Edvane Stories

In late-sixteenth-century Exeter, Curate Ralph Travers preaches too often against the Devil and gives an old children’s rhyme a power it should never have had. When Bucky comes to St Olave’s churchyard, three lives are demanded, and Ralph must choose who will be taught the words that open the dark.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

The Even Ash is a dark Yorkshire folk tale of Mother Greenwood, a travelling herb-woman who sells simples at country fairs and offers lonely girls an old love charm. But the ash does not promise kindness, safety, or happiness. It answers only the words spoken, and four girls learn that the first single man to draw nigh may be something far stranger than a true love.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

At St Mildred’s, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings of beauty, grace, sorrow, roads, love, labour, and goodness, and of the children made to carry what adults should not.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠

At St Mildred’s, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings of beauty, grace, sorrow, roads, love, labour, and goodness, and of the children made to carry what adults should not.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

In Streindarke, even scandal is expected to behave properly.When Lord Suze Ben-Sashe vanishes from the upper courts, Civic Quiet Ballion is sent to keep the matter narrow. But Suze’s silent apartment contains more than absence. A watching cat. A staircase where no staircase should be. A memory Ballion would rather not arrange.Inspired by Siouxsie and the Banshees’ The Staircase (Mystery), Arrange The Symmetry is a dark tale of status, desire, disorientation, and the terrible geometry of a city that corrects everything, even the truth.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B.Edvane at edvane.world

The Magpies of Hagley Stile begins with an old rhyme everyone knows and turns it into a sequence of dark folk warnings. Across seven tales, sorrow, joy, daughters, sons, silver, gold and secrets all gather beneath the watching eyes of the magpies, while Widow Green counts what others refuse to see. Ultimately, a village learns that old wrongs do not vanish, grief has a number, and some birds do not arrive to predict fate. They arrive to witness it. A dark folk horror story rooted in British magpie folklore.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

A dead ship returns through the storm, and lighthouse keeper Thomas Darling must decide whether the light is warning the sea away, or calling something impossible home. A Victorian ghost story about a ghostly vessel, a half-drowned stowaway, and a ticking machine that listens ahead. If the future can be changed, who pays the price?If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

Ellen returns to Horrocks Yard with only fragments of Winvaulx left behind: a folded drawing, a missing man she can barely name, and the memory of a child the universe almost erased. The Doctor offers her another door, but for now she chooses the rain, the ambulance, and the ordinary world she may never quite trust again.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠⁠Edvane Stories⁠⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

The Doctor faces the terrible price of saving Peter Hale and the memory of Annie. Beneath Winvaulx Abbey, the Engine demands a correction, and the only way to close the wound is to turn its judgement back through the chain of command that opened it.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

Beneath Winvaulx Abbey, the Doctor discovers the ancient Engine that has been ringing through the empty tower. As Halcrow tries to turn it into a weapon of command, the system reads his authority, his orders, and his part in the wound and decides Peter Hale may not be the contradiction it wants after all.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

As the Bellmen withdraw, Peter Hale begins to lose the memory of the daughter the records say never existed. With the Doctor disarmed and Halcrow descending beneath the abbey, Ellen and Fish are left clinging to the only proof Annie ever lived: red wellies, mashed peas, seaside shops, and a red windmill drawn with the roof too tall.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

The cowled Bellmen emerge from the mist, dry in the rain and moving with metal footsteps. As Peter Hale clings to the voice of a daughter the records deny, the Doctor begins to understand the horror beneath Winvaulx Abbey: not ghosts, but an ancient correction system still carrying out its work.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

At Winvaulx Abbey, the Doctor and Ellen enter a restricted military site where a bell rings from an empty tower, written records rewrite themselves, and a lost child’s voice comes through the static. As 3:17 strikes again, the ruins begin to answer. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠Doctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

The Doctor and Ellen are pulled from a rain-soaked industrial yard to the ruins of Winvaulx Abbey in 1990, where time is bruised, records cannot be trusted, and a dead tower begins to ring bells it never had.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldDoctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

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. When a strange, exhausted man stumbles from its doors and gives only one name, Ellen’s night turns from routine call-out to the beginning of something far beyond ordinary medicine.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldDoctor Who is the property of the BBC, and this story is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. This is an unofficial fan work, made purely for fan enjoyment, and no commercial benefit is either intended or implied

Three days after the battle of Arfderydd in 573 AD, Brother Robert walks a field of the dead searching for the bard Merlin. The king lies unburied. Merlin has vanished into the forest. What follows is the moment the legend breaks. A dark Arthurian historical fiction story rooted in the earliest Welsh sources.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

Rhett lifted the brush, then stopped. Charlotte's face lay beneath the lamp, pale and beautiful, but not at peace. The docket said cerebral haemorrhage. Her skin said otherwise. A gothic dark fiction story set in the city of Streindarke. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠⁠Edvane Stories⁠⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠This story was inspired by the song 'One Hundred Years' by The Cure

In Lancashire, everyone knows you do not take an unbaptised child near the Smothing. One family does not listen. A dark folklore story rooted in the changeling tradition of northern England, where the old rules exist for a reason and breaking them costs more than you expect.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast— a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠⁠Edvane Stories⁠⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠

In Tudor Essex, Jess Harwood returns home after seven years away to find her mother has been burned as a witch. What her mother left behind will set her on the same path. A dark folk horror story told in the first person, rooted in the witch trial history of sixteenth century England.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

