New U&F Short Story in the Hall of Mirrors.

Underwood and Flinch return to the Hall of Mirrors in my short story, Incident at a Crossroads. Now available in my free podcast feed. Listen below, and subscribe to my podcast here.

Dracula Chapter 12 - Complete and Unabridged. Free Podcast

Chapter 12 of Bram Stoker's classic gothic masterpiece is now available in my public podcast feed, so drop everything and get your ears on! Fangtastic!!

A New Season of Public Podcasts Begins

A new season of free podcasts begins in my podcast feed with The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft.

Here's a direct link so you can listen or download from here:

  

And if you're not subscribed to my podcast feed - and you really should be, even though it's dormant from time to time, because there's loads in it, including the original Underwood and Flinch podcast with all the old intros and Planet U+F stuff; all the classic short stories I've read; and lots more. Here's the RSS code to add to your podcast app: http://mikebennett.libsyn.com/rss

U&F Underground 42 / Dracula Chapter 10

Two new podcasts out this week. In my public feed you can hear my reading of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Chapter 10. If you're not subscribed, you can do so by adding this link to your podcast app: http://mikebennett.libsyn.com/rss  

Also, at Patreon, I've just posted Underwood and Flinch: Underground Episode 42.  I say! That's 42 episodes of UFU for just $3! That's the cheapest big audio book you'll see this month, I'm sure. 

The beginning of the month is the best time to sign up to Patreon, as you can enjoy a whole month of listening for just $3. And if, at the end of the month, you decide you want to opt out and not pay for another month, you can! But why would you want to? U&F Underground is still in progress, and I guarantee you won't want to leave. Sign up today, and when you do, be sure and make a note of your personal RSS code and add it to your podcast app. That way you can get the podcasts streaming straight to your phone with no fuss.

Huzzah!!

After the Plague Begins in My Podcast Feed.

Hi there! Yes, many of you will have heard it already, but many won't have. And so I'm going to start podcasting my zombie apocalypse story, After the Plague, into my public podcast feed. 

If you have heard it, you can listen again (it stands up to a second listen) and you haven't then be warned, listener discretion is advised on this one; in an apocalypse, people can be rather unpleasant.

Listen / download

After the Plague ep 1

After the Plague ep 2

Dracula Episode 3

Episode 3 (Chapter 3) of Bram Stoker's classic novel is now available from my podcast feed, which you can subscribe to my feed by clicking one of these links:

iTunes

Android

RSS for any reader

Or you can listen or download the episode by clicking this link

Oh, and stay tuned to the very end to hear an old promo I once did for Underwood and Flinch from about 2011. Very exciting.

And in case you're new to my work, you can find Underwood and Flinch here:

iTunes

Android

RSS for any reader

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Chapter Two

Something for the weekend! Episode Two, Chapter Two, of Bram Stoker's vampire classic. 

Click here to download / listen

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Chapter One.

I'm returning to free podcasting with the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I've been reading it at Patreon for a while where I'm now up to Chapter Ten.

I hope to get some other stuff out to you as well as Dracula in the coming weeks and months, but for now, click the player below to play Chapter One, and click here to add my RSS feed to your podcast app and get new episodes as soon as they go live.

Herbert West and Azathoth enter The Vault of Lovecraft

Just a quick note to let you know that Herbert West: Reanimator (full text) and Azathoth by H.P. Lovecraft have entered the Vault of Lovecraft (that's the new podcast with all the readings I've done since 2007 in it, just in case you missed my previous blog entry).

Cthulhu suggests in the politest possible manner that you share news of the Vault with any of your Lovecraft-loving chums. Link to it on Facebook, Twitter, What'sApp or whatever other social media device you use. Otherwise mankind will be destroyed ... he says.

Enter the Vault of Lovecraft

For some time (years) I've been meaning to put all my HP Lovecraft recordings in one place. I'm now in the process of doing so. Nine stories up so far, including the full length recording of The Colour out of Space. Click here to enter the Vault of Lovecraft

Artwork on all the stories is by Jon Cape. Music by The Laughing End, David Beard, and Andrew Rothman.

The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

Something for the Easter holiday Weekend? How about H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider" 

 

Show Links:

Boaty McBoatface

The Thing on the Doorstep 02

Just released into my public feed - H.P. Lovecraft's, The Thing on the Doorstep Part 2. Also features a news bulletin that gives the thrilling(!?!) details of my move back to Ireland. Hot dog!

Direct download here.

Disturbing the Devil on Kindle - for FREE!!

Underwood and Flinch: Disturbing the Devil is now available as an ebook for Amazon Kindle. And for the next five days (starting today, 28th Sept), you can get a copy for FREE!! All I ask in return is that you please leave 5 stars at the Amazon store you buy it from (and maybe add a few kind words, if you have time). This will help the book fare better with readers who are unfamiliar with the world of Underwood and Flinch. It would also be mega-awesome if you could share the book on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, etc. Many thanks!!

Here's the blurb:
February 1863, and the newly opened Metropolitan Railway is the toast of London. Among the travellers tonight are the vampire, Lord Underwood, and his guardian, Ben Flinch. But they aren't travelling alone, for Underwood and Flinch have been discovered by a group intent on their destruction.

Disturbing the Devil is a journey into the smoky depths of the Victorian Underground; a stand-alone short story in the Underwood and Flinch universe, written by four-time Parsec Award-winning author, Mike Bennett. Expect blood.

Here are the links:

Disturbing the Devil USA

Disturbing the Devil UK

Disturbing the Devil AUS

Disturbing the Devil CA

Disturbing the Devil DE

The book was available as a pay-to-download audiobook for the last year, but has now been withdrawn in readiness for its release on the audiobook platform, Audible.com. I've submitted it to Audible but it takes about ten to fourteen days for them to give it a green light (or a red one *gulp!*). Needless to say, when it does go live, I'll let you know. This will be my first Audible release, so I'm interested to see how well it fares. It could lead to a whole new audience, which is an exciting prospect. Huzzah!!

Blood and Smoke - Complete and Musically Restored

Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke is now available in its complete and musically restored form from Podiobooks.com

My thanks - as always - to my wonderful sponsors at Patreon, without whom this book would have stalled at Episode 6, and U&F Underground would never have even got started. I unleash the bunnies of joy to share my feelings ...

"Patreon Sponsors - YAY!!!"

The Colour out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft: Episode One

Hello there. I've been in Ireland this week visiting friends and family. I had a very nice time - so much so I managed to break my glasses. Not quite sure how it happened, but my suspicions rest on the pet of one of the families we visited; a dog who enjoys chewing stuff - shoes and glasses being among his favourite snacks. Since I couldn't interrogate him sensibly, I gave the suspect hound a hard stare, but he remained inscrutable, giving only the odd woof, and licking my face cheerfully (perhaps wondering where the specs had gone?). 

But then again, there was wine going around, so maybe I sat on them. It's a mystery.

Anyway, upon my return to England, I superglued the specs together long enough for me to record the first episode of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour out of Space, then they blew apart under the pressure of all the cosmic horror. If you don't know the story, trust me, it's a cracker; a little slow to get rolling, but definitely one of HPL's best.

The story is currently a Patreon exclusive for everyone at $1 a month and over. And for anyone who's not signed up to support me at Patreon, it'll be in my regular podcast feed later on this year. But why wait? One buck a month - it's less than a Mars Bar! You know you want it ... Get the Colour out of Space Episode 1 right now.