Edvane Stories

Jonathan B. Edvane

Jonathan B. Edvane spent fifty years writing dark fiction for himself. Now he's sharing it with the world. Folk horror, ghost stories, historical fiction and dark fantasy — one story at a time, most Saturdays since January 2026.

From the folklore of rural England to the shadows of Middle-Earth, from post-revolutionary France to a Cistercian monk in 2137.

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Friday · 28 min
Streindarke - Seven - Now Everything's Dark
On the eve of the coup, Hagen Vada walks the streets of Streindarke for the last time as an ordinary citizen. From the disorder of the lower wards to the privileged heights above the city, he reflects upon a lifetime of rejection, resentment and thwarted ambition. By morning, he intends to put everything right. Story inspired by the song Waiting For The Night by Depeche Mode 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 Stories⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠⁠edvane.world
October 16 · 21 min
The Bramblejack
Every house has its customs, and some are older than anyone remembers. Leave food beside the hearth. Keep the back door unbolted. Sweep the step outward before dawn. Nobody remembers why. When a travelling wizard dismisses the rituals as meaningless superstition, he discovers that something in the house objects. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show. Discover more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠edvane.world⁠
October 7 · 16 min
The Grass Was So Green
Florence Birch comes home from the war to find the village unchanged, children still singing on the green and an old game waiting for her name. But some childhood rhymes are not games at all, and some lessons are learned long before we understand what they mean. Inspired by the Green Gravel folk rhyme If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show. Discover more at ⁠⁠⁠edvane.world⁠
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October 2 · 16 min
The Crow and the Sparrow
The first tale I ever wrote was a play about a Crow and a Sparrow. I had learned how to make a cereal box theatre from an old Weetabix box and had made characters on lolly sticks and background scenes drawn on card and paper. Many of them were different birds I had drawn, copying the plates in an old Observer's Book of Birds I was given. But I wanted a story, and so my first writing, The Crow and the Sparrow, was born. It was not the tale you will find here. I don't recall what I came up with, but I wanted to breathe new life into the imaginings of a six-year-old back in 1973. And this is 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. Discover more at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠
October 2 · 20 min
The Returned - A Note In The Margin
The Returned is an occasional series of tales, rejected by publishers and platforms and left to rest by the author. Discover more at⁠⁠⁠ edvane.world A Victorian clergyman discovers a forgotten warning in the margin of an old parish register and, beneath the chapel floor, something that should never have been disturbed. A tale of antiquarian curiosity, buried superstition and the what comes looking when an old secret is taken from its resting place.
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September 26 · 40 min
The Second Commission
Among the records of the Patent Rolls for the reign of Richard III there survives a commission dated 8 March 1485 at Westminster, appointing Oto Gilbert, Thomas Boweryng, Robert Holbeme, Richard Taillour of Toppesham, yeoman of the crown, and Richard Lepton, yeoman of the king's chamber, to examine the complaint of Giliom Marcellis, a subject of the Duke of Austria, concerning the seizure of his ship by one John Taillour. The entry notes that an earlier commission to Gilbert and Boweryng alone had produced no result, recording only that they "have not done so." The expanded commission was given until the fifth day of May to certify its findings. No findings were ever certified. No report from either commission survives in the record. The account that follows is imagined. The silence is 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. Discover more at ⁠edvane.world⁠
September 20 · 15 min
The Returned - The Uncounted
The Returned is an occasional series of tales, rejected by publishers and platforms and left to rest by the author. Discover more at⁠⁠ edvane.world A man arrives in 1890s Seattle with rain on his back and nothing to lose. People begin to vanish from the Elliott House, leaving their boots by the bed and their coats on the hook. The official record of the Great Fire of 1889 says nobody died. The official record is wrong.
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September 19 · 22 min
Streindarke - Six - Devenir Gris
Rhett Bormis flees through Streindarke’s forgotten transit tunnels after refusing to hide the truth of Charlotte’s death. A stranger named Dove pulls him into the dark.This is the Sixth Streindarke story. Discover more of them by searching for 'Streindarke' anywhere. Story inspired by the song Fade to Grey by Visage 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 Stories⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world
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September 10 · 10 min
An Old Family Recipe
A traveller takes shelter at a roadside inn and hears the innkeeper's account of a duke, his murdered brother, and the enormous cook who arrived uninvited at the castle. What was served at the duke's feast, and what was left behind in the kitchen afterward, is a story the locals have carried for generations. Based on the #vss365 flash piompt "Divine." If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story most Saturdays, and following helps new listeners find the show. Discover more at ⁠edvane.world
September 10 · 7 min
The Returned - She Never Came Home-An Irish Folk Tale
The Returned is an occasional series of tales, rejected by publishers and platforms and left to rest by the author. Discover more at⁠ edvane.world A girl drinks the beastings, the first milk that should have been given back to the earth. Soon the butter will not churn, the milk turns red, and a calf is found dead. But in a small Irish community, superstition is only the beginning of Bridget O’Hara’s punishment.
