Every Edvane Story can be read on the site or heard in audio. This archive gathers the narrated versions of Jonathan B. Edvane's dark short fiction, including ghost stories, folklore, historical shadows and stranger tales. Listen through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or YouTube, or open each story to read it on the site.
The complete archive · 42 episodes · Most recent firstThe Legend of the Og Mori
On the Pictish coast at Dunnicar, Chief Talorc faces Anglian raiders who have violated his daughters and stripped his stores. The price of the shore's protection has been known for generations. No chief has ever paid it.
Streindarke: To Shy From The Rain
In Streindarke, Nightporter Lysand DaVivi carries three people out of their lives in a single shift. The third warrant is the one the city should never have issued.
Good Luck, Old Man
In sixteenth-century Paris, the First Doctor encounters a rogue Time Lord tracking an ancient predator that nests inside fixed points in history and feeds on inevitability. A fan fiction set during the canonical gap in The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.
Odd Man Dodd
In 1780s Shropshire, a parish midwife watches a man called Odd Man Dodd move between three townships. Three people die. The children learn a rhyme. Nobody asks where the words came from.
Mistress Grimshaw's Purse
In St Barrow's, Mistress Grimshaw's charity opens her purse only for those who beg aloud before the parish. Judith Cox, widowed and cornered, finds a way to make the purse answer the want it knows best.
The Vanishing of Spearhafoc
Spearhafoc, monk and goldsmith to Edward the Confessor, vanishes with the king's gold before the crown is finished. In Selwood Forest he strikes a bargain with a woman named Jufreyna, and England never finds the man it lost.
I Spill It All
Regan was trained never to spill a tray. The night she spills Angel-June Nair's wine, she spills far more, and the Field of Natural Consequence behind the Academy is listening for exactly that kind of girl.
The Little Birds of Othery Grange
William Cox tends the gardens at Othery Grange. He also tends the truth. Five Regency courtships, five birds, and one gardener who learns that an invented omen, once spoken, never stays his alone.
Shall I Come Away?
A hard curate preaches the Devil's name from his Exeter pulpit and turns a children's rhyme into a summons. Bucky asks three lives of him, then keeps the bargain in a way Ralph never meant.
The Even Ash
Four women. Four Yorkshire fairs. One old charm. Mother Greenwood's even ash answers the question spoken, not the protection wished for.
The Seven Blessings of Cecily Scratcher - Part Two
At St Mildred's, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings, and of the children made to carry what adults should not.
The Seven Blessings of Cecily Scratcher - Part One
At St Mildred's, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings, and of the children made to carry what adults should not.
Arrange The Symmetry
In Streindarke, even scandal is expected to behave properly. When Lord Suze Ben-Sashe vanishes, Civic Quiet Ballion is sent to keep the matter narrow.
The Magpies of Hagley Stile
An old rhyme everyone knows, turned into a sequence of dark folk warnings. Widow Green counts what others refuse to see.
The Return of the SS Strumble
A dead ship returns through the storm. Lighthouse keeper Thomas Darling must decide whether the light is warning the sea away, or calling something impossible home.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Eight
Ellen returns with only fragments of Winvaulx left behind: a folded drawing, a missing man, and the memory of a child the universe almost erased.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Seven
The Doctor faces the terrible price of saving Peter Hale and the memory of Annie. Beneath Winvaulx Abbey, the Engine demands a correction.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Six
Beneath Winvaulx Abbey, the Doctor discovers the ancient Engine that has been ringing through the empty tower.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Five
Peter Hale begins to lose the memory of the daughter the records say never existed. Ellen and Fish cling to the only proof Annie ever lived.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Four
The cowled Bellmen emerge from the mist, dry in the rain. Not ghosts, but an ancient correction system still carrying out its work.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Three
At Winvaulx Abbey, a bell rings from an empty tower, written records rewrite themselves, and a lost child's voice comes through the static.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Two
The Doctor and Ellen are pulled to the ruins of Winvaulx Abbey in 1990, where time is bruised and a dead tower begins to ring bells it never had.
Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part One
A midnight emergency call draws paramedic Ellen Ward to a rain-soaked industrial yard, where an impossible blue police box stands under the security lights.
Merlin and the Unburied King
Three days after the battle of Arfderydd in 573 AD, Brother Robert walks a field of the dead searching for the bard Merlin. A dark Arthurian story rooted in the earliest Welsh sources.
Under A Yellow Moon
Rhett lifted the brush, then stopped. Charlotte's face lay beneath the lamp, pale and beautiful, but not at peace. A gothic dark fiction story set in the city of Streindarke.
The Smothing of Dunsop Bridge
In Lancashire, everyone knows you do not take an unbaptised child near the Smothing. One family does not listen.
The Broomfield Witch
In Tudor Essex, Jess Harwood returns home after seven years to find her mother has been burned as a witch. What her mother left behind will set her on the same path.
Emmie and the Black Orchard
In Duskdale, winter has brought a blight that is taking the children. Emmie steals an apple from the black orchard, not knowing what the orchard will take in return.
The Children of Bradfield Wood
During the reign of King Stephen, two children of strange green hue were found near Woolpit. An imagined prelude to one of Britain's most enduring medieval mysteries.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Seven
Dawn comes to Azhrath. The broken rite is given its lasting name. Pallando and Alatar leave the hill, knowing that no song in the West will record what happened there.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Six
In the wake of the broken rite, Azhrath does not fall into noble battle, but into confusion, accusation, and fear.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Five
The third night comes beneath a red moon. What was meant to bind the gathered clans becomes the breaking of Tirukh's power.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Four
Pallando and Alatar move through Azhrath placing quiet pressure on every hidden fault-line. The oath has not yet been spoken, but the wound beneath it has already been opened.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Three
Pallando and Alatar descend into the older bones of the fortress. The oath is one night away, and doubt must be set loose before all men kneel.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part Two
Inside Azhrath, Pallando and Alatar move among horse-chiefs, merchants, priests and envoys, listening for the fault-lines beneath Tirukh's rising power.
Night of the Broken Oath - Part One
Pallando and Alatar come at dusk to the fortress of Azhrath, where the clans of the East are gathering beneath one darkening purpose.
Gossia's Garden
Yarnulf takes a shortcut through the forest and finds Gossia, a pixie tending a garden of bones. Every skeleton was someone who laughed at her. She is not angry about it.
The Severed Heads
In 1812, Géricault painted The Severed Heads. A dark historical fiction set in Nimes, where two lovers tried to survive across political divides that France made fatal.
The Ghosts of Godstow Abbey
During the dissolution of the monasteries, Lady Katherine Bulkeley receives a letter that may end her abbey. In the chapel, the ghosts of Henry II and Fair Rosamund appear.
A Monk, 2137
A Cistercian monk from 1137 steps through a temporal door and arrives in 2137, where an artificial intelligence called ARIX governs truth itself.
Raven's Sacrifice
In 1899, Felix Thollier captured a photograph called Horse Training. Neither horse nor trainer was ever named. Until today. A dark folk horror story rooted in real history.
His Pretentious Love
In the dark city of Streindarke, emotion is not forbidden. It is processed, certified, and filed. A gothic dystopian tale inspired by Bauhaus.
