Senchas Claideb's Stories
Here is where you can find every short story and serial published on Senchas Claideb thus far! New serial chapters are released on Saturdays every fortnight (bi-weekly), so be sure to subscribe using the button below to not miss a release!
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December 2024
Holiday in the Hebrides - I
As a Christmas special this December, I’m releasing this month’s short story in two parts! Today, on the first night of winter, comes the first installment of Art Cavanagh’s latest adventure taking him to the far-flung reaches of Scotland’s western islands in search of a treasure from an ancient Gaelic clan. He is not a…
Holiday in the Hebrides - II
To cap off December’s short story (and 2024 as a whole), here is the second and final part of Art Cavanagh’s latest adventure, “Holiday in the Hebrides”! Having been given the name of a skipper who is willing to take them to the fabled island of Tethra’s Jaw, Art and Mòrag brave the tumultuous grey seas of the west …
November 2024
The Road to Rannoch
For this month's short story, I decided to share part of a Mass Effect fan fiction I wrote soon after finishing the series. It's follows the events of my first playthrough, detailing how Tiberius Shepard and his companions deal with the end of the Reaper War and the fallout of his decision to destroy them.
October 2024
Did anyone else read "Yellowed Leaves" in grade school? - Part 1
For October’s short story, I decided to stick with the general “internet horror” theme I’ve been going with this month and try my hand at a creepypasta or r/NoSleep style of story. “Did anyone else read Yellowed Leaves in grade school?” is formatted like an archived internet forum thread where the discussion revolves a…
Did anyone else read "Yellowed Leaves" in grade school? - Part 2
Since I really enjoy Halloween, I want to give my subscribers a special treat to end this month. Last year, I wrote a poem that went over pretty well but this year I decided to do a two-parter story in the vein of internet horror, which I’ve talked a bit about over this month. You can read the first part at the link…
September 2024
Obsidian Blades in the Moonlight
To end “GreedFall Month” on Senchas Claideb, I thought it would be fun to dig into one of the fan-fiction stories I had written when I was originally working on the paper that sparked my interest in adding to the academic discourse on the game. Most of the stories I wrote were jottings of how I interpreted my character’s actions and thoughts throughout …
August 2024
Date Night in the Witch House
Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House” is one of my favorite stand alone stories that draws in quintessential New England folklore and combines it with Cthulhu Mythos elements. In my opinion, the best adaptation of the story has been the Howard Phillips Lovecraft Historical Society’s
July 2024
The Search for the d20 in the Storm Drain
This month’s short story winds it back to a simpler time (a simpler time for my generation at least) and takes some cues from other summer vacation adventures like The Sandlot or Stand By Me. It’s a nostalgia trip for the early 2010s when D&D still felt confined to home basements with a few scarce clubs in libraries a…
June 2024
Red Sun Over Loch Rindach
I love obscure speculative fictions genres, especially niches that were more popular prior to the advent of mass media. This month has been mostly dedicated to the often forgotten genre of Sword & Planet, so I figured it would be fitting to have this month’s story also be an S&P tale. “Red Sun Over Loch Rindach” takes p…
May 2024
Fire Out of the Ages - I
Fire in the Gaelic world view is a cleansing force, used to drive away evil spirits, disease, and ill-luck. A common practice for protecting or cleansing a household is to walk around its perimeter carrying a torch and moving deiseil (sunwise or clockwise). This movement, going with the sun, invites good blessings that w…
Fire Out of the Ages - II
The mysterious lore of “Fire Out of the Ages” continues in this second installment. Although passionate about preserving information on the local Gaelic traditions, Duncan finds there is a grim side to his research, which may lead him to horrific truths.
March 2024
Cromm's Gold
To cap off March’s Irish theme, here is a second Art Cavanagh story two months in a row! I originally had a different title and MacGuffin in mind for this story, but changed it after writing my post on Cromm Crúaich, feeling my readers were now equipped to recognize some of the lore in this story.
February 2024
Bad Night in Salisbury
I have only been to Salisbury once, but it was by far one of my favorite places I have visited in Great Britain. Writing this story has made me want to explore it in person even more—if at least to clear up whatever inaccuracies this yarn might have.
January 2024
In The Dragon's Nemeton
Before getting into this month's story, I wanted to say how grateful I am for how great of a start my subscribers have helped make this new year. In just the past few weeks, Senchas Claideb has received a huge surge in viewers and new subscribers, which may be in no small part thanks to the dedicated fans of Sword & Sorcery fantasy that have tuned in to…
December 2023
The Christmas Knight
“Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of my favorite Arthurian tales, although I never read it around the holidays. Though in general, the idea of a “medieval Christmas” sounds incredibly cozy to me despite the reality of that era being much harsher. I also quite enjoy the Victorian aesthetics of
Christmas 2013
As I mentioned in my first post of the month, I feel like there is a great opportunity for utilizing liminal spaces and horror elements in holiday ghost stories for this era. So, I decided to A) put my money where my mouth is and try my hand at writing such a story, 2) give my subscribers a little holiday gift on the weekend leading up to the big night,…
November 2023
Greater Than Gild
This month’s short story is a tale based on Anglo-Saxon mythology, specifically the well-known “Wild Hunt.” Many popular fantasy stories conflate it with faeries of Irish mythology, when in fact it is more closely related to the Germanic god Odin or Woden. Stories of the Hunt found their way into the British Isles thanks to the Angles and Saxons and rem…
October 2023
The Spare Key
Senchas Claideb is happy to present this month’s short story, “The Spare Key”, for all horror-lovers, Halloween-enjoyers, and fans of New England, autumnal mood pieces. “The Spare Key” follows an English teacher at a New England preparatory school who receives a strange key in addition to his regular set. The key does not seem to open any doors or other …
September 2023
The Phantom Hill
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been reading the Del Rey edition of Robert E. Howard’s El Borak stories and they inspired me to think up some classic historical pulp adventure tales. Of course, I felt compelled to tie it into Celticism and, sticking with Howardian tradition, came up with an Irish-American adventurer whose curiosity leads him to the Emer…
August 2023
The Goblin Dreams
For my first short story on Senchas Claideb, here is a tale that came out of a prompt for a Scottish Gaelic writing class I took a few years back. The prompt was the word aisling (pronounced “ash-ling”) which means “dream”, so I wrote about a melancholic