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.
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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.

Tuesday Free Fiction and Audio Fiction

Some more free fiction and audio fiction today. Including highlighted free fiction, the SF story "Face Value" (from which today's illustration comes) and the fantasy story "The Wishwriter's Wife" Keeping the even split between fantasy and SF, Dunesteef has a new audio SF story and PodCastle has new audio fantasy story.

Unfortunately, I have to report some very sad news. Lovecraft eZine has folded after just five issues due to the editor's health problems. This is a loss to the entire SF/Horror community, both readers and writers.


@Lightspeed: "Face Value" by Karen Joy Fowler. Science Fiction.

"When they had their backs to him he could see the symmetrical arrangement of dark spots which marked their wings in a pattern resembling a human face. A very sad face, very distinct."

@Daily Science Fiction: "The Wishwriter's Wife" by Ian McHugh. Fantasy.

"In the days when fairies were still to be found in the world, and wishes could come true, there lived a wishwriter and his wife. The wishwriter was a clever man, but plain, and born with a twisted back that made him stoop."

@Electric Velocipede: "The Chiaroscurist" by Hal Duncan.

@Free eBooks Daily: "Fluffs" by Daniel I. Russell. Horror.
@Pixel of Ink:The Gift of Fury by Richard Jackson. Urban Fantasy. [Kindle]
@Smashwords: The White Shadow Saga: The Stolen Moon of Londor by A.P. Stephens. Epic Fantasy [via Pixel of Ink]







@Dunesteef: "Must Have Own Weapons" by Edward McKeown. Science Fiction.

"At that moment, with gun in hand, he sees a rather unusual want ad. The only caveat? Whoever responds to this ad must be able to bring their own weapons. Well, at least Dan can fill that part of the ad, right?"

@PodCastle: "Portage" by An Owomoyela, read by Elizabeth Green Musselman. Fantasy.

"When it came time to carry her father’s soul down from the mountain, she had nothing to carry it in. The bowl her mother had carved from heirloom ivory, fit together like a puzzle mosaic and watertight without needing glue, had been shattered just that morning in an argument with the father’s retainer."

Serial Audio
@Pendant Productions: "Episode 22 Genesis Avalon" Fantasy.

Non-Fiction Podcasts
@Comics Podcast Network: V for Vertigo, Episode 112 - The Mass Effect of Comic Con
@Comics Podcast Network: Cape Town Extra - “Captain America: The First Avenger” Review.


There may be a second post tonight, but no promises - I'm often to fatigued after work to even consider it.

Thing From Another World, Terry Pratchet, Isaac Asimov, and More

Yay, it's Sunday, so annoying space captain has taken a day off and I Lt. Bob am in charge. First like always, we have a cool Mooooooviiiiiieeee! This time it's a classic from the 1950s, featuring an alien that fights humans. Go alien! It's your birthday! Also, unusual for a Sunday, lots of audio fiction (I notice some via SF Signals. Ha, lazy space captain). And a couple of comics. You QuasarDragon readers are OK (for humans) so have a nice day.




The Thing From Another World (1951)

"Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out."

Also don't miss the 1968 J.R.R. Tolkien Documentary at SF Signal.







@Beam Me Up: Episode #257 "Death and what comes Next" by Terry Pratchett, "where a mathematician tries to wrangle out of dying using physics on Death!" and "Infall" pt2 (the conclusion) "where we finally find out just exactly what faces our two combatants as the draw closer and closer to the event horizon of their destination, a monstrously huge and vastly ancient, black hole" by Ted Kosmatka. And a roundup of SF/Science tidbits.

@Pseudopod: Episode #225 "Top Of The Heap" by Nathan Robinson, read by Ben Phillips.
“I open my eyes and the dead smile back with bare teeth. In the fresh, sparse daylight I can see the bodies beneath me. I want to reach out and touch their faces, close their beseeching eyes. I recognize a few of them. Some I don’t, either through decomposition or the fact that I didn’t dump them here.

@Archive.org: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov [via SF Signal via James Nicoll]
"an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years by Isaac Asimov."

@LibriVox: Elves and Heroes by Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873-1936, read by Matthew Reece. "This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the characters and folk tales that inspired the author's poetry."

@LibriVox: The Mahabharata by Vyasa: the epic of ancient India condensed into English verse by Romesh C Dutt. "The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. ... Mahabharata tells the story of the epic Kurukshetra War and the fates of the cousin brothers Kauravas and the Pandavas." One of the world's great epics, on a par with The Iliad and Gilgamesh. I don't know this version, but it should at least capture some of the flavor.

@SFFaudio: "The Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckly. Two dramatized versions of the classic SF story (I Just listened to the X-Minus One version a few weeks ago - quite good).

@SFFaudio: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, performed by a full cast (CBS Radio Workshop).








@The Warriors Comic Book Den: "The Lighthouse!" By Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson. Classic B&W horror from Eerie.

@Digital Comics Museum: Super-Mystery Comics v08 004. Horror/Mystery.