Yellow Streak Hero by Harlan Ellison - The Ba...

A fugitive believes he has found a world willing to give him everything he has lost, including someone who seems made for him. But the closer paradise comes to matching his deepest desires, the harder it becomes for him to trust what stands before him. Killer by James E. Gunn. Th ...  Show more

Arthur Holly thinks he has found the surest bet in horse racing when a brilliant scientist discovers how to make an aging nag run like a champion. The scheme works beautifully, but every race leaves their fortune riding on one very fragile piece of technology. Replace the Horse b ...  Show more

Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predictions of disaster, must question whether the power to see into the future is worth the terrible price

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

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<div>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 t ...  Show more

A man questions his current existence -- and the life he remembers from before. Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, and reprinted in Lightspeed.Content advisory: mention of mental illnessOnly a few more days to enter the LeVar Burton Reads Writing Contest! Check out ...  Show more

Two tales from the future about the terrifying past...

3 Husbands by Vanessa Kennedy

The Thing in Room 426 by M.L. Parker

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