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 horrors of medieval witchery in rural France! Hear Mr. Jim Moon narrate the “darkly erotic” Mother Of Toads, originally censored in its Weird Tales publication, Mr. Jim Moon reads it in its “full uncut glory.” Mother Of Toads By… Read moreHypnobobs: Mother Of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith
H.P. Lovecraft’s claimed that his celebrated novelette, The Rats In The Walls, was “too horrible for the tender sensibilities of a delicately nurtured publick.” The Weird Tales editor, who accepted it, described it as the best his magazine had ever… Read moreProtecting Project Pulp: The Rats In The Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
Though Edgar Allan Poe’s The Valley Of Unrest predates most post-apocalyptic ideas, this beautiful poem, about an empty valley, seems to me about exactly that. Let me plant a seed for you, that may grow as you read it: What… Read moreThe Valley Of Unrest by Edgar Allan Poe
Part of the Fungi From Yuggoth sequence of sonnets, this poem, The Port, is one of two featuring the mouldering town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts (as depicted in H.P. Lovecraft’s novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth). It also places the seaport town… Read moreThe Port by H.P. Lovecraft
Virtually all of Bierce’s tales are tales of horror; and whilst many of them treat only of the physical and psychological horrors within Nature, a substantial proportion admit the malignly supernatural and form a leading element in America’s fund of… Read moreThe Thing At Nolan by Ambrose Bierce
I listened to a great episode of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time about Christina Rossetti recently. I was fascinated by their brief discussion of her poem Goblin Market. Melvyn Bragg and guests described it as: ‘celebrated, fascinating, bizarre, extraordinary,… Read moreListen To Genius: Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti