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

81.1 The Blunt Edges

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

Luke Kondor

Scary Stories, Horror Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction, Nosleep, Fiction, Horror Audio Drama

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Blunt Edges


'A scholar of M.R. James unearths an ancient relic, soon finding that there may have been more truth to those old ghost stories than he realised.'


Written by Dan Howarth

Narrated by Josh Curran

Edited by Duncan Muggleton (http://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://temporalrecordings.wordpress.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/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading

And to Ben Errington for building award winning content sandcastles on our big social media beach. Look there he is… playing volleyball. Go on, Ben!


Dan Howarth is a writer from the North of England. His debut collection Dark Missives hit shelves in 2021 and he has several books due for release in 2022. Like all Northerners, Dan enjoys heavy rain, pies and drinking blood from the skulls of his enemies.


Josh Curran is a narrator and writer. He has narrated many episodes of The Other Stories over the show’s lifetime. He is also the creator of the horror Audio-Drama podcast, Miscreation. You can follow him on twitter, @jcurranwriter


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The Other Stories is a production of 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:08.7

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0:12.8

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0:19.7

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0:23.3

1st of December.

0:24.5

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0:28.2

play responsibly not available in Northern Ireland.

0:30.0

Your heart's planning wherever they take us to

0:38.5

small changes

0:39.9

the critically acclaimed new album

0:42.4

from Mercury Prize winner

0:44.1

Michael Kiwanuka is out now

0:46.3

one and on

0:48.3

for the days

0:53.3

for the days of here

0:57.0

One and on

1:00.0

These aren't the stories your mother told you

1:05.0

No

1:06.0

These are the other stories.

1:39.4

Today's episode of The Other Stories is The Blunt Edges, written by Dan Howiff and narrated by Josh Curran. You've heard of me before, haven't you?

1:41.7

Come on, you, tall guy.

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