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 House, by H.P. Lovecraft, is a short poem first published in The Philosopher 1, No. 1, December 1920. The illustrated version, below, came from Weird Tales, March 1948. The artist was Boris Dolgov. Based on the at you’d think… Read moreThe House by H.P. Lovecraft
I’m not sure when this reading would have been broadcast, likely sometime between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s, but what we do know is the narrator, Dudley Knight. Knight was a U.C. Irvine professor of drama, who voiced a long… Read moreThe Graveyard Shift: The Whisperer In Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft (read by Dudley Knight)
Maissa Bessada narrates for us Silly Asses a one page (400 word) satirical short story by Isaac Asimov. |MP3| Also available is a |PDF| made from a scan of the original publication in Future Science Fiction, February 1958. And here… Read moreSilly Asses by Isaac Asimov
Scott D. Danielson narrates this short short story (320 words) by Fredric Brown. I think it encapsulates much of what Science Fiction is about – teaching by thought experiment. It may be that stories of this kind work almost like… Read moreSentry by Fredric Brown
I’ve edited together, cleaned up, and Levelated the 2009 solo LibriVox narration of Henry James’ 1908 novelette The Jolly Corner. The Jolly Corner is a ghost story, said to be rivaled only by The Turn Of The Screw. Here is… Read moreThe Jolly Corner by Henry James
Beginning it seems in the mid-1970s Dudley Knight, a U.C. Irvine professor of drama, voiced a series called The Graveyard Shift on KPFK, Los Angeles. The purpose was to tell stories of the macabre. His broadcasts aired weekly with shows… Read moreThe Graveyard Shift with Dudley Knight