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August 31 · 45 min
Counting Out
Ena, mena, bora mi,Kisca, lara, mora di. Eggs, butter, cheese, bread. Stick, stock, stone, dead. A dark folk-horror tale from Bodmin Moor, where five children turn an old counting rhyme into something cruel, and twenty years later discover that a game can remember its rules long after the players have forgotten them. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show. Discover more at edvane.world
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August 27 · 20 min
Pegwyche Goes Down
Pegwyche is chosen by her village for the honoured ritual of Going-Up Day and raised in a decorated cage to the floating Rookery of Ninelast. There, the blind mole groundskeeper Mister Talp reveals the truth: the girls sent up before her were never brides or blessed chosen ones, but living sacrifices, rooted beneath the Rookery so their fear can keep the floating kingdom aloft. If you enjoy Edvane Stories, please follow the podcast — a new dark fiction story every Saturday, and following helps new listeners find the show. Discover more at ⁠edvane.world⁠
August 23 · 6 min
The Returned - The Corpse Candle
The Returned is an occasional series of tales, rejected by publishers and platforms and left to rest by the author. Discover more at edvane.world In a Welsh mining settlement in Pennsylvania, a sick boy sees a flame pass his window that burns without smoke and bends to no wind. His mother knows what it is. His father refuses to. By morning the bells are ringing across the valley. Rejected by Space & Time for their Shadows Mean Light issue, October 2026.
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August 21 · 31 min
The Apportionment Of Slyne Birch
In medieval churches across England, the dead address the living with a warning. As you are, so once were we. In the parish of Ashenford, on the edge of Wychwood Forest, they have something else in mind. A tithe surveyor arrives in 1843 to map every field and account for every acre. The older records name a settlement the living have agreed to forget. The dead don't want remembrance. They want someone to finish their paperwork. 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 Stories
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August 14 · 53 min
The Tayle of Robyn Hode
In 1225, a man called Robert Hod appeared in the Yorkshire pipe rolls as a fugitive whose goods had been seized by the Crown. The entry is brief. In 1936, the historian L.V.D. Owen identified it, and in the 1980s David Crook argued that Robert Hod was the same man as Robert of Wetherby, an outlaw pursued across Yorkshire by Eustace of Lowdham, a royal officer who had previously served as deputy sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Scholars will doubtless continue to debate the connection, and this is not my argument in its favour. It is a work of fiction built around the question of what might have happened if the connection had been real. If a minor landholder with a legitimate grievance against royal authority found himself pushed into outlawry. The Robin Hood of this story is not the one most readers will recognise. There is no Sherwood Forest, no Sheriff of Nottingham, no Maid Marian. What there is, I hope, is a plausible man living through plausible consequences in a world where legend and myth had not yet had their say, surrounded him with merry men, and put them in tights. 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 Stories Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world⁠⁠⁠⁠
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August 7 · 23 min
The Legend of the Og Mori
A Pictish chief faces an impossible choice when Anglian raiders violate his daughters and threaten his settlement. An origin legend of the carved stones at Dunnicar, told through the bloodline that survived. 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 Stories⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at⁠⁠⁠ edvane.world
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July 31 · 17 min
Streindarke - Five- To Shy From The Rain
Nightporter Lysand DaVivi carries three people out of their lives in a single shift. The third warrant changes everything he thought he had accepted. Inspired by 'Nightporter' by Japan 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 Stories⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world
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July 24 · 26 min
Doctor Who, The First Doctor - Good Luck, Old Man
This is a First Doctor story I wrote and submitted to Big Finish’s Paul Spragg Memorial contest in 2026. Only one story would be chosen, on the basis of a short synopsis, and it was not mine, so I publish it here. The story is set during the canonical gap in the 1966 television serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve. In that story, the Doctor disappears for most of the narrative, leaving his companion Steven alone in Paris on the eve of one of the worst atrocities in French history. The television serial never explains where the Doctor went or what he was doing. I wrote this story to occupy that silence. 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 Stories⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠⁠edvane.world⁠⁠ Doctor 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
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July 18 · 31 min
Odd Man Dodd
In 1780s Shropshire, a parish midwife watches a man called Odd Man Dodd move between three townships. Three people die. The children learn a rhyme. Nobody asks where the words came from. 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 Stories⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at⁠ edvane.world
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July 10 · 9 min
Mistress Grimshaw's Purse
In St Barrow’s, charity was given at the church door, where God might see it and, more importantly, where no neighbour could pretend he had not. Every Sunday, when the final hymn had faded into coughs, scraping boots and the restless mutter of people pretending not to loiter, Mistress Agnes Grimshaw took her place beneath the entry arch with her black purse folded between both hands. 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 Stories⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

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