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The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi - Ghost Stories

The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi - Ghost Stories

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories


The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi - Ghost Stories

FromThe Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories

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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A short story of a grisly ride through a blizzard with a corpse! The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Carl Richard Jacobi was an author and resident of Minneapolis Minnesota his entire life. Born in Minneapolis in 1908 Jacobi was a voracious reader as a youngster reading Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells. He was a writer early in life. In junior high he created his own dime novels and sold them to fellow students.After college he followed a career path chosen by many aspiring writers, that of a newspaper reporter for the Minneapolis Star. His first short story, Mive, first appeared in Minnesota Quarterly in 1928. Jacobi would write more than 100 short stories in his career which spanned more than 60 years. His 6th published story appeared in the June 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Turn to page 778 for The Last Drive by Carl Jacobi…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A magnificent race had died in that nova. The enigma was: why? The Star by Arthur C. Clarke.Merch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fihttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVMerch - https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/Sign up for our newsletter https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Dec 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Join us every week for a trip back in time to the early days of science fiction. Travel the solar system with aliens, robots and space pirates aboard space ships capable of travel beyond light-years to discover planets and people, conflicts and conundrums. Short science fiction stories from some of the greatest vintage sci-fi authors of all time, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Alan E. Nourse,  Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut and many more.We’ll go back in time sixty to a hundred years, or more, when these amazing sci-fi short stories were written and very often find ourselves in the future. Narrator Scott Miller is your host for this journey through space and time.