Rounding Up Some Free E-Books and Free Fiction

A trio of good short stories then a rampaging herd of e-books. [Art from "A Life in Moments"]





Fiction
• At L5R: "A Life in Moments" by Brian Yoon. Fantasy. RPG.
     "The armies would soon move and she would once again spend her days on the march, yet Akodo Dairuko could not relax in her guest quarters. Her discomfort had nothing to do with her amenities, as Lady Naleesh knew how to treat her guests. The rooms were cozy to the point of excess and servants were waiting to fill the slightest need. For her part, Dairuko found the style distasteful, but her high station meant she could not reject them without giving serious offense."

• At Silver Blade: "Stranger" by Rachael Acks. Science Fiction. 
      "The cloud is an overturned bowl made of smoke, wispy white on the top and woolly gray beneath.  It hovers like an invader, over rolling green plains and squared-off plots of farmland and houses that might be wooden toys. The air tastes like damp and electricity, a thunderstorm waiting to happen."

• At Silver Blade: "The Command for Love" by Nick T.Chan. Steampunk. 
      "For the third time in a week, Ligish removed the locking pin from the back of his skull, opened the doors and examined his brain through an automicroscope. Maybe today he’d figure out which one of the homunculus’ slips of paper was the command for love and destroy the damn thing. The last thing he wanted was to fall in love with his master’s daughter."


E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink] 

• The Devil’s Fire: A Pirate Adventure Novel by Matt Tomerlin.
  The Dragon Hour by Connie Flynn. Time Travel.
• Waterfall: A Novel (River of Time Series) by Lisa T. Bergren.

At Smashwords:

• "Argel - Book One - Planet of Refuge" by B.B. Humphrey. Science Fiction.
• "The Camera" by Phil Strahl. Weird. Horror.

At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

• "Time Samplers #1 - Escape from Jekyll Island" Comic Book. 
• The Monsters of Stephen Enchanter by D.J. Natelson. Fantasy.   
• A Good Brew is Hard to Find by Garrett Calcaterra.  
• The Eye of Aceribus (The Dragon Born Cycle 1) by Mackenzie Dolmovich. Fantasy. 
• The Weathering (Dawn of the Apocalypse 1) by Joseph McGinnis. Apocalyptic. 
• Light and Dark by Samuel Kearns. Science Fiction.
• The Fourth Age Of Penderan. The Key Of Men by A. J. Winstanley. Fantasy.
• Silver Eye by Nicole Massie. Paranormal.
• The Complete Manuscript (A Sorcerer's Tale) by Jonathan Mathews. Fantasy.
• The Most Unlikely Beginnings (Signet 1) by K. Merriweather. Superhero.
• Spaced Out - Armegeddon by Thom Robinson. Post-Apocalyptic. 
• The Last Cross by Rick Blackwell. Science Fiction.
• Alutia Rising (Alutia Rising Series) by Craig Gerttula. Science Fiction.
• Shibboleth: The Genetic Supermarket by R. Douglas Burns. Science Fiction.
• Nephilim Awakening: Enkindu by Henry Yarghn. Paranormal.
• Maybe Fate: A Novel by Cynthia Brint. Paranormal Romance.
• Extinction by Mark Leney. Science Fiction.
• MAXIS by John Schepise. Military Science Fiction.
• Twice Melvin by Paul Raphael. Paranormal.
• Fantastic Revelations Vol. 1 (Young Adult Fantasy Stories) by Grant Morris.
• Single Event Upset by Cole J. Freeman. Science Fiction.
• Escaping Heaven by Cliff Hicks. Paranormal.
• Sector 5: The Battle For Earth by R.J. White. Science Fiction.
• Trying by Rebecca Gale. Science Fiction Romance.
• Warrior's Bride (The Stone of Destiny Series) by Gerri Russell. Historical Fantasy.
• Betrayal's Shadow (The Guardians of Eden Book 1) by KH LeMoyne. Paranormal.
• Kaybree versus the Angels (Kaybree the Angel Killer) by Harrison Paul. Fantasy.
• A Breach In Death by Matt Thomas. Paranormal.
• Amongst the Ruins (The Chronicles of 2020 1) by Saewod Tice. Dystopian Romance.

