Fantastic Free Fiction for Friday Festivities

 Another collection of great free fiction. As always QD is grateful to all the sites that post free fiction, to the creators, and to their advertisers and donors who make them possible.  Be sure to tell your friends about the sites you like so they continue to publish.  And hats off to all the other sites that promote genre fiction (free or not); they are all allies against the mundane.



Fiction
At Baen eBooks, from End of am Aeon. Science Fiction. [via SF Signal]

• “Patriot Girls” by Amy Sisson
• “The True Story of Merganther’s Run” by David D. Levine
• “Repairs” by T D Edge
• “Evening in the Land of Dreams” by Mikal Trimm

 At Buzzy Magazine:  "Running With The Dead" by Larry Hodges.
     "Ben closed his eyes as he jogged on the bike path through the forest, enjoying the cool misty early-morning breeze on his dead flesh."
At The Colored Lens:  "Cotner’s Bot" by D. L. Young. Speculative Fiction.
     “A robot didn’t do this.”  I said it with flat certainty, though I knew it was the last thing the boss wanted to hear. I flipped through the last couple pics of oil paintings on Nathan’s slate. “But whoever did has decent technique and obviously understands the trends of the last couple decades.”
At Cosmos: "Tar Baby" by Trent Jamieson. Science Fiction.
      "Tautomerically Aggressive Replicators. They called it the “Last Resort” and with it the Lunar Militia very nearly won their war of independence. Nearly."
At Daily Science Fiction: "Shimmer" by Amanda C. Davis. 
    "Bethany Chow is shimmering in the cafeteria like the disco ball they borrow from the seventies for every stupid school dance."
Reviewed at BestScienceFictionStories: "Life on the Moon" by Tony Daniel. Science Fiction.

Now Posted: Lovecraft eZine Issue #18 – October 2012

• "A Counting Game" by Derek Ferreira
• "Carnacki: The Parliament of Owls" by William Meikle.
• "Twenty to Life in the Lonesome October" by Evan Dicken.
• "The Great and Groovy Game" by Joshua Wanisko.
• "My Least Immemorial Year" by Zach Shephard .
• "The Gotterdammerung Gavotte" by Josh Reynolds .
• "Big D, Little D" by Edward Morris .
• "The Blackbird Whistling, or, Just After" by Orrin Grey.

Flash
At 365 Tomorrows: "Mining" by Nathan Martin. Science Fiction.
At Weirdyear: "The Pangs" by Jeff Brandt.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily: Ghost Leopard by Lars Guignard. Children's Fantasy.
At Smash Words:

• "Deceptions" by Isabelle Arocho. Fantasy 28k.
• "Earth Biome" by Christian Gutierrez. Science Fiction. 12k.
• "Brainjack" by James Bailey. 7k.

Audio Fiction
At Cast of Wonders: "Empty Pockets (Part 2)" by James Isaac.
At The Classic Tales Podcast: Carmilla part 3 of 4 by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Horror.
     "Nightmares grow in intensity, and strange sensations blur the line between dreaming and reality"
At Pseudopod: "The Last Reel" by Lynda E. Rucker. Horror.
     "Let’s not, he wanted to say, but what came out when he followed her back to the bed was, ‘Three movies featuring a head-in-a-box. Name them."
At Tales to Terrify: "The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking" by Tim Lebbon. Horror.
      "A dead sea creature washed up on a remote beach proves to be more mysterious than it first appears."

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Sting of the Scorpeople" Sci-Fi.
At The Horrors of It All: "Swamp Monster / They Crawl By Night!" Horror.

Freebies and a Really Bad Pun

Some great ones today including the lastest offerings from Nightmare Magazine (text and audio), Baen Books (text), PodCastle (Audio), StarShipSofa (Audio), and far too many to list twice. Also a musical treat and a way too much work for a bad comic in response to the latest excellant SF Signal Free Fiction Post.


Fiction
At Baen Books: "Peace Offering" by Wen Spencer. Fantasy.
     "Since war broke out between the elves and the oni, the stories in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had gotten a lot more bizarre. Walking trees loose on the North Side. Dragons terrorizing Oakland. A spaceship crashing into Turtle Creek. Flocks of men with crow wings mobbing downtown."
At Daily Science Fiction: "Lost and Found" by Jamie Todd Rubin. Speculative Fiction.
     "The mailman delivered the unusual package as the young man who visited me on occasion was leaving."
At Nightmare Magazine:  "Good Fences" by Genevieve Valentine. Horror.
      "He thinks at first the streetlight’s back on, but of course not. It’s been dark six weeks. There are already beer bottles piled on the sidewalk every morning from the dropout teenagers who surge in whenever there’s the littlest pool of darkness they can find, and then they smoke and drink and shout all night right under his window when he’s trying to sleep."


At Perihelium Hard SF featuring.

• "Saturday Night in Saskatchewan" by Steve Stanton.
• "Praise the System" by J. Richard Jacobs. 
• "Network Outage Engineer" by Erin Lale.
• "Unintentional Colonists" by Elizabeth Guizzetti.
• "Mr. Weston’s Key" by Todd A. Burnett.
• "Central Battle Command, Allied Forces: Day Four" by Marilyn K. Martin.
• "We Do Not Serve Weeping Men" by Eric Del Carlo.

At Weird Fiction Review [Via SF Signal]

• "It’s a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby.
• "The Dead Valley: 'In the depth of the silence came a cry...'" by Ralph Adams Cram.
• "The Vile Game of Gunter and Landau" by Michael Cisco.
• "The Comet" by Bruno Schulz.

Now Posted: Fear and Trembling #50 Horror featuring

• "The Forgotten" by Derrick Eaves.
• "Angel of Death" by Bruce Harris.
• "Squirm" by Chris Griglack.

Now Posted: Three-Lobe Burning Eye #21 speculative fiction featuring.

• "Ladybird" by E. Catherine Tobler.
• "The Eel Question" by Mae Empson.
• "Riding Atlas" by Ferrett Steinmetz.
• "Hoarfrost" by Michelle Muenzler.
• "The Book in Dutch" by M. Bennardo.
• "Judith of Lions" by R.S. Bohn.

