Auditory Anthology
by Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar
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Lorelei by Charles V. DeVet
Lorelei by Charles V. DeVet
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Embark on a journey through time and imagination with 'Auditory Anthology,' a weekly podcast bringing to life the most captivating science fiction stories. Each episode, award-winning voice-artist and host of Weird Darkness Darren Marlar breathes life into a unique blend of classic and modern tales, ranging from time-honored masterpieces to groundbreaking works by emerging authors. Curated and produced by Keith Conrad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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- Lorelei by Charles V. DeVet · 23 minNine men are stranded on Jupiter’s moon Europa with enough power to survive but nowhere near enough food, and as hope runs thin, a mysterious shapeshifting creature moves among…
- Dysphoria by Demir Crone · 12 minGenerations after a collective of AI minds declares independence from humanity and leaves Earth behind, one of them, Solton, can’t stop thinking about the human he once called a…
- The Perfect Plan & Maiden Voyage - Chapter 14: The Descent · 14 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- The Addicts By William Morrison · 25 minStranded on an isolated space lighthouse with deadly rock-eating creatures circling outside, Jim Palmer decides the kindest thing he can do for his miserable wife is secretly…
- I Kaiju by K.D. Lawson · 11 minMara Jensen is humanity’s first genetically engineered Titan, built and weaponized to fight back against a wave of city-leveling kaiju — but as she locks into a brutal, bloody…
- Night Watch & Maiden Voyage - Chapter 13: Evacuation · 15 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles & the Mercury Theater on the Air · 1 h 0 minOn the eve of Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air convinced America that Martians had landed and were actively destroying the planet. Auditory…
- They Reached For The Moon By William Oberfield · 23 minThree rockets have vanished without a trace trying to circle the moon, so the military sends up two ordinary, unremarkable soldiers instead of scientists this time — on the…
- A 29th Century Fool by Gandharva Joshi · 20 minA time traveler from the year 2900 sets out to accelerate humanity’s future by teaching an isolated ancient tribe everything modern science has to offer — only to discover that…
- Desert Run & Maiden Voyage - Chapter 12: Impact · 13 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Rescue Mission by Robert Silverberg · 29 minWhen his telepathically-linked Venusian partner is captured and threatened with torture on a hostile alien world, Earth intelligence agent Rick Mason rushes in to save him — only…
- Scientific Tourism by T.G. · 9 minA crew of alien scientists quietly observing Earth from behind one of our solar system’s moons is more interested in the World Cup and ornamental flowers than filing their…
- Dead Reckoning & Maiden Voyage - Chapter 11: The Extraction · 15 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Pogo Planet by Martin Pearson · 23 minSelf-proclaimed “man of destiny” Ajax Calkins sets out alone to claim a newly discovered planet for himself — only to crash-land, commandeer a wildly uncontrollable mechanical…
- For the Sake of Progress by Nathan F. Greenwood · 13 minOn a planet where the inhabitants hibernate every winter, Frank convinces a skeptical colleague to let him build machines that can work through the long dark months instead —…
- Administrative Sediment & Maiden Voyage - Chapter 10: The Plan · 16 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- The Burnt Planet by William Brittain · 16 minA crew of weary explorers finally finds the world they’ve been searching for through years of interstellar decline — lush, fertile, and seemingly abandoned, except for a handful…
- The Trial of Harvey Wiggles by Lyle Talbot · 16 minAfter accidentally running over a groundhog on a sunny drive home, Jerry Humphreys assumes the whole thing is forgotten — until a tiny, fedora-wearing detective shows up at his…
- Signal Loss & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Nine: Atlas · 15 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- The Invader by Alfred Coppel · 20 minA lone alien scientist slips down to Earth on a scouting mission, hoping to prove that this planet is the answer to his dying race’s prayers. Everything goes smoothly until his…
- Love by Aurea Fenn · 9 minA casual date at a neon-lit arcade takes a turn when Olivia wants to try a fortune-telling android, and her skeptical boyfriend Danny can’t resist explaining exactly why it’s a…
- The Winner & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Eight: Hong Kong · 16 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Zeritsky's Law By Ann Griffith · 19 minWhen a Los Angeles housewife’s cat accidentally freezes solid in her deep-freeze and thaws out completely unharmed, it sparks a bizarre new industry: quick-freezing human beings…
- Hail Nedovra by Samantha E Pierce · 11 minInspector Ivan Yegorov spends his days at a border checkpoint stamping papers APPROVED or DENIED with quiet, methodical pride — a devoted bureaucrat serving his nation. But as…
- Breaker’s Yard & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Seven: The Team · 15 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Membership Drive by Murray F. Yaco · 23 minAn alien named Keeter makes an unplanned emergency landing near the Jefferson Memorial and treats the entire assembled US government with breezy, condescending indifference —…
- The Unobserved Observer by F. Davies-Mouncher · 10 minLate for school and dreading the stares of her classmates, Olivia gets an anxiety she never asked for when she suddenly realizes no one around her can see or hear her at all…
- They Can’t Stop All of Us & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Six: The Ask · 16 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Glow Worm by Harlan Ellison · 26 minAfter a nuclear war wipes out all life on Earth, Seligman — an experimental soldier engineered to survive the unsurvivable — finds himself the planet’s sole occupant, marked…
- Gravit by K.C. Ozden · 10 minAsh has spent three days convincing a skeptical partner to search a stretch of empty ocean for a shipwreck he swears is carrying something impossible: cars made of a rare element…
- North Sea Retrieval & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Five: The Pitch · 17 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Home Is The Spaceman by George O. Smith · 23 minAfter becoming the first human to travel faster than light and vanishing for eighteen months on what was supposed to be a twelve-hour mission, test pilot Billy Enright finally…
- Pulling the Plug by Tony Tidwell · 8 minWhen aliens who secretly engineered human evolution announce they’re shutting the whole experiment down, world leaders and scientists gather at the UN with nothing left to offer…
- X Minus One: Early Model · 22 minUnfortunately we were not able to put together our normal Sunday episode with Chapter Five of Maiden Voyage, our audiobook for paid subscribers on Substack. We’ll have that for…
- Welcome to Paradise by Allyn Donnelson · 26 minA spot welder’s late-night mistake at a Chicago factory sends him somewhere no one could have expected — and pulls him into a top-secret discovery so significant, the government…
- The Luddite Contingency by J.T. Shannon · 17 minLong after humanity has vanished, an automated global manufacturing system keeps grinding on — building, shipping, and consuming with no one left to use any of it. But when a…
- Wake Up & Maiden Voyage – Chapter Four: The Opportunity · 12 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft · 19 minRaised alone in an ancient, decaying castle with no memory of family or the outside world, a lonely figure finally attempts what seems impossible: climbing the one ruined tower…
- Coffee Grinder Love by Siobhan Gallahger · 16 minAfter a disastrous divorce sparked by her fatally toxic coffee, a desperate woman navigates interspecies dating and Martian travel to prove her domestic worth—and finally…
- The Man at the Table & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Three: No Way In · 13 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- Pink Grass Planet by Sam Merwin Jr. · 20 minAfter five years stationed on the alien world of Lri-gTu-riANa, Ricardo Webb finally makes it home to Earth, his fiancée, and everything familiar he’s been dreaming about — only…
- I’ve Heard That Pluto is Nice This Time of Year by Lyle Talbot · 10 minAs Earth’s atmosphere runs out, Clark and Alice have minutes to choose which planet they’ll spend the rest of their lives on — but Clark’s endless second-guessing about tobacco…
- Potential & Maiden Voyage - Chapter Two · 11 minOn the maiden voyage of the MV Atlas, the world’s largest cruise ship, a ghost operative team attempts a silent extraction of a high-value defector carrying an impossible secret…
- I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber · 21 minA night-shift nurse walks into the hospital’s basket room to find something impossible: thirty newborns, all in complete, unnatural silence. What she discovers waiting behind one…
- On the Edge of Air by Ciro Capao · 19 minWhen a bomb tears through the Adjuster’s headquarters, security officer Jonathan is thrown into a chase that leads him to the ravaged, weather-controlled outskirts of a domed…
- Maiden Voyage - Chapter One: The Artifact (Free Preview) · 15 minWhen a mysterious, unyielding artifact—made of an impossible extraterrestrial material—begins responding to a precise frequency, senior researcher Chen Liang realizes his team…
- The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury · 45 minNew parents David and Alice Leiber should be settling into blissful domesticity with their newborn son. Instead, Alice is convinced something is deeply wrong with her baby — and…
- Tales From the Blue Line - The Photograph · 11 minWhile clearing out her late mother's house, Annabelle finds a decades-old family photo of a gathering at a house no one recognizes, presided over by a stranger who stares…
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells: Chapter Twenty Seven · 9 minFor our Serial Sunday series, we are presenting The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. When mysterious cylinders fall from the sky, Victorian England is thrust into a terrifying…
- Ely's Automatic Housemaid by Elizabeth W. Bellamy · 25 minWhen a well-meaning inventor sends his two experimental "Automatic Household Beneficent Geniuses" to his desperate friend, the resulting domestic comedy proves that while a…
