Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/24/2012

What’s special about this week’s free fiction?

1. Eclipse Online posts its second story, “One Little Room an Everywhere” by K.J. Parker (Thanks to Old Miser for the link!)
2. Another apparition for Tor’s Ghost Week: “Too Fond” by Leanna Renee Hieber
3. 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.