The Old Gods Are Dying | Chapter One | A Dark Mythic Fantasy Serial

A mountain swallowed by fog.
A house left waiting.
And a winter that refuses to pass.

In this episode of Tales Under A Broken Sky, we return to The Old Gods Are Dying.

When Maeve’s husband and grandchild fail to return from a journey up the mountain, she is left to face the long winter alone. Cut off from the world and surrounded by silence, she does what she can to endure, drawing strength from the old teachings her husband once shared with her.

But something watches from the margins.

As days blur into nights and the cold presses closer, an unseen presence begins to make itself known. Memory becomes refuge. Faith becomes armor. And survival turns into an act of quiet defiance.

This is a slow-burn dark fantasy about grief, resilience, and what it means to stand your ground when the gods have gone silent. Expect creeping dread, wintry atmosphere, and the sense that some battles are fought not with weapons, but with will.

If you’re drawn to isolated landscapes, ancestral knowledge, and stories that unfold like frost across glass, this chapter is for you.

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Content Warning: Supernatural Horror

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter One - A Long Winter
Chapter Two - Returning Home

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:43 - A Long Winter
00:21:54 - Background Discussion
00:26:12 - Listener Support
00:26:42 - Pretender - Chapter One (Trailer)

A history professor wakes to a world of pain and anguish.

The Possessed | Prologue | A Dark Fantasy Serial

An ancient war in the heavens.
A victory soaked in shadow.
And a world that doesn’t yet know it’s already been changed.

This episode begins a new serialised dark fantasy tale within Tales Under A Broken Sky, set against the backdrop of a celestial conflict fought between angels and demons, with humanity caught unknowingly in the middle.

An evil presence savours its triumph.
A history professor wakes to pain and ruin.
A former priest receives an unexpected visitor.
A psychologist discovers that their patient is far more than she appears.

Their lives begin to converge as something ancient moves quietly through the cracks of the world.

This is a slow-burn fantasy horror about divine manipulation, fractured faith, and the terrible cost of being collateral in a war you never agreed to fight. Expect mythic scale, intimate suffering, and the creeping realisation that fate doesn’t arrive all at once. It unfolds.

If you’re drawn to fallen angels, hidden demons, and stories where ordinary people stand on the edge of cosmic consequence, this chapter is for you.

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Content Warning: Swearing, Depiction of Blood, Violence & Death, Mental Health Issues, War, Fascism

Table of Contents:
Chapter One
Chapter Two

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - The Dark Stranger
00:04:14 - The Agony of Martin Hill
00:12:38 - Justin Shaw has a visitor
00:23:22 - Maria is no longer Maria
00:37:39 - Background Discussion
00:40:54 - Listener Support
00:41:23 - The Old Gods Are Dying - Chapter One (Trailer)

Classic Reading: Christabel | Part Two | A Gothic Meditation on Influence and Betrayal

A guest who lingers too long.
A father’s trust quietly redirected.
And a daughter pushed into the margins.

In this episode of Tales Under A Broken Sky, we continue our reading of Christabel, the gothic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

As the story unfolds, Geraldine’s insidious presence begins to surface more clearly. Affection is manipulated. Loyalties are gently rearranged. And Christabel finds herself slowly estranged from her father, while something dark settles ever deeper into the household.

This classic reading explores influence, possession, and the quiet violence of emotional control, where kindness is weaponized and innocence is made to yield.

Christabel  is a chilling meditation on power and vulnerability, told through dreamlike imagery and creeping dread. Expect literary horror, corrupted intimacy, and the sense that something unwelcome has taken root where it was once invited.

If you’re drawn to classic gothic poetry, dangerous interlopers, and stories that linger like a half-remembered nightmare, this chapter is for you.

If you enjoyed this, you might also like Spiders or Come To Me, original stories exploring similar themes.

Follow the show for more original horror, dark fantasy, and reflective audio fiction, released every two weeks.

Part 01 Available Here

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:45 - Christabel - Part Two
00:19:16 - Background Discussion
00:24:42 - Listener Support
00:25:09 - The Possessed (Trailer)

Classic Reading: Christabel | Part One | A Gothic Meditation on Innocence and the Unknown

A quiet forest.
A wounded stranger.
And the moment trust begins to fracture.

In this episode of Tales Under A Broken Sky, we step into the tense opening of Christabel, the long gothic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

This classic reading explores innocence, intrusion, and the slow creep of the supernatural, where kindness becomes vulnerability and the dark arrives softly, wearing familiar faces. As with many gothic works, atmosphere carries as much weight as action, and unease grows in the spaces between words.

Christabel is a chilling meditation on influence and loss, told through dreamlike imagery and hushed menace. Expect literary horror, disturbed silence, and the sense that something ancient has slipped across a threshold.

If you’re drawn to classic gothic poetry, corrupted innocence, and stories that linger like a half-remembered nightmare, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this, you might also like Spiders or Come To Me, original stories exploring similar themes.

Follow the show for more original horror, dark fantasy, and reflective audio fiction, released every two weeks.

Part 02 Available Here

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:44 - Christabel - Part One
00:20:36 - Background Discussion
00:24:34 - Listener Support
00:25:02 - Christabel - Part 02 (Trailer)

Come To Me | A Paranormal Horror Story About Curiosity and Possession

A foolish dare.

A crumbling house.

And the moment you realise you are not alone.

In this episode of Tales Under A Broken Sky, a young woman drunkenly accepts a challenge to enter an abandoned, supposedly haunted house. An ardent skeptic, she laughs off the stories and slips inside, determined to prove her friends wrong.

But fear has a way of taking root.

As the walls close in and silence grows heavier, the house begins to work its way beneath her skin. Doubt gives way to unease. Unease becomes fixation. And slowly, something forgotten starts to make a home in her thoughts.

Come To Me is a slow-burn horror story about curiosity, vulnerability, and what happens when a place refuses to let you leave unchanged. Expect atmospheric tension, psychological unraveling, and the creeping realization that some doors should never be opened.

If you’re drawn to haunted spaces, unreliable courage, and stories that linger long after the final line, this one is for you.

Follow the show for more original horror and dark fantasy, released every two weeks.

Content Warning: Foul Language, Supernatural Horror

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:50 - Come To Me
00:20:20 - Background Discussion
00:23:22 - Listener Support
00:23:53 - Christabel - Part One (Trailer)

Episdoe 07 is going live this weekend, I had a lot of fun with this one, especially playing around with backing music and ambaince

Pretender | Prologue | A Dark Urban Fantasy Serial

A city that never forgets.
A master who never truly releases his hold.
And a debt that refuses to stay buried.

This episode begins a new serialised dark fantasy tale within Tales Under A Broken Sky, set in a world shaped by war, politics, and the quiet violence of ambition.

Darian is a former member of the Thieves Guild, and once protégé to the infamous Thiefmaster Alaric. Having abandoned the city and the life he left behind, he swore never to fall beneath his mentor’s shadow again.

But when a job goes wrong, he is pulled back into a world he thought he had left behind.

In alleys thick with whispers and halls lined with secrets, treachery waits behind every familiar face. And Alaric’s designs, as always, are never what they seem.

Pretender is a slow-burn dark fantasy about loyalty, manipulation, and the cost of walking away from who you used to be. Expect shadowed streets, shifting alliances, and the creeping realization that some masters never stop pulling strings.

If you’re drawn to thieves’ guilds, dangerous mentors, and stories that unfold through betrayal and blood-bound promises, this chapter is for you.

Follow the show for more original horror and dark fantasy, released every two weeks.

Content Warning: Violence, Death, Blood, Gore, Cursing

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter One - Biting The Hand
Chapter Two - A Royal Victory

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:48 - Prologue
00:17:34 - Background Discussion
00:22:24 - Listener Support
00:22:53 - Come To Me (Trailer)
00:25:07 - Outro

The Old Gods Are Dying | Prologue | A Dark Fantasy Serial

The old gods are dying.

An ancient evil stirs.

And somewhere in the fog, a child stands alone.

This episode marks the first chapter of a new serialized dark fantasy tale, inspired by the myths and legends of Ireland.

Few remain who remember the old ways or the last coming of the darkness. Fewer still possess the knowledge or strength to face it.

A young boy finds himself lost on a mountain, surrounded by mist and the distant echoes of an ancient battle.

In desperation, an oath is sworn to a god who would have been better left forgotten. And a new chapter in an old story begins.

The Old Gods Are Dying is a slow-burn fantasy horror about forgotten deities, inherited darkness, and the quiet weight of promises made too soon.

Expect mythic atmosphere, creeping dread, and the sense that some legends never truly end.

If you’re drawn to ancient folklore, cursed oaths, and stories that unfold like half-remembered myths, this one is for you.

Follow the show for more original horror and dark fantasy, released every two weeks.

Content Warning: Supernatual Evil, Battle, Death

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter One - A Long Winter
Chapter Two - Returning Home

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:49 - Prologue
00:15:47 - Background Discussion
00:20:16 - Listener Support
00:20:43 - Pretender (Trailer)

Virtual Hell | A Psychological Horror Story About Control and Despair

A case without answers.
A body count that refuses to make sense.
And the moment you realise you're no longer the hunter.

In this episode of Tales Under A Broken Sky, a police officer investigating a series of unexplained deaths awakens to the knowledge that his search for truth has gone horribly wrong.

Taken captive and subjected to relentless torment, he finds himself trapped between waking life and nightmare, where time fractures and suffering becomes ritual. As the boundaries of reality begin to dissolve, he must confront what remains of himself in a place where mercy no longer exists.

Virtual Hell is a slow-burn horror story about control, virtual reality, and the brutality of technology in the wrong hands. Expect atmospheric tension, psychological dread, and the creeping realisation that some investigations don’t end.

They become nightmare.

If you’re drawn to psychological horror, fractured realities, and stories that linger long after the final line, this one is for you.

Follow the show for more original horror and dark fantasy, released every two weeks.

Content Warning: Violence, Death, Torture, References to Suicide and Murder

Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:48 - Virtual Hell
00:17:24 - Background Discussion
00:22:07 - Listener Support
00:22:29 - The Od Gods Are Dying (Trailer)