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Snoozecast Presents: Spooky Stories
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Welcome to Snoozecast's ongoing collection of classic horror excerpts and ghost stories. It is read in a manner to help you fall asleep by the end of the episode. Be sure to check out our primary podcast feed for Snoozecast, where we release three episodes per week in a variety of genres. Learn more about Snoozecast+, our premium listening subscription that provides ad-free listening to our expanded catalog, including unlocking all of our completed standalone sleep story series. Go to snoozecast.com/plus
Episodes
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Petit Trianon pt. 2
Tonight, we’ll continue with The Petit Trianon, adapted from An Adventure by Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, first published in 1911. This episode is part of our Spooky Sleep Story series, where we share classic tales of the strange and mysterious. In Part One, the two English...
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Petit Trianon pt. 1
Tonight, we’ll read the first half of The Petit Trianon, adapted from An Adventure by Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, first published in 1911. This episode is part of Snoozecast’s 7th annual Spooky Sleep Story series, where we share true and imagined encounters with the strange and...
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Gogol's Souls
Tonight, for this month’s Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, and in the vein of our Spooky Sleep Stories series, we’ll read the opening to “Dead Souls”. It was written by Nikolai Gogol and first published in 1842. It is known as a ghost story with no ghosts—unless you count the living. The novel...
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The Castle of Otranto
Tonight, for the next in our October spooky sleep story series, we’ll read an excerpt from “The Castle of Otranto”, a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. Set in a haunted castle, the novel produced a new style that has endured ever...
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The Willows
Tonight, as part of our annual Spooky Sleep Stories series, we’ll read the opening to the novella “The Willows”. It was written by Algernon Blackwood, and first published in 1907. Two friends drift down the Danube by canoe, threading a maze of shifting channels, sandbanks, and low islands crowded...
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Phantasmagoria
Tonight, for our next Spooky Sleep Story, we’ll read Phantasmagoria, a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll first published in 1869. A polite Ghost drops in after midnight and proceeds to instruct his puzzled host in the finer points of spectral etiquette. Each October we bring back Snoozecast’s…
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The Haunted Orchard
Tonight, as part of Snoozecast's seventh annual spooky sleep story series, we’ll read “The Haunted Orchard” written by British author Richard Le Gallienne and published in 1912. Each October, our Spooky Stories Series features classic tales that are more atmosphere than fright, all candlelight…
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The Diamond Lens pt. 1
Tonight, as we are beginning the month that ends with Halloween, we’ll read the first half of “The Diamond Lens”, a short story by Fitz James O’Brien first published in 1858. Every October, Snoozecast features our Spooky Stories Series—tales with a spectral or uncanny quality, meant to set a...
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Carmilla
Tonight, as part of our 6th annual spooky sleep story series, we’ll rebroadcast the opening to “Carmilla”, an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu which first aired in October of 2022. Tune in every Wednesday this month for sleep stories of the darker variety- like classic horror...
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The Phantom Coach
Tonight, to continue our 6th annual “Spooky Sleep Story Series”, we shall read the opening to The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards. Tune in every Wednesday this month for sleep stories of the darker variety- like classic horror literature and ghost stories. If you prefer to avoid the mildly...
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The War of the Worlds
Tonight, to continue our 6th annual “Spooky Sleep Story Series”, we shall read the opening to “The War of the Worlds”, written by H.G. Wells and first published in 1898. Tune in every Wednesday this month for sleep stories of the darker variety- like classic horror literature and ghost stories.…
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How He Left The Hotel
Tonight, to start off our 6th annual “Spooky Sleep Story Series”, we shall read the opening to “How He Left The Hotel”, written by Louisa Baldwin and first published in 1895. Tune in every Wednesday this month for sleep stories of the darker variety- like classic horror literature and ghost...
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The Old Hawthorne Place
Tonight, for the final in our 5th annual Spooky Sleep Story Series, we’ll read a Snoozecast original story about a fictional New England town and the brother and sister who go out on a trick or treating adventure within it. While this is the end of this years spooky sleep stories, be sure to…
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A Haunted Island
Tonight, as part of our Spooky Sleep Story Series, we’ll read our own lightly adapted version of Algernon Blackwood’s “A Haunted Island” from “The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories” published in 1906. In this story, our narrator is left alone for a few weeks at an island lodge in the middle of…
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The Raven
Tonight, for the next in our 5th annual “Spooky Sleep Story Series”, we shall read the narrative poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845. The poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a...
