Today's show includes 3 Terrifying Tales and was recorded LIVE at the Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, GA as part of Explore Gwinnette's #Artober Festival! To watch the paintings being made head to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0bitdFlhTEZeGf7Fv8a5PQ/videos.

"Freebies"
Author: Christopher Long
CAST:
Opening Narrator – Graham Rowat
Chet - Nelson W. Pyles
Si - Daniel Foytik
Kylie - Denise Michele Johnson
The Stranger - Cynthia Lowman

"Unholy Wedlock"
Author: K. B. Goddard
CAST:
Opening Narrator – Mary Murphy
Mrs. Winter & Mrs. Lucas - Denise Michele Johnson
Algernon Hunter - Nelson W. Pyles
John Evans & William Thompson - Daniel Foytik
Louisa Hunter & Mrs. Hill - Cynthia Lowman

The Lift: "The Lost and The Damned"
Authors: Daniel Foytik and Nelson W. Pyles
(This story is simulcast as S4E4 of The Lift)
CAST:
Opening Narrator (Alice Bigglesworth-Hayes) -Erika Sanderson
Special Agent Jackie Ellis & Courtney - Denise Michele Johnson
Dexter Walters - Nelson W. Pyles
Victoria Bigglesworth-Hayes – Amber Collins
Jennifer - Cynthia Lowman
Jim - Daniel Foytik

Custom Scoring  Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams

Sound design assistance, recording, and additional SFX: David Benedict and Atlanta Radio Theater Company.

Voice of the Librarian: Nelson W. Pyles | Artwork: Alex J. Murd | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles, Nico Vettese

Get your copy of The Wicked Library Presents: 13 Wicked Tales on Kindle, or in print.  Visit thewickedlibrary.com/read to get your copy today.

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Production Music

"The Wicked Library Theme"
Anthony Rowsick of Novus (novus3.bandcamp.com)

"The Lift Opening Theme"
Henninger-Parke Music

"The Lift Closing Theme"
Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

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Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

This time on Talking Wicked, I chat with Jessica McHugh.

Jessica is our first Resident Author and a very prolific writer in multiple genres including speculative fiction, horror, sci-fi, fantasy and even young adult.

We discuss her long writing career, the changes time brings to a writer's focus, philosophy, and how we handle challenges and life balance as creatives.

Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

Production Music

"The Wicked Library Theme" Coffee Shop Version
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

"Talking Wicked" (Background Music)
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

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Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

Today's story is from an author new to the Wicked Library. In today's Halloween Tale, we explore love and longing, dark desires, and the danger of thinking you truly know another.

Author: Anne Chichester

Told by: Nelson W. Pyles and Cynthia Lowman

Custom Score and vocal edit/mix: Nico Vettese

Voice of the Librarian: Nelson W. Pyles | Artwork: Alex J. Murd | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles, Nico Vettese

Get your copy of The Wicked Library Presents: 13 Wicked Tales on Kindle, or in print.  Visit thewickedlibrary.com/read to get your copy today.

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

Production Music

"The Wicked Library Theme"
Anthony Rowsick of Novus (novus3.bandcamp.com)

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

9th Story Studios:

Visit The Wicked Library:

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewickedlibrary
On Twitter: @wickedlibrary

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

It seems Frank made it back all in one piece, in a manner of speaking, from his leisurely little vacation out west with Coyote. But now it’s time to get back to work and he’s on his own this time. It seems a stranger has turned up dead at the old Jessup place and Frank pulls out the toys of his trade to find out what’s happened. Besides that corpse done up in its fancy duds there’s a brand new well out back and well, let’s just say it’s not refreshing spring water that’s oozing up from its murky depths.

Tune in to see Frank at work and in his element on some fine old time occult sleuthing, with The Librarian peeking over his shoulder now and then to make sure he doesn’t make a right fine mess of things in HIS TOWN!

Credits
Author: Aaron Vlek | Editor: Daniel Foytik | Adapted for Audio by Daniel Foytik

Cast: Frank Enfield – Daniel Foytik | Librarian – Nelson W. Pyles | Alvin – Mike DelGaudio, Noel – Andy James | Erin – Mary Murphy

Music and Score: “The Private Collector Theme” and Episode Score – Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producer: Aaron Vlek

Final audio mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: 9thstory.com

The Private Collector was created by Aaron Vlek and Daniel Foytik, based on the character “The Librarian” created by Nelson W. Pyles.
© 2018, 9th Story Studios, All Rights Reserved

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

We kick of Season 2 of Wicked Fairy Tales with this King Sized tale of a spoiled princess, fairies, kings and a dwarf.  To Celebrate the kick off of Season 2, this first tale is shared with our full audience. To enjoy a new Wicked Fairy Tale each month, support the show at the $5 a month level.


Enjoy this trigger filled French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, later collected by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book.


By Madame d'Aulnoy.


As told by The Librarian.

