StoryHack Podcast

Today we're going to finish up The Daughter of Thor by Edmund Hamilton with chapters 5 and 6. I very much enjoyed the climactic battle of this one. If I hadn't just thought of it right now, I probably would have found a recording of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" to use as a soundtrack for that part. But I didn't. If that's something you'd like to do on a different device while you're listening, however, it's pretty clear in the story when to start the music.

Continuing our plucky hero's plight, fighting Nazis and now Norse Gods? Poor guy can't catch a break.

Remember if you like these stories, you'll also like the stories in StoryHack Action & Adventure, which come not from the public domain, but from modern wordsmiths. Check it out in paperback and ebook today.

A strange sequence of events leads an American pilot and a Nazi officer to the mythical land of Valhalla.

This is a longer story, running about 2 hours total, so I'm splitting it into a few episodes. Today features Chapters 1 & 2.

Let me know if you like the idea of doing more of these longer pieces, or if you would prefer to keep them short, like I've done so far.

The StoryHack Podcast is currently supported by sales of StoryHack magazine as well as Misha Burnett's new book, Dark Fantasies.

In which Sailor Steve Costigan says goodbye to his beloved Sea Girl then fights the frenchman who kicked his dog. It's the first Robert E. Howard story I've recorded for the podcast. I've read that these boxing stories were more popular at the time of their release than Howard's Weird Tales stories. Today, they are all but forgotten. But they shouldn't be, because they're tons of fun.

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Life in “Utopia” was beautiful, perfectly regulated to satisfy everyone’s needs and desires—except one.

I chose to record this one because I saw a review that called it, "1984 in 5,000 words or less." Watch out to the POV switch midway.

In other news: StoryHack has just released Misha Burnett's new collection, "Dark Fantasies", which is available in ebook and paperback.

Something about the raw deal that this kid was getting madeDan Flaherty forget that he was supposed to be a hard guy. . .

Here's the first boxing story for the podcast.

Just a reminder, StoryHack is publishing Misha Burnett's new collection, "Dark Fantasies", and it comes out Monday, June 15, 2020.

Just a dumb rookie cop, they said. A mugg with brains in his feet and not enough savvy to buck the choppers.

This one hails from a time when apperently it was considered good police work to fill the streets with the dead bodies of criminals.

The story is Clue of Courage, by Norvell Page

Here's the short story of a man who spends his life building ships, and how loves them more than he can say.

So he gets in fights over them.

Once again, I swear I'm not making fun of people with my accents. I'm just practicing and maybe someday I'll be good at it.

This one is by Robert Leslie Bellem, whose Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective stories helped make me a fan of pulp a couple of decades ago. It's a weird menace tale.

The little teaser blurb reads, "Was this then the horrible price Tim Croft must pay for his disbelief in devil-magic philtres?- forfeiture of his own lovely fiancee's life-blood to the undead corpse of Haunted Hollow!"

If you gave a writer that blurb and the story art, there is no way they would ever come up with a plot similar to the actual story. But by the end, you'll have forgotton the picture and blurb anyway.

Today's short story is by E. Hoffman Price. It's a quick little sci-fi romp where everything possible goes wrong.

The story art on this one was great.