Stories Fables Ghostly Tales

My hands were cold when I wrote this one my friends...only because in Australia it's freezing heheheh. OH...I mean.....because it's cold tale!!!

NOTE: I hope you love the song at the end, crafted just for you special friends of mine 🔥

Jokes aside...this is not the kind of cold you chase away with tea or blankets — the kind that comes when you're writing too close to something honest. The kind that seeps in when you follow a sorrow too far down, and realize it has gears.

This is a story about time.

The Clockmaker’s Curse is one of the slowest, strangest, and most intimate tales I’ve ever written — a story wrapped in ticking, grief, and mirrors that lie. It’s about how we bargain with the past, how we beg it to open, and how the doors we knock on… are often knocking back.

The inspiration came, as many of mine do, from a simple thought:

What if time wasn’t linear .... and mistakes could be moved...

This story took shape in a place where memory, obsession, and loneliness become indistinguishable — where time stops being a measure, and starts becoming....a mouth.

Key story details...

The tone...

What I love most about this story is how quiet it is. There are no jump scares. No chase scenes. Only one man, one machine, and one very slow undoing.

It’s horror that creeps — not because it can’t run, but because it doesn’t need to.

Thank you, deeply, for listening, and supporting me to write stories like this.

Patronage makes space for slower stories. For strange, lyrical, aching ones. For clocks that don't chime unless you’re listening very, very carefully.

Your support made this story possible!

More stories coming soon.

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🎧 Private Access: Stories Fables Ghostly Tales — The Falcon Special

Hello, my wonderful Patreon legends!

Today, you get early access to a truly special pair of Old Time Radio episodes: The Worried Wife and The Case of the Miss — featuring none other than The Falcon.

But before you hit play, let’s pull back the curtain and explore the history and hidden gems of this classic detective series.

The Falcon hit the airwaves back in the early 1940s, sliding right into the shoes of slick, sharp-tongued detectives like The Shadow and Sam Spade. But where those blokes leaned hard into the tough-as-nails, gritty vibe, The Falcon mixed it up — charm, cheek, and a dash of danger. He was your classic gentleman sleuth, smooth as, but always keen to jump headfirst into the next messy crime.

Played by the legendary Les Damon in heaps of episodes, The Falcon’s real name was Michael Waring, and his world was full of fancy dinners, dodgy deals, and femme fatales who could tie a man in knots. Bullets and banter flew side by side — and mate, you never knew which would hit first.

The show ran on big networks like Mutual and NBC, and while The Falcon kicked off in films and books, it was the crackly old radio that really made him a legend in the minds of listeners. That’s where he truly came alive, spinning tales folks couldn’t get enough of.

✅ The Worried Wife

✅ The Case of the Miss

What I love about both episodes is how they showcase the range of this series — from heart-wrenching emotional stakes to light, crackling mystery. And while they follow familiar detective beats, they’re wrapped in rich atmosphere, era-specific charm, and dialogue that still sizzles today.

As a patron, you’re not just getting a story — you’re preserving audio history. Many of these OTR treasures were almost lost to time. Supporting this podcast means you help bring these crackly, golden-age voices back to life, restore them, and share them with a fresh audience.

That’s huge. You’re part of keeping The Falcon — and countless other forgotten heroes — alive.

As always, because you’re a Patreon supporter, you get:

Your support lets me spend hours cleaning, restoring, and re-presenting these old treasures with love and care. You are the reason Stories Fables Ghostly Tales can grow and evolve.

So, pour yourself a cup of tea (or whiskey, no judgment), settle in, and let The Falcon take you on a ride through mystery, murder, and charm.

See you soon with more episodes, more stories, and more discoveries.

Friends gather close — because tonight’s episode is something special, a slow burner of sorts!

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So much in the works legend!

The Sleep Collector is a tale crafted to pull you slowly, deliberately, into its world.

We meet Elara, a woman marked by strange, glowing bottles that appear on her windowsill each night — bottles that steal away more than just sleep. As the bottles multiply, her body weakens, her world unravels, and she is drawn deep into a city beneath the city, a labyrinth of rusted gears, humming pipes, and pale figures suspended in glass.

As the story unfolds… you’ll have to ask yourself: what would you do, if your last breath was offered back to you, but only in exchange for taking the Collector’s place?

This episode is dark, layered, and immersive — designed for those who crave stories that don’t just whisper from the edges but pull you under completely.

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So....dim your lights, close your eyes (if you dare), and let The Sleep Collector take you.

Just create a 6-part horror arc, and it’s easily one of the creepiest but also WEIRDEST things I’ve written in a while. If you like slow-building dread, weird kids, doors that draw themselves, and whatever’s pulsing in the basement, this one’s for you. Open to feedback though on this particular ODD tale!

It all starts with a broke college student taking a too-good-to-be-true night shift at a daycare that just… showed back up one day. No job listing, no explanation, no one else around. Just the kids.

And those drawings.

🖍️ Crayon doors that open on their own

It’s horror with body weirdness, memory loss, looping time, and just enough existential panic to keep things fun!

Also....YOU ARE ALL AMAZING! 💜💜💜💜💜

I mean it—this story exists because of your support. All you legends contribute to making this podcast push the envelope on the stories I acquire, make, and design myself. Thank you immensely legends!

Have a WONDERFUL Week you legends!!!! You're freakin EPIC!

-- Some Spoilers, Read AFTER if you worried about that --

There’s something wrong with the daycare—and it didn’t start yesterday. Officially, the place never reopened. There are no records of new ownership, no flyers, no listings. But one day the lights just came on. The doors unlocked. The furniture was in place, the toys cleaned. Like it had never closed at all. Some locals insist it burned down. Others say it was condemned. But everyone remembers it differently—and that might be the first sign something’s off. The building doesn’t just exist. It waits. And when it opens, it chooses who walks in.

The children aren’t quite children. They arrive silently, without parents, and seem to know things no child should. They don’t age. They rarely blink. Some of them speak in phrases that feel half-remembered, like they're quoting something buried deep in your own memories. Their drawings are more than creative expression—they're catalysts. Instructions. Blueprints. What’s drawn becomes real, and once something is drawn into the world, it stays. The drawings don’t fade. They pulse. And sometimes, they open. What’s behind the crayon isn’t imagination—it’s construction.

Time slips inside the daycare. Memory fragments. Identity bends. Some people come out changed, others don’t come out at all. Visitors report seeing photographs of themselves from decades past, or discovering notes written in their own handwriting that they don’t remember writing. And then there’s the basement. It doesn’t appear until a child draws it. It shifts locations. Sometimes it’s beneath the building. Sometimes… it’s not. But it’s always connected to something older, deeper, and watching. The story isn’t about ghosts. It’s about transformation. The daycare doesn’t just haunt you—it repurposes you.