Narration Edit and Original Score by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

Do you believe in Coyote? I mean really believe? Because if you do, then you know if he wants you he just trots right up and hoists his leg and marks you as his own. He doesn’t ask if you’re interested or not or what gods you pray to or don’t or even the color of your hide. Then again, maybe he just needed to relieve himself and you got in the way!

Frank has grown a bit weary of the adventures The Librarian has sent him on. All for his own good, according to The Librarian who seems to haver Frank’s best interests at heart! But Mr. Enfield remains unconvinced at times and can’t help but doubt The Librarian’s good advice! Who better to help Frank work through his misgivings than Coyote himself?

Frank might not return from this caper, but if he does, he’ll have to buckle down and get to work and stop playacting at the detective business. After all, the stakes are too high to rely on someone who still takes themselves as seriously as Frank does and Coyote is just the one to rearrange that high opinion he has of himself!

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

Today's story is by the amazing Jessica McHugh, and is part of Nightscape Press's 2018 Ashes & Entropy anthology. This tale also made Ellen Datlow's recommended list of Best Horror of 2019.

Miss Jennie Creagh's brothel on Amity Street comes highly recommended by The Gentleman's Directory, and her freak show in the little house across the road ain't bad either. But after sixteen years, Polly's ready to graduate to the big house, where Miss Jennie's girls want for nothing, and she'll never again have to hear the haunting song of the devil-girl living in the cellar.

But the Madam of Amity is abloom with secrets, and Polly soon discovers just how deep those roots go.

Author: Jessica McHugh

Told by: Denise Michelle Johnson

Custom Score and vocal edit/mix:: Nico Vettese

Voice of the Librarian: Nelson W. Pyles | Artwork: Alex J. Murd | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles, Nico Vettese

The Wicked  Library will be appearing Live at the Artober Gwinnett Event, "Spirits and Spirits, Featuring the Wicked Library" at the Amazing Aurora Theatre near Atlanta, GA on the 14th of October. See more info and get your tickets from thewickedlibrary.com/live 

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

Production Music

"The Wicked Library Theme"
Anthony Rowsick of Novus (novus3.bandcamp.com)

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

9th Story Studios:

Visit The Wicked Library:

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewickedlibrary
On Twitter: @wickedlibrary

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

This week on Talking Wicked, I chat with K. B. Goddard.


Miss Goddard is a frequent contributor to The Lift and The Wicked Library, and a favorite author among listeners. We talk about how she came to write ghost stories, the attraction to Victorian fiction, her strong female characters, and of course her recent episodes on The Wicked Library, and The Lift: "Reflections on a Malady" and "The Spirit of the House".

Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

Production Music

"The Wicked Library Theme" Coffee Shop Version
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

"Talking Wicked" (Background Music)
Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

Visit The Wicked Library:

On Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewickedlibrary
On Twitter: @wickedlibrary

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

It's time for another quarterly Extra Wicked Anthology Episode! Today we bring you three great tales from the darker side of things. Supporters of the show at the $5 a month and above level hear these stories first at the rate of one a month. Later (once a quarter), the stories are compiled and shared with the entire audience to help promote the work of the authors, composers and voice actors.

1. “The Split Rail Fence and The Ferocious Old Man”

Author: Aaron Vlek

Your dark dream leaves a lasting impression that causes you unease that slowly builds into  dread. Can you escape the twisted dreamscape within which you find yourself?

Storyteller: David Ault

Score: Nico Vettese | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles

2. "Hyena Woman"

Author: Aaron Vlek

What dwells beyond the light of the fire? And, what hunts the hunters?

Storyteller: Denise Michelle Johnson

Score: Nico Vettese | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles

Storyteller: Graham Rowat | Score: Nico Vettese

3. "A Madman’s Musing on Peace and Uxoricide"

Author: J. J. Morgan

Sequestered in the rural Oregon forest, an aging drama professor toes the line between reason and madness due to his wife's singular vocal tic. As the professor descends deeper away from sanity's light, he develops a plan to murder his wife.

Storyteller: Graham Rowat

Score: Nico Vettese | Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik | Executive Producers: Cynthia Lowman, Nelson W. Pyles

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

This time The Librarian sends Frank on a caper to foreign shores where he gets a taste of magical beasties he’s never even heard of before - Cairo!  In that city teeming with ancient magics Frank comes face to face with a jinn, scads of them, including an old friend of The Librarian’s. Frank finds himself blindfolded and marched at sword point out into the desert where he meets a thoroughly revolting congregation of miscreants and the pernicious tome they worship. He was told by the jinn that its nefarious author was long dead these many centuries, but can one ever be certain of anything where the jinn are concerned. Ever heard of the Necronomicon? 

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com

Audio program ©2025 – 9th Story Studios LLC.

All Rights Reserved.No reproduction or use of this content is permitted without the express written consent of 9th Story Studios LLC. The copyrights for stories are held by the respective authors.

Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLCz

FX: freesound.org

Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik