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“Half-Men of the Night Marie” first appeared in Phobos magazine issue 4, published in 2017 From the Author: Spoiler “Moby Dick is one of my favourite novels, and this story is inspired by the same incident which inspired Herman Melville; the fate of the whaling ship Essex, which was sunk by a sperm whale, leaving the surviving crew drifting at sea for 95 days.

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PseudoPod 690: The Aetherised Chamber is a PseudoPod original. In its inspiration this is sort of a science fiction story: I was reading about 17th century scientists and wondered, “What if they were right?” 17 October 1687: The God-machine failed, and I destroyed it. With the wood-axe I smashed the glass vacuum pump, the encircling copper spring, the clockwork armature…

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“Ages of Man” was previously published with Underbelly ‘Zine, Issue 3 Spoiler “We’ve often heard of science fiction stories where humans construct the perfect mate for themselves–in this one, I wanted to explore an android who built himself the perfect human.” [collapse] Nothing lives on the edge of the solar system. Nothing organic, at least, which is why AX-983 has…

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“The Tunnel Ahead” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1961 The floor of the topolino was full of sand. There was sand in Toni’s undershorts, too, and damp sand rubbing between his toes. Damn it, he thought, here they build you six-lane highways right on down to the ocean, a giant three-hundred car turntable to keep traffic moving over the beach…

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“The Yellow Cat” originally published in Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine, June 1924 Trophy RPG: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/trophy-rpg?ref=discovery&term=trophy Duggan Hill Podcast: https://dugganhill.com/ The Walken Puss In Boots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjKmsMkPKQ It all began when Grey was followed home, inexplicably enough, by the strange…

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“The Phantom Rider” originally appeared in Weird Tales, November 1924 Big Bill Hawkins laid the trap with admirable precision. Every little detail had been worked out with the utmost nicety. The care-free manner of his partner, Seth Ormsby, indicated that he suspected nothing, though he did seem somewhat puzzled by Big Bill’s unwonted loquacity and unprecedented joviality.

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“The Loved Dead” originally published in Weird Tales, May-June-July 1924 It is midnight. Before dawn they will find me and take me to a black cell where I shall languish interminably, while insatiable desires gnaw at my vitals and wither up my heart, till at last I become one with the dead that I love. My seat is the fetid hollow of an aged grave; my desk is the back of a fallen…

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‘The Most Dangerous Game” was originally published in the January 19, 1924 issue of Collier’s “Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island,” said Whitney. “It’s rather a mystery—” “What island is it?” Rainsford asked. “The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island,’ ” Whitney replied. “A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don’t know why.

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‘The Mystery of the Blue Jar’ was first published in the UK in issue 233 of The Grand Magazine in July 1924 and in the US in Metropolitan Magazine the same year. Reprinted in The Hound of Death and Other Stories (UK, 1933) and The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (US, 1948). Jack Hartington surveyed his topped drive ruefully. Standing by the ball, he looked back to the tee…

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‘Pomegranate Pomegranate” was originally published in Black Static #69 in May of 2019. It was reprinted in the August 2019 issue of The Dark. This is what she knows: Do not immediately repeat a word. Do not immediately repeat a word spoken by someone else, and do not allow someone to repeat a word you’ve just said. Do not allow yourself to hear your own echo.

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