Audio Fiction
At Nightmare Magazine:  "Good Fences" by Genevieve Valentine. Horror.
At PodCastle: "Little Better Than a Beast" by T.A. Pratt. Fantasy.
     "Granger was a powerful magician, in his way, and even if he wasn’t much use to the city’s secret shadow government of sorcerers, he mostly stayed out of the way in the park, and his elementals had been formidable warriors in last winter’s battle against the nightmare-things."
At StarShipSofa: "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by Bradner Buckner. 
     "All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!"

Flash Fiction
At Every Day Fiction: "Selkie" by Pippa Cooper. Fantasy.
At 365 Tomorrow: "They Stole My Soul!" by David Barber.
At Yesteryear Fiction: "Borderland" by Michelle Kopp. Fantasy.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Cades Cove: The Curse of Allie Mae by Aiden James. Horror.
• Prince In The Mist by Claudy Conn. Fantasy Romance.
• Darkness Awakened by Stephanie Rowe. Paranormal Romance.
• Darkness Falls by Jessica Sorensen. YA Horror. Vampires.
• Mortal Obligation by Nichole Chase. YA Paranormal Romance.
• Mirror Bound by Leanne Herrera. Paranormal Romance.
• Lunula by Alyssa Auch. Fantasy.
• Under the Black Clouds by Suren Hakobyan. Fantasy.
• Waiting For Midnight by Merrie Destefano. Fantasy Short Stories.

At Smashwords

• "A Crack in the Wall" by Chad Inglis. Urban Fantasy. 3k.
• "Verbit" by S. A. Barton. Science Fiction. 2k.
• "The Walking Unwed: How to Survive Your First 100 Days as Newlyweds" by Russia Nichols. Horror.

 Non-Fiction
At Enchanted Conversation: "The Ghosts of Classic Fairy Tales" by Kristina Wojtaszek. Mythology.
At Project Gutenberg: "The Golden Bough (Vol. 1 of 2)" by Sir James George Frazer. Mythology.
     "Sometimes it is the souls of the dead which are believed to animate the trees. The Dieyerie tribe of South Australia regard as very sacred certain trees, which are supposed to be their fathers transformed; hence they will not cut the trees down, and protest against the settlers doing so. Some of the Philippine Islanders believe that the souls of their forefathers are in certain trees, which they therefore spare."

Other Genres
Audio Fiction At Decoder Ring Theatre: "Two Is Too Many!" Noir.
E-Book At Free eBooks Daily: Blackwell Unchained by Troy D. Smith. Western.

Bad Pun

And as a special bonus
"The Ballad of Felix Baumgartner" by John Anealio.

More Is Better Than Less

 A bonus links post today, with some more good free stuff.





Fiction and E-Books
At Author's Site: “Dark Rides” by Rachel Caine. Horror. [Via SF Signal]
     "There’s something deeply creepy about an unlit Ferris wheel in the dark. It looks like the skeletal remains of something large that once rolled across the earth scooping up screaming victims in its buckety jaws"
At Author's Site: "Pandora’s Box: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum" by: Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (until 23 Oct. 2012). Mystery.
      “I think we should call the bomb squad,” said Phil, the youngest, thinnest member of con security, so thin I had no idea how anyone could ever feel threatened by him. He was new.
 At Mad Scientist Journal: "Coda" by Eryk Pruitt. Science Fiction.  [Via SF Signal]
     "The specimen is Sam Tuley, chosen not just for his overzealous sex drive, penchant for alcohol and violence, and inability to make the most of a second chance, but rather because, try as he might, he will forever be damned to a hospital bed with tubes going in and out of him."

At Free eBooks Daily:

• Deadlocked by A.R. Wise. Horror. Zombies.
• Darkhouse by Karina Halle. YA Horror.
• The Burning City by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Fantasy.
• Hellbender by Jason Jack Miller. Fantasy/Horror.
• Everard by Chautona Havig . Fantasy.

Via Pixel of Ink:

• Dreams Unleashed by Linda Hawley. Near Future SF.
• Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula by Elise Stoke. YA Adventure.

At Smashwords:

• "Buck Johnson: Dragon Wrangler" by Wyatt McLaren. Fantasy. 4k.
• "Emily Dickinson, Superhero - Vol. 1, Episode 1 - Tomb and Graves" by Eric Nixon. 37k.
• "Magician Number One (Grin the Cheat #3)" by V Moody. Fantasy. 10k.
• "Erth" by Ben Manessis.  Science Fiction. 2k.
• "Solar Cycle 24" by Darrel Bird.  Science Fiction. 15k.
• "Five Byte Stories" by G.D. Tinnams.  Science Fiction. 15k.
• "Beef Stew from Anna Lou" by James Hampton. Horror. 18k.
• "Hunting Comp." by Michael Carter. Science Fiction. 2k.
• "Mantis" by Chrystalla Thoma. Science Fiction. 7k.
• Newt Run by Chad Inglis. Urban Fantasy. 100k.
• "Out of the Darkness" Horror.Ghost. 20k.
• "The New Order (The Board Short Story Series)" by Dorothy Darrow. YA Horror.

Reviewed Free SF At BestScienceFictionStory: "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young. 1961.

Flash Fiction
At Every Day Fiction: "The Flame" by Garrett Ray Harriman.
At 365  Tomorrows: "Gamberol’s Clock" by Alex Grover. Science Fiction.
At Spinetingler: "First Edition" by Warren Bull. Crime.


Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Homecoming" Science Fiction.
At Comic Book Catacombs: Jungle Jo in "Valley of the Demon Monsters" Adventure.
At Seduction of the Innocent: "Black Magic in a Slinky Gown" Horror.


Gaming
At Ancient Vaults: Item "Goat’s Cape,"  Spell "Gargantuanize," and Item "Verminstaff."
At Daddy Grognard:  "An Adventure for Every Monster - Succubus" 
At The Land of Nod: "Six Vile Vampires"
At Savage AfterWorld: "Savage Menagerie: Ankylophant" Gamma World.
 

 At QuasarDragon headquarters this morning.

Great Freebies By Kress, Dick, Sigler, and More.

There's some really great stuff today.  Lightspeed has a pair of cool sounding stories, including  "Beyond the Reach of His Gods" illustrated to the left and a Nancy Kress SF story in both text and audio. And there's much more free fiction including two magazines. There's some classic SF at LibriVox and Protecting Project Pulp and Scott Sigler starts the audio of his latest GFL novel (always awesome).  There may be a second freebies post* today as I haven't even looked at the Comics, Gaming, and E-Book sites yet - and my team of free fiction super-ninja spies are currently raiding SF Signal's Free Fiction Links.


Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction: "Caput Mortuum" by Andrew Kay. 
     "The Master's voice trickles from the speaking tube. "Renán," he says, his voice an urgent orange but matte with kindness, "please come downstairs."
At Lightspeed: "Beyond the Reach of His Gods" by Brian Ruckley. Fantasy.
     "An unseen log boomed against Wolfrun’s hull. In the last few days, Rhuan of the Grey Hall had taken to posting a lookout on the prow, to ward against just such events. This great, fat monstrosity of a river seemed at times to carry almost as much debris as it did water."
At Lightspeed: "Art of War" by Nancy Kress. Science Fiction.
    “Return fire!” the colonel ordered, bleeding on the deck of her ship, ferocity raging in her nonetheless controlled voice.
At Philippine Genre Stories: "The New Daughter" by Dean Francis Alfar. Fantasy.
     "When the boy inevitably grew up, married and moved away with his own growing family, the toymaker decided to make a girl."
At Strange Horizons: "The Lord of Discarded Things" by Lavie Tidhar. Speculative Fiction.
     "There were still alte-zachen men in Jaffa and Central Station in those days, as there always were and always will be, and chief amongst them was Ibrahim, he who was sometimes called The Lord of Discarded Things." 


Now Posted: Innsmouth Magazine #11. Horror.

• "The Dark Island" by William Meikle.
• "The Drowned Ballet" by Kirsten Alene.
• "Charlotte Babbage and the Engine of Liberia" by Andrew Dombalagian.
• "The Boston Look" by Evan Dicken
• "Prayer to the Priest of Dreams" by| Josh Storey.
• "Dinner at Majak’s" by Nghi Vo.

 Now Posted: Resident Aliens October/November Issue.

• "Silence of the Imbeciles" by John C. Conway. Speculative Fiction.
• "The Light in Everything" by Dan Grace. Speculative Fiction.
• "Masters of the Earth" by Margaret Karmazin. Science Fiction.
• "The Newborn" by Alex Mellen. Science Fiction.
• "A Different Blessing" by Milton Davis. Zombies.

Audio Fiction
At Author’s Site: The MVP Episode #1 by Scott Sigler. Science Fiction.
     "If you recall the end of Book III in this series, our fighting Krakens were stranded in a place they did not want to be, about to be boarded by sentients they did not want to meet. We pick up the story right from there."
At LibriVox:  "Omega: The Last Days of the World" by Camille Flammarion. Science Fiction. 1894.
     "On 25th century Earth, a comet is on a path to collide with the Earth ending it all. Astronomers predict different scenarios as to how they will all die depending on the chemical composition of the comet. Omega probes the philosophical and political consequences that arise as the human race faces the end of the world."
At LibriVox: "The Eyes Have It and Tony and the Beetles" by Philip K. Dick. Science Fiction.
     "Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings" and "10 year old Tony grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. A sobering look at human history .. and our probable future."
At Lightspeed: "Art of War" by Nancy Kress. Science Fiction.
    “Return fire!” the colonel ordered, bleeding on the deck of her ship, ferocity raging in her nonetheless controlled voice.
At Protecting Project Pulp: “The Way Down the Hill” by Tim Powers. Speculative Fiction. 1982.
     "The rich, leathery smell of Latakia tobacco told me that old Bill was there, and I soon identified him by the long, blackened meerschaum pipe he somehow found again every time. The little girl puffing at it gave me a raised eyebrow."
At Toasted Cake: "Your Cities" by Anaea Lay. Speculative Fiction.
     "It's like the city just shrugged," somebody whispered. 


*Or if I get too busy or too lazy, they'll be up tomorrow.

A Few Freebies For Monday.

 Just a few goodies this morning, including a pair of classic SF stories ("The Final Figure" illustrated to the left.), some flash fiction, and a fair amount of fiction from other genres. 









Fiction
At Project Gutenberg: "The Final Figure" by Sam Merwin. Science Fiction.
    "MacReedy was both valuable and dangerous—and when the general saw MacReedy's final figure, the weapons following the mobile rocket A-missile launcher...." from Dynamic Science Fiction January 1954.
At Project Gutenberg: "The Onslaught from Rigel" by Fletcher Pratt. Science Fiction.
    "A jagged beam of flame, intenser than the hottest furnace leaped through the air, struck the green globe and reached the earth in a thousand tiny rivulets of light." from Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932.

Flash Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction: "Blue Sand" by Caroline M Yoachim.
At Quantum Muse: "What Great Service" by Michele Dutcher.
At 365 Tomorrows: "A Chance" by Clint Wilson. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
At The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Episode 22 - Tarzan of the Apes.
       "The search party for Jane Porter has been attacked by natives from Mbonga’s village, and D’Arnot has been taken."

Other Genres
Audio at Crime City Central: "Redemption Cove" by Brendan DuBois. Mystery.
Audio at PRI: Selected Shorts "Favorites from One Story Magazine"
     "Hannah Tiniti and Jim Shepard curate an hour with L. Annette Binder's heart-rending portrait of a lonely woman with gigantism, "Nephilim," read by Colby Minifie.  Then Tom Barbash puts a rueful spin on a Thanksgiving Day Parade ritual in "Balloon Night," read by Tom Cavanagh.  Finally, Shepard himself delivers up the end of the world in "Cretan Love Song," read by Joe Morton."
Audio at Tales of Old: "The Odor of Sanctity" by Lillian Csernica. Historical fiction.
     "Sieur Phillipe was a tall, stocky man with hair like thinning cornsilk. Over his chainmail byrnie Sieur Phillipe wore a velvet surcoat, the left side scarlet and the right bright yellow." 
Now Posted: Yellow Mama #34.
     Cutting edge, hardboiled, horror, literary, noir, and psychological/horror stories.

Saturday

More good stuff, including two more stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies.






Fiction
At Adventures in Fiction:  Thieves' Honor, ep 11: "Bring Me the Crew of Martina Vega" by Keanan Brand .
     "Curses and threats following her down the corridor, Captain Iona Zoltana waved her dogtags across the security scan, the brig doors slid open, and she and her crew stepped into the holding zone between the cells and the entry."
At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Cursed Motives" by Marissa Lingen. Fantasy.
     "Being shipwrecked was a great deal more civilized than Safy had imagined.  She had her favorite and her second favorite hat, her lute and her fiddle both when she had feared the circumstances would make her choose between them, and an astonishing variety of fruit preserves.  She had the captain’s books to peruse and the first mate’s instruments to play with."
At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Unsilenced" by Karalynn Lee. Fantasy.
     "Veillen moved through the marble and alabaster halls of the palace as softly as any spirit: as though it was she who had died, she thought resentfully, instead of her father.  But the One-Eyed Emperor’s body had been placed within its tomb with all the proper rituals a full moon ago, and his daughter, in turn, was trapped in the palace."
At Daily Science Fiction: “Nathan and the Amazing TechnoPocket NerdCoat” by KJ Kabza [via SF Signal]
     "It begins to unravel in the Green Horse Café. And that frighteningly athletic-looking waitress (that's Jiao Ming, by the by, and she's gotta be 5'10" if she's an inch) is gonna be the one to pull that first, tempting thread."
At Gollancz Blog:  "The Thief-Taker’s Blade" by Stephen Deas" Fantasy [via SF Signal].
     "Two days since we took possession of the Flying Shark, and it’s taken us that long to settle on the name. The crew wanted to call it the Sun-King’s Doom, but that would hardly serve us if we were to put in to any of the Sun-King’s ports, so the Flying Shark it is."
At Short-Story.Me: "Fred" by Jeffery T.Ford. Science Fiction.
     "When it’s just you and one other person, trapped within a cramped apartment for seven straight months, this is what happens. Boredom invades your mind and you cling to anything anything anything that cuts through the monotony."
At Short-Story.Me: "A Romance of The Melusine" by James Boden. Fantasy.
     "Outlaws charged from the black wood, buoyed, fearless by means of drink. They ran wild, beating their painted chests, racing each other to the vanguard of the throng. A pack of dogs trotted at their side.  The animals were chained and armored with breast plates; they plodded through the mud, shoveling the soil with their muck caked paws."

 E-Books
 At Amazon: Creepers by Bryan Dunn. Horror. [via Pixel of Ink]
 At Free eBooks Daily: "A Halflings Rescue" by Heather Burch. YA Urban Fantasy.
 At Free eBooks Daily: Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey. . YA Urban Fantasy.
 At Free eBooks Daily:  Sora's Quest by T.L. Shreffler. YA Fantasy.
 At Free eBooks Daily: Classic Horror Stories edited by David Pickering. Horror,
 At Smashwords:

•  "Silent Echoes" by Gareth Lewis.  Fantasy. 5k.
• "Forbidden Art" by Amanda Mondoux. Fantasy. 11k.
• "Destiny Governed their Lives" by Diane Lynn McGyver. Fantasy. 6k.
• "Pain & Paranoia" by Jeff Sherwood. Fantasy. 10k.
• "The Bones of Texas City" by Regan Wolfrom. Near Future SF. 5k.

Audio
At Pseudopod: Flash On The Borderlands XIII - Responsible Parties. Horror.
At Radio Drama Revival:  "The Strange Case of Springheel’d Jack" Horror?
At Tales to Terrify: "Frontier Death Song" by Laird Barron. Horror.

Reviewed Free Fiction
At Variety SF:  Eric Frank Russell's "Brute Farce"  Science Fiction. 1958.

Other Genres
At Online Pulps Site: "One Tooth of the Law" by Joe Archibald. Noir 1945 and "Long Sam Mooches a Meal" by Lee Bond. Western 1945.

Big Wednesday and an Endless Loop

Quite a bit more free fiction today, including items from all currently covered categories. Among the many highlights are stories from Nightmare Magazine and Eclipse Online, new Drabblecast and StarShipSofa episodes, and much more.  If this isn't enough reading/listening/watching for you, be sure to check out SF Signal's latest free fiction post.  [I realize that linking to a post that links back here might create and endless loop that destroys the universe, but since that would mean no more political ads, I'm willing to take the chance.]  Back tomorrow with free fiction and perhaps something else.





Fiction
At The Colored Lens:  "Sisters" by Jude-Marie Green. Speculative Fiction.
     "When Sarah was not-quite-two and I was not-quite-twelve, she ran headlong off the side of a pier that jutted over the frothy waves and shattered rocks of a beach on the West Coast. Or she would have, if I had not grabbed her shirt collar in the moment between her launch into space and her inability to fly."
At Eclipse Online: “The Contrary Gardener” by Christopher Row. [Via SF Signal]
      "Kay Lynne wandered up and down the aisles of the seed library dug out beneath the county extension office. Some of the rows were marked with glowing orange off-limits fungus, warning the unwary away from spores and thistles that required special equipment to handle, which Kay Lynne didn’t have, and special permission to access, which she would never have, if her father had anything to say about it, and he did."
At Nightmare Magazine: "Frontier Death Song" by Laird Barron. Horror.
      "Night descended on Interstate-90 as I crossed over into the Badlands. Real raw weather for October. Snow dusted the asphalt and picnic tables of the deserted rest area. The scene was virginal as death."
At Paizo: "Proper Villains Chapter Two: The Gang" by Erik Scott de Bie. Fantasy.
     "They met at midnight in the Bloody Fang, a dive down in the Puddles district that catered to sailors, criminals, and the lowest of the low. The authorities of Absalom rarely made it there, and certainly not at this hour of night."
At Project Gutenberg: "The Martian" by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard. Science Fiction.
     "The water was evaporated by the ever-shining sun until there was none left for the thirsty plants. Every year more workers died in misery." From Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932.
At Project Gutenberg:  "Spacewrecked on Venus" by Neil R. Jones. Science Fiction.
     "A beam of electricity leaped from the ship. Instantly shafts of light spread from the nearest projectile to the ones on either side of it." From Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932.
At Shadow Unit: “Chapter 17: Underworld” by Elizabeth Bear. Science Fiction  [Via SF Signal]
     "He hadn't yet graduated: his first known stranger murder would not be committed until January 15th, 1975. But on June 1st, 1972, he matriculated."
At The WiFiles: "Commande-In-Chief" by Greg Boxer. Speculative Fiction.
     "The West Wing bustled with frantic activity as President Kenneth Powers strode briskly through the halls, flanked on all sides by aides and advisors."


Audio
At Drabblecast: "The Last of the O-Forms" by  James Van Pelt. Sci-Fi  Strange.
     "Who knew what it might have been made from? He doubted there were any original-form cows, the o-cows, left to slaughter"
At Drama Pod: "Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G Weinbaum.
At Journey Into: Episode #48 - "Pennywhistle" by Greg van Eekhout and "The Scottish Scene" by Rish Outfield.
     "A mom seeks to save her child from a piper, and a teenages seeks to save herfriends from the curse of Macbeth."
At LibriVox:  Frankenstein (dramatic reading) by Mary Shelley. Horror. Gothic.
    "Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results."
At LibriVox:  The Emerald City of Oz (version 2) by L. Frank Baum. Children's Fantasy.
At StarShipSofa: "A Time For Ravern" by Stephen Kotowych.


E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily: Shadow of Stone by Ruth Nestvold. Historical Fantasy. Temporarily free.
    "For over ten years, there has been peace in Britain after Arthur and his warriors soundly defeated the Saxons at the battle of Caer Baddon. But sometimes peace is deceptive"

At Smashwords:

• "Valentine Vampire" by Phoebe Matthews. Paranormal. 19k.
• "The Merchant of Lives" by Andrew Johnston. 6k.
• The Blade That Whispers Hate by Michael McClung. Fantasy. 58k.
• The Girl and the Guardian by Peter Harris. 211k.
• Good Sister, Bad Sister: Heart of the Staff  by Carol Marrs Phipps & Tom Phipps. Fantasy. 90k.
• "Once Upon a Nightmare" by McKelle George. Paranormal. 22k.
• "The Temple of Vitus" by Chris Turner. Fantasy. 21k.
• "A Slave To The Coin" by Debra Dunbar. Fantasy, 4k.
• Ring of Destiny by Eric Quinn Knowles. YA Fantasy. 55k.
• "Demon Chronicles: Apple Moonshine" by K.S. Bowers. Horror. 4k.
• "Crystal Mountain Book One" by J. F. French. Horror. 5k.
• "Thesis Revised: A Short Story" by Jennifer McMurrain. Ghost story. 3k.
• "Curse of the Ravens" by Stacie Schmidt. Weird. 2k.
• "Eye Check" by Michael Carter. Horror. 1k.
• "Temporary Monsters" by Ian Rogers. Horror. 13k.
• "The Barn" by Scott Thigpen. Horror. 8k.
• "Creeper, A Short Horror Story" by Bran Glitz. Horror. 2k.
• "The Watch" by Krista Bean. Ghost Story. 6k.
• The Writers' Pad E-zine Volume I Fall 2012. Horror. 17k.
• "In His Dream He Plummets" by Wess Foreman. Science Fiction. 9k.
• "Fireflies" by Erica Lindquist. Anthology.  23k.
• "N-Hance: A Gamer's Tale" by M.J. Miello. Science Fiction. 13k.
• "Orphans of the Celestial Sea, Episode 1" by Mark Fenger. YA Science Fiction. 8k.
• "Starfall: The First Cut" by Victor Pryce. Science Fiction. 13k.
• "Blighted - Chapter 1" by Reasus Shelly.  Science Fiction. 7k.
• "When Doors Come Knocking" by S E Champenby.  Science Fiction. 4k.

Flash Fiction
At Daily Science Fiction:  "Not the Destination" by Richard E. Gropp.
At Every Day Fiction: "Father Frances and His Mechanical Bees" by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks. SF.
At Flashes in the Dark: "The Talking Dead" By Matt Demers. Horror.
At 365 Tomorrows: "Kids" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
At 365 Tomorrows: "The Neodymium Accord" by Desmond Hussey. Science Fiction.
At 365 Tomorrows: "Cold War" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.
At Yesteryear Fiction: "The Oath" by James R Waggoner. Fantasy.


Reviewed Free Fiction
At BestScienceFictionStories.com:  "Fleurs du Mal" by J. Kathleen Cheney. Fantasy 2010.
At Variety SF: Space Platform by Murray Leinster.

Video
At Divers and Sundry:  The Student of Prague a 1913 silent film about a young man who sells his soul to the devil.
At Divers and Sundry:  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)  and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)

At The Internet Archive: To the Stars the Hard Way. Subtitled Russian Science Fiction Film.

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: Speed Carter: Spaceman in "Thing in Outer Space" SF. 1954.
At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Octopus Kings of the Lost Planet" by W Malcolm White. SF. 1951.
At The Comic Book Catacombs: Tygra in "The Beasts of Dr. Krafte" Adventure. 1947.
At The Digital Comics Museum:  Jumbo Comics #16 featuring Sheena. Adventure. 1940.
At The Digital Comics Museum: Dark Mysteries #20. Horror. 1954.
At Four-Color Shadows:  "The Living Dead" Horror. 1953.
At The Horrors of It All: "Ultimate Destiny / Unknown Presence" Horror. 1952.
At The Horrors of It All: "The Haunted Ghost / Specter's Revenge" Horror. 1951/1952.
At True Love Comics: "Romantic Souls" Ghost Story. Horror. 1953.
At True Love Comics: "Mother's Boy" Horror. 1974.

Gaming
Fighting Fantazine #9
     Including a 275 reference adventure "Return to the Icefinger Mountains"  and an Advanced Fighting Fantasy adventure: Andrew Wright's "The Hunt for the Black Whale"
At And the Sky Full of Dust: "Dynamic Lairs: Demon Boar"
At Daddy Grognard: "An Adventure for Every Monster - Manes"
At Kobold Quarterly: "Twenty Things Found in the Pockets of Your Enemies"
At The Land of Nod: "Six Wicked Witches!"
At Smithsonian Magazine: A real-world dungeon. [via Greyhawk Grognard]
Many recent monsters, magic items, and spells at Ancient Vaults and Eldritch Secrets, Blog on the Borderlands, and A Field Guide To Doomsday.


