Senchas Claideb's Short Stories

Ethan Sabatella
Dec 24, 2023
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Here is where you can find every short story published on Senchas Claideb thus far! New short stories are published on the last Friday of every month and will be added to this list, so be sure to subscribe using the button below to not miss a release!

Also, if you refer enough friends to Senchas Claideb, you’ll receive access to a free, original short story available only to the top referrers! Use the “refer a friend” button below to get started!

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September 2024

Obsidian Blades in the Moonlight

Ethan Sabatella
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Sep 27
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 …

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August 2024

Date Night in the Witch House

Ethan Sabatella
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Aug 30
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

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July 2024

The Search for the d20 in the Storm Drain

Ethan Sabatella
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Jul 26
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…

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June 2024

Red Sun Over Loch Rindach

Ethan Sabatella
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Jun 28
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…

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May 2024

Fire Out of the Ages - I

Ethan Sabatella
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May 29
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…

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Fire Out of the Ages - II

Ethan Sabatella
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May 31
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.

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March 2024

Cromm's Gold

Ethan Sabatella
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Mar 29
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.

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February 2024

Bad Night in Salisbury

Ethan Sabatella
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Feb 23
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.

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January 2024

In The Dragon's Nemeton

Ethan Sabatella
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Jan 26
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…

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December 2023

The Christmas Knight

Ethan Sabatella
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December 29, 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

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Christmas 2013

Ethan Sabatella
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December 22, 2023
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,…

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November 2023

Greater Than Gild

Ethan Sabatella
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November 24, 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…

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October 2023

The Spare Key

Ethan Sabatella
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October 27, 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 …

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September 2023

The Phantom Hill

Ethan Sabatella
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September 29, 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…

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August 2023

The Goblin Dreams

Ethan Sabatella
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August 25, 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

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