It's Your Free Fiction Wake-Up Call

A few free goodies to start the weekend. [Art from "Doorway to the Future" in comics below]







Flash Fiction
• At Every Day Fiction: "Everything is Going To Be All Right" by Faisal Pakkali. Science Fiction.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Eve" by Sean A Murphy. Science Fiction.
• At Flash Fiction Online August 2013: [via SF Signal]

• "Rumpelstiltskin in Love" by K.C. Norton. Fantasy.
• "Fifty-Year-Old Face" by Kurt Newton Surreal.
• "Beyond Long Radio" by Andy Dudak. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Every Photo Tells: "A Pirate’s Life For Me" by Katharina Bordet. YA Adventure.
     "Being a pirate captain isn’t always all it’s cut out to be"

• At Dunesteef: "The Calling" by Rish Outfield. Horror.
      "Joshua McGinty grew up in an unusual family. The family has a religious calling, but it’s one that Joshua desperately wants to escape. And he thought he had, until suddenly, his twin sister January showed up to bring it all back again…"

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Doorway to the Future" 1954. Sci-fi.
• At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "Airboy" 1952. Sci-fi. UFO. Aliens,

E-Books
• At Amazon:  The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey. Science Fiction. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
•At Barnes & Noble:  What's for Dinner? by Robert L. Arend. Zombies.[Nook]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

• Siege of Titan (Star Crusades Uprising, Book 1) by Michael G. Thomas. Science Fiction.
• Nighthawks at the Mission (Off-World Blues Series) by Forbes West and Chris McGuire. Futuristic Fantasy.
• Get Off My L@wn by Perry Kivolowitz. Zombies.
• Petrina: A 2070 Novel by Edward M. Grant. Science Fiction.
• Memories of Space and Magic by Paul Comstock. Fantasy. Science Fiction.

At Free eBooks Daily:

• Witchwood Estate - Books 1 & 2 by Patti Roberts. YA Paranormal
• Urban Necromancer by Phil Chard. Horror.
• Aetna Adrift: Part 1 by Erik Wecks. Science Fiction.
• The Bank of the River by Michael Richan. Horror.
• The Soul Garden by Cege Smith. SciFi Dystopian.
• Spree by Jonathan DeCoteau. YA Paranormal.
• Cage of Gears (The Books of Meticulation) by Mark Reagan. Fantasy. Vampires.

Other Genres

• Audio at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: "Won't You Come Out Tonight?" by Josh Pachter
• Fiction at Online Pulps: "Death With Pictures" by John L. Benton (1949),  "The Call From Stateroom 37" by Philip M. Fisher, Jr. (1920),  "The Lottery Racketeer" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen. (1948). 
• Fiction at WMG Publishing: "Spinning" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Mystery.

Free E-Books, Comics, and OTR

Rounding out the day with some free ebooks, comics, and old time radio. They are all good so get them all.  And for more freebies check out SF Signal's  "Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction" (Poor Regan found what I was getting him for Christmas and has come to "deeply regret that decision") and for spoiler-free reviews of  free SF check out Variety SF and BestScienceFictionStories.com.



E-Books
• Via Pixel of Ink: "The Spider and the Fly" by C.E. Stalbaum. Science Fiction.
• Via Pixel of Ink: "Blood Skies" by Syd Gill. Horror.
• At Free eBooks Daily:

• Rock Star by Amy Schmidt. Urban fantasy.
• Daisy Madigan's Paradise by Suzy Turner. YA Fantasy.
• Give Me by LK Rigel. Fantasy Romance.
• Midnight To Sunrise by Rebecca R. Cohen. YA Fantasy.
• Racing the Dark by Alaya Dawn Johnson. YA Fantasy.
• The Flight of the Griffin by C.M. Gray. Fantasy.
• Subterranea by Mike Duran. Horror. Dark Fantasy.
• Close Liaisons by Anna Zaires. Paranormal Romance.
• Rakshasa by Alica Knight. Paranormal Romance.
• Angel All Year by Sally Clements. Paranormal Romance.
• The Fall of Ossard by Colin Taber. Fantasy.
• Quexistence: The Quest for the Meaning of Existence: Time Dreams by Tom Stafford. Fantasy.
• Lacuna: Demons of the Void by David Adams. Science Fiction.
• Dream Caster by Najeev Raj Nadarajah. YA Fantasy.

