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.
One of the poems, The Window, in my recently acquired H.P. Lovecraft collection from Gollancz (Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany Of The Macabre) struck me as the perfect jumping off point for a thousand more Lovecraftian adventures. The book is really… Read moreThe Window by H.P. Lovecraft
You’ve heard rumors of the City of Dreams. It’s existence has been officially denied, although unconfirmed reports have placed it beneath the ruins of Machu Pichu in South America. Others say it’s in Arkham, Massachusetts, or hidden in a secret… Read moreCity Of Dreams: The Damned Are Playing At Godzilla Tonight on YouTube
Bus, a Coquitlam Public Library patron, has just sold me on The Sea Wolf in his two minute review of the Frank Muller narrated audiobook put out by Recorded Books. [via I Was Told There’d Be Cake] Posted by Jesse… Read moreThe Sea Wolf by Jack London (a review of the audiobook narrated by Frank Muller)
The first Saturday in May is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. That’s THIS SATURDAY! As usual I’ll be making a special trip to my comic book store, Hourglass Comics (in Port Moody, B.C.). And I’ll be well prepped for what to… Read moreFREE COMIC BOOK DAY: Saturday May 5th, 2012
I love introductions, afterwords, forewords. I buy collections of stories with stories I already have several copies of just for the new introductions, afterwords, and forewords. The only thing that’ll make me buy such a collection without a foreword, afterword,… Read moreNeil Gaiman on Edgar Allan Poe (his work should be read aloud)
Carl Hiaasen talks about John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series. Hiaasen suggests that a sense of place was central to the series. Posted by Jesse Willis