Other Genres
Audio at SFFAudio: "Moonlight" (aka "In The Moonlight") by Guy de Maupassant.
Fiction at Project Gutenberg: The Eye of Istar by William Le Queux. Historic Adventure.
Fiction at Project Gutenberg: Zoraida by William Le Queux. Historic Adventure.
Non-Fiction at Project Gutenberg: The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley. Mythology.
Non-Fiction at Project Gutenberg: Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould. Mythology.

Classic SF and More.

Some very good stuff today, including a classic era SF story from Orbit, illustrated to the left.  Be sure to check them all out, or at least save the one you think sound good.  More tomorrow.










Magazines
Now Posted  the Oct - Dec '12 Issue of The Lorelei Signal featuring
      "Bingham's Deep Woods Fairies" by  J.C. Conway. Fantasy.
      "Flesh and Bone" by Danielle Gronwold. Fantasy.
      "Imaginary Enemies" by C.J. Paget. Fantasy.
      "Believing in Luck" by Josie Gowler. Fantasy.
      "Madame Melodia and the Love Machines" by Karen Maric. Fantasy.
      "Before Midnight When Ten Billion Sleep" by Gary Girod. Fantasy.
      "Star Rats" by Darrell Albert. Fantasy.
      "Stow Away" by R. Scott Russell. Fantasy.
      "The Uncle Returns" by John Hayes.  Fantasy. Poetry
      "Children of the Unicorn Clan" by Anna Sykora. Fantasy.

Fiction
At Cosmos: "Automation of a Salesman" by Gregg Jansen. Science Fiction.
      "Normby, second in sales ranking only to Trochus24, was desperate for the Robo-Salesman of the Year Award and the memory upgrade that went with it."
 At Daily Science Fiction:  "Mama's Science" by Shane D. Rhinewald. Science Fiction.
     "At ten, Darcy considered her father the center of the universe, a constant like one of Newton's laws. She had just learned about basic physics in science class the day she returned home to find out that he had gone into the stars to seek other fortunes."
At Project Gutenberg:  "The Mating of the Moons" by Kenneth O'Hara.
     "She came to Mars in search of  something, she knew not what, to give her life meaning. She found it ... in a way...." From Orbit volume 1 number 2, 1953
At Ray Gun Revival:  "Barbeque" by Michael S. Roberts. Science Fiction.
     “Retiring early, all four of us. And guess what else!” He took a swig from the frosty bottle, wiped his chin. “I bought a spaceship!”
At Strange Horizons: "In the Library of Souls" (part 2 of 2), by Jennifer Mason-Black.
      "You didn't cry," she said. "Ten years old and your mother had died, and you cared more for the books."

Audio Fiction
At Beam Me Up:  "In the Service of the Public" by Mark Webb.  "This story an Earth diplomat in service to an inter-galactic government." And  the conclusion of Edward McKeown’s “The Dive.”
At Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Episode 20 - Tarzan of the Apes"
      "Tarzan has pursued Terkoz, now a rogue ape who has abducted Jane Porter to make her his wife."

At PRI: Selected Shorts "A Touch of Magic" Fantasy.
      "A boy magician fantasizes about a glorious career, and then learns about real life the hard way, in Haley Tanner’s “Vaclav the Magnificent,” read by Sarah Steele, and the lovers in T.C. Boyle’s “Swept Away” are blown together by a raging wind."
At SFFAudio:  "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions. Horror.
      "sometimes called the greatest ghost story in the English language"
At Toasted Cake: "The Tailor and the Fairy" by Samantha Henderson. Fairy Tale.
     "Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom there lived a hard-working tailor named Albert."

Other Genres
Audio at Crime City Central: "Mirror, Mirror" by Beverle Graves Myers.
Audio at Tales of Old: "Touch and Go" by Russell James.
     "A young, struggling pilot in World War I's Lafayette Escadrille leaves with his patrol for enemy lines. In the midst of a dogfight, he becomes separated from his squadron. He is forced to land at a strange airfield, and his role in the Allied war effort changes forever."
Fiction at Online Pulps Site: "Murder Done Twice" by Robert Leslie Bellem Noir [1946] and "Caught Out" by Fred C. Smale [Detective]

Free Fiction, Audio Fiction, and Comics

 More great free fiction, including a couple of complete magazines, some comics and much more. I should note that SF Signal has its latest awesome Free Fiction Roundup online, and while many listings have appeared here already, many others have not. So do yourself a favor and check it out too.  The first QD Review (since its rebirth) should be up tonight or tomorrow - as soon as I can find a few more synonyms for putrid. (Kudos if anyone guesses which recently released blu-ray it is).




 


Magazines
Bourbon Penn #5 [via SF Signal]
     "Everything You Were Looking For" by Samantha Henderson.
     "American Marsupial" by Clifford Garstang.
     "On That Time We Crossed" by Sam Duda.
     "The Rustic Ladder" by Daniel Ausema.
     "Day of the Creamsicles" by Don Raymond.
     "Faded Dreams of Division Street" by Wayne Allen Sallee.
     "Lucky" by Jeffrey Wooten.


The Future Fire Issue 2012.24  [via SF Signal]
     ‘Je me souviens’ by Su J. Sokol.
     ‘Secrets of the Sea’ by Jennifer Marie Brissett.
     ‘The Harpy’by Laura Heron.
     ‘Safecracker, Safe’by J.C. Hsyu/
     ‘Arrow’ by Barry King.
     ‘Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods’ by Benjanun Sriduangkaew.

Fiction

At Black Gate:  “The Duelist” by Jason E. Thummel. [via SF Signal]
At Buzzy Mag: "And Down Will Come Baby, Madmen And All" by Damien Walters.
At Buzzy Mag: "Blue Tag Sale" by Beth Cato.
At Daily Science Fiction: "From the Divide" by Nathan Tavare.
At Daily Science Fiction: "Blood Oranges" by K.C. Shaw.
At Lightspeed: "Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment" by Robert Reed.
At Lightspeed: "Spindles" by L.B. Gale.
At Paizo:  Chapter One of "Proper Villains" by Erik Scott de Bie.
At Philippine Genre Stories: "Retokado" by Kyra Ballesteros.

