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  An Old Fairytale: Puss in Boots 16.08.2026 14mnt

  In the mood for good cat fairytale? Join me this evening for the Charles Perrault classic "Puss in Boots" or "The Master Cat!" Read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's catty fairytale!
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  A Twisted Fairytale: The King of the Golden Mountain 09.08.2026 16mnt

  This twisted grim tale has it all: bad bargains, enchanted castles, cursed princesses, broken vows, and high adventure! Join me for a soft reading of the Brothers Grimms' "The King of the Golden Mountain," read in a soft voice with commentary peppered throughout.
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  A Forgotten Fairytale: The Lute Player 02.08.2026 13mnt

  A Queen disguises herself in order to save the King from a terrible fate in prison. Her ingenious plot and theatrics win the heart of his captor, her husband's freedom, and also somehow make the unfortunate King angry at the Queen... before he learns the truth! Join me, friends and fiends, for tonight's love-lost-and-found fairytale, "The Lute Player!" It's full of disguises, lutes, adventures, songs, and oblivious kings.
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  A Strange Old Fairytale: Prince Fickle and Fair Helena 26.07.2026 13mnt

  Some fairytales are frustrating. This is one such tale. We start off with an evil stepmother who sets impossible tasks for the beautiful Helena. She ends up meeting a swift end, and Helena becomes a renown beauty, who falls for the wrong man. She then upends her life to try to find him, living as a poor herder, only to find he's moved on to a new King's daughter! Helena still won't give up her pursuit and claim to his heart, and so tries to sweep him off his feet yet again... this time at his own wedding feast.
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  A Weird Grimms Fairytale: The Glass Coffin 20.07.2026 18mnt

  Join me for tonight's fairy tale set back Once Upon a Time, where we follow a lucky tailor as he uncovers a evil magician's creepy plot to take over a castle, imprison the princess in a glass coffin (which is really more like a glass chest, but I digress), capture her people as gas and vapor in glass jars, and turn her beloved brother into a Stag!
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  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman 13.07.2026 14mnt

  Welcome to the wonderful land of Oz! Join me for a relaxed reading of Frank L Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Chapter 5: The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. Tonight we meet and rescue the Tin Woodman, and hear his tragic and literally heartbreaking tale, of being cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East herself!
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  A Dark Fairytale: The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground 05.07.2026 11mnt

  Join me for tonight's travails amid underground caves, caverns, and beautiful palace walls! The catch is: we are following the tale of one handsome would-be suitor as he is disguised AS A SHEEP! Well, a lamb specifically. Apparently this fools the king and who knows, it could win the brave bold young man a princess as a wife! This fairytale, "The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale bedtime story!
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  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, and The Road Through the Forest 29.06.2026 21mnt

  Welcome back to the wonderful land of Oz! Join me for a relaxed reading of Frank L Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Chapter 3: How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow and Chapter 4: The Road Through the Forest. This is part one of our book adventure into Oz!
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  A Scandalous Fairytale: The Swineherd 22.06.2026 11mnt

  How many kisses is too many? 96? The Scandal! Join me as I softly read this classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Swineherd." Look. It's weird. Of course.
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  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Cyclone and The Council with the Munchkins 15.06.2026 19mnt

  Welcome to the wonderful land of Oz! Join me for a relaxed reading of Frank L Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" chapters 1 and 2.
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  A Strange Fairytale: The Pea Emperor 08.06.2026 13mnt

  Do you ever hear voices in your sleep? What about the growling, puzzling voices of NINE DRAGONS?! Join me for tonight's fairytale about peas, and princesses, and dragons as well! We follow one man, who cannot stop lying to save his life, and somehow, everything works out in the end for him! This tale, "The Pea Emperor," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's lighthearted fairy tale!"Ascending the Vale, Magic Forest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale is from a compendium of Roumanian tales, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, my animated illustrations and Creative Commons music (above).This episode originally released on YouTube on July 3, 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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  Chilling Read: The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) 02.06.2026 13mnt

  You might think I'm mad, but tell me, would a mad lady read this short Poe story? Yes. Probably yes. ANYWAY, tonight we float into the long-awaited "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Join me into the mind of an eye-obsessed man who just has perfect plan to shut the offensive eye forever. This tale, Edgar Allan Poe's' "The Tell-Tale Heart," is read in a soft voice and set to some eerie and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spooky story!
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  Snowdrop (Snow White) - A Grimms' Fairytale 25.05.2026 20mnt

  "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall - who is the fairest one of all?" "The one with lips red as blood, hair black as ebony, and skin pale white as snow." Tonight let's dive into the Grimm, creepy story of Snow White's past! Evil Queens, dastardly schemes, one heck of a creepy Prince and so much more await us in this evening's Brothers Grimms' Fairytale "Snow White" aka "Snowdrop!"
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  An Old Fairytale of Trickery, Trolls, and Twists: The Witch in the Stone Boat 18.05.2026 13mnt

  Once upon a time there was a Prince who needed to find a Princess to wed. Yes, we know this tale! BUT there is a twist! He does NOT have to rescue her from a curse or a dragon, or any such thing... it's much, much worse!
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  A Very Weird Fairytale: Prince Lindworm 11.05.2026 19mnt

  This tale, "Prince Lindworm," is read in a soft voice with light chatter, and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's short story.
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  A Chilling Tale: The Oval Portrait (Edgar Allan Poe) 04.05.2026 8mnt

  The Woman who sat for this particular portrait sat, so close, yet so far, from her love. Though he looked at her for hours, days, weeks... he never saw her. A true tragedy! Is his masterpiece painting haunted? Does her ghost or spirit linger between worlds? This short ghost story, "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, is read in a soft voice and set to some eerie and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spookier short story!
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  A Grimms' Fairytale: Mother Hulda 27.04.2026 10mnt

  Tonight's story takes place down down down a well and in another world! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "Mother Hulda," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairy tale!
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  An Old Ghost Story: The Turn of the Screw (Part 9 - The End) 20.04.2026 23mnt

  This is it - the finale of "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James final chapters! Settle in. Get comfy and cozy for this spooky calm reading of "The Turn of the Screw!" (Part 9!)
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  Rapunzel: A Dark Fairytale 13.04.2026 11mnt

  Join me as we read the story behind our beloved Disney's Tangled, and venture into some slightly well... grim... details! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "Rapunzel," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale!
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  An Old Ghost Story: The Turn of the Screw (Part 8) 06.04.2026 26mnt

  Welcome back for the ghost story behind "The Haunting of Bly Manor" - "The Turn of the Screw" Part 8 (Chapters 21 and 22!) Finally, were are arriving at the truth behind the unsettling ghostly happenings at Bly Manor! And, it's about time, as this is the second to last part of this spooky series.