Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 10/31/2012
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a horror story for all of you: Dread Unlocks
- Protecting Project Pulp has “Raiders of the Spaceways” by Henry Kuttner
- New-to-the-scene writer Stephen King (he’s going places!) has episode one of a comic on his website: Little Green God of Agony
Written
- @AE: “Tough Crowd” by Holly Schofield [Science Fiction]
- @Aurora Wolf: “An Apple a Day” by Harmony Melbourne [Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Don’t Look Down” by Anatoly Belilovsky [Science Fiction]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “The Number Two Rule” by Lesley L. Smith [Science Fiction]
- @Legend of the Five Rings: “Scenes from the Empire” by Robert Denton & Seth Mason [Fantasy]
- @Quantum Muse: “The Midnight Slasher Creep” by Gordon Rowlinson [Horror Flash]
- @Strange Horizons: “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M. R. James [Ghost Story]
- @The WiFiles: “The Downfall” by D. Robert Grixti [Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: “Dread Unlocks” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Horror]
- @Author’s Site: “Dyscrasia” by Gord Sellar [Weird] (also available in audio)
Written – Serialized
- @Black Gate: “A Phoenix in Darkness” by Donald S. Crankshaw – Part II [Fantasy]
- @Silver Blade: We Apologize for the Interruption by Eliyanna Kaiser – Part 5 [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews – Chapter Five, Part 2 [Contemporary Fantasy]
- @Author’s Site: Trust by David Moody – Chapter 28 [“Anti-” Science Fiction]
Audio
- Drabblecast #261 – “The People of Sand and Slag” by Paolo Bacigalupi [Science Fiction]
- Dunesteef #136 – “CHEMO: The Pieces of Erica Smith” by J.M. Perkins [Fantasy]
- Every Day Fiction Podcast #89 – “It Could Be Us” by Alexander Burns [Science Fiction Flash]
- Protecting Project Pulp #16 – Henry Kuttner [Science Fiction]
- Toasted Cake #44 – “Dyscrasia” by Gord Sellar [Weird]
Audio – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: “Lovestory – Part Two” by James Patrick Kelly [Science Fiction]
- @Author’s Site: “THE MVP Episode #3” by Scott Sigler [Science Fiction]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan [Horror Novel]
- Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter by Brian P. Easton [Paranormal Novel]
- Breath of Air (The Dryad Quartet) by Katie Jennings [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- The Devil’s Prophet Book I: Revelations by Paul DeThroe [Science Fiction Novel – First of Series]
- The Devil’s Prophet Book II: Judgments by Paul DeThroe [Science Fiction Novel – Second of Series]
- Eaters by Michelle DePaepe [Horror Novel]
- The Keeper by Sarah Langan [Horror Novel]
- The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies by Kevin J. Burke [Zombie Novel]
- Timetripper Book 1: Yestermorrow by Stefan Petrucha [Science Fiction Novella]
- Winds of Change by Jason Brannon [Horror Novella]
Free Audiobooks
- @Librivox:
- “Gambler’s World” & “The Yillian Way” by Keith Laumer [Two Science Fiction Short Stories]
Novel Excerpts
- @Gollancz: Excerpt from Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning – Prologue and Chapter One [Fantasy]
- @Gollancz: Excerpts from The Red Knight by Miles Cameron – Albinkirk – Lissen Carak [Fantasy]
- @Tor: Excerpt from Renegade by J A Souders [Fantasy]
- @Tor UK: Excerpt from Halo: The Thursday War by Karen Traviss [Science Fiction Adventure]
- @Author’s Site: Excerpt from A Shattered Lands by Matthew Sylvester – Chapters 1-5 [Steampunk]
Other
- Comics:
- @Tor: “Legends of the Joystick” by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
- @Author’s Site: Little Green God of Agony by Stephen King – Episode 1
