway quite so much. The roads were considerably straighter on the page. The high beams roused swarms of shadows in the hedges and glinted on elongated warnings of bends ahead, and then the light found a signpost. It pointed down a lane to somewhere called Lorn Hall."

At Yesteryear Fiction: "A Tale of Bugs" by Joel Zartman. Fantasy.
     "After he left, Christine cut a piece from the plant and put it on the desk. She had noticed several black spots on it and when she put the plant on the desk, the spots began to scurry away."

Flash Fiction

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Safe Road" by Caroline M. Yoachim. 
• At Every Day Fiction: "The Dream Depot" by by Erin Cole. Science Fiction.
• At SFFAudio: "The City" by H.P. Lovecraft. Horror. Audio. Poem.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Ground Up" by Steve Smith. Science Fiction.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily.

• Post-Human Trilogy by David Simpson. Science Fiction.
• Spending Christmas with a Yeti by Max W. Miller . Fairy Tales, Legends & Mythology, Short Stories.
• The Legacy of Sadie Mae Stevens: The Gordite Witch by Max W. Miller. YA Fantasy.
• Blood Melt by Max W. Miller. YA Science Fiction.

At Smashwords:

• "The Chaac Ornamentation" by Michael Carter. Fantasy. 3k.
• Last Teardrop (The Chronicles of Amber Harris) by Elle A. Rose. Fantasy. 85k.
• Enchantress by James Maxwell. Fantasy. 163k.
• "Everybody Loves Me" by J.E. Barrett. Horror. 2k.
• "Planet X91 the beginning"  by Mark Stewart. Science Fiction. 21k.
• "Uncle Remy's Whizz-Bang Circus" by Maggie Clark. Science Fiction. 9k. 
• Project Earth I: Origin by Lidier Fernandez. Science Fiction. 51k. 
• "Original Strand" by Steve S. Grant. Science Fiction. 10k. 

 Audio Fiction
At Nightmare Magazine: "At Lorn Hall" by Ramsey Campbell. Horror.
       Described above.

At StarShipSofa: "Shadowboxer" by Paul Di Filippo. Speculative Fiction.
      "It's a political story about an assassin who can kill by looking at someone, who is kidnapped by the US and pressed into service as part of the War on Terror." -BoingBoing

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics:  Lost Worlds "Men and Fire" Sci-fi. 1953.
At Digital Comics Museum: This Magazine Is Haunted 013 (diff ver) Horror. 1953.

Four eZines, The Black Star Passes, and More.

More great free eZines today as well as a few more single stories. There are a few big-name writers as well as several promising newcomers. And for fans of classic SF, libriVox has a free audiobook of "The Black Star Passes" by John Wood Campbell Jr.. I'm still catching up, so it will probably be at least a week before some categories make more than a token appearance.

Today's illustration is from the serial linked below, "The Seventh Execution" by Amber E. Scott.








Now Posted: Flurb #12

• "Fjaerland" by Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo.
• "The Onset of a Paranormal Romance" by Bruce Sterling.
• "The Curse of the Were-Penis" by Emily C. Skaftun.
• "Everything Is Broken" by John Shirley.
• "Pulped And Bound Monsters" by Adam Callaway
• "The Oyster and Alice O." by Anna Tambour.
• "The Robert Armstrong Syndicated Newspaper Strip" by A. S. Salinas.
• "Gertrude and Ludwig Spin A Web" by Justin Patrick Moore.
• "I Can’t Escape From You" by Brendan Byrne.
• "Xuanito" by Ernest Hogan.
• "Big Ripples Without a Splash" by Don Webb.
• "Concerning Tavia" by Martin Hayes.
• "Walls Between Worlds" by Will Ellwood.
• "After the Thaw" by Eileen Gunn.

Now Posted The Fifth Dimension Ed. 13, #3 Sept. 2011

• "God Felt Regret" by D.N. Calkins.
• "Ghost in Rock" by Ross Gresham.
• "A Return to Paradise" by Tony Peak.
• "Cold Comfort" by Jennifer Rachel Baumer.

Now Posted: New Myths #16. Speculative Fiction.

• "At the Center of the World" by Kenneth Mark Hoover.
• "Bread Crumbs and Thigh Bones" by Amy Sundberg.
• "Out of Frozen Shadow" by Sylvia Hiven.
• "Expiration Date" by Yeoryios Pantazis.

Now Posted: Electric Spec V. 6, #3 August 31, 2011. Speculative Fiction.

• "Monkey Talk" by T. Lucas Earle.
• "Justice Like a Mighty River" by Alter S. Reiss.
• "The Coincidence Factory" by Fredrick Obermeyer.
• "Tooth and Claw" by Rina Gonzales.
• "Stranded (with Porkchop)" by Rich Matrunick.

@Wiley Writers: "The Fortress of Solicitude" by Laura Givens. Superhero.

"Extra! Extra! Sex-crazed girls killing local lads in the streets of Newark! Read all about it! It’s 1938 and Kong the Avenger is out to solve the most bizarre case of his short career as a mystery man. He may need a little help from his friends."

@Ray Gun Revival: "Galactic Wonders" by Matthew Wuertz. Science Fiction.

"The unpretentious headquarters of Galactic Wonders is a suite of rooms in a one-story building in Naperville, just outside of Chicago. I think the space was designed for a dentist or doctor because there’s a lobby just inside the front door with a sliding glass window on the far wall."

@Aoife's Kiss: "The Suicide Inspector" by J. J. Steinfeld. Science Fiction.

"Though I wasn't a Rebel or a Weasel from the Underground, I once despaired totally of having a sensible place in society. My hopelessness was so thorough that thoughts of death occupied me night and day. My current work now bathes all my previous dark thoughts in the deepest irony. Just a year ago I wished to extinguish myself. I was simultaneously drifting and dangling, questioning the wisdom of the State, a breath away from curses and irrevocable acts."

Serial Fiction
@Paizo: "The Seventh Execution -Chapter Two: The Faithful False" by Amber E. Scott. Fantasy.

"We retreated into a network of side streets where we could escape if necessary and where we'd easily hear anyone approaching. The night was cool enough to frost our breath. The smell of refuse lingered beneath the familiar city smells of dirt, sweat, horse dung, and boiled potatoes."

@LibriVox: "The Black Star Passes" by John Wood Campbell Jr., read by "KirksVoice"

"A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets… The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System."

@Wiley Writers: "The Fortress of Solicitude" by Laura Givens. Superhero. [See above]