The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
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They were in a boat all alone on a foggy night in the middle of the Pacific ocean. But they weren’t alone. A strange voice cries out in the darkness, in search of food, but he is unwilling to be seen. The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.
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English author William Hope Hodgson was born in 1877 in the hamlet of Blackmore End in Essex, the son of the Reverend Samuel Hodgson, a priest, and Lissie Sarah Brown. Hodgson was a runaway at the age of 13 in an attempt to be a sailor. He was returned to his family but managed to convince his father to allow him to be apprenticed as a cabin boy.
In 1902, Hodgson appeared on stage with handcuffs and other restraining devices supplied by the Blackburn police department and applied the restraints to Harry Houdini, who had previously escaped from the Blackburn jail.
Hodgson was interested in physical fitness and wrote several articles on the subject but found it difficult to make a living. Inspired by authors Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne, Hodgson turned his attention to fiction. Hodgson's first short story was "The Goddess of Death" in 1904. Today’s story was published three years later.
From the November 1907 issue of The Blue Book Magazine turn to page 136 for The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson…
Tomorrow on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, we go back to 1907, A sordid tale of jealousy and murder. He suspected his wife was having an affair and unleashed a plan to discover the truth. Would the truth destroy his family and lead him down the path to insanity? The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce. That’s tomorrow on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
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