• At Smashwords:

• "Anniversary of the Veil-Beginnings: The Beacon" by Vanna Smythe. Fantasy. 50k.
• "The Darkness Ambassador" by Quelli di ZEd. Fantasy. 3k.
• "Apocalypse Cruise" by Meredith Mansfield. Fantasy. 2k.
• "Hell's Fire" by Candy O'Donnell. Horror. 8k.
• "Rosters of the Dead" by Jessie Massey. Horror. Ghost. 23k.
• "The Relative Galaxy" by Conrad Johnson. Science Fiction. 10k.
• Fear and Aggression by Dane Bagley. Science Fiction. 118k. 
• "Party Jack" by John David Hanna. 5k.

Comics

• At Pappy's: "Captain Daring" from Buccaneers #22 (1950). Adventure. Pirates.
• At The Horrors of It All: "Doomsday!" from Black Cat Mystery #40 (1952) Horror. 
• At The Horrors of It All: "My Daddy Should Have Listened" from  Beware #12 (1952) Horror.
• At Seduction of the Innocent: "HeartLine" from Chamber of Chills #23 (1954). Horror.

Old Time Radio

• At Boxcars711: "Final Resting Place" - Macabre (11-13-61). Horror.
  
• At Boxcars711: "Mind Well The Tree" - Fear On Four. (02-28-88) Horror.
• At Relic Radio: "Two Little Punctures" - Theater 10:30. Horror.
• At Relic Radio: "Morrow On Mars" - Tales Of Tomorrow (04-02-53). Sci-Fi.

The Snergs, Tales to Terrify, Comics, and More. AKA Part Two

Another batch of free goodies for all.  There's a new episode of the fantastic horror podcast Tales to Terrify, and the text version of one of the stories from it (No paragraph breaks though). There's an audiobook (complete) of The Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith, one of Tolkien's major inspirations for the Hobbit.  There's more good audio fiction, several classic Horror comics, flash fiction and more.

[Art from "Sirens of Space" in Comics below]



Fiction
• At Author's Site: "A Word from the World" by Lawrence Santoro. Horror. (poorly formatted)
      "The snow had started the day before. The sun was bright in a clear sky and it snowed! Each flake caught the sun. Sparkles swam in the air living along the wind. People passing on Cottage Street looked up to the clear air to let the cold colors hit them in the eye, or on the glasses."

Flash Fiction

• At Flashes in the Dark: "A Red Summer's Morning" by Henry Peter Gribbin. Horror.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "The Game of Life" by Desmond Hussey. Science Fiction.
• At Weirdyear: "Cycle of the Gods" by David Edward Nell. Weird.

Audio Fiction
• At Macabe Fantasy: "The Statement of Randolph Carter" by H. P. Lovecraft. Horror.
      "I repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Detain me here forever if you will; confine or execute me if you must have a victim to propitiate the illusion you call justice; but I can say no more than I have said already. Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candour."

• At The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences:  "The Cross of Columba" by Doc Coleman". Steampunk.
        "Agent Bryan Teague travels from the London offices to a remote area of Scotland on the call of Lord Pennyfarthing, a self-proclaimed scientist and specialist in ancient and rare fauna. Agent Teague arrives to find his skepticism of Pennyfarthing’s previous follies on finding a traumatised valet and a dying English lord with an incredible fish story…"

• At Redecorating Middle-Earth in Early Lovecraft:  The Snergs by E.A. Wyke-Smith. YA Fantasy. [via Forgotten Classics]
      "which J.R.R. Tolkien read to his children and acknowledged as a sourcebook for his The Hobbit. This is a most clever and delightful story. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Take Tolkien’s: 'I should like to register my own love and my children’s love of E.A. Wyke-Smith’s Marvellous Land of Snergs...'"

• At Tales to Terrify: "Show No 49" Horror.

"A Word from the World" by Lawrence Santoro.
      Desceibed above.
"The Spirit of Christmas" by James Lovegrove.
        No description found

Comics

• At Atomic Kommie Comics: Kenton of the Star Patrol  - "Sirens of Space" Sci-Fi (1951)
• At Fiction House & Standard Horror. Many horror stories from the early 1950s (via THOIA)
• At Four-Color Shadows: Black Roger - "Lady in the Iron Mask" Adventure. Pirate. (1950)
• At The Horrors of It All: "The Cannibal!" Horror. (1953)
• At Pappy's: "Back to Yesterday" Paranormal. (1949)

Music
• At Redecorating Middle-Earth in Early Lovecraft:  "Five Favorite Bilbo Baggins-Centric Songs" Fantasy Music.

