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History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. The Barbarians by Algis Budrys, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode. Listen to The […]

THE BLACK EWE Episode #79 · Written by Fritz Leiber · Narrated by Scott Miller A man believes he has found the perfect partner—until a series of bizarre “accidents” and whispered premonitions unravel into something far darker than he imagined. As he finally glimpses the pattern behind a trail of […]

THE CALL FROM BEYOND Episode #116 · Written by Clifford D. Simak · Narrated by Scott Miller Frederick West comes to the outer reaches of the Solar System looking for isolation, not answers. What he finds instead is a closed circle of men who believe the future can be reshaped […]

THE BLONDE FROM BARSOOM Episode #158 · Written by Robert F. Young · Narrated by Scott Miller Harold Worthington Smith has always relied on imagination as his refuge. Inside his stories, he is confident, admired, and decisive—everything his real life refuses to let him be. But when the fantasy refuses […]

BEFORE EDEN Episode #122 · Written by Arthur C. Clarke · Narrated by Scott Miller On the cold, aurora-lit heights of Venus’s South Pole, three explorers uncover the first living organism ever found on the planet—a vast, creeping tapestry of crimson life. But even as they study it in awe, […]

August Derleth grew up in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He wrote his first fiction story at 13. His stories were rejected 40 times over 3 years before he sold “Bat’s Belfry” to “Weird Tales Magazine” in 1926. “Birkett’s Twelfth Corpse” can be found in “Strange Stories Magazine” in August 1940.

BESIDE STILL WATERS Episode #82 · Written by Robert Sheckley · Narrated by Scott Miller A solitary prospector carves out a fragile life on a lonely asteroid with only a hand-built robot companion to keep the void at bay. But as the stars drift silently overhead, the bond between man […]

X MARKS THE PEDWALK Episode #82 · Written by Fritz Leiber · Narrated by Scott Miller In a future city where pedestrians and motorists wage an absurdly escalating war, a single incident at a crosswalk ignites chaos on both sides. As sanity drains from the population, uneasy leaders scramble to […]

CRY SILENCE Episode #82 · Written by Fredric Brown · Narrated by Scott Miller A quiet train platform at dusk seems like an unlikely place for anything to be at stake. Yet Cry Silence turns casual conversation into a slow tightening of pressure, where an argument about hearing becomes something […]