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.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (read by Bryan Cranston – an ad for Breaking Bad) Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…. Read moreOzymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (read by Bryan Cranston)
Here’s a YouTube version of Matt Soar’s LibirVox audiobook of Jack London’s The Iron Heel. Posted by Jesse Willis
Narrator Leeman Kessler’s reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Unnamable is, at first, marred by an unnecessary and obtrusive sound bed. Then later it is ruined by a series of noises that interfere with Lovecraft’s words. There’s a reason why sidewalks… Read moreThe Unnamable by H.P. Lovecraft (read by Leeman Kessler)
A very good reading of one of H.G. Wells’ long neglected stories, In The Abyss, is now available from LibriVox. James Christopher narrates this pioneering tale of first contact with a submarine civilization and he does it with the skill… Read moreIn The Abyss by H.G. Wells
First published in The Cavalier, January 11, 1913, Fishhead (aka Blood-Brother Of The Swamp Cats) is something of an ancestor to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In a letter published the same year, a 22-year-old H.P. Lovecraft, wrote, regarding… Read moreFishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
I posted about this story, as part of a larger LibriVox collection, back in 2009. Then, I described it thusly: The Coming Of The Ice explains the strange and sad fate of a man who undergoes an operation to make… Read moreThe Coming Of The Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker