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.
Reading, Short And Deep #067 Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Fear by Achmed Abdullah Here’s a link to a PDF of the story. Fear was first published in Detective Story Magazine, February 4, 1919. Posted by Scott D…. Read moreReading, Short And Deep #067 – Fear by Achmed Abdullah
The SFFaudio Podcast #296 – The Mound by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop; read by Jim Campanella (from Uvula Audio). This is an unabridged reading of the story (3 hours 18 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #296 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Mound by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
The SFFaudio Podcast #290 – The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; read by Chip (for LibriVox). This is an unabridged reading of the novelette (1 hour 23 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #290 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
“In The Dead Valley the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description.” -H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror In Literature The story is chilling, and as performed… Read moreThe Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram
First published in The Cavalier, January 11, 1913, Fishhead (aka Blood-Brother Of The Swamp Cats) is something of an ancestor to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In a letter published the same year, a 22-year-old H.P. Lovecraft, wrote, regarding… Read moreFishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
Guy de Maupassant’s Christmas Eve, first published in Le Gaulois, December 25, 1882, is an 8 minute gem of comic horror. I think of it as kind of a French version of A Christmas Carol. But unlike Scrooge, who is… Read moreChristmas Eve by Guy de Maupassant