Showing posts with label paranormal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paranormal. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2013

More

More great free fiction for you, including e-books, two poetry (fantasy and spec. fiction) ezines, online fiction and audio fiction.  [Art from Perchance to Dream (The Amazing Morse) by James Rozoff. in e-books]













Fiction
At Chilling Tales for Dark Nights: "Bob the Butcher" by Kyle Dorsey,  narrator Matt Grant.
     "The mask was different from other masks I’d seen in many ways. The texture had me curious as to what it might be made out of. To hold the mask in place, two leather straps ran along the back and connected to the sides. I placed the mask back onto the desk and continued my inspection. At the side of the desk sat a large box which was covered in dust" Audio version at same link.

• At Dark Futures: "Isolation Run"  by Tom Howard . Science Fiction.[via SF Signal]
      “Pilot Fuller,” said the distant voice from the nearby Pau Tai system, a more populated region where his company’s station relayed communications between the Cluster and galactic central. “It is fortunate you were delayed at your last port. Please remain calm. A ship is in distress in your area, and we need you to rendezvous with it and provide assistance pursuant to space directive 137.”

• At Mad Scientist Journal: "Dr. Derosa’s Resurrection: Part IV" by R.G. Summers. Science Fiction.
     "On the day that I was to break my father out of prison, I woke up to the sound of sirens in the streets below. I stumbled out of bed, rubbing my eyes and walking to the window to see what all the commotion was about. I snapped out of my groggy state when I saw what was happening in the street below."

Poetry
At Through the Gate: "Fantastical" poems.
• Now Posted Inkscrawl #6  (21 short speculative poems)

E-Books
At Amazon:
At Free eBooks Daily:

Other Genres
• Audio at Selected Shorts: "A Thurber Festival"

Saturday, September 21, 2013

A Few for Free

Just a few goodies this time, but don't miss Regan Wolfrom's free fiction links at SF Signal for more e-book links. [Art from A Question of Will in e-books]














E-Books and Flash Fiction
At Free eBooks Daily:

Flash Fiction at 365 Tomorrows: "Book Review" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Escape Pod: "Knowing" by Matt Wallace, read by Mat Weller. Science Fiction
     "A grey pallor hung heavy over the landscape. Heaven’s fire had long gone out, leaving the sky a cold hearth. The ashen soot that covered it might once have been the burning ember of eons, but now its livid color irradiated the early dawn. It soaked every molecule of air like a pale leaden necrosis, existing independently of the season, fostering neither cold nor heat."

Other Genres

  • Fiction at Online Pulps!: "Satan's Playground" by Leon Dupont, "Homicide Wholesale" by Harold Q. Masur, and "Complete Results" by William L. Rohde. Pulp Noir. 1941. 1949.
  • Flash Fiction at Every Day Fiction: "Collide" by Liz Grear

Friday, September 20, 2013

Free E-Books, Vampires, and Zombies

There are a few goodies for you this evening.  In addition to the e-books, there's a vampire story by the master story-teller Kristine Kathryn Rusch, new episodes of Pseudopod (always great) and The AntiSF Radio Show, and some good stuff in other genres for those willing to leave their spec. fiction comfort zones. [Art from "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.]









Fiction
• "Victims" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Paranormal.
     "Reese Catton manages campaigns. The dirty side of campaigns. And he has dirt suggesting that his candidate’s opponent is a vampire’s slave."


E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

Audio Fiction
• At Antipodean: "The AntiSF Radio Show 182" Speculative Fiction.
     "G'day fellow flash speculative fiction hominids. Oh yes, perhaps other life-forms as well. This is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show 182, featuring all of the stories from Issue number 182 of the online magazine and e-book"

• At Pseudopod: "Enough With The Crazy" by Emile Dayne, read by Joe Scalora. Horror. Zombies.
     "People – men and women and children – faces twisted into grimaces, attacking an elderly couple from all sides, bringing them down, tearing at their clothes and at their flesh. By this exact hydrant. Blood falling where the ketchup was now."

Other Genres
Audio at Selected Shorts: "High Society" and "Dorothy Parker's Wicked Pen"
Fiction at The New Yorker: "Bad Dreams" by Tessa Hadley.
Fiction at The Western Online: "Across Time" by Kathy Otten. Western.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

World War Free Fiction (Minus the World War Part)

In addition to quite a few interesting sounding e-books, there's a new online issue of the long-running science fiction magazine Aphelion, a new episode of the outstanding fantasy podcast PodCastle, and five issues of a cool gaming 'zine. Be sure to check out Ragan Wolfrom's column at SF Signal (as well as the blogroll , free fiction sites linked on the right) for more e-books and free fiction  [Art from Aphelion]







 
Fiction
Now Posted: Aphelion #177 - September 2013. Science Fiction.
• "Intelligent Drain-o" by Rick Grehan
     "A call from Uncle Mike could only mean one thing: it was time to update his insurance coverage."
• "Blue Plate Special" by Kate Thornton
      "Everything came with a price, but this bill was staggering."
• "God/head" by McCamy Taylor
     "There was only one place a couple of con artists of this caliber belonged: Congress."
• "Maggie's Farm" by Charles Ebert
      "Try looking through a peephole without a grapefruit. Just try it."
• "The Devil Is In This House" by Peter Cushnie
     "What could terrify a nun?"
• "Shirasawa's Rage" by Jay Hill
      "The path toward the light may lead through the dark first."
• "The Lighthouse" by David Ames
      "It was there--always present, bearing over him, calling relentlessly to... the teeth in the dark?"
• "Asteroid" by E.S. Strout
    "A classic-style story about about a rock in space that was supposed to hold no surprises."
• "When Angels Dare to Weep" by Barney E. Abrams
      "Ulira is a Weeper. Her one function is to cry tears that have the power to heal her Serpentine masters. When she runs out of tears, she will turn to stone. It has always been that way for her kind. However, things are about to change in Paradise."
Poetry 
At Aphelion:
Audio Fiction
• At PodCastle: "Nor the Moonlight" by Andrew Penn Romine, read by Cheyenne Wright. Fantasy.
     "The robber had burst into my café waving his knife, surprising me as I locked up for the night. But he’d made the error of assuming I was just another veteran of the Great War, wrapped in a fisherman’s net of scars. He didn’t know I’d already died once before, that I had been raised from the charnel fields of Compiègne gifted with the heart of a bull and the sinewy limbs of dead men."

Gaming
• At Wicked North Games: D6 Magazine 1-5.
    Fanzine of the OpenD6 gaming mechanic. Definitely worth a look as they're downloadable PDFs, with no hoops to jump through.

E-Books
• At Amazon: Rippler (The Ripple Trilogy-1) by Cidney Swanson. Paranormal. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

If Free Fiction be the Food of Love, Read On.

e-books, comic books, and a story too good to wait.  [Art from  "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While" linked below]






Fiction
• At Tor.com: "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While" by Catherynne M. Valente. Fantasy.   
     "In which a young girl named Mallow leaves the country for the city, meets a number of Winds, Cats, and handsome folk, sees something dreadful, and engages, much against her will, in Politicks of the most muddled kind."

Comics


E-Books
• At Amazon: Soldier Of The Brell by David Scholes. Science Fiction.
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Free eBooks Daily:

Saturday, September 14, 2013

We're Off To Read The E-Books, The Wonderfull E-Books For Free

Hope everyone's having a great weekend. If not, maybe some e-books will make it a bit better; if so, the e-books can be the icing on the cake. [Art from Masquerade below]













E-books
• At Amazon: The Spider and the Fly by C.E. Stalbaum. Science Fiction. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Barnes & Noble (Nook) [via Color Nook Review]

Friday, September 13, 2013

E-Books and Peppermints, the Color of Time

Just the usual afternoon roundup of cool e-book links.















E-Books
• At Amazon: Shadows by Jennifer L. Armentrout. YA Science Fiction Romance. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Smashwords:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Fresh Free Reads! Get 'em While They're Hot!


And so, despite obstacles on near biblical proportions, which threatened to end civilization as we know it, leaving us cold, scared, and hungry, huddling around trashcan fires (or I had a mouse that kept sticking) QuasarDragon finally has this afternoon's free fiction links. Once again thanks for some go out to that likable linker, Regan Wolfrom of SF Signal.  [Art from London Darkness: Infernal Inventions]








Fiction
At Dargonzine:
"Shadows of Dargon" by James Neale. Fantasy.
     "Jem shifted slightly, moving his shoulders along the wall, so that his relaxed slouch allowed him to watch the man swagger down the street. He had felt the welling shock of hope, when he first glimpsed the man stalking through the crowd. He had thought it was Rauf, but it was not. Jem still hoped Rauf would walk back into his life, like he had that cold winter night five years ago."

"Ol Tamboch Narhin - The Rigors of War" Part 5 of 5 by Dafydd Cyhoeddwr. Fantasy.
     "A country often has a characteristic for which it is known, such as Lederian wine, or Mandrakan marble. At times, opinions vary on the defining feature: Comarr is best known to some for it tobacco, to others for its cattle. Sometimes, though, the opinion is universal. Such it is with the Beinison Empire. The characteristic for which it is best known is war."

• At Fireside Fiction"Form and Void" by Elizabeth Bear. Science Fiction.

     "But Comanche knew that if she didn’t say, “I’m emigrating to Io too,” that would be the biggest, shiniest ruby of all. So Comanche kissed her mother goodbye, and kissed her father, and packed up her few worldly things."

• At HiLobrow: "Herland - Part 9" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.Science Fiction. 1915.
     "To these women we came, filled with the ideas, convictions, traditions, of our culture, and undertook to rouse in them the emotions which — to us — seemed proper."

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [Via Freebook Sifter]

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Take the Last Train to E-Bookville, And I'll Meet You at the Station.

There's quite a few e-books (after the jump break) this time, even a few Nook e-books) and there's also part two of "The Fencing Master" by Dave Gross, being serialized at Paizo.  {Art for "The Fencing Master"]















Fiction:
• At Paizo: "The Fencing Master - Chapter Two: The First Trap" by Dave Gross. Fantasy. Pathfinder.
     "Restraining a smile at my knowledge of his mission, I turned to see Vencarlo Orisini fixing an inquisitive gaze upon me. He stood against the wall, where the other servants strove to make themselves invisible while awaiting a signal from their masters. Vencarlo had noticed my wordless exchange with the Sable Company captain."


E-Books after jump break

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Johannes Cabal Novelette and E-Books

A new Johannes Cabal novelette at Tor.com starts off this afternoon's links which contains the usual virtual armful of Good E-books.












Fiction
• At Tor.com: "The Death of Me" by Jonathan L. Howard.
      "Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has this much in common with Emily Dickinson; because he could not stop for Death, she kindly stopped for him. Well, perhaps not that kindly."

E-Books
• At Amazon: The Secrets of Moonshine by Denise Daisy. Paranormal. [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

Monday, September 9, 2013

She's Got the Lowdown in her Free Fiction Files.

 There's a ton of ebooks, including a few for the Nook,  from several sources, there a new weekly episode of Strange Horizons, and audio SF at LibriVox.  Remember, most e-books are only available for free for a limited time.












Fiction
• At Strange Horizons: "Difference of Opinion" by Meda Kahn. Science Fiction.
     "Problem is Keiya's brain never told her to paste her lips upright if she wants people to be nice. It's the IQ machine. She's been told she'd make a very good robot, all things considered."

• At Strange Horizons: "Triptych" by Jane Crowley. Poem.

Audio Fiction
• At LibriVox: "Murder Maddness" by Murray Leinster, read by Richard Kilmer. Science Fiction
     "Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master--the mighty, unknown octopus of power whose diabolical poison threatens a continent!"

• At Strange Horizons: "Difference of Opinion" by Meda Kahn. Science Fiction.
     "Problem is Keiya's brain never told her to paste her lips upright if she wants people to be nice. It's the IQ machine. She's been told she'd make a very good robot, all things considered."

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Free eBooks Daily:
At Amazon: [Via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords:
At Barnes & Noble: [via Penny Pinchin' Mom]

Friday, September 6, 2013

Of Free E-Books, Skraelings, and Audio Fiction

It was just going to be the ebooks, but a few other items just didn't want to wait.  [Art from "The Hill Where Thorvald Slew Ten Skraelings" in short fiction.]












Short Fiction

• At Weirdyear: "Chemistry" by LA Sykes. Weird Fiction.Flash.

• At Amazon: "The Hill Where Thorvald Slew Ten Skraelings" by Regan Wolfrom.(E-book)
     Historical Fantasy "In the land of long, cold winters and exploding green summers, the frail seidrman Thialfarr works the last of his magic to keep his fellow Norsemen alive. As the summers grow colder and Thialfarr weakens, and with the savage skraelings blocking their only outlet to the sea, Thialfarr's Christian neighbours have begun to see his heathen presence as the reason for their misfortune." Limited time.


