The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

We hope you're enjoying the summer, and thank you for your continued support of The Other Stories.

We wanted to bring you something special today that we think many of you will enjoy. The Hawk & Cleaver team have been working on recording and editing the first book in The Aelfraver Series, The Rave. We even have TOS narrator Erika Ventura cast as the narrator.

Author J.R Traas describes it as an arcanepunk cyberfantasy about teenage rebellion against the ruling elite and their gods. TOS editor Karl Hughes said it reminded him of The Hunger Games, but full of even more Sci-Fi and even more awesomeness.

The story begins with Alina, a 17-year-old Aelfraver (a hunter of arcane beasts), who is also a pacifist. When her grandfather disappears in the middle of making dinner, Alina is left with an empty monster hunter school and a crippling pile of debt. Unlicensed and underage, she forges an Aelfraver license and enters the floating capital city, joining the hunt for a mysterious entity that has been slaughtering the wealthy and powerful, leaving no witnesses. If she can somehow deal with this elusive creature and claim the bounty, she believes all her problems will be solved. But she’ll have to beat 200 cutthroat killer Aelfravers to the finish line.

We don't do many audiobooks, but even so, this is the biggest project we've ever taken on, and we wanted to share it with you.

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106.4 The Diary

Tired of flogging books to the wealthy the find of a lost diary sets in motion a mystery that could harken a new fortune or something more sinister.

Written by R.N. Krantz

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr)

With music by Epic Stock Media (https://epicstockmedia.com/)

And Haunted Me (https://hauntedmeofficial.wordpress.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by https://getsoundly.com/

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

**Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/**

Check out Georgia’s brand new podcast - The Holmwood Foundation

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106.3 Blind Cast

Two space engineers just finished repairing an old satellite in low orbit when they see a very unexpected item floating just outside of their space ships.

Written by Alexandra Elroy

Narrated by Alexandra Elroy

And Tycho Francis

And Nick Herman

Produced by Karl Hughes (https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)

With music by Chris Zabriskie (https://chriszabriskie.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Alexandra is a bilingual voice actress and writer who lives in the Netherlands. She loves everything to do with stories, especially creative and playful horror. Her favourite voices to do are witches, goblins and crazy computers. When she is not voicing, writing or mummy-ing (which is all the time, really) she directs plays that she adapted from classic novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Death on the Nile and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Francis is an actor, narrator, and storyteller with a background in theatre and voice work. He loves the drama — but even more so, the quiet pull of darker tales. Walk with him: @lonely_midnight_artist

Nick is a performer from Portland, Oregon, USA. He trained at the University of Oregon and worked professionally in London, UK for 3 years. His roles include Mr. Tinsworthy in The Confidential Musical Theater Project (The Cauldron), King Sextimus in Once Upon a Mattress (Happily Ever After), and Carrot in Guards! Guards! (English Theater Utrecht). He loves improvisation and is currently training at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam

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106.2 Yellow Tape

Mourning the loss of their close friend, Elle and Lionel come home to watch a mysterious yellow tape that was bequeathed to them in their friend’s will. But by the end of the tape, the couple wish it had never come to them.

Written by Xavier Garcia (twitter.com/xavier_agarcia)

Narrated and produced by James Barnett (https://www.JamesBarnettCreative.com)

With music by North Without End (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/north-without-end/)

And Myuu (https://www.thedarkpiano.com/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org and Ghosthack.de

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Xavier Garcia is a writer/editor from Toronto, Canada. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies published by Fugitives & Futurists, Cold Signal, hex, Apocalypse Confidential, Cursed Morsels, Filthy Loot, and others. You can find him walking the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, or at twitter.com/xavier_agarcia.

James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast and After The Gloaming. Search for them wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.JamesBarnettCreative.com

Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/

Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at https://www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver

Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/

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The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.

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106.1 The Reid Property Tape

Coins turn up heads on the Reid property. Mr. Reid wants your skull, but he's not unfair. He'll let you flip for it.

Written by Heinrich von Wolfcastle (https://www.facebook.com/HeinrichvonWolfcastle/)

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://www.threads.net/@justin.fife)

Produced by Karl Hughes (**https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)**

With music by Umcorps (https://soundcloud.com/umcorps)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

**Heinrich von Wolfcastle is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association and a member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. His work has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines. Most recently, you can hear his story “The Contritionist” presented on the Chilling Tales for Dark Nights podcast and read his story "The Ones in Between" in Blackberry Blood. Though he lives the life of a recluse, he has been known to emerge from the shadows for Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween night.https://www.facebook.com/HeinrichvonWolfcastle/**

Justin Fife is an audiobook narrator and voice actor, and he can be found on Threads @Justin.fife

Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/

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Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/

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The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.

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Jimmy Horrors takes over The Other Stories feed this week with three remastered episodes from the newly relaunched Night’s End podcast. Dive into the eerie, the strange, and the unsettling — and don’t forget to subscribe to Night’s End today!

Be sure to subscribe today!

Last Night’s Memory was written by Elizabeth Suggs. 

Do you love horror? Check out Editing Mee’s upcoming horror anthology “Collective Darkness: on September 5. Learn more @ www.CollectiveDarkness.com 

or contact Liz with questions or upcoming anthology submissions via email on [email protected]

Narration was performed by Rachel Pulliam.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12339367/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_0_nm_8_q_rachel%2520pulliam

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012626024730

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soletwinaudionetwork

Jimmy Horrors was performed by James Barnett

This episode was produced by James Barnett

To support us please leave a review, or for bonus content, head to www.patreon.com/nightsendpodcast. Our website is www.nightsendpodcast.com.

Stay Horrific, everyone.

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Jimmy Horrors takes over The Other Stories feed this week with three remastered episodes from the newly relaunched Night’s End podcast. Dive into the eerie, the strange, and the unsettling — and don’t forget to subscribe to Night’s End today!

Be sure to subscribe today!

You’ve been listening to the night’s end podcast which is a production of Dissonance media.

Circle-Route was written by Jamie D Munro and was first published in Another Realm in 2019. You can find Jamie on facebook, twitter and Instagram under Jamie D dot Munro M U N R O. @jamie.munro

This story was narrated by Glenda Villamar – For more form Glenda, head over to www.glendavillamarvoiceover.com or connect with her on X @ModernSjoa

Jimmy Horrors was performed by James Barnett

This episode was edited and produced by James Barnett

To support us please leave a review, or for bonus content, head to patreon.com/nightsendpodcast. Our website is www.nightsendpodcast.com.

Stay Horrific, everyone.

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https://twitter.com/JamieDMunro

https://www.instagram.com/jamiedmunro/

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Jimmy Horrors takes over The Other Stories feed this week with three remastered episodes from the newly relaunched Night’s End podcast. Dive into the eerie, the strange, and the unsettling — and don’t forget to subscribe to Night’s End today!

Be sure to subscribe today!

Back into the world of The Night's End Podcast and Jimmy Horrors takes us into the mind of a man who is a guest of honour at a ball. Slowly, he realises that something is not quite right.

You’ve been listening to the night’s end podcast which is a production of Dissonance media.

The Ballroom was written and narrated by James Barnett. James is a writer, voice actor and podcast producer from Australia. He is the creator of The Night’s End and After the Gloaming and is also a regular producer of The Other Stories. For more from James, head to www.jamesbarnettcreative.com.

To support us please leave a review, or for bonus content, head to patreon.com/nightsendpodcast. Our website is www.nightsendpodcast.com.

Stay horrific, everyone.

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105.4 Facebook Flash fiction Winners

Four stories. Four terrors. One unforgettable mixtape from the twisted minds of our Facebook Group.

Written by Mary Pastrano, Andy Morris, and Marie Sison (https://www.facebook.com/groups/theotherstories)

Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://instagram.com/efventu)

And Georgia Cook (https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/)

And Andy Conduit-Turner (https://www.instagram.com/andyctwrites/)

Produced by Karl Hughes (https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.com)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by Freesound.org

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Be sure to join the facebook group to get involved in future Flash Fiction competitions at www.facebook.com/groups/theotherstories

Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/

Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at https://www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver

Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/

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The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.

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105.3 Pilgrimage

A week of hitchhiking across the country to catch a Brütal Füture gig has left Selina broke, alone, exhausted – and just a few hours too late. Chance provides a unique opportunity to meet her favourite frontman, but this encounter takes an unexpected turn into horror… and hope.

Written by Matthew R. Davis (matthewrdavisfiction.wordpress.com)

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked)

Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr )

With music by Cryptic Scenery (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/cryptic-scenery/)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

And sound effects provided by https://getsoundly.com/

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

Joshua Boucher is our story programmer, and along with Jasmine Arch and the eyeless ones, Mary Pastrano and Cody Czarzasty, he helps manage our community.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.

Matthew R. Davis is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author and musician from Adelaide, South Australia, with almost one hundred short stories and five books published thus far. 2025 will see the release of Songs of Shadow, Words of Woe (JournalStone), On Track... The Cure: Every Album, Every Song (Sonicbond Publishing), and Ribspreader: The Novelisation and the Screenplay (Paroxysm Press). He shares his life with the award-winning artist Meg Wright, aka Red Wallflower. Find out more at matthewrdavisfiction.wordpress.com.

**Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/**

Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/

Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at https://www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver

Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/

Leave a voicemail or get in touch at https://theotherstories.net/submissions

Check out our writing courses at https://theotherstories.net/courses/

Grab some merch at https://gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver

The Other Stories is a production of the story studio, Hawk & Cleaver, and is brought to you with a Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Don’t change it. Don’t sell it. But by all means… share the hell out of it.

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