A brilliant but reckless scientist unlocks the power to transmit matter through electricity—only to find himself reborn as a talking head in a museum display. His greatest invention has left him literally a man without a body. The Man Without A Body by Edward Page Mitchell. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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Edward Page Mitchell is one of the great forgotten architects of early science fiction—an author who was doing things in the 1870s and 1880s that the genre wouldn’t “officially” discover for decades. Time travel, teleportation, cybernetics, artificial intelligence… Mitchell wrote it all before most people even had electricity in their homes.

His stories appeared in newspapers, not magazines, which is one reason his name slipped through the cracks of history. But make no mistake—long before Verne, Wells, or Asimov were household names, Edward Page Mitchell was already imagining the impossible and treating it as everyday fact.

First published in The New York Sun on March 25, 1877, this is one of his most remarkable tales—equal parts eerie, inventive, and shockingly modern for its era, The Man Without A Body by Edward Page Mitchell…

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A mutinous Spaniard slithers into the shadow-soaked hold of an English ship with powder, vengeance, and heresy on his tongue. But in the stinking dark beneath the deck, blades whisper, loyalties bend, and something far worse than steel seems to be waiting. The Horror in the Hold by Frank Belknap Long. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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The more stories we bring you from Frank Belknap Long, the more we appreciate just how remarkable his imagination truly was. First published in Weird Tales magazine back in February 1932, this chilling tale appeared on page 259, The Horror in the Hold by Frank Belknap Long.

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They came to torment. They Came in Revenge. The Monsters Came by Night by Robert Silverberg. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

It’s Halloween week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast — and that means we’re digging into the eerie, the uncanny, and the things that brush past you in the dark when you think you’re alone.

Today’s tale takes us far from Earth — all the way to Mars — but don’t relax just because it’s “out there.” These things don’t stay politely confined to the red planet. In this story, the monsters of Mars don’t just haunt red dust and dead craters… they follow a man across the gulfs of space like a nightmare that refuses to stay in the dream.

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First published on page 34 of Super Science Fiction in October 1959, this one originally carried the byline Charles D. Hammer — and you might be thinking, who? never heard of him.

You actually have heard of him… only not under that name. Charles D. Hammer was a pen name of a writer who would go on to be named a Science Fiction Grand Master.

Listen to this story written by a very familiar name, The Monsters Came by Night by Robert Silverberg…

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