55 Free Speculative Fiction Stories by 41 Authors

Another huge update from the indispensible resource Free Speculative Fiction Online…check out these beauties:

1. Kage Baker: “Caverns of Mystery” (Subterranean: “Tales of Dark Fantasy Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
2. Kage Baker: “Running the Snake” (Sideways in Crime Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
3. Stephen Bartholomew: “Last Resort” (Analog, April 1963)
4. Peter S. Beagle: “King Pelles the Sure” (Strange Roads Collection, 2008) (PDF)
5. Peter S. Beagle: “The Rabbi’s Hobby” (Eclipse Anthology #2, 2008) (PDF)
6. Elizabeth Bear: “The Horrid Glory of Its Wings” (Tor.com, December 2009)
7. Elizabeth Bear: “The House of the Rising Sun” (Third Alternative #42, Summer 2005)
8. Marie Brennan: “The TWA Corbies” (Talebones, Winter 2005)
9. John Brown: “Bright Waters” (LCRW #17, November 2005) (PDF)
10. John Brown: “From the Clay of His Heart” (Intergalactic Medicine Show #8, April 2008) (PDF)
11. John Brown: “Loose in the Wires” (Intergalactic Medicine Show #1, October 2005) (PDF)
12. John Brown: “The Scent of Desire” (Writers of the Future Anthology #13, 1997) (PDF)
13. Michael A. Burstein: “Lifeblood” (New Voices in SF Anthology, 2003)
14. Jeff Carlson: “Exit” (Apex, December 2009)
15. Kris Dikeman: “Dearest Cecily” (LCRW #22, June 2008) (PDF)

16. Debra Doyle: “A Death in the Working” (Murder by Magic Anthology, 2004) (PDF)
17. Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald: “On Suivi Point” (Cosmic Tales Anthology #2, 2005)
18. Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald: “Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita” (F & SF, February 2008) (PDF)
19. Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald: “The Queen’s Mirror” (A Wizard’s Dozen Anthology, 1993)
20. Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald: “The Last Real New Yorker in the World” (Newer York Anthology, 1991)
21. Christopher Fowler: “The Lady Downstairs” (BBC Online, 2004)
22. Randall Garrett: “The Asses of Balaam” (Analog, October 1961)
23. David W. Goldman: “Invasion of the Pattern Snatchers” (Analog, September 2008)
24. David W. Goldman: “Radical Acceptance” (Analog, January 2007)
25. David W. Goldman: “Reunion” (Analog, December 2007)
26. David W. Goldman: “The Last Man’s First Year on Earth” (Helix, Winter 2008)
27. David W. Goldman: “The Story of His Life” (Writers of the Future Anthology #21, 2005)
28. Dominic Green: “The Adventure of the Lost World” (BBC Online, 2004)
29. Daryl Gregory: “The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm” (Eclipse Anthology #2, 2008) (PDF)
30. Jon Courtenay Grimwood: “The Spy’s Retirement” (BBC Online, 2004)
31. Richard Harland: “A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead” (Dreaming Again Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
32. Kenneth Mark Hoover: “High Moon” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #32, December 2009)
33. Nicole Kornher-Stace: “The Raccoon’s Daughter” (Fantasy Magazine, December 2009)
34. Marc Laidlaw: “Childrun” (F & SF, August 2008) (PDF)
35. Tim Lebbon: “The Horror of the Many Faces” (Shadows Over Baker Street Anthology, 2003)
36. Randy McCharles: “Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta” (Tesseracts Anthology #12, 2008) (PDF)
37. James Morrow: “Lady Witherspoon’s Solution” (Extraordinary Engines Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
38. Kim Newman: “A Shambles in Belgravia” (BBC Online, 2004)
39. Kim Newman: “Mildew Manor, or The Italian Smile” (BBC Online, 2005)
40. Naomi Novik: “Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake” (Fast Ships, Black Sails Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
41. Richard Parks: “Skin Deep” (Eclipse Anthology #2, 2008) (PDF)
42. Mack Reynolds: “Border, Breed Nor Birth” (Analog, July 1962)
43. Chris Roberson: “Merridew of Abominable Memory” (Gaslight Grimoire Anthology, 2008)
44. Darrell Schweitzer: “The Adventure of the Death-Fetch” (The Great World and the Small Anthology, 2001)
45. Ekaterina Sedia: “Red” (Subterranean Online, Fall 2009)
46. Delia Sherman: “Gift from a Spring” (Realms of Fantasy, April 2008) (PDF)
47. Michael Marshall Smith: “This Is Now” (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology #16, 2005)
48. Brian Stableford: “After the Stone Age” (BBC Online, 2005)
49. James Stoddard: “The First Editions” (F & SF, April 2008) (PDF)
50. Harry Turtledove: “Under St. Peter’s” (By Blood We Live Anthology, 2009)
51. Catherynne M. Valente: “Exsanguinations” (By Blood We Live Anthology, 2009)
52. Howard Waldrop: “Avast, Abaft!” (Fast Ships, Black Sails Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
53. Kim Wilkins: “The Forest” (Dreaming Again Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
54. Liz Williams: “Queen of the Sunlit Shore” (Myth-Understandings Anthology, 2008) (PDF)
55. Stephen Woodworth: “The Olverung” (Realms of Fantasy, December 2008) (PDF) (Audio)