News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
The Crawlers by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN. As you can see in a scan of the renewal form RE0000190631, pictured above, the renewer has stated that the story was published in the July 1955 issue of Imagination. This… Read moreThe Crawlers by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN
Sales Pitch, a short story by Philip K. Dick, is PUBLIC DOMAIN. This was not previously known due to a fraudulent attempt to renew the copyright after it had expired. Sales Pitch was first published in Future Science Fiction, June… Read moreSales Pitch by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN
The famous and exquisitely wrought novel, The House of the Seven Gables, in which the relentless working out of an ancestral curse is developed with astonishing power against the sinister background of a very ancient Salem house … from this… Read moreLibriVox: The House Of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A couple lines from episode 2 of HBO’s new show, True Detective, made made me gasp in shock and pleasure. The stylish debut episode, though beautifully filmed, didn’t quite explicitly state the weird undercurrent that may be behind the mystery… Read moreThe WEIRD FICTION roots of TRUE DETECTIVE
Minds Of Terminus is a new audio drama podcast that seems inspired by a number of recent novels (Kiln People, Saturn’s Children). Here’s the elevator pitch: “In the world of Terminus, technology has advanced beyond contemporary understanding or explanation. Nanotechnology… Read moreMinds Of Terminus
In Supernatural Horror In Literature, H.P. Lovecraft’s monograph on weird fiction, he lists seven short stories by Guy de Maupassant, and one poem. It took a bit of research but I tracked down that one poem and found a public… Read moreHorror by Guy de Maupassant