Episode 656 · 20 min · The Other Stories | Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories

REBROADCAST - The Incomparable Freddy Red

Published Aug 26, 2025by Hawk & Cleaver | A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.Horror · Thriller · Sci-fi

One candle for every story

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  23. 23 - being told, candle burning
  24. 24 - still to tell, candle lit

Story 656 of 684. 655 told, 28 still waiting.

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89.1 The Incomparable Freddy Red When seven-year-old Kim Barnes wills her imaginary friend, Freddy Red, into existence, who spills over with games and laughter and titters and blood. Written by Luke Kondor ( ) Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ( ) Edited by Karl Hughes ( ) With music by MusicLFiles ( ) And Duncan Muggleton ( ) And Thom Robson ( ) The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House ( ) And sound effects provided by Freesound.org 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, our own imaginer, dreaming up content friends to play with at the social media playground. Luke Kondor started writing on his computer in his early teens and never looked back… and now he has very sore eyes. He runs and produces a short story podcast called The Other Stories , which has amassed over 10-million downloads. In 2015, he won the best Low-Budget Film Award at the London Short Film Festival for a film he made in 7 days with no camera and no money. Currently he works from a dining room table in the middle of Sherwood Forest and lives with his fiancée, Cat, their pet cat, Oscar, and their larger, angrier cat, Alaska, who is actually a dog. www.lukekondor.com For more of Matthew Lloyd Davies’ work, head over to You can help support the show over at Patreon.com/HawkandCleaver You can join our Bookclub, Movieclub, and writing exercises over at Facebook.com/groups/hawkandcleaver T-shirts, mugs, posters, and comic books are available at www.gumroad.com/hawkandcleaver Get help with your short stories and your podcasts by heading to TheOtherStories.Net/services 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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