Faded Words
By AIC Stories Productions
Faded WordsJul 13, 2021
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it ... it is much too good for anyone else!
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Story Club 001 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Welcome to the AIC Stories very first edition of the special monthly(ish) bonus episode for the AIC Stories "Story Club" roundtable chat in which I sit down with listeners and members of the AIC Stories Official Discord as we discuss the story that we chose to read/watch for that month.
This month we're chatting about the fantastic book from author V.E. Schwab, 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue'.
Join us for a great conversation about a wonderful story that brought us a lot of great ideas to think about and discuss further.
Subscribe and Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “AIC Stories”! Of course you can also find links to the Official Discord right at aicstories.com!
Music written and produced by David Szweduik
The Doorway by Evelyn E Smith
A man may wish he'd married his first love and not really mean it. But an insincere wish may turn ugly in dimensions unknown.
Written by: Evelyn E. Smith
Originally published in Fantastic Universe September 1955
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Six Frightened Men by Randall Garrett
It was an unexplored planet and anything
could happen—yet none of us expected to face a
creature impossible to fight, let alone kill....
Written by: Randall Garrett
Originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Compatible by Richard R Smith
There are many ways—murder included—in which husbands can settle certain problems. This was even more drastic!
Written by: Richard R Smith
Originally published inFantastic Universe in August 1958
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft Part Two
With Wilber, and the beast, on the loose, we find out if the residents of Dunwich can manage to stop this world ending threat! Will they put an end to the horror or will this Eldritch Horror consume the world?
Written by: H.P. Lovecraft
Originally published inWeird Tales Magazine in April 1929
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft - Part One
In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as "Yog-Sothoth"). Strange events surround his birth and precocious development.
Written by: H.P. Lovecraft
Originally published inWeird Tales Magazine in April 1929
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Texas Week by Albert Hernhuter
Meeting the little man who isn't there is rated an horrendous experience. But discovery that the man is there may be even worse.
Written by: Albert Hernhuter
Originally published in Fantastic Universe January 1954
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
No Strings Attached by Lester del Ray
Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with—
Written by: Lester del Ray
Originally published in IF Worlds of Science Fiction in June 1954
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
The Night Wire - by H. F. Arnold
Working the night wire on the news desk can be an excruciatingly boring task, but as Jim found out, sometimes the truly bizarre can come across the news and shake you to your core.
This story was a listener submission by Twitter user @Weird_Friction
Written by: H. F. Arnold
Originally published in Weird Tales in 1926
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Candidate For A Coffin - Part 2 - by T. W. Ford
Join me for a tale of harrowing suspense and noir-ish murder mystery in this episode!
This is the conclusion, part two of a two part story.
Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper, the gun-cobra from Chi, spilled out of Doom's deck....
Written by: T. W. Ford
Originally published in Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Candidate For A Coffin - Part 1 - by T. W. Ford
Join me for a tale of harrowing suspense and noir-ish murder mystery in this episode!
This is part one of a two part story.
Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper, the gun-cobra from Chi, spilled out of Doom's deck....
Written by: T. W. Ford
Originally published in Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
As Long As You Wish by John O’Keefe
Join me for a tale of time travel and alternate dimensions in this episode!
If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system . . . how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?
Written by: John O’Keefe
Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, June, 1955
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
The Armless Man by Author Unknown
Join me on a tale of mystical fantasy and heartbreaking love in this episode!
This is a story of friendship, love, mystical fantasy, and in the end… heartbreaking tragedy. A little of everything and I know you’ll love it!
Written by: Author Unknown
Originally published in the book "Uncanny Tales" by Various Authors in 1916
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Day of the Druid by Knut Enferd
Join me on a tale of fantasy in this episode!
Be'al, all-powerful god, drank the blood of his victims. Would Gaar be able to save Marna, whom Be'al kept in eternal sleep, and avenge her people?
Originally published in Amazing Stories November 1948
Written by Ray Bradbury
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Morgue Ship by Ray Bradbury
This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and
he would be among the living again.
