"You know where you are with evil in those stories. It’s simple. A witchy cackle, a strange
appearance, a stooping walk. It makes it really easy. The baddies act like baddies, and they
look like baddies.
Except.. Nana has a stooping walk and laughs like a toilet unblocking... Whose warnings do we carry from the old stories, and whose do we let slip through our bones and away?"

The seventh and final of our Solstice Stories is Tin Whiskers by L H Trevail, read by Amy Tweed, edited by Michael Hall and the music is by Kai Swarvett. Solstice Stories is presented by Rebecca Mordan and is a Scary Little Girls production, supported by FEAST and People’s Postcode Lottery.

Episode artwork by Kayleigh Hilsdon.

Series artwork by Rima Staines.

The Imagined story of Anne Webber, the last woman on the island of Samson, part of the Isles of Scilly archipelago.

"In my opinion, Samson got all the beauty. She’s got a tucked in waist right in the middle, as if she breathed in to wear her corset of granite.

We don’t hold with corsets ‘ere of course, but we’ve had a few washed up on East Porth and we weren’t sure what they were at first? Some sort of device for torture Liza Hicks reckoned, but then her mother had seen one in the shop over Hugh Town along with some lacy drawers, so we reckoned some man had designed them for women so they couldn’t draw breath fully, and therefore, couldn’t wander off."

The sixth of our Solstice Stories is The Cats' Mother by Anna Maria Murphy, read by Rosie Hughes, edited by Michael Hall and the music is by Kai Swarvett. Solstice Stories is presented by Rebecca Mordan and is a Scary Little Girls production, supported by FEAST and People’s Postcode Lottery.

Episode artwork by Jacky Fleming.

Series artwork by Rima Staines.

"I will come for you, every one of you. I will tip toe into your homes in the dead of night and suck your life force from your mouths ...

I will make sick your wives and steal your children, and with my master I will rip out your hearts and feast upon them, and as I am saved from these flames you will all burn in hell for eternity.

Are you frightened? Well you should be."

The fifth of our Solstice Stories is A Lot of Stuff Happens to Kitty Smith by Penny Rackett, read by Illona Linthwaite, edited by Michael Hall and the music is by Kai Swarvett. Solstice Stories is presented by Rebecca Mordan and is a Scary Little Girls production, supported by FEAST and People’s Postcode Lottery.

Episode and series artwork by Rima Staines.