The Toy Factory: Episode 5 - Invitation
The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
Luke Kondor
4.4 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
You're invited to explore the wonders of Master Chancy's Toy Emporium.
The Toy Factory is a new Halloween tale from The Other Stories with daily episodes from 27th - 31st October.
Investigate the lost tapes for yourself on all podcast platforms this spooky season.
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The Toy Factory was produced by the story studio Hawk & Cleaver and its community. To support the studio and to join our discord community, head over to www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver.
The Toy Factory was written by Luke Kondor (www.lukekondor.com)
And Daniel Willcocks (www.danielwillcocks.com)
Georgia Cook plays the role of May (www.georgiacookwriter.com)
Justin Fife plays the role of Master Chancy (www.twitter.com/justinbfife)
Josh Curran and Manny Realguy play the roles of the Thacker brothers. Follow Josh at www.twitter.com/joshcurran
The audio was stitched, massaged, digitally distorted, and manipulated by the audio wizard Karl Hughes (www.twitter.com/karlhughes)
The listener's background music was created by Birds of Paradise (www.facebook.com/Birdsofparadisemtl
Some of the factory music was created by klankbeeld (www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/)
Other various effects such as tape noise, distortion, and many more were provided by the great community over at ww.freesound.org.
We’d also like to thank the Hawk & Cleaver community members who forced… I mean… kindly asked their children to record voices for the toys.
Graphics were handled by Ben Errington, the true master of social media playtime (www.twitter.com/ben_errington)
The cover art was created by Matt Sef Barnes created the artwork (www.mattsefbarnes.com)
For more Halloween horrors, check out more of our work at www.theotherstories.net.
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| 1:11.6 | WERE You opened your eyes and the morning sunlight burned like bleach. |
| 1:47.0 | It seemed only moments ago you were at your desk listening to the last of the audio files. |
| 1:54.0 | But now you weren't in your computer chair. You weren't even in your house, but instead sat on the doorstep outside by the bins. |
| 2:03.6 | Exposed arms pale and cold, no shoes, wet socks, head leaning against the letterbox, |
| 2:10.6 | something like dried wax or pus on your shirt. |
| 2:14.6 | Everything ached and as you climbed up to a standing position you struggled not to erupt into |
| 2:19.5 | a coughing fit. |
| 2:21.1 | You wondered what was happening to your body, why it felt like you'd been smushed through |
| 2:25.2 | a meat grinder and pieced back together like a wet jigsaw puzzle. |
| 2:29.9 | Was it a warning? |
| 2:31.1 | Or maybe a process? |
| 2:33.5 | Something was happening either to you or the world around you. |
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