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

S1.8 Fair

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

Show Notes

Fair Lily, frustrated by her tyrannical manager at her cinema job, shows him a cursed film which causes him to be ripped apart by a demon. Written by Caolán Mac An Aircinn (https://www.instagram.com/writercaolan/) Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://x.com/georgiacooked) Produced by Georgia Triantafyllopoulou (https://www.instagram.com/audiogeekgr ) With music by Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/) And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/) The episode illustration was provided by Matt Seff Barnes (https://www.mattseffbarnes.com/) Joshua Boucher is our story programmer. Jasmine Arch manages our community. Mary Pastrano helps orchestrate the chaos. And the show would collapse into static and screams without the ongoing work of Karl Hughes, Georgia Triantafyllopoulou, and James Barnett — AKA Jimmy Horrors. **Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She has written for publications such as Baffling, Vastarien Lit, and Flame Tree press, as well as the Doctor Who range with Big Finish. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/** Join TOS+ to access over 90 exclusive episodes, get regular stories in higher quality audio, a week early, and ad-free, at https://theotherstories.net/plus/ Support the show, get audiobooks, and more at https://www.patreon.com/hawkandcleaver Join our communities for book clubs, movie clubs, writing exercises, and more at https://theotherstories.net/community/ Leave a voicemail or get in touch at https://theotherstories.net/submissions Check out our writing courses at https://theotherstories.net/courses/ Grab some merch at https://gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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