The time is April 1953, what exactly is up there atop Mt. Everest? Mankind doesn't know, but we've seen the pictures. There's something up there. And whatever it is... it's moving! Check out this full audiobook recording of "Everest" a golden age sci-fi short story by the legendary Isaac Asimov.

In this short story -- originally published in Universe Science Fiction in December 1953 --- the summit of Mount Everest remains unconquered. It was the ultimate unreached destination on Earth. No human being had successfully stood at the peak and returned to tell the tale. But what a decision was made not to climb to the summit, but rather drop in with a parachute, some supplies, and a spacesuit. A plan so crazy... IT. MIGHT. JUST. WORK.

When the truth is finally revealed about the nature of those photographs, it wasn't the cold or a lack of oxygen that was stopping man who reaching the roof of the world... it is something far more mysterious. "Everest" is a quick and fun tale of Golden Age Sci-Fi that blends earthly exploration with Asimov’s signature twist!

You hear that? That's the haunting, deafening silence of the Red Planet in this full-length audiobook of Ray Bradbury's classic short story, "I, Mars" - alternately published as "Night Call, Collect." ​

Emil Barton, Martian colonist, has been stranded on Mars for sixty years (take THAT, Matt Damon!) and is utterly alone... until the telephone rings on his 80th birthday. But the voice on the line isn't a long-awaited rescue ship. It's the recorded voice of his younger self, a brilliant, arrogant man from decades past—an invention Barton created to stave off loneliness that has now turned into a relentless, mocking tormentor. ​

What if your greatest enemy was your own past? ​Come along with me on this chilling exploration of isolation, technology, and the psychological horror of confronting your own lost hopes.

A compelling "lost" tale from the era of The Martian Chronicles, "I, Mars" is a profound and deeply melancholy journey into madness against the desolate, beautiful backdrop of a would be human civilization on Mars.

The story still resonates decades later as Barton inadvertently created an AI of his own that has the power to ruin his life. I give the story my best reading and try to capture the poignant despair and creeping dread of Bradbury's words - and it was fun to read the voices too! Perfect for fans of classic science fiction, dark fantasy, and chilling audio drama.

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I, Mars was originally published in Super Science Stories, April 1949.

The Fearsome Touch of Death is a great psychological horror short story by Robert E. Howard. A man decides to sit with a recently departed corpse overnight... it's a tradition, ever for the most miserly of us. It's just a corpse. What could go wrong?

Well.... everything.

The Fearsome Touch of Death was originally published in Weird Tales, February 1930.