These aren't the stories your mother told you.

No, these are the other stories.

We have a brand new website.

It's full of links and texts and images if you're into that kind of thing.

Or if you just want to check out our other podcast like Horror Hangout and Miscreation or our line of books or comics and you can do all that at hawk and cleaver.com.

There's also a link to our new online shop where you can kick yourself out with the latest the other story t-shirt which

would make you the coolest kid in school. Actually it won't make you the coolest kid in school.

It will make you the kind of cool kid who isn't the coolest kid in school but is secretly

the coolest kid in school. The one who listens to horror podcasts and does whatever the hell

they want and goes to bed after

11 p.m. Yeah, you know what kind of kid I mean, be that kid. And buy a t-shirt. Today's

episode is The Wolf is Loose, written by Paul Stevenson and narrated by Ian McEwen.

Footsteps falling as light as possible on two 100-year-old floorboards,

Ed crept past the door to Mr. Hunt's office.

Careful not to tread, even in the sepia light creeping out from under the door frame,

lest his movement catch the eye and raise the ire of the teacher who'd been his nemesis for five long years. A shiver went down his spine, an involuntary spasm which passed as he moved

into the dark corridor beyond.

This was his last term at the boarding school that had been home since a tender seven years of age.

After this term, he'd go home for a few months and head straight to another one, where he'd stay until his A-levels.

Then, university, job, wife, tax avoidance, death, a route as old as time.

As usual, he couldn't sleep, never could.

This Victorian building was too full of shadows and sounds to let someone like Ed find rest on a hard mattress and a thin pillow.

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