Other Genres

• Audio at CraftLit: "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. Commentary then story.
• Audio at Every Picture Tells a Story: "Sobieski" by Mick Bordet.
• Audio at Mahabharata Podcast: The Mahabharata (English language re-telling of the ancient epic. 100 episodes complete)
• Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "The Doll" • by Rachel J Bailey.

Even More Freebies

A few more free items for your enjoyment. Comics, Flash Fiction, Audio Fiction, a free Wargame, and several e-books and short stories (including two by the infamous Regan Wolfrom).

[Art from Beyond the Waters of the World by Ruth Nestvold.]










Fiction E-Books 
At Author’s Site: "The Ocean Goddess and The Home Run Queen" by Regan Wolfrom. Contemporary Fantasy. [Via SF Signal]
     "Danger, my goddess would whisper softly to me whenever The Wolfman would approach. Danger."
At Author’s Site: "Rat Island" by Chris Beckett. Science Fiction. [Via SF Signal]
      "Incredible folly, blind recklessness, it all now seems – blazing electric light for no purpose at all except advertising and decoration – but it was a golden age, one of the pinnacles of history"
Reviewed at BestScienceFictionStories:  "The True Story of Merganther’s Run" by David D. Levine.

At Free eBooks Daily:  

• Beyond the Waters of the World by Ruth Nestvold. Science Fiction. 
• Exodus by Tara Saran . YA Zombie Fiction.
• Blood Born by Joshua Grover-David Patterson. Fantasy Horror.
• The Black Jewel by J Gordon Smith. Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "Vegans Are F**king Delicious" by Regan Wolfrom. Contemporary Fantasy. 6k.
• "Entertaining Angels" by Matthew Angelo. Urban Fantasy.
• "The Eleventh Question" by Dianne Gray. Contemporary Fantasy. 49k.
• "Gears of a Mad God: A Steampunk Lovecraft Adventure" by Brent Nichols. Steampunk. Horror. 28k.
• "Moment of Extinction" by Paul R. Hardy. Science Fiction. 5k.
• "Sub-Textual Evidence for the Existence of Alien Life and the Extrapolation of Internet Protocols" by Lazette Gifford. Science Fictions. 7k.
• "Courage For Profit" by John Leader. Science Fiction. 2k.

Flash Fiction
At Every Day Fiction: "Which Lagoon Was It, Again?" by Eric Del Carlo.
At Flashes in the Dark: "The Inheritance" by Matthew Guerruckey. Horror.
At Quantum Muse: "The Cupcake" by Harris Tobias. Speculative Fiction.
At 365 Tomorrows: "Surprise Party" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics:  "Escape to Death" Sci-Fi.
At The Comic Book Catacombs: Marga the Panther Woman in "Ivory City" Adventure. 1940.
At The Comic Book Catacombs: "Death Ship" Sci-Fi. Horror. 1954.
At The Horrors of It All: "Crawling Evil" Horror. 1952
At Seduction of the Innocent!!: "Slaughter-House!" Horror. 1954.
At True Love Comics: "All for Love" Sci-Fi From Space Adventures 1953.

Audio Fiction
At Crime City Central: "Texas In The Fall" by R J Ellory. Crime.
At Every Day Fiction: “Serenity or Sails” by Dale Ivan Smith. Adventure. Pirates. Flash.
     "Alexander Simon had been on the deserted isle for at least two years when the sails appeared on the horizon. The bonfire burned from the peak — Jade Peak, he called it, since it was covered in green foliage"
 
Gaming 
At Bushido: "Bushido: New Dawn" Fantasy wargame in PDF download. [Via freewargamesrules]
     "Bushido is a game of savage battles, of cunning stratagems and last-ditch defences, and where debts of honour are paid in blood. In Bushido, the fate of the world hangs not on armies but on individual heroes, men and women of extraordinary capacity, attuned to the all-permeating life force known as Ki."

Thursday Online Freebies

A few gems today, including the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies (awesome 'zine), ongoing serial fiction (both quite good), another episode of StarShipSofa (always worth a listen), a complete audio story at Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (part one was incomplete? so the released the whole story in one file), two versions of Robert E. Howard's weird tale "The Fire Of Asshurbanipal," some ongoing fan audio, and many cool comics including the source for today's illustration.