In the village of Duskdale, winter has brought a blight that is taking the children. Emmie steals an apple from the black orchard to save young Pip, not knowing what the orchard will take in return. A dark folk horror story about the price of forbidden things and the cruelty of a bargain you don't know you've made.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠⁠Edvane Stories⁠⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠

During the reign of King Stephen, two children of strange green hue were discovered near Woolpit in Suffolk, speaking in an unknown tongue and refusing all food save raw beans. The boy died. The girl lived and spoke of a dim country called St Martin's Land. What follows is not a retelling of that story, but an imagined prelude to it. A dark folklore fiction story rooted in one of Britain's most enduring medieval mysteries.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠⁠Edvane Stories⁠⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠

Dawn comes to Azhrath, and with it the first struggle over memory. Sûla gives the broken rite its lasting name, while Tirukh sends riders out to blame the two Blue Wizards for what has been exposed. As rumour, accusation, and witness begin their separate roads, Pallando and Alatar leave the hill behind, knowing that no song in the West will record what happened there, but one more knot in the shadow has been loosened.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠This is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

In the wake of the broken rite, Azhrath does not fall into noble battle, but into confusion, accusation, and fear. Tirukh struggles to recover command, Varaz holds the rescued hostage-boy, Lakhan begins shaping the truth among the merchants, and Sûla leads Yadâri into the old passages beneath the hill. Pallando and Alatar know the victory is incomplete, but the oath is dead, the alliance is broken, and the greater darkness has been delayed.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠This is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

The third night comes to Azhrath beneath a red moon, and Tirukh’s long-prepared rite begins before chiefs, merchants, priests and witnesses. But Yadâri speaks the truth of the old blood, the fire-house tricks begin to fail, Varaz demands the return of his hostage kin, and the Star of Ash is exposed before all. What was meant to bind the gathered clans becomes the breaking of Tirukh’s power, and the oath is shattered before it can be sworn.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠This is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

As the final night deepens over Azhrath, Pallando and Alatar move separately through the fortress, placing quiet pressure on every hidden fault-line. Lakhan is reminded of old promises broken, Varaz of honour betrayed, Yadâri prepares the proofs of blood and custom, and even a fearful acolyte is shown the hand beneath the priests’ miracles. The oath has not yet been spoken, but the wound beneath it has already been openedIf you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠This is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

As Azhrath lies sleepless beneath torchlight and temple smoke, Pallando and Alatar descend into the older bones of the fortress. With Sûla’s help, they find Yadâri’s hidden records, uncover the wounds beneath Tirukh’s power, and learn how priestcraft, fear and false signs are being used to bind the gathered clans. The oath is now only one night away, and doubt must be set loose before all men kneel.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldThis is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

Inside the fortress of Azhrath, Pallando and Alatar move among horse-chiefs, merchants, priests, servants, and envoys, listening for the fault-lines beneath Tirukh’s rising power. As the oath approaches and the hidden fire burns above them, they begin to see that Azhrath is not yet a thing of iron, but a place of fear, doubt, old blood, and brittle loyalties.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldThis is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

Pallando and Alatar come at dusk to the fortress of Azhrath, where the clans and horse-chiefs of the East are gathering beneath one darkening purpose. Beyond the reeds of Rhûn, fires burn on the hill, drums sound in the evening, and whispers speak of an oath soon to be sworn: one banner, one road, one tribute, and one unnamed lord above all others.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldThis is an unofficial fan fiction work. The world of Middle Earth, its characters, languages, and lore are the intellectual property of the Tolkien Estate and HarperCollins. This story is written purely for personal and fan enjoyment, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tolkien Estate, and no commercial use is intended or implied.

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. A dark folk horror fable about courtesy, cruelty and the things that live in forestsIf you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it on Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

In 1812, French artist Théodore Géricault painted The Severed Heads. The pair were unknown, their story unrecorded. But France was in the bloody turmoil of post-revolutionary governance, and someone must have known who they were. A dark historical fiction story set in Nimes, where two lovers tried to survive across political divides that France made fatal.If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

During the dissolution of the monasteries, Lady Katherine Bulkeley receives a letter that may end her abbey forever. In the chapel that night, the ghosts of Henry II and Fair Rosamund appear, and what they say about love, legacy and authority is not what she expects. A historical ghost story set at Godstow Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

A Cistercian monk from 1137 steps through a temporal door in his abbey and arrives in 2137, where an artificial intelligence called ARIX governs truth itself — deciding what humanity may know, believe, and remember. A philosophical dark fiction story about faith, knowledge, and the oldest question of all: who decides what is real?If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.worldWe stand at a pivotal moment in human history. A moment where artificial, non-human intelligence is being asked to extend our abilities, while some argue it is actually replacing them. This tale is cautionary. It couldn't really happen. Could it.

In 1899, French photographer Felix Thollier captured a photograph called Horse Training. No context was ever given. Neither horse nor trainer was ever named. Until today. A dark folk horror story rooted in real history, for readers who enjoy strange and unsettling outcomes. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

In the dark city of Streindarke, emotion is not forbidden. It is processed, certified, and filed. Registrar Albrecht Baus administers the bonds of love as bureaucratic duty, until the weight of what he cannot feel for himself becomes impossible to ignore. A gothic, dystopian tale inspired by the song Dark Entries by Bauhaus. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show.Read it at Edvane StoriesFollow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world