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The Metamorphosis
Tonight, to start off our 5th annual “Spooky Sleep Story Series”, we shall read the opening to “The Metamorphosis”, written by Franz Kafka and first published in 1915. Tune in every Wednesday this month for sleep stories of the darker variety- like classic horror literature and ghost stories…
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The Haunted Orchard
Tonight, for our final episode of this year’s spooky sleep story series, we’ll read “The Haunted Orchard” written by British author Richard Le Gallienne and published in 1912. Born Richard Thomas Gallienne, the author changed his last name to “Le Gallienne” after college when he began working in…
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The Castle of Otranto
Tonight, for our 600th episode, and the next in our October spooky sleep story series, we’ll read an excerpt from “The Castle of Otranto”, a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. Set in a haunted castle, the novel produced a new…
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Mysterious Psychic Forces
Tonight, as part of this month’s spooky sleep story series, we’ll read from “Mysterious Psychic Forces” written by Camille Flammarion and published in 1907. Nicolas Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer, mystic and prolific author, including popular science works about astronomy, several...
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Carmilla
Tonight, as part of our fourth annual spooky sleep story series, we’ll read the opening to “Carmilla”, an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu. Our series will run every Monday of October. This is one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26…
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The Willows
Tonight, to kick off our fourth annual Spooky Sleep Stories series, we’ll read the opening to the novella “The Willows” written by Algernon Blackwood and first published in 1907. This year’s series of classic horror stories will air every Monday this October. In this story, two friends are midway...
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Ligeia | Edgar Allan Poe
Tonight, for the final episode of our third annual Classic Horror Sleep Story Series this October, we will read the Edgar Allan Poe tale “Ligeia”. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill and dies- but not for long....
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Frankenstein | An Excerpt
Tonight, as part of our third annual October classic horror sleep story series, we’ll read an excerpt from “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. “Frankenstein” tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, and this excerpt is from his point of...
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The Phantom of the Opera
Tonight, for the start of our third annual Classic Horror sleep story series, we’ll read the opening to “The Phantom of the Opera” written by Gaston Leroux, published in 1909. Be sure to catch our other snoozy, and a bit creepy, sleep stories every Wednesday this October. This novel is partly...
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Night Spell
Tonight, for the last episode of our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read a Snoozecast original called “Night Spell.” It’s Halloween Night and all the nocturnal animals of the forest will be attending a very important function. Where are they off to this evening? Besides a…
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Dracula
Tonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read the opening to "Dracula", an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. "Dracula" introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the...
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The Werewolf Prince
Tonight, for our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read a Swedish fairytale called The Werewolf. Until the 20th century, wolf attacks on humans were an occasional, but still widespread feature of life in Europe. Some scholars have suggested that it was inevitable that wolves…
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The Ghost Ship
Tonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we'll read "The Ghost Ship", written by Richard Middleton published posthumously in 1912. Middleton was a tragic figure - a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet,...
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a gothic story by American author Washington Irving. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, it is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring...
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The Dunwich Horror
Tonight, as the final episode of our October classic horror series, we’ll be reading the opening to "The Dunwich Horror", written in 1928 by H.P. Lovecraft. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in central Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. — read...
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The Turn of the Screw
Tonight, as part of our October classic horror series, we'll read the opening to The "Turn of the Screw", an 1898 Gothic ghost story by Henry James. The novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. Some critics…
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tonight, as part of our October classic horror series, we’ll read the opening to "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates...
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Frankenstein
Tonight, as part of our October classic horror series (every Wednesday this month), we'll read the opening to "Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus", written by Mary Shelley and published anonymously in 1818 when she was just 20 years old. It tells the story of a scientist named Victor...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Tonight, as part of our October classic horror series (every Wednesday this month), we’ll read the opening to "The Fall of the House of Usher", written by Edgar Allen Poe and published in 1839. This short story is a work of Gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and...
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Welcome to Snoozecast's ongoing collection of classic horror excerpts and ghost stories. It is read in a manner to help you fall asleep by the end of the episode.
Be sure to check out our primary podcast feed for Snoozecast, where we release three episodes per week in a variety of genres.
Learn more about Snoozecast+, our premium listening subscription that provides ad-free listening to our expanded catalog, including unlocking all of our completed standalone sleep story series. Go to snoozecast.com/plus
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Welcome to Snoozecast's ongoing collection of classic horror excerpts and ghost stories. It is read in a manner to help you fall asleep by the end of the episode. Be sure to check out our primary podcast feed for Snoozecast, where we release three episodes per week in a variety of genres. Learn...
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