fifteen festive frighteners

One Eye Grey in conjunction with the fabulous Liars' League presents terrifying tales for Christmas. Settle back and enjoy the free festive frighteners for fifteen days before Christmas. 

This works like an advent calendar, every day from the 10th to the 24th of December a new window will open with a fresh and unsettling story behind it. To open the door click the rodent on the correct day.

 

The Liars' League is a wonderful place where everybody wins because writers write, actors act and the audience listens. Live fiction at its best performed in Fitzrovia every month. 

Day One: December 10 9 minutes

Getting a taste for it was originally published in One Eye Grey III (Out of the orbital). This fusion of Sweeney Todd, Dennis Nilson  might make you consider the vegetarian option this Christmas time, though at least at your work's do the punch is unlikely to be mixed by a mass murderer.  Read by Tricia Stewart 

Day Two: December 11 13 minutes

Reuben -Ghost of a performance by Vanessa Woolf-Hoyle was published as part of the Last of the Chelsea smilers. This is what could be described as a west end performance of an off west end story read live in Fitzrovia by Stephen Butterton. Not the panto performance for the kids at all. 

Day Three: December 12 15 minutes 

The dead woods song by S M Swaby. Originally published in One Eye Grey IV (See the Elephant fly). A man's sleep is interrupted by horrible cries from the nearby woods but why aren't the neighbours noticing this? Be careful when you're out collecting holly. Read by Kevin Potton 

Day Four: December 13 9 minutes thirty seconds

Shanaya meets a Northsider. Beware of the northsider so sly, standing tall at just under a metre what'll a Peckham girl do with this vicious child eater? Not everything that wears bells and enters children's bedrooms at night is there to bring gifts. Written by Alice Bower and read by Allie Croker 

Day Five: December 14 17 minutes

Toll Raven of Anerley Hill by Andrew Flynn was originally published in Bank Holiday Weekend. What powerful bird demons once stalked the badlands of South London in the past and what awful prices did they demand for the right to pass. Read by Sean Patterson.

Day Six: December 15  10 minutes

Lab Rat written by Diane Payne and read by Will Goodhand at the Liars' League art and science event. This disturbing story reinforces the vital message that a pet is for life (and perhaps the after one) not just for Christmas. 

Day Seven: December 16 12 minutes

Shanghai Boy by Andrew Lloyd-Jones read by Paul Hessey. People have been around horses for a long time but do we really know where they are from and what lives inside? Definitely one to listen to if you are after a pony this Christmas.

Day Eight: December 17 12 minutes

Consommé by Brindley Hallam Dennis read by Jennifer Aries at the Liars' League Blood and Thunder event. Story of a rather interesting Winter's feast and a particularly unusual soup course, though perhaps not the ideal thing for the Christmas menu.

Day Nine: December 18 15 minutes

Votive Railings originally published in the Last of the Chelsea Smilers. Lest we forget the outcast this Christmas, the forgotten we pass by on the other side. The lives that disappear in the spray, grit and detritus of the urban transport system. This terrible tale of a roadside vanishing is read by Joanne Tasker. 

Day Ten: December 19 13 minutes

A goose at Christmas is a festive reworking of June 2007's title story and suggests that Southwark's rebirth as London's entertainment district may have things into life around the old prostitute cemetery at Redcross Way. Something of a Winter warmer read by Steve Wedd.  

Day Eleven: December 20  10 minutes

Blue posts, a dead gay language, friends disappearing and something very strange about chairs. What on earth could it all point to? Perhaps best meet at another pub this Christmas. Erasebook was published in the last of the Chelsea smilers and is read by Katy Darby.

Day Twelve: December 21  12 minutes

Commuters' tails written by Liam Hogan and read by Silas Hawkins at the Liars' League Lost & Found event on Tuesday 9 December 2008. This is most definitely not the carriage you want to get onto even if you are guaranteed a seat and a copy of the Metro.  

Day Thirteen: December 22  

White Service was published in the Last of the Chelsea smilers and reveals the bizarre, if sometimes futile length, people will go to to avoid reaping what they have sown. Read by Gerod Harris  

Day Fourteen: December 23 10 minutes

Final legend of Tameisis read by Sarah Feathers chronicles quite literally the office party from hell where the PA's rear is poised over the photocopier for all eternity whilst in the background Wham, Slade, Shakey and Cliff play on.

Day Fifteen: December 24  15 minutes

Bad Boy by Emily Cleaver read by Patsy Prince. He's making a list and checking it twice. He's going to find out who's naughty and nice. Don't be a bad boy this Christmas. You really won't like what's coming down the chimney.

F and M Publications and the Liars' League would like to wish everybody a very happy Christmas and both are open for submissions in the new year.