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 my favourite writers, Donald E. Westlake, mostly left the SFF field for the greener pastures of crime fiction after the 1960s. He was very successful there. The Risk Profession, first published in 1961, is a fun SF novelette… Read moreThe Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake
Though I’m of the opinion you should go for the Wayne June version (physical copy HERE or Audible.com HERE) I should point out that the abridged 2010 BBC reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness, as read by… Read moreAt The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (abridged, read by Richard Coyle)
Up the close and doun the stair, But and ben wi’ Burke and Hare. Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef. —19th-century Edinburgh skipping rhyme There may never have been a blacker comedy than… Read moreWireless Theatre Company + Moonlight Audio Theatre: Burke And Hare
I must have had this as a kid, it is super-familiar. There’s a Wikipedia entry for it HERE. Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme: Bird: flute Duck: oboe Cat: clarinet Grandfather: bassoon Wolf:… Read moreDavid Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf
The Tower Of The Elephant By Robert E. Howard; Read by Jason McMullan 2 MP3 Files – Approx. 91 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Podcaster: Athena Audio Theater Podcast: April – May 2013 A strange, blood-freezing story of an idol that wept on… Read moreThe Tower Of The Elephant by Robert E. Howard
I love The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany. It’s a terrific twelve minute tale, a prose poem of career criminals turned beneficent brigands. And my friend Mike Vendetti liked it a whole bunch too, have a listen a listen to his… Read moreThe Highwayman by Lord Dunsany (read by Mike Vendetti)