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Jun 2025
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S5 Ep248: Episode 248: Science Fiction H...

Dr. Creepen
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Today’s podcast is a compilation of classic works by old-school sci-fi authors of the 1920s and 1930s; all stories in the public domain read here for you all under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA license.

Today’s opening terrifying tale of terror is the classic ‘In the Orbit of Saturn’, an old-school work by the wonderful R. F. Starzl, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29038/pg29038-images.html 

Today’s second terrifying tale of horror is the classic ‘The Dark Side of Antri’, an old-school work by the wonderful Sewell Peaslee Wright, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30177/pg30177

Today’s third terrifying tale is the classic ‘Mad Music’, an old-school work by the wonderful Anthony Pelcher, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28617/28617-h/28617-h.htm#Mad_Music 

Today’s fourth terrifying tale of the macabre is the classic ‘An Extra Man’, an old-school work by the wonderful Jackson Gee, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29882/29882-h/29882-h.htm#An_Extra_Man

Today’s penultimate terrifying tale of terror is the classic ‘Hell’s Dimension’, an old-school work by the wonderful Tom Curry, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30452/30452-h/30452-h.htm#Hells_Dimension
Tonight’s final old school tale of terror is ‘The Man who was Dead’ by Thomas H. Knight, a work in the public domain, read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA license:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29390/29390-h/29390-h.htm#The_Man_Who_Was_Dead

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