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Main Fiction: "Adventure's Heart" by Albert Dorrington, first published in Top-Notch, May 1, 1922. Narrator: Ben Boardman. The old man shrugged wearily. "All white people die who come here. It is the law!"

Main Fiction: "The Queen of Wheats" by Anonymous, first published in I Confess, no. 25, Jan. 12 1923. Narrator: Brandie Tarvin. Maisie, between flips of the pancakes, started a game of "pretend" with the good-looking stranger, little thinking where it might lead them both! Amanda McCall's romance podcast: Rompod. Artist Rodolofo Reyes: DeviantArt, Tumblr, prints at Dark City Gallery.

Main Fiction: "The Golden Barrier" by G.T. Fleming-Roberts, first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940. Narrator:Maury Kestenbaum. Between the Hemispheres Rises a Wall of Doom, and Hyatt of International Police Tries to Break Earth’s Solitary Confinement!

Main Fiction: "That Spot" by Jack London, first published in The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories. Narrator: Steven Howell. To run your eyes over him, you'd think he could outpull three dogs of his own weight. Maybe he could, but I never saw it. His intelligence didn't run that way. He could steal and forage to perfection; he had an instinct that was positively gruesome for divining when work was to be done and for making a sneak accordingly; and for getting lost and not staying lost he was nothing short of inspired.

Main Fiction: "Man From the Wrong Time-Track" by Denis Plimmer, first published in Uncanny Stories, April 1941. Narrator: Tim Maroney. The statement which follows concerns the entire world, and for that reason I, Paul Dicey of Irving Place, New York City, am sending copies of it to the world’s leading newspapers. What I have to say herein must be considered carefully by all who can read, for in it may lie their salvation and the salvation of billions of their descendants yet unborn!

Main Fiction: "The Waters Of Bowlegs Creek" by J. E. Grinstead, first published in The Frontier, May 1926. Narrator: Dan Rabarts. The dry homestead on Big Bowlegs Creek looked like a hopeless proposition until Clell Berry started to investigate the source of the stream—and then it became a lively one indeed.

Main Fiction: "The Crawling Creature" by Donald Bayne Hobart, first published in Thrilling Adventures, July 1932. Narrator: Jeff Lewis. Every step meant danger in the trail of Dan Buckly's mysterious, sinister killer!

Main Fiction: "The Crystal Ray" by Raymond Gallum, first published in Air Wonder Stories, November, 1929. Editor's Note: This story contains racial terms typical of yellow peril stories. Listener discretion is advised. Narrator: Logan Waterman. From the bow of one of America’s ships a beam of bluish light stabbed out and struck an enemy craft. It passed thru the vessel as tho it had been made of glass instead of thousands of tons of steel.

Main Fiction: "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long, Jr., first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937. Narrator: Lewis Morgan. "A new drug?" "It was used centuries ago by Chinese alchemists, but it is virtually unknown in the West. It's occult properties are amazing. With its aid and the aid of my mathematical knowledge I believe that I can go back through time."

Main Fiction: "The Whistling Corpse" by G. G. Pendarves, first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937. Narrator: Adam Pracht. A gripping weird tale of the sea—of the thing that walked in the fog—and the terror that stalked on board an ocean liner.

Main Fiction: "The Experiment In Gyro-Hats" by Ellis Parker Butler, first published in Amazing Stories, June 1926. Narrator: Logan Waterman. The idea of a gyro-hat did not come to me all at once, as some great ideas come to inventors. In fact I may say that but for a most unpleasant experience I might never have thought of gyro-hats at all. Check out the artwork for "The Experiment In Gyro-Hats" as it originally appeared in Amazing Stories, here on Archive.org. Read "Punch, Brother, Punch" by Mark Twain, or hear it read by Cory Doctorow.

Main Fiction: "The Tigress Terrible" by S. Ten Eyck Burke, first published in All Story Weekly, June 26 1915. Narrator: Josie Babbin. That’s the way with the beasts; they’re all killers in the end.

Main Fiction: "Waterfront Fists" by Robert E. Howard, first published in Fight Stories, September, 1930. Narrator: Jim Philips. Trouble never troubled Steve Costigan, for trouble meant action with a capital A—and action was what Steve craved. This time it was Honolulu, waterfront cabarets, and—guess what—a beautiful girl!

Main Fiction: "The Pink of Fading Neon" by James Blaylock, first published in Triquarterly Journal, Northwestern University, #47, Winter, 1980. "The Pink of Fading Neon" ©1980 James Blaylock. Used by permission. Narrator: Fred Himebaugh. Interview: Author James Blaylock discusses steampunk, pulp fiction influences, and his latest novel The Aylesford Skull with editor Fred Himebaugh. I've heard and read—and it doesn't surprise me a bit—that the armadillos have turned back. After eons of slow, northward creeping from the plains of Central America, through the jungles and the deserts and the swamps of Mexico, while wooly mammoths and cave bears crashed through the chaparral, and still, ages later, while Aztec and Toltec tribes lived in fear of loathsome, toad-infested pits of skeletons in rainwater, on came the armadillos, on the march for twenty million years, and culminating in unimaginable pairs of shoes and ridiculous scaled and tailed caps. All of that has reversed, in an instant. Up and down the flatlands of Oklahoma, say the scientists, armadillos pause and listen and sniff the air and turn calmly about, on the march, south now, once again.

Main Fiction: "Tarzan Rescues the Moon" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, 1919. Narrator: Bryan Lincoln. The apes growled. They were displeased. "Kill the Gomangani!" cried one. "Yes," roared another, "kill the Gomangani and the Tarmangani as well." "Kill the white ape!" screamed Gozan, "he is no ape at all; but a Gomangani with his skin off." "Kill Tarzan!" bellowed Gunto. "Kill! Kill! Kill!" (This story contains racial characterizations that many listeners will find offensive. We chose it because of the important role Tarzan plays in pulp fiction history. Listener discretion is advised.)