Audio Fiction
• At Selected Shorts: "Expect the Unexpected"
      "Guest host Neil Gaiman presents tales with surprises. Jane Yolen’s “The Babysitter” is a contemporary Gothic with a twist; James Thurber’s classic “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” introduces a milquetoast with attitude; Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” anticipated our media-driven lives; and Thurber’s “The Wood Duck” seems to have nine lives. The readers are Isaiah Sheffer, Dick Cavett, Jamey Sheridan, and Malachy McCourt."

• At WMG Publishing: "A Time to Dream" by Dean Wesley Smith , read by the author. Science Fiction.
       "Captain Brian Saber, his ship and other Earth Protection League ships face a suicide mission to save Earth. Can he succeed, even though seemingly moments before he lay slowly dying of old age in a nursing home on Earth?" - Steaming only. Free for one week.

E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Smashwords:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
Other Genres

Thursday, September 5, 2013

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
At Smashwords:
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Celebrating the Births . . . L. J. Smith, Karl Schroeder, Jennifer R. Povey, Tom Kratman, and Robert Lowndes

Several birthdays today with lots of free fiction.



Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962)
Locus Award nominated and Aurora Award winning author Karl Schroeder is known for his far-future science fiction novels, such as Ventus and Permanence.








Fiction
• At Author's Site: Ventus.
     "The inspector who built this place had been hoping his proximity to the wilderness would win him favor with the Winds. He used to stand on the forest-ward wall, sipping coffee and staring out at the treetops, waiting for a sign. Jordan had stood in the same spot and imagined he was the inspector, but he was never able to imagine how you would have to think to not be scared by those green shadowed mazeways. That old man must not have had bad dreams."

Audio Fiction
• At StarShipSofa: "Mitigation" with Tobias Buckell.


The rest of the great writers after the jump break

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Finally Here Free Fiction

What a day. The fiction just didn't want to come today. In order to get it we had to wrestle a troll, fly a broom, play chess, solve a logic puzzle, look into a dangerous mirror, and . . . or was that Harry Potter? I always forget whose life is whose.  But the fiction is here, finally!  [Art from The Ark Plallas in E-books]

 








Fiction
• At Project Gutenberg: The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood. 1922. Dark Fantasy.
       "Edward Fillery is the child of a brief but passionate liaison between an engineer and a strangely beautiful peasant girl. Blessed with special insight and with a 'primal quality' in his blood, Edward becomes a doctor, helping and healing those with distressing psychological illnesses. When he hears of an unusual case in Switzerland he is intrigued and moved. The young male patient, apparently born of a 'magical experiment', is a man of mystical tendencies, a worshipper of natural forces. And when he sees a portrait of the patient, there is a brief, indefinable spark of recognition.." -Amazon.

• At SciFi Ideas: "Second Victim" by Harry de Vries. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
     "Amelia sighed. The infernal rain drizzled on, and her breath flew from her mouth like smoke from the distant CentraCont Industry factories. Despite the late Mr. Debenhall, their industry powered on. A white-winged street skimmer dived over her head, the water falling from beneath it’s chromium chassis giving her in a redundant not to mention unwanted shower. Cursing under her breath, she turned at River street and powered on."

Flash Fiction
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Tomorrow Is Winter" by Callie Snow. Science Fiction.
• At Nature: "The Speed of Dark Energy" by Jeff Hecht. Science Fiction.
• At Omni Reboot : "Our Knuckles Drenched Dionysian" by Ken Baumann. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]
• At 365 Tomorrows: "FilmScape" by Lindsey McLeod. Science Fiction.
At Silver Blade: Poems,

Updated
E-Books
At Amazon: [via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords:
Comics
Other Genres

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Cool Free Fiction on a Long Hot Day

And the big names keep coming. This morning it was Clive Barker and Ian Sales, now it's Cory Doctorow (in Fiction) and Piers Anthony (in E-books).  As always, there are some good sounding e-books and others that don't sound very good but sense taste is mostly subject, I won't say which is which.  And though you probably have them both bookmarked, I've linked to ten recent posts (each) at two great sites that review free (often) fiction and link to the story.  And never miss the free fiction links at SF Signal or I'll tell John and Regan on you (Please don't make the angry. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.)

[Art from "Lawful Interception"]



Fiction
At Tor.com: "Lawful Interception" by Cory Doctorow. Science Fiction.
     "An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland—as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones."

Reviewed Free Fiction
At BestScienceFictionStories:

At Variety SF:

E-Books
At Amazon: [Via Pixel-of-Ink]
At Amazon: [Via Freebook Sifter]
At Smashwords: