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

Underground Turns 50

Underwood and Flinch: Underground has reached the fiftieth episode over at Patreon. That's fifty episodes of U&F that could be in your ears for just $3. 

A quick Google search tells me that the average cup of coffee costs $2.75 in the USA. So for just 25c more you could be re-entering the U&F universe and getting all that audio straight to your phone with your own personal Patreon RSS code. 

Click this link to visit my Patreon page, and sign up today!

Glitterballs 3 - Pants 5°

Episode 3 of my written for TV sitcom set in a 1990s music venue, Glitterballs is now available in my public podcast feed. This time gig promoter Tom gets an unusual request on a bands rider (that's the list of food, drinks, and other items the band's agent requires the gig promoter to provide for the band). Meanwhile Max and Doreen plan a swinging evening of their own.

This podcast contains adult language and themes ... you'll be delighted to hear.

Glitterballs Reaches Episode 5 at Patreon

Glitterballs, my situation comedy written for TV (that those fools at the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 turned down back in 1996) now reaches its fifth podcast episode at Patreon.com.

In this latest episode live music promoter Tom finds himself stranded alone in a snowstorm with the secret love of his life - Dave's mum. An episode that oozes sexual tension ... sort of, Glitterballs 5: Snowbound is available now at Patreon for patrons at the $1 a month level and over. And if you bump that up to $3 a month, you can access 42 episodes of the ongoing Underwood and Flinch podcast adventure, Underground. Get in!

"Glitterballs is probably the funniest unproduced '90s TV sitcom about a live music venue ever podcast. Hilarious!" 
Mike Bennett, author of Glitterballs.

Yule Among the Sleepless

It's Christmas at Patreon! I'm writing and podcasting a return to the world of One Among the Sleepless. Not a sequel, and definitely not a novel, but simply a chance to catch up with some of the surviving characters and find out what they did next. 

Episode One of the Yule Among the Sleepless podcast is available now, exclusively at Patreon, for patrons paying $1 a month and up.

Huzzah!!

Glitterballs 3 at Patreon

If you're a Patreon patron, I've just posted the complete episode of Glitterballs Ep 3: "Pants: 5 Degrees Centigrade". It's 57-minutes long and full of Nineties music venue goodness. Check your podcast app now, or click here for a direct download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15248003

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

Dracula at Youtube

As you may know, I've been reading Bram Stoker's Dracula over at Patreon and I'm now podcasting it, chapter by chapter, into my public podcast feed. But I'm also releasing it, chapter by chapter, at Youtube. Here are the first two chapters ...

Underground Episode 31 at Patreon

The latest episode of Underwood and Flinch: Underground is now available from Patreon.com for patrons at the $3 per month and over categories.

Sign up and get straight into 31 episodes of Underground today. Patreon will give you a personal RSS feed that you can - nay - really should - add to your podcast app. This will then deliver the podcasts straight to your phone ... or whatever else you use to listen to podcasts. 

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.

Something for the Weekend! The Bus Conductor by E.F. Benson

Start the weekend with this week's SFTW podcast: it's The Bus Conductor by E.F. Benson! A spooky tale that's guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine. There's also my news, including our house purchase. Yes, after six months of trying, failing, trying again, being patient, being impatient, going slightly mad, then finally being very relieved, we have bought a house in Ireland ... 

This week I also had my birthday, and my wife bought me the ideal gift ...

Hear all about these things, and get The Bus Conductor in this week's Something for the Weekend (lovely image by Jon Cape)

Click here to listen / download

Link to the classic movie Dead of Night, which features The Bus Conductor. 

Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft

Something for the weekend? How about H.P. Lovecraft's Cool Air?

In this episode I also talk about my forthcoming public appearance at the Wexworlds Festival in Wexford, Ireland on Saturday May 7th. Be there or be ... well, probably on the other side of the Atlantic or the Irish Sea, but still, be there in spirit. Maybe we can work out a way of streaming it or something. I'll look into it.

The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft

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

 

Show Links:

Boaty McBoatface

Lovecraft's, Cool Air / Benson's, Mrs Amworth

Two new podcast episodes out this weekend! At Patreon there's my reading of H.P. Lovecraft's, Cool Air. While in my public feed there's my reading of E.F. Benson's classic vampire story, Mrs Amworth. You can listen to that right now using this player thingy ...

Something for the Weekend? Oh yes! Have a great Sunday!

After the Plague - Free Zombie Audiobook - Now Online.

After the Plague is now live at Podiobooks. Get it now and devour at your leisure ...

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1084639496

Android: http://subscribeonandroid.com/podiobooks.com/title/after-the-plague/

Podiobooks: http://podiobooks.com/title/after-the-plague/

Here's the book blurb:

A hotel on the outskirts of London in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. A brutal couple, Lee and Mandy, arrive in a van with two captive women held as sex slaves. Lee and Mandy think the hotel is abandoned, a place to find food and shelter. However, Terry, a former employee who has made the hotel his own, has other ideas. 

After the Plague is a novella by four-time Parsec Award winning author, Mike Bennett. It contains scenes of explicit violence and very strong language.

And if you're a reader, here's the Amazon ebook links:

USA: http://www.amazon.com/After-Plague-Mike-Bennett-ebook/dp/B016SHNGB8

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Plague-Mike-Bennett-ebook/dp/B016SHNGB8