As part of Halloween month we present another chilling episode from Inner Sanctum. “Elixir Number Four” aired on February 12, 1946 and starred none other than Hollywood star to be, Richard Widmark. In fact, Widmark’s first film hit theater screens a year after this radio performance. His screen debut (Kiss of Death, 1947) garnered him …
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Asimov’s, October/November 2011
“Stealth” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“The Man Who Bridged The Mist” by Kij Johnson
“The Outside Event” by Kit Reed
“My Husband Steinn” by Eleanor Arnason
“The Cult of Whale Worship” by Dominica Phetteplace
“This Petty Pace” by Jason K. Chapman
“The Pastry Chef, The Nanotechnologist, The Aerobics Instructor, and The Plumber” by Eugene Mirabelli
“Free Dog” by Jack Skillingstead
“To Live and Die in Gibbontown” by Derek Künsken
“A Hundred Hundred Daisies” by Nancy Kress
As a warm up to Halloween we present the Inner Sanctum episode titled “Edge of Death,” which originally aired on January 15, 1946. In this one a rare sword–reputed to have been owned by the mad Russian monk Rasputin–is at the heart of mystery and murder, and a recurring curse spelling death to the unwary, …
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Lightspeed #16, September 2011
“Join” by Liz Coleman
“Thief of Futures” by D. Thomas Minton
Edited by J. M. Lassen
(Night Shade Books, October 2011)
“Family Business” by Jonathan Maberry
“The Wrong Grave” by Kelly Link
“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
“The Barrow Maid” by Christine Morgan
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Scott Nicholson
“The Dead Kid” by Darrell Schweitzer
“Seven Brains, Ten Minutes” by Marie Atkins
“The Third Dead Body” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“The Skull-Faced Boy” by David Barr Kirtley
“The Human Race” by Scott Edelman
“Deepwater Miracle” by Thomas S. Roche (original)
Lightspeed Magazine #15, August 2011
“Defenders” by Will McIntosh
“The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine
Edited by Steve Ramey & Jamie Lackey
(Parsec Ink, July 2011)
“A Claw from the Western Paradise” by Gwendolyn Clare
“The Good Daughter” by Aaron Polson
“Ghost Horses and Dream Dogs” by Shanna Germain
“The Gold in the Straw” by Amanda C. Davis
“The Bright Air That Breathes No Pain” by Eric Schaller
“Boll Weevil” by Nathaniel Lee
“The Customs Shed” by John Walters
“Ezekiel” by Desmond Warzel
“Ocean Daughters” by Jaime Lee Moyer
“City of Bones” by Deborah Walker
“In Ruins” by J. M. Odell
“In the Shadow of God, There is Fire” by Sandra M. Odell
“Lord God Bird” by Sarah Frost
“Norms” by Cynthia Ward
“To Rule, Do Nothing” T. F. Davenport
“Zafir, the Saudi Superhero” by Madhvi Ramani
“Twilight’s Last Gleaming” by H. L. Fullerton
“A Lack of Charity” by James Beamon
“To Give the Perfect Dewdrop” by Dawn Lloyd
“The Party” by Christopher Nadeau
“The Reel” by H. M. Tanzen
“The Last Cyborg” by M. Yang .
“A Feast of Kings” by David Sklar
“The Charnel Pit” by Stephen Gaskell
“God in the Machine” by Charles Patrick Brownson
“Seedling” by Eric Zivovic
“The Loss of Pain” by Amy Treadwell
“Mikeys” by Robert J. Sawyer (reprint, not reviewed)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #78, September 22, 2011
“Butterfly” by Garth Upshaw
“The Magick” by Kristina C. Mottla
As were all Mysterious Traveler episodes, Robert Arthur and David Kogan wrote, directed, and produced the show for almost a decade. “Symphony of Death” aired on September 8, 1946 and begins strangely, but still benignly, when a genius composer on his way home from a rehearsal spots a sale on tombstones and buys three–one each …
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