Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/24/2012
What’s special about this week’s free fiction?
- Eclipse Online posts its second story, “One Little Room an Everywhere” by K.J. Parker (Thanks to Old Miser for the link!)
- Another apparition for Tor’s Ghost Week: “Too Fond” by Leanna Renee Hieber
- James Patrick Kelly thrills the online world (sans webcam in the shower) by reading Part One of “Lovestory”
Written
- @AE: “Tough Crowd” by Holly Schofield [Science Fiction]
- @Buzzy Mag: “Running With The Dead” by Larry Hodges [Horror]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Chosen One” by Huston Lowell [Fantasy]
- @Eclipse Online: “One Little Room an Everywhere” by K.J. Parker [Fantasy]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Hunted” by Paul A. Freeman [Horror Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Which Lagoon Was It, Again?” by Eric Del Carlo [Humorous Horror Flash]
- @Flashes in the Dark: “The Inheritance” by Matthew Guerruckey [Horror Flash]
- @Lightspeed: “Bear and Shifty” by Benjamin Parzybok [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition” by Megan Arkenberg [Fantasy] (also available in audio)
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Lenny” by Keith Baldwin [Horror]
- @Quantum Muse: “The Cupcake” by Harris Tobias [Halloween Flash]
- @Tor: “Too Fond” by Leanna Renee Hieber [Ghost Story]
- @Weird Fiction Review: “Thirteen at Table” by Lord Dunsany [Horror
- @World SF: “Don’t Move a Muscle, Mr. Liberty” by Jordan Ellinger [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “The Hook” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Horror]
Audio
- @Clarkesworld: “The Battle of Candle Arc” by Yoon Ha Lee [Science Fiction]
- @Lightspeed: “The Suicide’s Guide to the Absinthe of Perdition” by Megan Arkenberg [Fantasy]
- PodCastle #230 – “Unpossible” by Daryl Gregory [Fantasy]
Audio – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: Lovestory by James Patrick Kelly – Part One [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Bob Moore: No Hero by Tom Andry [Superhero Novella]
- Crowley’s Window by Gord Rollo [Dark Fantasy Novella]
- Dead Girls and Other Stories by Kerri Knutson [Horror Collection]
- The Legend of Jack Straw by Lane Champion [Halloween Horror Novella
- “Misty and the Magic Pumpkin Knife” by Ruth Nestvold [Halloween Short Story]
- Necrophobia #1 (Zombie Apocalypse) by Jack Hamlyn [Zombie Novel – First of Series]
- Ordained (The Immortal Archives) by Devon Ashley [YA Urban Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- Sundered (A Zombie-ish Apocalypse) by Shannon Mayer [Zombie-ish Novella]
- Zombie Fever 1: Origins by B.M. Hodges [Horror Novella]
- @Smashwords:
- The Eleventh Question by Dianne Gray [Contemporary Fantasy Novella]
- Gears of a Mad God: A Steampunk Lovecraft Adventure by Brent Nichols [Steampunk Horror Novelette – First of Series]
- “Sub-Textual Evidence for the Existence of Alien Life and the Extrapolation of Internet Protocols” by Lazette Gifford [Science Fiction Humor Short Story]
Novel Excerpts
- @Tor: Excerpt from Blood Song by Cat Adams [Urban Fantasy]
Other
- Poetry:
- @Strange Horizons: “Torah and Secular Learning” by Bogi Takács [Speculative Poetry]
Have suggestions for Free Fiction? Please let me know.
The link to “The Chosen One” is broken.
Thanks once again OM. Link fixed. [Nerdpeak] It was just missing the “http://” in front of it, so the web browser thought it was a relative URL. [/Nerdpeak]