Filthy Henry The Fairy Detective

Project Overview

Filthy Henry The Fairy Detective is a book series written by Irish Author, Derek Power. The podcast of the book begain in 2020 and now has over 90 episodes and thousands of subscribers.

I was engaged to provide theme music for each season as well as narration services.

Filthy Henry Theme – Short Version

The category for the series is comedy fiction. The music was to be horror fantasy oriented but with nods to Harry Potter and other magical young adult material. The insistent piano hits evoke the urgency Filthy Henry has when keeping the lines between fairy and real world properly drawn.

Filthy Theme – Full Version

As bonus content, the original theme also has an extended version with several movements.

The intention was to use parts of this longer piece to have some variety across outros and trailers.

The Impossible Victim

Season 2 of the podcast introduced a new theme to match the initially more sombre tone of the second book. As the piece progresses it pivots into the same hook from the original theme. As with the original, this theme was written to be broken up into 30 second chunks which could be used for both the intros and outros of the episodes.

Filthy Henry: Case Files

Case Files are shorter self contained stories. Another re-imagining of the original theme with plenty of forward momentum was used for these stories.