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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S1 · E39
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
S1 · E38
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
July 3 · 14 min
The Vanishing of Spearhafoc
Spearhafoc was an eleventh-century monk, artist, and goldsmith, appointed Bishop of London under Edward the Confessor. Before the crown intended for Edward could be completed, Spearhafoc vanished with the king’s gold and jewels. History gives no satisfying end to him. No recovery. No trial. No body. Only the disappearance. What follows is not history, but an imagined answer to the silence. An explanation for where Spearhafoc went, what bargain he made, and why no man ever found him. 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
S1 · E36
June 26 · 21 min
Streindarke - Four - I Spill It All
Regan was trained never to spill a thing at the Academy. The night she spills Angel-June Nair’s wine, she spills far more, and the so-called ‘meadow’ behind the Academy is listening for exactly that kind of girl. 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
S1 · E35
June 20 · 1 hr 5 min
The Little Birds of Othery Grange
William Cox tends the gardens at Othery Grange. He also tends the truth. Five Regency courtships, five birds, and one gardener who learns that an invented omen, once spoken, never stays his alone. 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
#34
June 13 · 41 min
Shall I Come Away?
In late-sixteenth-century Exeter, Curate Ralph Travers preaches too often against the Devil and gives an old children’s rhyme a power it should never have had. When Bucky comes to St Olave’s churchyard, three lives are demanded, and Ralph must choose who will be taught the words that open the dark. 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
#33
June 6 · 42 min
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. 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
#32
May 31 · 38 min
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. 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
#31
May 30 · 46 min
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. 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
#30
May 23 · 22 min
Streindarke - Arrange The Symmetry
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. 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
#29
May 22 · 1 hr 3 min
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. 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
#28
May 22 · 35 min
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? 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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