Originally published in Summer of 1944 in Planet Stories
Written by Ray Bradbury
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC Stories” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Christmas, the most joyful time of year. But what happens when a group of Demons decides that Santa is bad for THEIR business because he keeping everyone a little TOO happy?
Originally published in December of 1904
Written by L. Frank Baum
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “Everything AIC” in your preferred podcast app.
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music written and produced by David Szweduik
Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper
What if alternate timelines were possible. A conversation with a TV producer about a new program they are planning gives us insight into what might have been, or maybe, what already IS somewhere else.
Originally published in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction in July 1959
Written by H. Beam Piper
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
Project Hush by William Tenn
In the race to put a secret space station on the moon, the US Army has a startling realization when they arrive. Secrets can be far more dangerous than they realized.
Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in February 1954
Written by William Tenn
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
Toy Shop by Harry Harrison
Sometimes the simplest toys hold real power. And sometimes a little cunning is required to make the reach their FULL potential.
Originally published in Analog in April 1962
Written by Harry Harrison
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce Jr
A father and son face a terrible family legacy. A legacy of blood, of murder, of vampires. Is their house, their lineage, actually cursed or will they finally break free of a murderous history?
Originally published in Weird Tales in October 1936
Written by Earl Peirce Jr
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
Don’t Think About It by William W. Stuart
A little boy and his family discover the horror of what lives behind the hole in the deep, dark corner of his closet. Sometimes… Parents just won’t believe their children… Sometimes they regret that.
Originally published in Worlds of If – Science Fiction in November 1960.
Written by William W Stuart
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
The Autumn After Next by Margaret St. Clair
A magician serving as a “Wizardry Missionary” tries to find a way to teach an easygoing race of people how to use magic. But the cost to teach them his lesson may prove to heavy to bear!
Originally published in Worlds of If – Science Fiction in January 1960.
Written by Margaret St. Clair
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
A civilian in the Civil War makes a fateful decision and daring get away from his own hanging.
Originally published in The San Francisco Examiner in 1890.
Written by Ambrose Bierce
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
The Lady or The Tiger by Frank R Stockton
A brilliant story about a princess faced with a most dreadful decision. Will she feed her lover to a Tiger or watch him wed to a woman she hates?
This story was recommended by last week’s guest, the fantastic Annie Sullivan. Author of ‘A Curse of Gold’.
Originally published in a magazine called The Century in 1882.
Written by Frank R Stockton
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
Beyond the Door by Philip K Dick
This week I’m visiting the amazing storyteller Philip K Dick once again. This time it’s a tale of a bit of a love triangle and a cuckoo clock that may be more than it seems.
Originally published in a magazine called Fantastic Universe in January 1954.
Written by Philip K Dick
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson
This week I’m reading a short story about a boy on an adventure of epic, and mythic, proportions as he explores the edge of the world and the wonders it contains.
Originally published in a magazine called Fantastic Stories of Imagination in May 1962.
Written by Karen Anderson
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com and https://freesound.org
The Red Room by H.G. Wells
Charged with spending a night in The Red Room to prove it’s not haunted, a man is forced to confront his darkest horrors. Will he survive?
Written in 1894 and originally published in March of 1896 in The Idler Magazine.
Best known for his books The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells had a prolific career as an author. So much so that Jules Verne dubbed him “the father of science fiction”.
While he usually explored the world of sci-fi stories, this story finds him exploring a good old fashioned haunted house, ghost story. Horror in short fiction form.
LINKS
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
The Other Gods by H.P. Lovecraft
What happens when a mortal challenges the mighty gods? This week I’m reading a great short story from icon of horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
Originally published in November of 1933 in the Fantasy Fan Magazine.
Best known as the father of Lovecraftian Horror and the Cthulhu Mythology, H.P. Lovecraft, in his short life, became a master of weird and horrifying fiction.
In this story we see a man, Barzai the Wise, attempt to meet the gods. We find out what happens when man’s pride swells with self importance and we find out if the gods find him worthy.