Now Posted: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #73.
"And Her Eyes Sewn Shut with Unicorn Hair" by Rosamund Hodge.

"Why should she hope to see a unicorn now, when she never had in all her life?"

"Walls of Paper, Soft as Skin" by Adam Callaway.

"Tomai awoke to whispers. Hundreds of whispers. All whispering at once. A whirlwind of soft sound. Whispers in a dozen different languages."

Serial Fiction
@Paizo.com: "Plow and Sword (part 3 of 4)" by Robert E. Vardeman.

"Rorr used the shovel to turn dirt amid the tree roots until he struck the buried packages. He dropped to his knees and used his hands to brush away the remaining dirt, revealing several small packets and one larger one. That last one he ignored, instead pulling the oilcloth wrappings free from one of the smaller bundles."

@More Red Ink:"Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song (Part 2 of 3)" by Ernest Hogan.

"But I did need her to bring me out of it. Willa Shembe, the pride of the scientific community of Zululand. A girl used to experiencing the universe through other peoples' minds."

@StarShipSofa: "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen’s Window (Part 2 of 3)" by Rachel Swirsky, read by Amy H. Sturgis.

@MoPO: "The Shadows of Calcutta" by Phil Rossi. Steampunk.

@SFFaudio: Two versions of "The Fire Of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard. Weird Tales.








Fan Audio
@Pendant Productions: Issue 35 of the Catwoman: Queen of Thieves podcast.
@Pendant Productions: Issue 66 of the Batman: The Ace of Detectives podcast







@The Bloody Pulp: "Lighthouse Of Horror" & "The Hungry Slime" B&W. Horror.
@The Horrors of It All: "The Moon Was Red" Horror. (1953)
@The Horrors of It All: "Graveyard of Ghost Ships" Horror. Pirates. (1953).
@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Flying Saucer Comics Sci-Fi. (1954 & 1967).
@Comic Book Catacombs: Cave Girl in "Prey of the Headhunters" Adventure (1953)
@Comic Book Catacombs: Ty-Gor "Trap For Ty-Gor's Uncle" Adventure (1940).
@Grantbridge Street: "Rainmaker" Horror / Weird Tale.
@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "Gran'ma Died Last Year" B&W. Horror.
@Secret Sanctum of Captain Video: Captain Video in "Creatures of Doom" Sci-Fi.
@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Thing on Sputnik 4" Sci-Fi.
@War: Past, Present and Future: "Counter Attack" from Atomic War. Sci-Fi.
@Western Comics Adventures: "Sun Masters" Sci-Fi from Space Western

Fiction Magazines, H. G. Wells, Comics, and More

A ton of free reading today. Three magazines have their latest issues online, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (a long time favorite) and two I haven't linked to before. Schrodinger's Mouse "Tomorrow's best science fiction today" and LingerFiction, which publishes "stories within the confines of fantasy, science-fiction and horror." Both new magazines were found via Kristine Ong Muslim's website. Also chapter one of a new Erik Mona story, classic genre fiction, flash fiction, and a boatload of comics. Today's illustration is for "Batmen of Luna" in the comics Section below.







Beneath Ceaseless Skies has its 67th issue online with:
"Memories of Her" by Greg Linklater.
"My hand is seamed with quartz and gravel. It used to have folds of skin a witch could trace. No fingernails now, only the squares I scratched with a rusty blade for some reason I’ve long since forgotten."


"Dancing the Warrior" Part 3 by Marie Brennan.
"Kerestel decided quickly enough that he wouldn’t tell anybody—but he didn’t have to. Silverfires were trained to notice things, after all. Marwen spotted it the next morning, and before breakfast was over the uproar had begun."

And audio fiction "Love, Resurrected" by Cat Rambo from Issue #65.
"Three years after her death, she still labored in his service."


Schrodinger's Mouse has its Spring 2011 issue online with fiction and poetry.
"In Service of a Greater Cause" by Alex Shvartsman.
"Her head held high and her hand squeezing a small silver cross pendant, Susan Pennell walked into the den of evil."

"SnapBack" by John F. D. Taff.
"Personnel Report: Two agents present situations where input is necessary. Possible termination of grid access and extraction of agents may be necessary. Highlights below. Detailed report will be filed per Protocol 7 indices."

