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.
After three recent podcasts (two for SFBRP, one for the SFFaudio Podcast) I’ve prepared a listening list of the topic of INVISIBILITY. Invisibility is, I argue, ultimately not a scientific phenomenon but rather a literary one. When we use the… Read moreCommentary: The History and Fiction of Invisibility
Mark F. Smith, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, is the sole narrator of the latest LibriVox gothic novel. It’s author, Thomas Love Peacock, was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and an employee of the East India Company. Writes Mark… Read moreLibriVox: Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Previously aired on BBC 7, The Willows is a century old supernatural Horror story that H.P. Lovecraft described as: ‘The finest supernatural tale in English literature.’ Blackwood, is well regarded as one of the 20th century’s foremost writers of supernatural… Read moreBBC7 re-broadcasting Algernon Blackwood’s <B>The Willows</B>
Four on Seven… The 7th Dimension Readings: The Fall of the House of Usher The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Brave New World Plus The Scarifyers #2! The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic tale of gothic… Read moreFour on Seven
A new LibriVox title from the author of Dracula! I first encountered this strange tale while watching British television in the early 1990s – it was a very odd movie aired one afternoon – the film both fascinated and repelled…. Read moreLibriVox: The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram Stoker
Previously released on BBC Radio 4, and with a different reader, The Willows is a 100 year old supernatural Horror story is endorsed by none other than H.P. Lovecraft! Old H.P. described it as: ‘The finest supernatural tale in English… Read moreBBC7 broadcast of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows