# Radio Free Weird > Strange Signals - Fringe Transmissions ## Posts - [The Last Incantation by Clark Ashton Smith, A Reading](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-last-incantation-by-clark-ashton-smith-a-reading/): Among his Weird Tales colleagues, Clark Ashton Smith was most clearly the heir to the poetic wordplay of Lord Dunsany. Known as one of the “big three” at Tales alongside Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, Smith’s prolific output would inspire a rising generation of fantasy writers including Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, and Leigh Bracket. Smith set his stories in a number of recurring worlds. One of these was Poseidonis, the last surviving outpost of Atlantis. Here resided the fearsome and mercurial magician Malygris. Listen to the weird tale of Malygris’s “Last Incantation” as we unfold this oddly poignant story […] - [The Night Mars Came To New Jersey](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-night-mars-came-to-new-jersey/): On October 30, 1938, America was listening to the radio.  That was the collective entertainment of the day.  October 30th was a bit different. The Martians landed. Estimates are around 6 million people listened to the Martians landing. At least that’s what they were hearing on their radio that evening. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air were performing The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [affiliate link, we get a small cut]. But their twist was not doing it like the conventional radio shows of 1938.  Instead they presented it as a series of increasingly panicky news […] - [One Weird Fact: Some Islands Never Existed](https://radiofreeweird.com/one-weird-fact-some-islands-never-existed/): For centuries, European maps showed you islands that weren’t there. Not undiscovered islands. Islands that did not exist. One of these was Hy-Brasil, said to be located in the Atlantic west of Ireland.   Maps began showing Hy-Brasil in the 14th century and continue showing this “island” for several hundred years.  Sailors claimed to see it through mist and fog and said the island appeared once every seven years.  Fascinating history for sure.  The name Hy-Brasil could either have been derived from a type of dye or an Irish clan.  Take your pick there! Explorers then did what explorers do and went […] - [At The Mountains Of Madness](https://radiofreeweird.com/at-the-mountains-of-madness/): H.P. Lovecraft… Arguably the king of weird fiction – and definitely the king of eldritch horror! His 1931 novella At The Mountains Of Madness is easily one of the eeriest ever. Lovecraft mastered the art of making you feel small as a human being.  Nothing can make you feel smaller than finding out that humans were not the first nor the most important “intelligent” things on Earth. In At the Mountains of Madness an expedition goes into the world of endless ice of Antarctica where buried ruins are discovered. And there is something waiting beneath that ice… The story is compelling […] - [The Last ONLINE Post](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-last-online-post/): You type in your search query.   If you can wade past all the sponsored results and AI slop you may find yourself stepping into another world – we’ll call it “Internet Archeology.” An old forum.  Could have been about some band, some long forgotten computer game, some fringe hobby.  The design?  It screams 2007 – it screams your old MySpace profile – gray backgrounds, tiny avatars, animated GIFS, “sigs” that expressed one’s true self. And then you notice the dates… 2005.. 2006… 2007… And then nothing.  The end. That last post is probably very ordinary.   Any of you guys going to […] - [The Cartography of Lost Places](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-cartography-of-lost-places/): You see a map and you are looking at a place – a place you can go to, visit, see and smell.  A place. But maps (and we are talking about those older nice foldable paper ones) are snapshots of the day they were laid out in a print shop somewhere.  You find a map for the 1920’s and you’ll find places that simply do NOT exist today. There are no ruins.  No nature reclaimed roads to walk. Nothing. The place you see on that map has been erased.  You could be looking at an obsolete atlas, a very old survey […] - [The Pulp Artists You've Never Heard Of](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-pulp-artists-youve-never-heard-of/): Way back before the dawn of the Marvel and DC movie universes another visual universe existed – living on cheap paper and designed to be read and shared with all your friends. We’ve all seen these covers at some point – the jump out at you.  Bright colors – garish fonts – scantily clad EXTREMELY curved ladies (most often in distress and being rescued by the hero).  Flickering streetlights and the outlines of nefarious souls of some sort.  Rocket ships landing in cities we don’t recognize.  Each cover promised you action – adventure – horror – intrigue – all waiting inside […] - [The Highwaymen by Lord Dunsany](https://radiofreeweird.com/the-highwaymen-by-lord-dunsany/): Sometimes a story reads like it is remembered rather than written. Before the fantasy genre got filled with maps and magic systems and lore, Lord Dunasy was building worlds from moonlight and myths.   Monumental writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkien wouldn’t have existed without Dunsany. Still, much of his work is overlooked or strangely forgotten – consigned to the mythic realms which produced it. Today, Radio Free Weird revives one of those forgotten signals: “The Highwaymen.” The Highwaymen of Dunsany are more than robbers on lonely roads.  They are part of older liminal times – times where history, folklore […] ## Pages - [About RADIO FREE Weird](https://radiofreeweird.com/origins-of-the-signal/): Radio Free Weird originated in the tobacco fields, swamps and woods of southeastern North Carolina – brothers Michael and Bill Futreal – the youngest and the oldest respectively. The brothers migrated but the signal remained. We broadcast from Georgia and Louisiana now – homes of the new Radio Free Weird signal. The signal is broadcasting again. Radio Free Weird – live again with: Signals – Signals we’ve discovered on the dials Transmissions – Original Radio Free Weird media ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/radiofreeweird.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)