Off-Book - Halloween Special Feature 2026

It’s Halloween.

Which means, for one night only, we’re legally required to make The Other Stories approximately thirty-seven percent more sinister.

So lock your doors. Turn down the lights. Ignore whatever just moved behind you.

And whatever you do…

Don’t go...

OFF-BOOK

Desperate for a gig, a struggling actor goes method, pushing the boundaries of his sanity in pursuit of perfection.

Written by Dan Howarth (https://www.danhowarthwriter.com)

Narrated by Josh Curran

And Georgia Cook (https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/)

Produced by Karl Hughes (https://bsky.app/profile/karlhughes.bsky.social)

With music by Cyberleaf Studio (https://andreabaroni.com/)

And Chris L Sound (https://chrislsound.com/)

And Phat Phrog studio (https://www.phatphrogstudio.com/)

And Dark Fantasy Studio (http://darkfantasystudio.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/)

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.

Dan Howarth is a British Fantasy Award nominated author of gritty Northern Weird horror fiction with a strong focus on societal issues and tinged with folklore and the supernatural.

He is the author of Last Night of Freedom (a folk horror thriller), Lionhearts (a horrific state of the nation dissection), Territory (a novella of remote, snowbound horror) and the short story collection, Dark Missives.

His short fiction has been published in numerous places including Weird Horror Magazine, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, The Other Stories podcast and most recently, Motives Unknown: New Northern Crime from Dead Ink Books.

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.

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/

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