They came to torment. They Came in Revenge. The Monsters Came by Night by Robert Silverberg. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

It’s Halloween week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast — and that means we’re digging into the eerie, the uncanny, and the things that brush past you in the dark when you think you’re alone.

Today’s tale takes us far from Earth — all the way to Mars — but don’t relax just because it’s “out there.” These things don’t stay politely confined to the red planet. In this story, the monsters of Mars don’t just haunt red dust and dead craters… they follow a man across the gulfs of space like a nightmare that refuses to stay in the dream.

Settle in, dim the lights if you dare — and listen close — because once you hear them, you might never un-hear them.

First published on page 34 of Super Science Fiction in October 1959, this one originally carried the byline Charles D. Hammer — and you might be thinking, who? never heard of him.

You actually have heard of him… only not under that name. Charles D. Hammer was a pen name of a writer who would go on to be named a Science Fiction Grand Master.

Listen to this story written by a very familiar name, The Monsters Came by Night by Robert Silverberg…

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A mutinous Spaniard slithers into the shadow-soaked hold of an English ship with powder, vengeance, and heresy on his tongue. But in the stinking dark beneath the deck, blades whisper, loyalties bend, and something far worse than steel seems to be waiting. The Horror in the Hold by Frank Belknap Long.

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