Audio
At Beware the Hairy Mango: "Faster Food" by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
At LibriVox: Short Poetry Collection #112, which has a couple of poems that fit in well here - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe and Tennyson's wonderful Arthurian poem "The Lady of Shalott"
At Lightspeed: "Flowing Unimpeded to the Enlightenment" by Robert Reed.
At StarShipSofa:  "The Man Who Built Heaven" by Keith Brooke.
At Tales to Terrify:  "The Threads" by Christopher Fowler.
At Tales to Terrify #37: "The Hound" by H.P. Lovecraft  and "Once Seen" by Conrad Williams.

Comics
At Atomic Kommie Comics: "Famous Explorers: Ceres" SF.
At Digital Comics Museum:  Captain Midnight UK 100 (US#50). SF.
At Digital Comics Museum:  Jumbo Comics 109. Adventure.
At Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "The Metamorph"  SF.
At Four-Color Shadows: "A Hole on His Head" Horror.

Thursday Night

A few more interesting free fiction items. Some a bit "R" rated, though.

Illustration from The Revelator.







Fiction
@Author's Site: "Last of the Living" by David Moody. [via SF Signal]

"Why are we even bothering when the odds are stacked so high against us? What’s the point? When everything’s lost, why do we keep trying to survive?"

Now Posted: Absent Willow Review - Oct. 2011.
"Witching Weather" by Pamela J. Jessen.

"She wakes to dimmed sunlight, frayed clouds splayed across the sky like ragged muslin sheets. – Alarmed, she steps outside. Expecting molten July, instead she tastes a hint of cool October and sour apple wine. – A confused wind worries the woodbine slumped on her fence, leaves dulled in the muted"

"Time’s End" by Pamela J. Jessen.

"Time unspools and winter becomes autumn becomes summer becomes spring. – My children, long scattered, return to cling to my skirts, impatiently waiting to reenter my womb, to become dreams again. – And I, in my unwithered youth, eagerly seek out my own mother who tugs on her mother’s sleeve."

"The Man of Stars" by Lucy Stone.

"I’m out shopping when I first see him, juggling too many bags on my way back to the car. Footy socks for Tom, a new calculator for Sarah, milk and bread, chicken and chips for dinner with my favourite ice cream for dessert. I pause on the corner, fumbling with my mobile"

"Snake Eyes" by Zeke Jarvis.

"Mr. Stein awoke to find himself tied to a bed. At first, he was hopeful that this was a continuation of whatever drunken games he’d been playing with the young black girl whom he’d bought a few beers the previous night. He’d expected her to be game, with her tits practically falling"

"Sally’s Man" by Milan Smith.

"It started with a walk in the cemetery. Sally had met him after dusk, when the night wind had kicked up, and the smell of rain filled the air. She’d been standing in the yard listening to a bird twitter in a tree, when the man came wandering down the road behind"

"Stephanie in the Church" by Melissa Stanziale.

"Stephanie rushed up the steps that led to the back entrance of the church. Near the top she tripped and almost fell on to the cold, hard pavement. A painful lump formed at the back of her throat, which she tried to swallow back, but her chest tightened, her nose began to tingle"

"The Misadventures of Wart Wafer: The End of the Crimson Circle" by Joshua S. Simpkins.

"Azrael Knightsbane was the last of his kind. The great azure dragon roared and raged in his immense, cavernous lair. Where is my pretty precious! The thought boomed within the ink-black walls of his skull, as his massive barbed tail flattened large piles of gold and jewels with ease. Some thieving"

"Six More Weeks of Winter" by Philip Roberts.

"Before the sun could peek its head out from beneath the horizon on February second, Frank Rouse threw off the covers and pulled himself out of bed. He paused beside it, frowning down, fingers drumming across his hairy gut. He’d taken up jogging in the morning two years prior, or told others"

"In Soul Possession" by C. Kevin Barrett.

Andrew Randall was not happy with the afterlife. “It just makes sense to have some sort of training program or at the very least an orientation,” Andrew said as he sifted through the cardboard box in his lap. In it was an assortment of crystals, metal rods, and pieces of carved

"The Last Dragon" by M.C. Elam.

"I am the last dragon. I hide in places no man walks. My sweet world, ravished now by callous deeds, lies nearly barren in the wake of his greed. My crystal rivers grow dull with filth, once clear sky made dirty by the economy of his hand. His days are numbered."

"Fillet of Cirrhosis" by Jacob Jacobson.

“Wallet and watch buddy, c’mon, don’t make me drop you!” Winston felt the blade pressing against his neck, a trembling hand controlling it. The mugger reeked of booze and shook like he was detoxing from something. Great, another fucking boozer…was the primary thought going through Winston’s mind as he quickly started to

"Disconnected" by William C. Rasmussen.

"Pulling his SUV into his garage, Scott McBride glanced at the TomTom mounted on the dash and shook his head. Apparently, his destination—“Home”—was still 1.2 miles away. He chuckled as he killed the engine, climbed out of the car, and shut the door. That stupid GPS system, he thought, a marvel"

"Cats" by Jake Walters

"The fort, built by two eleven-year-old boys, stood against a fallen tree near a murky body of water they called the pond, where sometimes they cast bait, not even knowing if there were fish to be caught. The fort was what good forts were to boys their age—a place to play cards"

"Just A Closer Walk With Thee" by Frank Stascik.

"The first time Caroline tried it, it was with a cricket She’d been sitting underneath the apple tree in the front yard, crying, when Billy shuffled up behind her and put his tiny, frail hand on the top of her head. She heard the wheeze as Billy inhaled, and when he spoke"

"Warnings" by Alice King.

"Skeletal branches drip with moisture as I make my way to the bus stop. The last withered leaves crackle wetly beneath my feet, trapped between my shoes and the pavement. The rain falls all around me, a steady cloying drizzle. It drips dismally through my hair, plastering it to my skull in"

"Nexxus Point" by Sean Jones.

"Portia blinked. She took a step back as the teleporter light went from amber to red. Surprised, she realised that she had never seen a teleporter do that before. The lights on the top of the teleporter only ever went green and amber. Green was safe to travel, and amber, someone"

"Waiting" by Kyle H. Patrick

"Part One Cardigan opened his eyes, which was odd because he was pretty sure he was supposed to be dead. He sat up and felt the metal springs of a mattress poking into his leg. A quick glance showed him that he was in a small room, like a doctor’s examination"

"The Last Ereph" by JD Byrne.

