Phil Chenevert
The Colour Out of Space
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror…
The Stainless Steel Rat
This is the story that inspired and kicked off the Stainless Steel Rat series of stories and novels by Harry Harrison. A slippery con man an…
Herbert West: Reanimator
Herbert West: Reanimator is a chilling tale that delves into the dark realms of life, death, and the boundaries of science. Written by H. P.…
Rinkitink in Oz (version 3)
Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. In …
Hunter Patrol
World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school che…
The Night of the Long Knives
"I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping …
Planet of the Damned (Version 2)
Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once—but they were something else no…
The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries
It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so prepos…
The Skylark of Space (version 2)
The Skylark of Space by E. E. “Doc” Smith invites listeners into a groundbreaking adventure of interstellar travel, marking a pivotal moment…
St. Francis of Assisi
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…
Med Service
Excitement would seem far from the life of a Med Service man. Going from planet to planet in their tiny ships with just one little furry co…
Ribbon in the Sky
Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…
Attitude
They had been captured, but by whom? And why where they allowed to build anything they wanted to escape? The space cruiser was powerful and…
The Variable Man (Version 2)
Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Published in 1953, in Space Science Fiction, t his story explores a…
Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull
Two stories in the inimitable Philip Dick style. What is a Wub? A 400 pound slovenly, fat, ungainly, drooling animal that looks like a cross…
Planet of Dread
Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, …
The Skylark of Valeron
The Skylark of Valeron is the third volume in the classic Skylark trilogy by E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith. DuQuesne has survived to become Master of t…
Doctor Dolittle's Zoo
Doctor Dolittle, the man who can speak with the animals, is back home but running short of money to care for all the animals who need his he…
The People of the Black Circle (version 2)
In "The People of the Black Circle," Conan the Cimmerian embarks on a perilous quest that intertwines magic, treachery, and the fa…
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears f…