Edvane Stories

Jonathan B. Edvane

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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, every Saturday. From the folklore of rural England to the shadows of Middle-Earth, from post-revolutionary France to a Cistercian monk in 2137. Read the full archive at edvanestories.com.

13h ago

The Even Ash

The Even Ash is a dark Yorkshire folk tale of Mother Greenwood, a travelling herb-woman who sells simples at country fairs and offers lonely girls an old love charm. But the ash does not promise kindness, safety, or happiness. It answers only the words spoken, and four girls learn that the first single man to draw nigh may be something far stranger than a true love. Read it at Edvane Stories Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

42 min
6d ago

The Seven Blessings of Cecily Scratcher - Part Two

At St Mildred’s, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings of beauty, grace, sorrow, roads, love, labour, and goodness, and of the children made to carry what adults should not. Read it at ⁠Edvane Stories⁠ Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at ⁠edvane.world⁠

38 min
May 30

The Seven Blessings of Cecily Scratcher - Part One

At St Mildred’s, every blessing has a shadow. Cecily Scratcher waits beneath the lychgate to tell seven old warnings of beauty, grace, sorrow, roads, love, labour, and goodness, and of the children made to carry what adults should not. Read it at Edvane Stories Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

47 min
May 23

Arrange The Symmetry - A Streindarke Story

In Streindarke, even scandal is expected to behave properly. When Lord Suze Ben-Sashe vanishes from the upper courts, Civic Quiet Ballion is sent to keep the matter narrow. But Suze’s silent apartment contains more than absence. A watching cat. A staircase where no staircase should be. A memory Ballion would rather not arrange. Inspired by Siouxsie and the Banshees’ The Staircase (Mystery), Arrange The Symmetry is a dark tale of status, desire, disorientation, and the terrible geometry of a city that corrects everything, even the truth. Read it at Edvane Stories Follow Jonathan B.Edvane at edvane.world

23 min
May 22

The Magpies of Hagley Stile

The Magpies of Hagley Stile begins with an old rhyme everyone knows and turns it into a sequence of dark folk warnings. Across seven tales, sorrow, joy, daughters, sons, silver, gold and secrets all gather beneath the watching eyes of the magpies, while Widow Green counts what others refuse to see. Ultimately, a village learns that old wrongs do not vanish, grief has a number, and some birds do not arrive to predict fate. They arrive to witness it. A dark folk horror story rooted in British magpie folklore. Read it at Edvane Stories Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

1h 4m
May 22

The Return of the SS Strumble

A dead ship returns through the storm, and lighthouse keeper Thomas Darling must decide whether the light is warning the sea away, or calling something impossible home. A Victorian ghost story about a ghostly vessel, a half-drowned stowaway, and a ticking machine that listens ahead. If the future can be changed, who pays the price? Read it at Edvane Stories Follow Jonathan B. Edvane at edvane.world

36 min
May 21

Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx Abbey - Part Eight - A Memory of Red Windmills

Ellen returns to Horrocks Yard with only fragments of Winvaulx left behind: a folded drawing, a missing man she can barely name, and the memory of a child the universe almost erased. The Doctor offers her another door, but for now she chooses the rain, the ambulance, and the ordinary world she may never quite trust again. 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

20 min
May 21

Doctor Who and the Bells of Winvaulx - Part Seven - The Price of Correction

The Doctor faces the terrible price of saving Peter Hale and the memory of Annie. Beneath Winvaulx Abbey, the Engine demands a correction, and the only way to close the wound is to turn its judgement back through the chain of command that opened it. 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

31 min

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, every Saturday. From the folklore of rural England to the shadows of Middle-Earth, from post-revolutionary France to a Cistercian monk in 2137. Read the full archive at edvanestories.com.

Creator

Jonathan B. Edvane
Years Active

2K
Episodes

33
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Jonathan B. Edvane
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Edvane Stories