Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 5/23/2013

Another glorious raid on the QuasarDragon. The not-so-brave Captain Tackett wept mightily as we swept away his audiobook booty.

What’s special about today’s free fiction?

1. Nightmare has a story from Neil Gaiman
2. Tor has a story from Kai Ashante Wilson
3. Silvia Moreno-Garcia has posted Chapter Two from her upcoming (and currently crowdfunding) novel Young Blood. She’s had to put up with me at a convention panel so she could really use your sympathy and support.

Written

• @Nightmare: “Feminine Endings” by Neil Gaiman [Horror]
• @Tor: “Super Bass” by Kai Ashante Wilson [Fantasy]

Written – Flash

• @365 tomorrows: “Home Is Where the Heart Is” by Roger Hammons [Science Fiction Flash]
• @Daily Science Fiction: “Airship Hope” by Laurel Amberdine [Slipstream Flash]
• @Every Day Fiction: “Them” by James Harding [Horror Flash]
• @Flashes in the Dark: “The Eleventh Hour” by Michael A. Kechula [Horror Flash]

Written – Serialized

• @HiLobrow: The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle – Chapter 10 [Science Fiction – from 1923]

Audio

• Beware the Hairy Mango #174 – “Newtreesean” by Matthew Sanborn Smith [MuchoMangoMayo]

Free eBooks (at time of listing)

• @Amazon:
  • Birdie Down (Rebellion) by Jim Graham [Science Fiction Adventure Novel – First of Series]
  • Blood of Requiem (Song of Dragons, Book 1) by Daniel Arenson [Epic Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Bound by Blood (The Garner Witch Series) by P.A. Lupton [Paranormal Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Cinderella’s Secret Diary (Book 1: Lost) by Ron Vitale [YA Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Dark Luck by Tim Kizer [Science Fiction Thriller Novella]
  • Eternal Starling (Emblem of Eternity Trilogy) by Angela Corbett [Urban Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Evan Burl and the Falling by Justin Blaney [Epic Fantasy Novel]
  • “The First” by Jason Mott [Contemporary Fantasy Short Story]
  • Legend (Wolf Lake, Book 1) by Jennifer Kohout [Contemporary Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
  • Scat (Scat’s Universe) by Jim Graham [Space Opera Novel – First of Series]
  • The Spider and the Fly by C.E. Stalbaum [Space Opera Novel]
  • Twin-Bred by Karen A. Wyle [Science Fiction Novel]
  • Windigo Soul by Robert Brumm [Dystopian Science Fiction Novella]
• @Project Gutenberg:
  • The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson [Dark Fantasy Novel – from 1909]
  • H. P. Lovecraft’s Writings from the United Amateur, 1915 – 1922 by H. P. Lovecraft [Assorted Columns and Short Stories – from 1915-22]

Free Audiobooks

• @LibriVox:
  • The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson [Dark Fantasy Novel – from 1909]
  • Seven H. P. Lovecraft Stories by H. P. Lovecraft [Horror Collection – from 1915-22]

Excerpts

• @Author’s Site: Excerpt from Young Blood by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Chapter Two [Contemporary Fantasy]