Stop, You're Killing Me! By Stephen Marlowe - Time Travel Science Fiction Short Stories
Today’s episode of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast features another short science fiction story from an author we’ve heard from before, but if you’re scouring past episodes for Darius John Granger you won’t find him.
Darius John Granger was actually a pen name for Stephen Marlowe which was also a pen name for Brooklyn New York born Milton Lesser. You’ll find his story Pariah in Episode 11.
By the way over the next 10 episodes of The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast you’ll hear from 10 different authors and we haven’t showcased their work in any previous episodes.
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Today’s story comes from the February 1956 edition of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, which is on sale now on Amazon for only $5, which, considering the price of other magazines we’ve seen, is a really good deal.
As a private eye I get a lot of screwball cases, but nothing to match my own; my wife and kid trying to kill me—and neither aware of it! FromImagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, in February 1956, our story starts on page 50, enjoy Stop, You’re Killing Me! by Darius John Granger...
Next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and he would be among the living again. Ray Bradbury! That’s next week on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
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