"The cobblestones that paved these byzantine back alleys were not as clean as they appeared. Kol discovered this when his left foot, rather than pivot him crisply to the right towards the open alleyway, instead slid out from under him. He did not fall. He managed to catch himself with his right"

Now Posted: The Revelator #1 [via SF Signal]
"Nick Kaufmann, Last of the Red-Hot Superwhores" by Nick Mamatas.

"Every farm­boy was a red-hot super­whore once upon a time…"

"Gaslight" by Jeffrey Ford.

"We first heard about the child one evening at The Mon­day After­noon Club from old Mat­ter­son, last heir to an empire of sweatshops …"

Thursday Morning

Some great free fantasy and SF this morning. Likely a second post tonight and I'm working on comics and RPG posts for either later this week or this weekend.

Illustration from "The Box" by Bill Ward.










@Cosmos: "Deep Clean" by Adam Brown and Paul Haines.

"The unit is purely cognitive," she says. No shots, no pills. It's something brand new, this addiction therapy. Neon Kumar sits there listening to nothing.

@Tor.com: "Grace Immaculate" by Gregory Benford,

"The first SETI signal turned up not in a concerted search for messages, but at the Australian Fast Transients study that looked for variable stars. This radio array picked up quick, pulsed signals from a source 134 light-years away. They appeared again consecutively 33 hours apart."

Now Posted: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #80
"Held Close in Syllables of Light" by Rose Lemberg.

Abruptly his stronghold folded. His names struck. He tore my mind-veil off. Before I could react, the names retreated, reformed his stronghold. All too powerful for me. He laughed. “The Raker’s daughter has taken a single two-syllable. Women, huh. Weaker even than your mother. So be more sensible than her, sweet Vendelin....”'

"To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift" by Dean Wells.

Cecily grabbed a shard from the mirror, traced an unsteady line along the flesh of her wrist. Scars and metal piercings adorned her arms where she’d cut herself before. “They demand the spilling of blood,” Granduncle would always say, when he bothered to notice her at all. “They envy us, you see, and covet the iron flowing freely in our veins.”

Now Posted: Goblin Fruit: Autumn 2011
Featuring fantasy poetry, most with an audio version available, by Josiah J. Eikelboom, Ruth Stacey, Nina Pelaez, Nancy Sheng, C.S. MacCath, Dan Campbell, S. Brackett Robertson, Sarah Colona, Marigny Michel, Joseph Harker, Liza Graham, Cheryl Stiles, Erik Amundsen, Lyn C. A. Gardner, and Joshua Davis.

Serial Fiction
@Kat and Mouse: "Into The Woods - Part Four" by Abner Senires.

"We had landed at the edge of a wide clearing. In the center stood a low, single-story, weatherbeaten cabin that looked like it had been built well over two hundred years ago. Shingles were missing from the roof, a brick chimney slouched against the side of the cabin, and a tall pile of chopped firewood hunched next to a covered front porch."

@Paizo: "The Box - Chapter Four: Nothing Gained" by Bill Ward.

"Move back!" Kostin shouted, barely parrying a spear thrust to the gut. There were more than a score of the things, each scarcely taller than Shess but like no humanoid Kostin had ever seen. Green-skinned, bedecked with shaggy ropes of dark moss, and armed with crude spears and clubs of human bone, the naked savages fought silently, almost impassively. The sheer weight and surprise of them had pushed Kostin back until he collided with Aeventius.

Audio
@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Magick" by Kristina C. Mottla.

"Out from her hands where the book once rested, a butterfly flapped clumsily toward the shutters."

Hump Day Freebies.

Happy Hump Day everyone. We have a few goodies this morning, including free fiction, flash fiction, comics and more.











@Free eBooks Daily [DRM]: "No Hero" by Tom Andry. Superhero.
@Pixel of Ink [Kindle]:

"Mr. Planemaker’s Flying Machine" by Shelagh Watkins. Science Fiction.
"First Frost" by Jennifer Estep. Paranormal. YA.
"Sapphire of the Fairies" by Richard S. Tuttle. Fantasy.
"Amaury’s Hellion" Paranormal Romance, Mature, Vampires
"Simian’s Lair" by David H. Burton. Children's Fantasy. [via SF Signal]
"The White Shadow Saga: The Stolen Moon of Londor" by A. P. Stephens. Fantasy.

@Smashwords: "Beginings" by Rael Bayellis. Superhero.

Flash Fiction
@Daily Science Fiction: "Paying the Tab" by Brian K Lowe.
@Flashes in the Dark:"Meeting of Minds" by Lori Titus. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Walk in" by Jennifer R. Baumer. Horror.
@Knighttime: "Techniques of Evasion" Fantasy/Humor.
@The New Flesh: "A Simple Certainty" by Joe Mynhardt. Horror.
@The New Flesh: "Pick 'Em Clean" by Georges Dodds. Horror.
@Strange Horizons: [poem] "Our Father Who Art" by Jeanie Tomasko.
@365 tomorrows: "Cerberus" by Jae Miles. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "A Test of Humanity" by Charley Daveler. Science Fiction.
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Pyramid" by Dan Shelton. Fantasy.


Audio Fiction
Knighttime is an amusing series of missadventures, featuring two less than heroic knights in a unique fantasy world. There are currently sixteen episodes available in the archive. [via Radio Drama Revival]


Non-Fiction Podcasts
@Comics Podcast Network: Raging Bullets Episode #266 - DC's Relaunch
@The Functional Nerds: Episode #66 – Kim Harrison Interview.







@Atomic Kommie Comics: "Captive Planet" Science Fiction.
@Comic Book Catacombs: Cave Girl in "The Mau Mau Killers!" Adventure.
@Diversions of the Groovy Kind: "Terror on the Planet of the Apes Part 1" B&W. SF.
@Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "The Night the Statues Walked" Horror. (1953)
@Secret Sanctum of Captain Video: "The Quartermass Xperiment" Part 1 and Part 2. Sciience Fiction.
@The Horrors of It All: "Vampire's Daughter! / The Impatient Ghost!" Horror. (1953/54)
@Western Comics Adventures: Buster Crabbe in "Invaders From Beyond" Sci-Fi. Western.