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.
Naxos Audiobooks, is offering a couple of free audiobook downloads this month! Here’s part of the description of the first one: Bierce’s ghost stories are not among the best-written but they are unusual and distinctly ‘modern’ in their definition of… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: 2 FREE Horror tales, The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce and The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Sometimes titled “The Diamond Necklace” this story is a 3,000 word short story that is often upheld as a tale at, or very near, the pinnacle of ironic fiction. Guy de Maupassant’s short story La Parure is usually given the… Read moreThe Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
Here’s a cute little short story, with a sympathetic protagonist, by the master of the short short, Fredric Brown. Mr. Jim Moon, the proprietor and narrator of the Hypnobobs podcast, calls it a “A Micro Tale”, others may call it… Read moreHypnobobs: Naturally by Fredric Brown
As It Happens, a long running CBC Radio series, used to feature the occasional short story reading by host Alan Maitland. In fact we reviewed one of the collections, Scary Stories with Alan Maitland |READ OUR REVIEW| back in 2005…. Read moreCBC: Rewind: Alan Maitland’s readings of three stories by Stephen Leacock, Saki, and O. Henry
One of the shortest, if not the shortest, of all of Philip K. Dick’s many short stories. First published in 1953, in Science Fiction Stories #1, The Eyes Have It, is just a simple story about a literal man and… Read moreLibriVox: The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
The Lifeboat Mutiny is a part of Robert Sheckley’s “AAA Ace Series.” The series has eight stories, each involving two partners in the far future encountering various unusual problems. One fan on LibraryThing described the series as being about “two… Read moreX-Minus One: The Lifeboat Mutiny by Robert Sheckley