Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 1/11/2013

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Regan Wolfrom in Free Fiction // 0 Comments

(some links stolen from QuasarDragon — what else is new?)

I’m taking it on faith that you’ve all completed your homework from earlier this week. So without further ado…

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112
What may be the saddest story of all time: “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield
George R. R. Martin gives us a taste of The Winds of Winter. (to cave-dwellers: he’s like an important fantasy guy with a much-anticipated book coming out soon)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112 – January 10, 2013: (also available as a free ebook)
- “Death Sent” by Christian K. Martinez [Fantasy]
- “The Stone Oaks” by Stephen Case [Fantasy]
@Nightmare: “Need” by Lisa Tuttle [Horror] (also available in audio)

@365 tomorrows: “Librarian” by Jae Miles [Science Fiction Flash]
@365 tomorrows: “This Is What It’s All About” by Clint Wilson [Science Fiction Flash]
@Daily Science Fiction: “Fool’s Gold” by Melissa Mead [Fairy Tale Flash]
@Daily Science Fiction: “Final Corrections, Pittsburgh Times-Dispatch“ by M. Bennardo [Apocalypse]
@Every Day Fiction: “The Passing of Grandmother’s Quilt” by Cat Rambo [Fantasy Flash]
@Nature: “Pest Control” by John Frizell [Science Fiction Flash]
@Yesteryear: “Wrong Number” by Chris Sharp [Fantasy Flash]

@Paizo: In Red Rune Canyon by Richard Lee Byers – Chapter One: A Difference of Opinion [Fantasy]

@Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Scorn of the Peregrinator” by John E.O. Stevens [Fantasy]
@The Drama Pod: “Last Days of the Kelly Gang” by David D. Levine [Science Fiction]
@Nightmare: “Need” by Lisa Tuttle [Horror]
@SFFAudio: “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield [Fantasy]
SFFAudio #194 – “Of Withered Apples” by Philip K. Dick [Fantasy]
Tales of Old Historical Fiction #74 – “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs [Horror]

@Amazon:
- Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar [Horror Novel]
- Aura by Rebecca Lynn Talley [Contemporary Fantasy Novel]
- The Death Series, Books 1-3: Death Whispers, Death Speaks and Death Inception by Tamara Rose Blodgett [Dark Fantasy Series]
- Desert Angels by George P. Saunders [Science Fiction Adventure Novel]
- Dying To Forget (The Station) by Trish Marie Dawson [YA Fantasy Novel]
- The Fall (The Rift Book I) by Robert J. Duperre [Horror Novel – First of Series]
- Falling (Girl With Broken Wings) by J Bennett [Fantasy Novel]
- The Hand of Andulain (The Tapestry Saga) by Aaron Mahnke [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- The Hand of Fate (Starstone) by Veronica Merlin [YA Epic Fantasy Novel]
- The Hordes of Shashka (The Last Age) by Kevin Middleton [Epic Fantasy Novel – Second of Series]
- Last Regress by Rachael J. Thorne [Fantasy Novel]
- Loud, Disorderly & Boisterous by Adam M. Johnson [Historical Fantasy Novel]
- Parsons Green by Fiona Bagley [YA Horror Novel]
- “Problems With a Girl & a Unicorn” by Nick Earls [Fantasy Short Story]
- The Somnibus: Book I – Finding the Mark by Craig McGray [Horror Novella – First of Series]
- “This Dark Magic” by Chryse Wymer [Urban Fantasy Short Story]
- “Walker” by Steven Ramirez [Horror Short Story]
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #112 – January 10, 2013 [Fantasy Magazine – MOBI, EPUB, PDF]

@Librivox: Islands of Space by John W. Campbell [Science Fiction Novel – from 1957]

@Tor: Excerpt from Hellhole: Awakening by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert – Chapters 1, 2 & 3 [Science Fiction]
@Tor: Excerpt from The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson [Fantasy]
@Tor: Excerpt from The Trouble With Fate by Leigh Evans – Prologue and Chapter One [Fantasy]
@Author’s Site: Excerpt from The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin [Fantasy]