Free Comics, E-books, and More

There are quite a few interesting looking e-books linked in this post. And since many are free for a limited time, quickly grab the ones you want.  There are also a few cool classic comics, the latest audio horror fiction from Pseudopod, and the second chapter of "Best Served Cold" is up at Paizo.






[Art from Fell Winter in e-books]



Fiction
• At Paizo: "Best Served Cold  - Chapter Two: Worse Than the Disease" by Ari Marmell. Fantasy.
     "The faintest shower of sleet, scarcely more than an icy fog, began to fall over the battlefield that had been the town of Kelbran. Just another instance of the peculiar freezes and unnatural weather afflicting eastern Touvette in recent months, but this time—as visibility grew cloudy and the churned muck of the earth thickened—it almost seemed a harbinger of the oncoming stranger."

E-Books
• At Amazon: Nine Steps to Sara by Lisa Olsen. Ghost. [via Pixel of Ink]
• At Amazon: Anon by Peter Giglio. Horror. Thriller. [via Pixel of Ink]

At Free eBooks Daily:

• The Lost Tribe by Peter Ivey. Fantasy.
• The Magekiller by Sarah Chapman. Fantasy.
• Fell Winter by AJ Cooper. Fantasy.
• Another Way To Bleed by Susan Harris . Vampire.
• Displaced by J.F. Jenkins. Science Fiction.
• The Return by Melissa Douthit. YA Fantasy.
• Untold Fate by Allison Watson. YA Supernatural Thriller.
• November in Salem : The Bargain of Witches by L.C. Russell. YA Paranormal Romance.
• Close Up the Sky by James L. Ferrell. Time Travel.
• The Fathergod Experiment by L. A. Taylor. 
• Gray Skies by Brian Spangler. Science Fiction.
• The Robinsons' Dark Matter by Michael Raymond. YA Science Fiction
• Nirvana Effect by Craig Gehring. Science Fiction Thriller.
• Sleepytown 2020 by Tina Mavrikidis. Science Fiction.
• Evadere by Sara V. Zook. Fantasy Romance.
• The Exile's Violin by R.S. Hunter. Fantasy.

At Smashwords:

• "The Invasion of Dryreach" by Paige Williams. Adventure.
• "Hallowed (Waters Dark and Deep #1)" by Monica Leonelle.
• "Metal In The Moonlight" by Matthew Gill. Science Fiction.
• "Apocalypse 2073 (Volume 1) - The Prophecy" by Parker James. Science Fiction.
• Bandwagon by Andrew Fish. Science Fiction. Humor. 90k words.
• The Forgotten (The Lux Guardians, #1) by Saruuh Kelsey. YA Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Pseudopod: "Riding Atlas" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Horror.
     "‘Neither of you have eaten or drunk anything for twenty-four hours?' Ryan asked, hauling equipment into the room: sloshing plastic buckets, packs of hypodermic needles, coils of tubing, straps. 'And no drugs in your system? This is a pure trip. Just two bloods commingling. Any impurities will stop Atlas from getting inside you.'"

Comics

• At Digital Comics Museum: Dark Mysteries #1. Horror.
• At The Horrors of It All: "Return of the Dead!" Horror. 1953.
• At The Horrors of It All: "The Lonely One!" Horror. 1953.
• At Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: "The Other Earths" Sci-Fi. 1951. Written by Manly Wade Wellman.

The Green Hills of Earth and More.

Another post of awesome free fiction. There are several free written stories as well as audio fiction.  More later - if possible.

Today's QD Radio is Dimension X's adaptation of Heinlein's classic "The Green Hills of Earth"

[Art from Lorelei Signal - linked below]





Fiction
• At The Colored Lens: "The 13th Prophet" by T. Lucas Earle.
      "Men with long black beards sit on the sidewalk huddled around a TV, like a fireplace, warming their hands. A man shouts in a deep poet-preacher’s voice, “The Prophets have spoken! Cross-cut shawls for women, high beam neck ties for men! All straight from the Temple! The new Control ‘Blue’ hits the shelves today, and it is to die for! The Prophets scoff at the styles of last season!”"

• At Daily Science Fiction: "The Remnant" by Cassie Beasley.
     "We expected them to be better at it. The aliens. You've only got to go to the movies to know that we expected explosions, telepathy, ray guns. We thought it would be something drawn-out and gruesome, or maybe quick and painless. But either way--big."

• At Lightspeed: "Daltharee" by Jeffrey Ford. Fantasy.
      "You’ve heard of bottled cities, no doubt—society writ miniscule and delicate beyond reason: toothpick spired towns, streets no thicker than thread, pin-prick faces of the citizenry peering from office windows smaller than sequins."

• At Lightspeed: "Lifeline" by Jonathan Olfert. Science Fiction.
      "The day I meet my Lifeline is hot and dry, even for New Dakar. Dust chokes the air and filters the red sun to a washed-out orange that slathers its paint onto the road and the walls. I forsake the balcony in favor of a wall at my back."

• At Weird Fiction Review: "Slitten Gorge" by Conrad Williams.
      "Ellis dreamt that night of the forest. He was treading through it in darkness, subtly aware of the conifers and the heather. His feet knew this territory well and he moved quickly, ignoring the sounds of the wildlife: the nightjar, the siskins, the snipes."

Now Posted: The Jan - Mar '13 Issue of The Lorelei Signal.

• "Atalanta's Gambit" by Cathy Douglas. Fantasy.
• "The Minotaur's Garden" by Jamie Lackey. Fantasy.
• "Nita's Voice" by Sylvia Heartz. Fantasy.
• "Swift Decisions" by Frank J Sjodin. Fantasy.
• "Tritess" by Melinda Moore. Fantasy.
• "Who Will Wed This Woman?" by Beate Sigriddaughter. Fantasy.
• "Winterblood" by Megan Arkenberg. Fantasy.
• "The Wolf Skin" by Mike Phillips. Fantasy.

Flash Fiction

• At Every Day Fiction: "Krug" by Camille Griep. Science Fiction.
• At Innsmouth Free Press: "Fragment of a Dream of Atlantean Yellows" by Bryan Thao Worra. Poem. Horror.
• At The Lorelei Signal: "Cravings" by John H Dromey. Fantasy.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Containment" by Bob Newbell. Science Fiction.

Audio Fiction
• At Clarkesworld: "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon" by Helena Bell.
      "When I am told well, the shade of my husband’s beard is a word for longing. A robin’s egg, deep water below the coral reef, the night sky against the glow of a dying flashlight. A fooling color so I will not know his plans for me until the first door is opened and my neck is sliced: the thin edge like fresh cut paper."

• At LibriVox: "The Raven and Other Poems" by Edgar Allan Poe. Horror.
    "Beside The Raven, there are Alone; A Dream Within A Dream; Annabel Lee; City In the Sea; The Bells; A Dream Within a Dream; Annabel Lee; Dreamland; Evening Star; Lenore; Eldorado; A Valentine and 'The Happiest Day'"

• At LibriVox: Widdershins by Oliver Onions. Horror.
      "Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction"

• At LibriVox: Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti.
       "Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters' temptation to eat forbidden fruits. The poems explore themes of death, faith, isolation, and love"

• At Lightspeed: "Daltharee" by Jeffrey Ford. Fantasy.
     Described Above

• At PRI: Selected Shorts - "Compulsions"
       "Guest host John Lithgow introduces two stories about compulsion. W.W. Jacob’s classic chiller “The Monkey’s Paw” features a sinister relic with a curse. The spine-tingling read is by Lithgow himself. Next, a poor woman who makes living by giving people the right words for every occasion, entrances a guerilla leader. Lisa Fugard reads."

• At Protecting Project Pulp: “Devil’s Asteroid” by Manly Wade Wellman. Science Fiction.
      "Parr strode out upon dark, rich soil. He sensed behind him the silent quiver of Martian laughter, and felt a new ecstasy of hate for his late guards, their race, and the red planet that spawned them. Not until he heard the rumble and swish of the ship’s departure did he take note of the little world that was now his prison home."

Other Genres

• Audio at Decoder Ring Theater: "Black Jack Justice (53) - The Late Mr Justice" Noir.
• Audio at Forgotten Classics: The Unforeseen, chapter 8 by Dorothy Macardle. Gothic.