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As a winner of multiple awards for his writing, Frank Belknap Long enjoyed a much lauded career across seven decades and a wide array of genres. This audiobook is a collection that celebrates his contributions to the realm of Science Fiction in 17 stories from publications between 1929 and 1956. These tales are explorations of humanity as much as they are of the exploration of space, time, extraterrestrial planets and life forms, and all things scientific and supernatural.

A museum guard stands convicted of mass murder, after a mysterious visitor calls upon the curator and asks to see some ancient, Egyptian bones. This tale of horror features a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music.

This anthology of horror and suspense features seven spine-tingling stories to entice your imagination, including Every Now and Then by George Zarr, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, How to Shed 180 Pounds by Pete Lutz, Personal Delivery by George Zarr, A Visitor from Egypt by Frank Belknap Long Jr, Dark Road to Nowhere by Joey Ouellette, and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. Sound effects and music chillingly enhance each story.

In this collection of classic science fiction tales you'll hear about a tribe that can turn hate into action, alien bombardments, naval actions, survival treks, rampant psionics and many other exciting concepts.

Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors. For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious ends.

FNH Audio present the first in a series of science fiction short story collections. In this collection: On board a starship a ghost of the past fights horrifying monsters. An explorer find a mining crew dead in their beds, but the next day they're up and walking. Humanity is under the thumb of aliens. The Earthers discover a strange fact of ancient history, their ancestors walked on two legs! The Martians are using a white mist to sedate and ambush all the colonists. And more.

Suspended in mid-air high above the planet, the stratoship Perseus should still be moving—but it isn’t. Meteorologist Lawton and his crew find themselves trapped in a silent, motionless bubble of sky, where the clouds have frozen beneath them and the air outside has become a strange, alien theatre. Inside the ship, tensions mount, minds unravel, and something unseen creeps across the outer hull in creeping tendrils of life.

Journey to MARS, Earths first colony in space, where dreams of exploration collide with deadly ambition. Men are willing to kill for a coveted ticket to this new frontier, and once they arrive, the violence only escalates. Ralph Graham has longed for this moment since boyhood, armed with the authority to claim his place on Mars‚Aîif he can survive long enough to do so. MARS holds the promise of unimaginable wealth for humanity, but also the peril that comes with it. In this gripping tale set against the backdrop of the god of war, prepare for a thrilling adventure filled with high stakes ...

Dive into the chilling depths of Man with a Thousand Legs, a haunting epistolary novelette drawn from the pages of the iconic Weird Tales magazine. This unsettling story unfolds through the perspectives of various individuals as they witness a mans desperate battle against a grotesque, tentacled horror that leaves behind a gruesome trail of slime and destruction. Are you ready to confront the unimaginable? (Summary by Ben Tucker)

A terrifying menace descends upon Earth from beyond the solar system in this gripping tale of cosmic horror. Frank Belknap Long delivers a chilling narrative that marks the first work of cosmic horror within the Cthulhu Mythos not penned by H. P. Lovecraft. Experience the uncanny dread that captivated readers in Weird Tales, July 1928.

She wields her knife with such precision, the man feels no pain -- only a confusing warmth, a misleading euphoria. And then, she begins to twist... Back and forth goes the blade, tormenting her victim to the brink of sanity. His only choices are to fight back, or succumb to a fate far worse... The twisted tale of a woman of pure sadism, and the lives she entangles in her wicked web. Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Fred Ellers, who strayed from his path due to the allure of fame... Joe Fenton, who views crime as a complex disease to be studied, and policing as a game of the mind... And Ruth ...

Frank Belknap Long's "Brown." is indeed pertinent in today's discourse surrounding artificial intelligence. The relationship between Horn and his creations, particularly Brown, serves as a microcosm of our own interactions with technology.

"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happiness. Then she'll start twisting the blade back and forth... back and forth until the poor devil has been tormented beyond endurance. He'll either wrap a nylon stocking around her beautiful white throat, or something worse ... something uglier ..." Here is the story of a sadistic woman, and the warped lives of those who loved... and hated her. Fred Ellers, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer who was corrupted by fame... Joe Fenton, who considered crime a ...

It began with the sighting of the Scorpion ships in the new 400-inch reflecting telescope on Mount Palomar. The ships landed on Earth to disgorge aliens quite indistinguishable from human beings, except that they were all apparently equal to the genius level of human beings.