The Haunting Hour — “The Case of the Lonesome Corpse”

The Haunting Hour (1945-46) aired “The Case of the Lonesome Corpse” on May 12, 1945 as its 8th episode. A much beloved criminologist has passed away decades ago, in the 1920s, and has left his memoirs, many of them having to do with the cases of the macabre and supernatural he has solved. This is …

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Lights Out — “Rocket from Manhattan”

Lights Out  (1934-47) aired “Rocket from Manhattan” on September 20, 1945, a mere six weeks following the first atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Written by radio’s wunderkind Arch Oboler (1909-1987), it is one of–if not the–very first drama anywhere to deal directly with aspects of the new …

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Trust and Treachery: Tales of Power and Intrigue, ed. by Day Al-Mohamed & Meriah Crawford

Trust and Treachery: Tales of Power and Intrigue

Edited by Day Al-Mohamed & Meriah Crawford

(Dark Quest Books, Sept. 2014, 302 pp.)

 
“Sanctified Ground” by Beth Cato
“Live Free or Die” by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
“Infinitas” by David Taub Bancroft
“Terrible Lizards” by Demetrios Matsakis
“Listener” by Kelly Horn
“The Peculiar Testimony of Dok Oculus” by Eric A. Howald
“A Real Produce Guy” by Thomas Livingston
“Camp Why” by D.G. Bracey
“Plan B” by John M. Floyd
“Short Dark Future” by Marian Allen
“Lunar Epithalamion” by Calie Voorhis
“Oathbreaker” by Kate Marshall
“Missing Persons” by Ann L. Kopchik
“Restraint” by Bruce Pratt
“Almost There” by Al Nash
“Assent” by J.R. McRae
“Cheat The Hangman” by Kris Dikeman
“Sweetest, Senseless Death” by Mark Mills
“Her Majesty’s Executrix” by James Daniel Ross
“Neighbour from Hell” by Edoardo Albert
“Perfect Memory” by Jonathan Shipley
“Survival” by Edward Folger
“Blind Spot” by Michaux Dempster
“The Wrong Shoes” by Chang Terhune
“The House On The Lake” by Patrick O’Neill
“1612” by Richard Smith
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Columbia Workshop — “The Gods of the Mountain” by Lord Dunsany

The Columbia Workshop aired Lord Dunsany’s “The Gods of the Mountain” on December 19, 1936 as its 20th episode. Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, 1878-1957) saw “The Gods of the Mountain” as one of the stories in his 1912 collection Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany, edited and with an introductory essay …

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The End is Now, edited by John Joseph Adams

The End is Now:

 

The Apocalypse Triptych Book 2

 

Edited by John Joseph Adams

 

(September 2014)

 

“Herd Immunity” by Tananarive Due
“The Sixth Day of Deer Camp” by Scott Sigler
“Goodnight Stars” by Annie Bellet
“Rock Manning Can’t Hear You” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Fruiting Bodies” by Seanan McGuire
“Black Monday” by Sarah Langan
“Angels of the Apocalypse” by Nancy Kress
“Agent Isolated” by David Wellington
“The Gods Will Not Be Slain” by Ken Liu
“You’ve Never Seen Everything” by Elizabeth Bear
“Bring Them Down” by Ben H. Winters
“Twilight of the Music Machines” by Megan Arkenberg
“Sunset Hollow” by Jonathan Maberry
“Penance” by Jake Kerr
“Avtomat” by Daniel H. WIlson
“Dancing with Batgirl in the Land of Nod” by Will McIntosh
“By the Hair of the Moon” by Jamie Ford
“To Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood” by Desirina Boskovich
“In the Mountain” by Hugh Howey
“Dear John” by Robin Wasserman
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