"Jane's Head" by Vincent Scarsella.
"Dearest Jane, I have your head. It's frozen, of course, preserved the past three years in a stainless steel box filled with liquid nitrogen"

"Almost Nighttime" by Kristine Ong Muslim.
"Like the loneliest kettle in the world, / it totters on creaky joints and pours"

"Inner Circles" by Pat Tompkins.
"a moon to planet / as Io to Jupiter"


The April issue of LingerFiction is online with:


"The Hiders" by Heather Fowler.
"We hid because it lowered our chances for selection. All knew of the agreement accepted with the Kharal years ago, and, at each interval, on the appointed day, until the act had been completed so that we might recommence our regular activities"

"The Tare in the Garden" by George W. Latimer, Jr.
"Evan scanned the surroundings. No other weeds had sprung up. It was not a stray from the wild flowers in the naturalized sections of the garden. It was unlike anything he had ever seen."

"Snow in July" by Rick McQuiston.
"There were far stranger things that took precedence in his weary mind. Like the fact that even though the power was not out, the air conditioning still would not work, as well as his ceiling fan, desk fan, and even his refrigerator. "

"Othertongues" by Elizabeth Barrette.
"In the breathless dark between stars, / there is no air to carry sound."

"A Universe Inside You" by Marina Lee Sable.
"You awake one morning / to find your sight turned inward,"


Serial Fiction:
@Paizo.com: "Two Pieces of Tarnished Silver" Chapter One by Erik Mona.
"According to the navigator, the Queen's Lament had been less than a week from Quantium when the winds died, and the long voyage from distant Vudra had left them but a few days of provisions when the sails went slack and the ship fell still."

Classic SF/Fantasy:
@Hairy Green Eyeball 3: "Armageddon - 2419 A.D." by Philip Francis Nowlan, from Amazing Stories (Aug. 1928). - The first Buck Rogers story in JPG Scans.
"They had all they needed for their magnificently luxurious and degraded scheme of civilization within the walls of the fifteen cities of sparkling glass they had flung skyward on the sites of ancient American centers, into the bowels oh the earth underneath them, and with relatively small surrounding areas of agriculture."

@Project Gutenberg: The Sea Lady by H. G. Wells (1902). Mermaid fantasy/social satire.
"Such previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the sceptic. I must confess that I was absolutely incredulous of such things until a year ago." [via Triplanetary]







@365 tomorrows: "Remember O’ahu" by Roi R. Czechvala.
@Weird Year: "Golde’s Mine" by Troy Manning.
@Weird Year: "Dr. Pants" by Colleen Chen.
@Eschatology: "The Created" by Timothy Remp.
@Eschatology: "Nova" by Joe Jablonski.
@Eschatology: "Searching, Hiding, Leaving" by James Bloomer.
@The New Flesh: "What's Knocking At My Door" by Michael Pelc.
@The New Flesh: "Cookie" by James Steele.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Selfless" by Kenneth S Kao.







@The Horrors of It All: "Sinister Return of the Priestess of Baal" from Baffling Mysteries #11 (Horror - Nov. 1952)






@The Warrior's Comic Book Den: "The Jungle" illustrated by Al Williamson, from Eerie (Horror - Nov. 1966).

@Parishi's Vision: Flash Gordon in "The Floating City" IJC #102 (Sci-Fi).

@Pappys Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "Ghost pirates of Skull Valley" from Ranger Comics #54 (Horror).

@The Comic Book Catacombs: Voodah in "Drums of the Tyrant Priestess"from Crown Comics #6 (Adventure - Summer 1946).

@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: Starlord in "Less Than Human" (Sci-Fi).

@Digital Comics Museum: Target Comics V2 #4 and V2 #12 (Both with Spacehawk and other adventure comics) (1941/1942).

@Ditko Comics: "The Thing From Below" from Out of This World #5 [Monster 1957].

@Atomic Kommie Comics: "BatMen of Luna" from Spacebusters #2 (Sci-Fi).

Other Coolness
@Golden Age Comic Book Stories: [Art] Edgar Rice Burroughs galleries of cover and interior art. The Venus Series, Pellucidar Series, and The Mars Series.

Flying Disc Man From Mars and Cool Free Comics

It's Sunday so that means it's Moooooviiiiieeee and comics time again.








