“Get Gunther,” the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate’s asteroid—their only weapons a single gun and a news-reel camera.

Here is "The Monster Maker", by Ray Bradbury. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. This is an experimental podcast to see if folks like it. I started with a librivox recording, then spruced it up a bit to include music and sound effect.

credits:

"The Monster Maker" by Ray Bradbury. Originally published in Planet Stories, Spring 1944.

Narrated by Ben Tucker for Librivox.orx.

Sound effects all from pixabay.com.

Music is from Pixabay.com as well. Here are the tracks used:

• "Dark Synthwave 80s" by ArctSound
• "Drowning Monas" by Tim Kulig
• "Neon City" by Begench Begenjov
• "Malevolent Life" by Tim Kulig
• "80s Mystical Stranger Things" by Dmitrii Kolesnikov
• "Algorithm Runner" by Gioele Fazzeri
• "A Hero of the 80s" by Grand Project
• "Julia" by Grand Project

Mixed and mastered by me, Bryce Beattie.