Black Cat Weekly #187

Black Cat Weekly #187

Title: Black Cat Weekly #187
Author: Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Dan Leicht, Larry Tritten, Hal Charles, Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, Philip E. High, E. Hoffmann Price & J.J. Connington
Release: 2025-03-30
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Black Cat Weekly #187 Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Dan Leicht, Larry Tritten, Hal Charles, Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, Philip E. High, E. Hoffmann Price & J.J. Connington
This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
   This issue, we have novels from J.J. Connington (a Golden Age mystery) and E. Hoffmann Price (a classic Weird Tales fantasy), plus our usual wide variety of short stories. Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman have selected tales by Aeryn Rudel and Janice Law, plus we have even more great stories from Dan Leicht, Tom Easton, Larry Tritten, Philip E. High, and E.C. Tubb. Rounding things out is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.

   Here’s the complete lineup—

Cover Art: Steve Hickman

NOVELS

Tragedy at Ravensthorpe, by J.J. Connington [Mystery]
   A masked ball ends in murder...but who’s behind the mask?

Satan’s Garden, by E. Hoffmann Price [Fantasy]
   A strange cult, a vanished woman—what truth lies buried?

SOLVE-IT-YOURSELF MYSTERY

“The Book Club Caper,” by Hal Charles
   Can you solve the mystery before the detective? All the clues are there!

SHORT STORIES

“Nighttime Charlie,” by Aeryn Rudel [Michael Bracken Presents short story]
   A hitman with fangs takes one last job... or is it a setup?

“The City of Radiant Brides,” by Janice Law [Barb Goffman Presents short story]
   A hostess finds love, danger, and hard choices in high heels.

“Jam Session,” by Dan Leicht
   When a guitarist drops dead on stage, who had a reason to kill?

“Right to Life,” by Tom Easton
   A bioethics crisis escalates—who decides who should live?

“Necessity Is the Mother of Invention…Bastard Progeny Notwithstanding,” by Larry Tritten
   A bizarre birth kicks off a satirical tale of high weirdness…

“Shell Game,” by E.C. Tubb [Space Hobo #3]
   He’s got the cargo, the debt, and now…a problem on board.

“Project—Stall,” by Philip E. High
   Their Martian dig reveals artifacts—and one works too well!

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