Gay Size Fetish Stories: Inside the Fantasy Festival (Giants, Shrinking and a Ringmaster)

You won't find it on a map. It finds you.

It turns up at the edge of town on the hottest night of the year: a glow over the trees, an organ playing a waltz nobody admits to hearing, and the smell of spun sugar, tobacco and warm leather. There's always a ticket, and it's always made out to you. Inside the gates, every stall sells a transformation, every barker knows your secret, and nobody leaves the same size they arrived.

Welcome to the Fantasy Festival, three stories, three recordings and one long, sweaty night, where gay giants rule the stage and tiny men learn exactly where they belong.

The first night: a pair of shoes and a dare

Shrink Files 21: The Fantasy Festival (£1.20) is where it all began. Jake, Leo and Marco wander into the fair for a laugh. Then an old vendor with a gleaming eye offers Jake a pair of shoes:

"These shoes decide if you tower above or are dwarfed by others… Simply wear them and think about how you want to feel: powerful and tall, or small and submissive. But be careful, desires are powerful things."

Rings that swap muscle and height with a handshake, a mystery box, a vial of Muscle Essence, and a stage where gym-built Leo becomes a gentle giant in front of a roaring crowd, while Jake learns just how small he can go. The 2026 edition is laid out like a theatre playbill, with 16 new sketchbook illustrations.

Leo, grown into a smiling muscular giant, crouches and holds out his palm with a tiny man standing on it, while Marco watches with his arms folded

Prefer to hear it? The radio play (£1.99) has ten voices, original music and a giant's voice that drops to a rumble as Leo grows. Headphones on.

The second night: lost in the labyrinth

In Shrink Files 22: Fantasy Festival Revisited (£1.20), Kyle is the football captain who laughs along when the locker room mocks "giant kink", and who has a stash of exactly those fantasies on his phone. A crumpled flyer for a Gay Size Fetish Fair Extravaganza takes him a safe distance from home and into a funhouse mirror, a ghost train, and a labyrinth with something waiting at its heart:

"Lost little man?" The minotaur's voice was a gruff rumble. As it closed in, its colossal hand caressed my face, thumb grazing my lips. I felt myself shrinking further, dwarfed in every sense by this creature.

He comes out of it doll-sized, lost in a forest of giants' legs, with a stick of size-swapping gum in his future and a masked stranger who has been watching him all along.

The towering Minotaur bends over Kyle in a torchlit stone labyrinth, one huge hand cupping his face

The full-cast audiobook (£2.99) runs 35 minutes, with a fairground bell between attractions.

The last summer: the Ringmaster's boot

Shrink Files 46: Fantasy Festival 3 (The Last Summer) (£1.99) is the darkest, most beautiful night of the three. Jesse is 22, freckled and lost, sitting on his porch roof the summer after college, asking his notebook what do I want? Then a ticket appears in his pocket, beating like a heart.

At the centre of the arena, on an onyx stage under a golden spotlight, sits the Ringmaster:

Over seven feet tall, with a shaved head and a thick silver beard. Tall black leather boots polished to a mirror sheen, a blood-red leather harness straining across slabs of chest muscle, and black leather gloves. His eyes burned gold.

"Let me show you who you really are," he says. One gloved fingertip to Jesse's chest, and the stage starts to grow around him, until the Ringmaster's boot towers higher than any building Jesse has ever been in.

"Worship," the giant commanded. The boot twitched.

The bald, silver-bearded Ringmaster sits on an iron throne on a festival stage, cigar smoking, his huge polished boot planted beside a tiny man

And that's only Reel 4 of 13. There's a cotton-candy booth that swells Jesse into a muscle giant in front of a crowd. There's a velvet tent that breathes, where something enormous is hungry for him.

A vast golden eye and the fur of a giant beast fill the frame, a tiny man standing in the glow before it

There's a Hall of Reflections, the Leather Ring and its Leather Man, a golden tent where Caleb, the boy he never thought would look at him, grows to seven feet and then swaps places with him. And at the very end, a dream of a god of living gold.

Caleb, wrapped in golden silk in the golden tent, smiles down at a tiny Jesse sitting on his open palm

The 2026 edition is a 49-page film in thirteen reels, with 18 new photographic stills. The brand-new audiobook (£3.49) has a narrator and twelve voices, 75 minutes long, with a chapter for every reel.

Three ways in

The Festival is only here for a while, so here's how to take it home:

Fantasy Festival Stories Bundle (£3.29): all three illustrated stories, Issues 21, 22 and 46 (£4.39 separately).
Fantasy Festival Audio Bundle (£6.29): the radio play and both full-cast audiobooks, more than two hours of listening (£8.47 separately).
The complete Fantasy Festival Bundle (£9.59): all six (£12.86 separately), plus 500 bonus points, half price on the Fantasy Festival 3D game, and…

The three Fantasy Festival bundles side by side: Stories £3.29, Audio £6.29 and the Complete Bundle £9.59

The cards you can only get here

The complete bundle comes with an exclusive Fantasy Festival trading card pack: eight cards that can't be won, scratched or bought with points. The Ringmaster, the Beast and the Minotaur in gold, and Jesse Maddox, Caleb, Smoke, the Ticket-Master and Leo as rare cards. They appear in your binder the moment you open your library. Already own the Fantasy Festival Bundle? They're already yours.