LINKS
The Other Gods by H.P. Lovecraft
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
A tale of kindness and ultimate generosity, this week is a story fromOscar Wilde called The Happy Prince.
Originally published in May of 1888.
Oscar Wilde is an Irish author, poet, and playwright most notable for his plays and his famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In this story we see a delightful, yet sad, look at the true power of friendship and kindness. Something the world could use a good reminder of now and then.
LINKS
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
The Eyes Have It by Philip K Dick
A little whimsy, now and then, makes for good balance. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in just this way…. This week is a story from another legendary writer, Philip K Dick, called They Eyes Have It.
Originally published in 1953 in “Science Fiction Stories”.
Philip K Dick is an American writer known for his fiction exploring everything from altered realities to questions around the human condition. Possibly best known for his story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which went on to become the sci-fi film classic Blade Runner.
In this story we get a glimpse at a masterful shift in perception with a humorous twist as he examines some common phrases in the English language.
LINKS
They Eyes Have It by Philip K Dick
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Got a problem? Just pick up the phone. It solved them all—and all the same way! This week is a story from the legendary Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author of Slaughterhouse – Five.
Originally published in January 1962 in “Worlds of If”.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the biggest names in classic sci-fi storytelling, especially stories with a darkly satirical flavor, and this story is one that really makes you think.
When a man is faced with an impossible decision, choosing which of his children gets to live, is it really worth immortality?
LINKS
Read by David Szweduik
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator and host.
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Faded Words, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Anoitecer (Nightfall) by Guifrog
Additional Music by Marco Trovatello
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
Dream Town by Henry Slesar
A classic tale of a strange little town that may be hiding a much darker secret! Welcome to Dream Town by Henry Slesar
Originally published in January 1957 in “Fantastic Universe”.
Henry Slesar is an author known for his use of irony and surprise “twist” endings in his work and is most well known for his wide variety of work with the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
Slesar’s story, ‘M is for the Many’ was the first story Hitchcock purchased the rights to adapt, which kicked off a long and successful stretch of collaborations between the two.
LINKS
Dream Town by Henry Slesar on the Project Gutenberg website.
How To Catch The Show & Contact Me
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:Music: Funk In The Trunk by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com
Additional Music by We Is Shore Dedicated
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
Gods of the North by Robert E Howard
We’re venturing into the world of fantasy via a short story called Gods of the North by Robert E Howard. It’s a tale of a fierce warrior's encounter with the icy daughter of a God after standing as the lone, victorious warrior on a bloody battlefield.
Originally published in March 1934 in "The Fantasy Fan", then reprinted in Fantastic Universe December 1956.
Robert E Howard is best known as being the author and creator of the fantastica tales of Conan the Barbarian, and this story is a glimpse into other times in this world.
LINKS
Gods of the North by Robert E Howard on the Project Gutenberg website.
How To Catch The Show & Contact Me
Listen anytime on the Official Website of Adventures in Creativity, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words | Adventures in Creativity”!
Have a follow up thought on anything I discussed or have a recommendation of a creative you’d love me to chat with? Shoot me an email and I’ll read it on the show! You can also find me on social media everywhere @fadedwordspod, but I’m most active on Twitter so feel free to reach out and chat!
Theme Music:
Music: Funk In The Trunk by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Additional Music by We Is Shore Dedicated
Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com
Faded Words Trailer
Celebrating the art and craft of storytelling with audio book style readings of classic fiction stories.
The goal of Faded Words is simple. To celebrate the art and craft of story and storytelling by sharing stories and getting to know a little more about the how and why behind these stories from the authors themselves.
The weekly episodes are a mix of solo audio book style episodes in which Usually Dave shares all sorts of fantastic short stories on the verge of being lost to time, and interviews with fantastic authors releasing new books today.
Faded Words is an Adventures in Creativity Production featuring David Szweduik as your narrator, host, and producer.Listen anytime on the AIC STORIES website, or in the podcast player of your choice by searching for “Faded Words”! Of course you can also find Faded Words, along with ALL Adventures in Creativity Productions by searching “AIC STORIES”.