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 can easily imagine a story like this actually happening at an upper-crust English country seat like the fictional Downton Abbey – Ruth Golding’s fabulous narration is spot on for this cute little “ghost story” by Saki. The Hedgehog By… Read moreThe Hedgehog by Saki
First published in Fanciful Tales of Time and Space, Fall 1936. Mr Jim Moon narrates this poem |MP3| by Robert E. Howard. Here’s a |PDF| made from that publication. Solomon Kane’s Homecoming by Robert E. Howard The white gulls wheeled… Read moreSolomon Kane’s Homecoming by Robert E. Howard
From Weird Tales, November-December 1941. Listen to Mr Jim Moon‘s great narration of this poem by Charles Baudelaire |MP3|. Though credited as having been translated by one “Timeus Gaylord” we are reliably informed that this was a pseudonym of Clark… Read moreThe Owls by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Clark Ashton Smith)
Julie Hoverson recently recorded Riya’s Foundling. It’s a little Science Fiction gem from the hands of Algis Budrys and the pages if Science Fiction Stories, #1 (1953). It’s a story about an intelligent cow (actually a cow-like alien being) that… Read moreRiya’s Foundling by Algis Budrys
Kubla Khan is a wondrous dream inspired poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Written in 1797, but published in 1816, it is said to have been composed one night after Coleridge had been taking opium and reading a work describing Xanadu… Read moreKubla Khan or a Vision of Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (read by Wayne June)
Jason Aiken’s Pulp Crazy is a video (and audio) podcast, and blog “dedicated to spreading the word on classic pulp literature.” It mostly features brief reviews of pulp stories and characters, but a recent show pointed me to some previously… Read morePulp Crazy: Panels from the first World Fantasy Convention, 1975