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

A professor on a deadline invents a device to help guide time-travellers. Will it work, and will it work in time?

Written by Liam Hogan (http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk)

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://twitter.com/justinbfife)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Blear Moon (https://blearmoon.bandcamp.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/)

Find out more about Liam Hogan’s work over at http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk

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Frank is understandably excited to have the opportunity to change the past, but his good deed snowballs out of control.

Written by Carolyn O’Brien

Narrated by Persephone Rose (https://twitter.com/MPersephoneRose)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Game Dev Market (https://gamedevmarket.net)

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/)

Persephone Rose plans to live long enough, with the help of cybernetic augmentations, to travel to the stars and make extraterrestrial friends. When she isn't performing Satanic rituals, she scrapes by as a writer and voice actor of things that are not always for the faint of heart.

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Warner Hattersley has always been a student of the dark and macabre corners of the human mind, but when he stumbles upon a black-market technology, he learns just how dangerous obsession can become.

Written by Dexter Mcleod (https://www.twitter.com/DexterMcLeod)

Narrated by James Barnett (https://twitter.com/jimmyhorrors)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

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

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/)

Dexter McLeod is a writer from the southern United States, though he vacations on the shores of dim Carcosa. He writes in the darker shades of Southern Gothic, Cosmic Horror, Science Fiction, and the New Weird. You can follow him on Twitter, @DexterMcLeod.

James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast. A short story fiction podcast with tales of horror and the paranormal. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.jamesbarnettauthor.com

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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Intro by Luke Kondor (https://www.twitter.com/lukeofkondor)

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When a man hears the mother of his childhood calling him home, he decides to follow it all the way back.

Written and narrated by Luke Kondor (https://twitter.com/lukeofkondor)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Mellarn (https://soundcloud.com/mellarn)

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/)

Luke Kondor started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back… and now he has very sore eyes. He makes podcasts, makes films, and writes books! Check out more of his work at LukeKondor.com and be sure to join the newsletter to get a free book of short stories. Oh yeah and follow hmi on twitter and instagram at @Lukeofkondor

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Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/

When human survival is in the balance, it’s left to one person to argue the case for our continued existence.

Written by Richard Reynolds (http://groundzerocomics.co.uk/)

Narrated by James Barnett (https://www.instagram.com/jimmyhorrors/)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Blear Moon (https://blearmoon.bandcamp.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/)

Richard Reynolds is the owner and operator of Ground Zero Comics, a small shop in Mansfield, England, but writes, draws and produces his own comics whenever he gets the chance.

James Barnett is the producer of the Night’s End podcast. A short story fiction podcast with tales of horror and the paranormal. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. You can also catch other works of his at www.jamesbarnettauthor.com

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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The Other Stories is a production 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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Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/

When Maureen's daughter is killed in a tragic roadside collision, Maureen's grief and feelings of responsibility begin to consume her every waking moment. 

Written by Jonathan Cosgrove (https://twitter.com/jjingo_gaijin)

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/Georgiacooked)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Myu (https://soundcloud.com/myuu)

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/)

Jonathan Cosgrove is an Irish writer of dark fiction. His short fiction has appeared in the Arterial Bloom anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing and Daily Science Fiction. You can find out more about him at jonathancosgrove.com or say hello on Twitter at @jjingo_gaijin. 

Follow Georgia Cook on Twitter at @Georgiacooked

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/

This is a story about a Cadbury egg that is anything but sweet. 

Written by Shannon Scott 

Narrated by Jasmine Arch (https://jasminearch.com/)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Daniel Birch (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch)

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/)

Shannon Scott is an adjunct professor of English at several universities in the Twin Cities. She has contributed essays on wolves and werewolves to She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female Werewolves (Manchester UP, 2015) and The Company of Wolves Collection (Manchester UP, 2020). She was also co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896 (Valancourt, 2012). More recently, her short story, “American House Spider,” came out in in Nightscript in 2019. Her novelette, “Swing a Dead Cat,” was published in Coppice and Brake: A Dark Fiction Anthology, in March 2020. Her short story, “The Bump,” will be coming out in Vastarien: A Literary Journal and her story “Dead Bread Head” was published in Oculus Sinister in November 2020. Her novella, Joyride, will be coming out in 2021 with Crone Girls Press. She can be reached at [email protected] 

Writer, poet, narrator, podcaster and all round chaos-for-brains Jasmine Arch lives in a nook of Belgian countryside with two horses, four dogs, and a husband who knows better than to distract her when she's writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Stories, NewMyths.com and Hybrid Fiction, among others. Find out more about her or her work at JasmineArch.com.

The Other Stories is a production 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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Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/

Easton is skilled at mapping the world's longest known cave system, nestled beneath the hills of central Kentucky. But he finds navigating the human heart a harder task when something much older and far darker sings to him from the deep.

Written by Dexter McLeod (https://twitter.com/DexterMcLeod)

Narrated by Justin Fife (https://twitter.com/justinbfife)

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Kai Engel (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel)

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/)

Dexter McLeod is a writer from the southern United States, though he vacations on the shores of dim Carcosa. He writes in the darker shades of Southern Gothic, Cosmic Horror, Science Fiction, and the New Weird. You can follow him on Twitter, @DexterMcLeod.

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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The Other Stories is a production 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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Volume 66 is sponsored by the Scared To Death podcast. Find out more at https://scaredtodeathpodcast.com/

A pair of refugees escape for one of the world’s last sanctuary cities, but they cannot flee an older hunger.

Written by Brandon R. Chinn (https://twitter.com/brandonrchinn)

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/Georgiacooked)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by Umcorps (https://blearmoon.bandcamp.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/)

Brandon R. Chinn is the author of the Kognition Cycle series. He lives in the Pacific Northwest and writes genre fiction and video game essays. You can check out his work at TheKognitionCycle.com and geek out with him @brandonrchinn on Twitter and Medium.

You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver

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