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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Daniel Foytik
Storyteller: Graham Rowat
Cast (in order of appearance):
Victoria Bigglesworth-Hayes: Amber Collins
Narrator: Graham Rowat
The Trees, Jeremy: Erika Sanderson
The Piper: Pearse O’Byrne
Special Agent Jackie Ellis: Francesca Meaux
Tom: Daniel Foytik
The Waitress: Cynthia Lowman
Host: Daniel Foytik
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.
Story Summary:
Today’s episode, Von Hameln, is a special presentation of the first mini-series we created for Victoria’s Lift and tells the tale of Victoria facing down an ancient foe and trying to overcome his Wicked plan. It originally aired as a three-part adventure, but for your enjoyment and convenience, I have combined the full story into a single episode.

Millenia ago, several Keys were created, one being Victoria’s Music Box. While investigating the mysterious abduction of children, Victoria meets the twisted owner of another Key and realizes she may have met her match.

Subscribe to Victoria’s Lift in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Part Twilight Zone, but wholly unique, the show is an award nominated audio drama with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 on Apple Podcasts. Most of 77 episodes follow visitors as they meet the mysterious Guide and are prompted to make a choice. Others reveal secrets about the building, Victoria, and her music box.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

THEMES:
The Lift Opening Theme Music
Composed and Recorded by Kimberly Henninger and Shawn Parke of Henninger-Parke Music
“Victoria’s Music Box, (Victoria’s Theme)” and The Lift Closing Theme Music
Composed and recorded by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams
www.wetalkofdreams.com

FX:
Sound FX: freesound.org, audioblocks.com

AUDIO RECORDING
Sound Design by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

Executive Producers: Amber Collins, Nico Vettese

The Lift and all characters, places, and situations are property of Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios, LLC and may not be used in any form without permission. All rights reserved.

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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Christopher Long
Storyteller: Denise Michelle Johnson
Host: Mitch Gerads
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.
Story Summary:
Job Report.

A Locus Senior Field Engineer with full diagnostic equipment is required urgently.

Unknown male’s Cicero Mnemograph device is major reporting issues. Technology is locked into a spiralling recall feedback loop. Severe shutdown imminent. All memory stabilisation is failing. Subject’s Palace floorplan design is now locked into full sleep mode to maintain his mental and physical well-being.

Please respond. Status pending.

This job has been awaiting attention for over maximum wait times set by Locus Company parameters.

Please respond.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLC

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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Hailey Piper
Storyteller: Mary Murphy
Host: Sadie Hartmann
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
A scientist in a secret government lab has devoted her career to studying vicious lifeforms that crashed onto Earth years ago. Having recently ended a long-term relationship and now feeling socially isolated from her colleagues, she can’t help projecting her loneliness onto the lab’s specimens. But is the connection really only in her head? Or does she have more in common with these violent creatures than she ever imagined?

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLC

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.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com
Audio program ©2022 – 9th Story Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.

Author: Pippa Bailey
Storyteller: Erika Sanderson
Host: Meg Hafdahl
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
Noelle and her far more scientifically gifted friend Zuri, love to get drunk on Fridays and watch their favourite movies. But when Zuri creates a device that allows them to experience film in a WHOLE new way, Friday Movie Night takes an unexpected turn.
Their favourite film The Madness Beyond will never be the same again and neither will they. There’s horror, death, bad accents, and a giant snake.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Meg Hafdahl
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLC

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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The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to Extra Wicked, our special bonus tales made possible by our Supporters at the Extra Wicked Level.

Stories are combined into quarterly anthology episodes so that the authors work may be shared with the full audience, but our Supporters hear them first.

“Cleared for Reentry”, written by Briana Morgan and told by Graham Rowat, with a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

“Portraiture”, written by Davis Walden and told by David Ault, with a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

“The Lady of The Wood”, written by Cody Mower told by Daniel Foytik, with a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summaries:

“Cleared for Reentry”
Two men are ready to end their mission aboard the space station they’ve lived and worked on together for months. Excited to depart, the tension is palpable, and things might not go as smoothly as planned.

“Portraiture”
A grieving man who has lost his wife and son visits a painter with an uncanny ability that allows him to contact the deceased. Dark truths are revealed.

“The Lady of The Wood”
It’s funny how fast history makes misunderstood women into witches. In the fall of 2008 two best friends go hunting for the ghost of the infamous witch of the Maine woods Emeline Gurney, who supposedly married her son on Satan’s orders. But as they cross into the old pine forests of Fayette, they find they are way in over their heads.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Daniel Foytik
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLC

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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The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: A. P. Sessler
Storyteller: Graham Rowat
Host: Daniel Foytik
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
Mark sees things in wood most people can’t. Every piece of wood contains a creature trapped inside and it’s his ability to free them. An eagle. A rabbit. A wolf. A bear. Ever since he clicked on a series of images taken by Ingenuity he’s been seeing the Face of Mars, but for the first time something is looking back, and it, too, longs for liberation.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
Producer: Meg Williams

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Daniel Foytik
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios LLC

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.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios LLC: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Samantha Mayotte
Storyteller: Addison Peacock
Host: Jessica McEvoy
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
Humans are imperfect beings, often leaving us wishing and wanting more for ourselves. To be taller, skinnier, fitter, faster, to be someone, or something, other than ourselves. If you found a mysterious Organization that could promise just that–perfection, in whatever way you want it–would you take it or let it slip through your fingers? Would you let them alter your anatomy, down to your very genetic code, to become the version of yourself you always dreamed of being?

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Jessica McEvoy
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios

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.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Lawrence C. Connolly
Storyteller: Lawrence C. Connolly
Host: Davis Walden
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
It seemed a harmless obsession, folding paper into hollow spheres, pyramids, and stars. But the administrators feared the power of his art. He had to be stopped. To save the world. To save himself.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Davis Walden
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios

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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The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Michael A. Arnzen
Storyteller: Graham Rowat
Host: Jeanette Andromeda
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.

Story Summary:
Billy deeply loved his Grandma Baccalieri. She kept him warm and happy after his parents died and he had to move in with her. He especially enjoyed her baked desserts from the old country — from her cinnamon cream torte to her vanilla-blueberry pie.

But Billy knew that his Grandma just had to die. Because of her malochia… her horrible, evil eye… her terrifying curse….

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Graham Rowat
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios

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.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
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Welcome to The Wicked Library for our season of Sci-Fi Themed Horror.
Author: Barbara Jean Savoie
Storyteller: Sarah Ruth Thomas
Host: Graham Rowat
Featuring a custom score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams.
Story Summary:
Project Zero Alpha: Access denied. Unable to verify user’s identity and relevant security clearance. Please contact System Administration if issue persists.

Warning: The Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity; monsters win, people die, and hope is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply personal, but we all share it.

If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, or press stop. And always remember, that unlike in the real world, these nightmares, and your participation in them, are under your control.

Producer & Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Lead Editor & Executive Producer: Scarlett R. Algee
Creative Director & Executive Producer: Jeanette Andromeda
Resident Composer & Executive Producer: Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams

Hosted by: Graham Rowat
Artwork: Jeanette Andromeda
Score & Incidental Music: Nico Vettese
Main Theme: “The Library Awakens” Nico Vettese
Final Audio Mix: Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios

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.

The Wicked Library is created by 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com
Audio program ©2021 – 9th Story Studios / Daniel Foytik. All Rights Reserved.

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