Nolan 2: Blood Money by Max Collins
Showing posts with label Free Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Stuff. Show all posts
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Free Stuff: The Six Million Dollar Man: The Secret of Bigfoot Pass by Mike Jahn
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Secret of Bigfoot Pass by Mike Jahn
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Free Stuff: The Colonel by Donald Zec
The Colonel by Donald Zec
A fascinating study of weakness, cruelty and bizarre sexual tastes
Friday, July 5, 2019
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Friday, June 14, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Sunday, February 7, 2016
In Amundsen’s Tent by John Martin Leahy
In Amundsen’s Tent
by John Martin Leahy
originally Weird Tales January 1928
Very early Antarctic horror, and perhaps the first depending on how horrific is 1926's "Beyond the Pole" by A. Hyatt Verrill for Amazing Stories, which is about a race of lobster folk.
This piece is a bit more Lovecraftian and foreshadows the later In the Mountains of Madness.
Told in epistolary format of found notes, a group of explorers find tents in the Antarctic where no explorers have been before. A nice eerie piece marred in a couple places by two of the worst cliches of weird fiction:
"It's too horrible to describe. No seriously, you'll go crazy." It's hard to get away with this, and Leahy doesn't. Half of the story is characters trying to stop each other from looking in the tent repeating lines like the one above. They then proceed to discuss where it might come from, what its purpose is, and what to do about it. This kind of indescribable Stygian cyclopean only works in small doses when things are hinted at, not when you're bashing the reader over the head with it while rationally discussing the implications.
It luckily goes back to sparse explained creepiness for the end, though we have the inevitable "Oh no, I have to stop writing now because I'm about to...oh no, it got me. I'm about to drop my pen" stuff.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Where to get pulp - free stuff
For public domain stuff, you can try Project Gutenberg and its Australian counterpart, though you need to know what author you're looking for.
Likewise with Librivox, which is basically the audio version of Gutenberg.
Pulpgen has an excellent collection, although the search interface isn't the best. All files are in pdf.
Munsey's is another good place, though not as updated as it used to be. There's a wide variety of formats for each story.
There are a lot of good collections on Mobileread - do a search under "omnibus".
Likewise with Librivox, which is basically the audio version of Gutenberg.
Pulpgen has an excellent collection, although the search interface isn't the best. All files are in pdf.
Munsey's is another good place, though not as updated as it used to be. There's a wide variety of formats for each story.
There are a lot of good collections on Mobileread - do a search under "omnibus".
Friday, March 21, 2014
Free Stuff - HP Lovecraft's The Mound
The Mound is a tale ghost written by HP Lovecraft for Zalia Bishop in 1930. It was not published until the November 1940 issue of Weird Tales, and even then in abdridged form. The full story was not published until 1989.
My opinion of Lovecraft is similar to mine on George Lucas - I like the mythos, but it's much better when someone else does it. The Mound is better than most for my taste, and had a lasting influence. While it did not originate the concept of an advanced underground society (that would be The Coming Race and probably several others), it did clearly influence one Richard Shaver, who had mentioned that he read the piece. And by read I mean largely lifted the entire concept into his own cosmology.
The Mound has an advanced underground civilization that subjugates other races in a sadistic, depraved manner - definitely proto-dero. And as Lovecraft begat Shaver, Shaver's moves were bitten in turn by Jack Kirby, who mixed in some Von Daniken (also arguably influenced by Lovecraft) and gave us the Eternals.
I don't know if this is the abridged version or not, but read it here.
My opinion of Lovecraft is similar to mine on George Lucas - I like the mythos, but it's much better when someone else does it. The Mound is better than most for my taste, and had a lasting influence. While it did not originate the concept of an advanced underground society (that would be The Coming Race and probably several others), it did clearly influence one Richard Shaver, who had mentioned that he read the piece. And by read I mean largely lifted the entire concept into his own cosmology.
The Mound has an advanced underground civilization that subjugates other races in a sadistic, depraved manner - definitely proto-dero. And as Lovecraft begat Shaver, Shaver's moves were bitten in turn by Jack Kirby, who mixed in some Von Daniken (also arguably influenced by Lovecraft) and gave us the Eternals.
I don't know if this is the abridged version or not, but read it here.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Free Stuff - I Remember Lemuria
The Shaver Mystery story that started it all. Read it free at archive.org.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Free Stuff - A Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
A Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
While reading the otherwise meh Alfred Hitchcock collection 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV, I read this gem, originally published in The Blue Magazine in 1907. A creepy little tale about a castaway who dares not let himself be rescued. The tale rang familiar to me, and sure enough, it's the basis for this classic:
Matango, aka Attack of the Mushroom People. It's also been adapted for TV on Suspicion and Naruto.
Read it free here.
While reading the otherwise meh Alfred Hitchcock collection 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV, I read this gem, originally published in The Blue Magazine in 1907. A creepy little tale about a castaway who dares not let himself be rescued. The tale rang familiar to me, and sure enough, it's the basis for this classic:
Matango, aka Attack of the Mushroom People. It's also been adapted for TV on Suspicion and Naruto.
Read it free here.
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