Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 2/20/2013

By Regan Wolfrom | Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 12:14 am

A very large number of links, thanks in part to Annie!

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

A new magazine debuts: Black Treacle #1 – February 2013
Lightspeed has some steampunkish machines
If you haven’t tasted the mango yet… well, come on already: Beware the Hairy Mango #147 – “Fudgethrower”

Written

@Black Gate: “The Find” by Mark Rigney [Fantasy]
Black Treacle #1 – February 2013: [Horror and Dark Fantasy] (also available as eBook)
- “Rattlesnake Eyes” by Josh Reynolds
- “Amy” by K.T. Bryski
- “A Little Piece of Heaven” by Rik Hoskin
- “Ascending” by F.J. Bergmann
- “Rain Gods” by Jeff Barr
@Buzzy Mag: “Air Guitar” by Jared Oliver Adams [Urban Fantasy]
@Cosmos: “Bleeding in the Deep” by David Rielle [Science Fiction]
@Daily Science Fiction: “A Phone, My Heart, and Maybe My Last Shred of Dignity” by Luc Reid [Science Fiction]
@Enchanted Conversation: “Black Dog” by Elise Forier Edie [Fairy Tale]
@Lightspeed: “Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris” by Carrie Vaughn [Steampunk] (also available in audio)
@Lightspeed: “Exogamy” by John Crowley [Fantasy]
@Mad Scientist Journal: “My Neighbour, Mr. Telford” by Mark Carpenter [Speculative Fiction / Humor]
@Short-Story.me: “The Giant of Hampton Bays” by Paul Anobile [Horror]
@Strange Horizons: “The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh” by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back [Speculative Fiction] (also available in audio)
@Weird Fiction Review: “Remembrance is Something Like a House” by Will Ludwigsen [Interstitial/Weird]
@The WiFiles: “Rainfall” by Adam L. Wilson [Fantasy]
@Author’s Site: “Little Better than a Beast” by Tim Pratt [Urban Fantasy - A Month of Marla]

Written – Flash

@365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Luna Llena” by Lindsey McLeod
- “Chomp And Stomp” by Davena Oaks
- “The Stakes” by Kevin Crisp
- “Peeler” by Jae Miles
- “Run For Your Life” by Patricia Stewart
@Daily Science Fiction:
- “For the People” by Ronald D. Ferguson [Science Fiction Flash]
- “The Needs of Hollow Men” by K.A. Rundell [Superhero Flash]
@Every Day Fiction:
- “Charmed” by Chloe Banks [Fantasy Flash]
- “Third Time’s the Charm” by Robert J. Santa [Fantasy Flash]
@Flashes in the Dark: [Horror Flash]
- “The Cat in the Window” by Henry Peter Gribbin
- “The Devil and Father Josef” by Reed Beebe
@Nature: “Peace” by Danny Dunlavey [Science Fiction Flash]
@Weirdyear: “Rhona of Old” by David Edward Nell [Weird Flash]

Written – Serialized

@The Colored Lens: Shadow of the Rain Catchers by Dean Giles – Part 1 [Science Fiction]
@Kat and Mouse: Guns For Hire: Ties That Bind by Abner Senires – Part 9 [Cyberpunk]
@Silver Blade: The Guild of Swordsmen by Kristin Janz – Part 6 [Fantasy]

Audio

Beam Me Up #353 [Science Fiction]
Beware the Hairy Mango #147 – “Fudgethrower” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [The Military Industrial Mangplex]
Cast of Wonders #67 – “Barsoom in June” by Brian L. Hurrel [YA Science Fiction Adventure]
@Clarkesworld: “The Wanderers” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam [Science Fiction]
Drabblecast #273 – “The Electric Ant” by Phillip K. Dick [Science Fiction]
Every Day Fiction Podcast #105 – “The Passing of Grandmother’s Quilt” by Cat Rambo [Fantasy]
@Lightspeed: “Harry and Marlowe Escape the Mechanical Siege of Paris” by Carrie Vaughn [Steampunk]
Projecting Project Pulp #32 – Ellis Parker Butler [Science Fiction]
Pseudopod #321 – “I Am The Box, The Box Is Me” by Kyle S. Johnson [Horror]
@Strange Horizons: “The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh” by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back [Speculative Fiction]
Tales To Terrify #58 – Sandra M. Odell [Horror]
Toasted Cake #59 – “The Unmoveable Sky” by Deborah Walker [Science Fiction]

Audio – Serialized

@19 Nocturne Boulevard: Afterlives – #3.1 – Laid to Rest / Terminal Truths [Fantasy]
Radio Drama Revival #318 – Are you Afraid of Rotwang Krell? – Part 3 of 3 [Science Fiction]
@Author’s Site: THE MVP Episode #19 by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

@Amazon:
- Blood of the Son (Book #1 in the Skye Morrison Vampire Series) by J.L. McCoy [Vampire Novel - First of Series]
- The Ghost of Squire House by Joanne Pence [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum by Stephen Prosapio [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- The Hunter (The Legend Chronicles) by Theresa Meyers [Vampire Western Steampunk Novel]
- Midnight Paths: A Collection of Dark Horror by Joe Hart [Horror Collection]
- Nine Steps to Sara by Lisa Olsen [Ghost Story Novel]
- Saving Mars (Saving Mars Series-1) by Cidney Swanson [Science Fiction Adventure Novel - First of Series]
- The Torn Wing (The Faerie Wing #2) by Kiki Hamilton [Fantasy Novel - Second of Series]
- Vampires, Ghosts, and God (Five Novel Box Set) by Aiden James [Five Fantasy Novels]
Black Treacle #1 – February 2013: [Horror and Dark Fantasy Magazine - EPUB, MOBI]
@Project Gutenberg:
- The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells [Science Fiction Novel - from 1901]

Excerpts

@Far Beyond Reality: Excerpt from River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay [Fantasy]
@Gollancz:
- Extract from Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill – Chapter Two [Dark Fantasy]
- Extract from Empire of the Saviours by AJ Dalton [Fantasy]
@Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Extract from Trickster by Jeff Somers [Fantasy]
@Tor:
- Excerpt from Mending the Moon by Susan Palwick [Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Unremembered by Jessica Brody [YA Science Fiction]
- Excerpt from The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett [YA Fantasy]
- Excerpt from A Cactus Garden by Jo Bannister [Science Fiction]
- Excerpt from Midnight Blue Light Special by Seanan McGuire [Urban Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Trinity Rising by Elspeth Cooper [Fantasy]

Other

@Tor: Sneak Preview of Constantine #1 by Jeff Lemire, Ray Fawkes and Renato Guedes [Comic]

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