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Jul 27
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S5 Ep261: Episode 261: Alien Invasion Ho...

Dr. Creepen
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First up this evening we have the classic ‘The Terrible Tentacles of L-472’, 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/29255/pg29255-images.html#p332 

Our second tale of terror is the classic ‘The Earthman's Burden’, 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/31893/pg31893-images.html#The_Earthmans_Burden 

We round things off with the classic ‘The Gate to Xoran’, an old-school work by the wonderful Hal K. Wells, 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/30177/30177-h/30177-h.htm#xoran

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