Podcast Episodes

The Hunter's Lodge Case & The Plymouth Express Affair, by Agatha Christie

Season 2 Episode 16

The Hunter's Lodge Case

Even from his sick-bed, Hercule Poirot's famous "little gray cells" solve an apparently unsolvable murder mystery.

"The Hunter's Lodge Case" appeared in "The Blue Book Magazin…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Mr Lonliness, A Kiss for the Conqueror, & My Robot, by Henry Slesar

Season 2 Episode 15

Mr Lonliness

It is lonely out there in space. Very, very lonely! A man needs to see a human face, hear a human voice. So visitors have to be sent out somehow—by some means.

"Mr Lonliness" appeared in…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Blind Play & The Statistomat Pitch, by Chandler Davis

Season 2 Episode 14

Blind Play

Nick Pappas, hired-killer from Callisto, was strictly out for Pappas--out for Number One, as they used to say. And now those fools in the vanishing spaceship thought that number was up!

"B…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

The Man Who Could Work Miracles, by H G Wells

Season 2 Episode 12

Mr. Fotheringay was a sceptic. He didn't believe in miracles, and he was going to prove it to Mr. Beamish, only...

"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" appeared in "Tales of Space and Time," Harper & Br…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

How Deep the Grooves & The Wounded, by Philip José Farmer

Season 2 Episode 13

How Deep the Grooves

Dr. James Carroad was prepared to experiment on his own unborn son to demonstrate that he could condition unquestioning loyalty in potential citizens, removing certain freedoms. …

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Untouchable Adolescents, by Harlan Ellison

Season 2 Episode 11

The aliens wouldn't accept help, though their world was about to explode. They were adolescents. Adolescence is the time when you aren't smart enough to ask for help....

"The Untouchable Adolescents"…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Stopover Planet & The Space Between, by Robert E Gilbert

Season 2 Episode 10

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service. But on this particular morning the bakery was collecting, not delivering!

"Stopover Planet" appeared in "Imagination," August 1953…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

The Diamond Lens, by Fitz-James O'Brien

Season 2 Episode 9

What was he prepared to do to pursue his life's ambition become the foremost microscopist? It turned out, almost anything. But what he discovered was to change, and ruin, his life.

"The Diamond Lens"…

Published on 11 months ago

Infiltration, by Algis Budrys & And Miles To Go Before I Sleep, by William F Nolan

Season 2 Episode 8

Infiltration

Werewolves don't necessarily conform to all the superstitions people have. They may even know fear...

"Infiltration" appeared in "Infinity Science Fiction" October 1958, pages 114 - 123.…

Published on 11 months ago

All Cats are Gray, by Andre Norton

Season 2 Episode 7

Steena was background stuff, never out of her baggy shapeless gray space-alls, with the gray personality of the machines she minded. Her only companion was a gray cat called Bat. So when she told Cli…

Published on 11 months ago