Streaming online at Youtube, the 1950 Republic Serial Flying Disc Man From Mars.
"A strange craft spying on industrialist Bryant's plant is brought down by Bryant's new atomic ray. Bryant meets the one survivor... Mota from the planet Mars! Not exactly benevolent, Mota enlists the aid of Bryant (a former Nazi) in a scheme to bring Earth under control of a supreme dictator, for its own good of course, using advanced atomic weapons." IMDb


Chapter 1/12-A, 1/12-B, 2/12, 3/12, 4/12, 5/12, 6/12, 7/12, 8/12, 9/12, 10/12, 11/12, and 12/12.

Comics
@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: A few short comic book stories including "Where Dinosaurs Dwell" from Marvel Tales #143 (1956) and "The Flying Horse" from Uncanny Tales #37 (1955).






@Beware, There's a Crosseyed Cyclops in my Basement: Chilling Tales of Horror #4 - classic B&W horror tales.








@Diversions of the Groovy Kind:"Harry" from Comix International #5 (1975). An unusual horror story, accurately described as "Poetic. Haunting. Sad. Ironic. Gorgeous."




Online @Four-Color Shadows: Sci-Fi humor "Adonis 2 PX-89" (1951) by Henry Enoch Sharp.

Also supernatural horror "The Evil Eye" from Chilling Tales (1953)



@Digital Comics Museum: Jumbo Comics #24 and Jumbo Comics #80.

Featuring the adventures of Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, the nautical adventures of the Hawk, and the supernatural adventures of Stuart Taylor. Both in CBR format [free membership required.]





@The Comic Book Catacombs: "The Man Who Killed A World" from Amazing Adventures #6 (Fall 1952). Golden age sci-fi.

And "Nyoka the Jungle Girl and the Human Leopards" (Oct-Nov 1954)




@DriveThruComics: Snatcher Bodies "Old sci-fi invasion movies get a kick in the fanny ... We've been invaded by aliens, there's a mad scientist on the loose, and someone has kidnapped Miss America! Can we defeat the alien horde before Earth becomes an inter-galactic rest stop and petting zoo?"

More SF humor with Akashik issue one, two, and three. (later issue not free) "Taus tricks her boyfriend into letting her steal his ship and leave him stranded on some undock spaceport. From there she runs out of wine, captures a stowaway and creates a strange sandwich." [free membership required].

Sunday Sleepy Sunday

Lt. Bob presents classic Mooooooovie! This one The Last Man on Earth (1964). Haven't seen yet but title very good. If last man then soon there be no men like stooopid space captain. In case you like, it downloadable here. Also it Sunday and American law says there must be comics. Lt. Bob wonder if Space Pirates are hiring. And favorite part of day, stupid space captain miss so much good fiction he have to link directly to SF Signal as well as highlight. Ha ha, space captain, you stink! Lt. Bob say by now to all the good sentient and semi-sentient beings who read this.


Movie



Fiction
"But Who Shall Lead the Dance?" by Marie Brennan (Originally published in Talebones #34, February 2007).
"Always has it been thus: we faerie folk have our lands, and mortals theirs, and to trespass unbidden from one to the other brings swift retribution."

Online HERE (lots more free fiction by the author HERE) [via SF Signal]



At Tor.com: "The Desecrator" by Steven Brust.
"It was early in the morning of the third day of the month of the Phoenix in the 230th year of the Reign of Her Glorious Majesty Zerika the Fourth that you sent me to meet the desecrator. Well, sorry! You sent me to the place where I ended up meeting the desecrator. "

Online HERE [via SF Signal]


And more free fiction links at Sf Signal's "Free Fiction for 3/12/11"


Online HERE.



Comics
At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: three sci-fi stories drawn by Dick Giordano, from Space Adventures #4, 5, and 6 (1953.) "The Devil Masters of Algol," "War Between the Worlds," and "Two Worlds" are all online HERE.




At The Comic Book Catacombs: "Space Pirates of Xarpot" Amazing Adventures #6 (Fall 1952). This classic sci-fi comic story is "illustrated by EC great, Bernard Krigstein."




Online HERE.



At Digital Comics Museum: Chris Welkin-Planeteer (1952) 300+ comic strips. This syndicated comics strip ran from 1952 until 1964.

Available in CBR format HERE (free membership required).

Also there, Jumbo Comics #70, highlighted by the jungle adventures of Sheena and the pirate adventures of the Hawk available HERE (free membership required).