TWL 1107: "Making the Merrow", by Samantha Mayotte
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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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
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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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Addison Peacock, and you're listening to the Wicked Library is a horror fiction podcast created for a mature audience. |
| 0:31.1 | Our stories contain graphic descriptions of pain, murder, violence, blood, betrayal, and inhumanity. Monsters win, people die, and hope |
| 0:43.0 | is often shattered. There is also beauty, heart, catharsis, and raw emotion. Fear may be deeply |
| 0:51.5 | personal, but we all share it. |
| 0:54.7 | If at any time a story takes you to a place too dark, turn on the lights, press pause, |
| 1:00.6 | or press stop. |
| 1:02.7 | And always remember that unlike in the real world, these nightmares and your participation |
| 1:09.6 | in them are under your control. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello and welcome to Season 11, Episode 11107 of The Wicked Library. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm your host and temporary librarian, Jessica McAvoy. |
| 1:36.6 | I'm best known for my voice work on the No Sleep podcast, but if you've hung around long enough, |
| 1:42.3 | you've likely heard me haunting several other horror |
| 1:45.1 | audio dramas as well, including, of course, the Wicked Library. |
| 1:51.2 | Now, horror and science fiction have gone hand in hand since Mary Shelley introduced us to |
| 1:57.5 | Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. |
| 2:00.3 | The common interpretation of the novel is seen as an admonishment against science reaching too |
| 2:05.7 | far, acting outside of what is natural. |
| 2:09.6 | Personally, I felt more significance in the story as a reminder that science must be responsible |
| 2:15.6 | for its own creations, rather than a rebuke against the advancement |
| 2:19.5 | of knowledge altogether. |
| 2:21.7 | In today's episode, Wicked Library alum author Samantha Mayotte presents us with a tale that |
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