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  Clara Lennox’s Compendium of Spectres – Part 1 28.07.2026 1h 3min

  Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Dr. Clara Lennox has spent eight years cataloguing the spectres of the British Isles. Tonight, she steps off a ferry onto the Isle of Arra with a mummified manuscript, an academic rival she's been avoiding, and a ginger cat who has hated this expedition since Oban. The islanders don't speak of the Grey Walkers. One just did. Includes mentions of: Animals, Bodies of Water, Beverages, History, Light Peril, Travel, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Connect Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@sleepbound Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Alex
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  The Princess and the Pea — A Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling 06.07.2026 3h 41min

  The Princess and the Pea Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound He would lie in the dark and feel the whole of the bed beneath him, every crease and crumb and unevenness of it. Tonight, we settle into a small, rain-soaked kingdom with Rasmus — a prince who feels every crease in the linen, every draught from a half-open door, the whole quiet weight of the sleeping castle while the world sleeps on.A slow, warm bedtime retelling of a beloved fairy tale — wide enough to actually let go in. A king who answers his own gate. A mother who sees everything. A prince waiting, quietly, for someone who feels the world the way he does.This is a slow, fairy-tale reading for sleep — soft spoken. No drama. Just rain on old stone, a candle at the window, one small kingdom holding its breath.Thanks for listening with us tonight. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex 💤 This story is for you if You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence You love slow, expanded fairy tales with room to breathe You want something unhurried enough to actually let go Candlelit kingdoms and quiet rainy nights are your kind of bedtime 🌙 Best experienced Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the rain on old stone do the rest. Includes mentions of: Weather, Animals, Mention of Loss.
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  Hansel and Gretel — by Brothers Grimm 29.06.2026 1h 17min

  Hansel and Gretel A Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Tonight we step back to the edge of the great forest — Hansel with the wooden wren in his pocket, Gretel watching for the white bird among the bean-rows, and their father humming a slow going-down tune into the dark after them. The hunger hasn't come yet. The good years are still going by, quiet as a stream. This is a slow, fairy-tale reading for sleep — soft spoken, no music. No urgency. Just the woodcutter's fire, the sound of cold water over mossy stone, and two children who know the wood the way other children know the rooms of a house. We've taken the old story and breathed more room into it — room for summer afternoons by the spring, for a little birch-bark boat, for the warmth of a remembered voice. It's a bedtime telling: unhurried, close, and made for the hour when the world shrinks to the small gold reach of the firelight. Settle in. There's no rush to what comes next. Thanks for making space for stories like this one. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex 💤 This story is for you if You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence You love fairy tales told slowly, with room to breathe You want something gentle enough to actually let go Cottages at the forest's edge and firelit evenings are your kind of bedtime 🌙 Best experienced Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the going-down tune do the rest. Includes mentions of: Food, Loss, Animals, Fire, Weather, Forest, Children.
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  Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 2 30.04.2026 56min

  Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 2 By Hugo Ashcombe Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound "If we appear to be trying, we have already failed." Welcome back, and thank you for being here tonight. Episode 2 settles into Brook Street on a May morning in 1860, as Lady Pembury wages a six-hour campaign to make the drawing room look as though it has never been arranged. The damp patch disappears behind a Chinese screen. Sir Marcus wanders in — magnificently unhelpful — and is handed a strict list of subjects he must on no account raise. Then Patrick arrives five minutes early with narcissi from a street barrow and no vase to put them in, and the Pembury household is quietly, tenderly laid bare: the hired furniture, the mismatched teacups, the landlady's stolen sherry. Warm, a little heartbreaking, and perfectly suited to the last quiet hour of the day. Episode 3 brings the visit itself — and everything Sir Marcus cannot quite help saying. Settle in. As a Patreon supporter, this episode is yours to download and keep — thank you, always, for making this channel possible. Downton Abbey: The Young Countess is an original fan fiction work, independently produced and not affiliated with or endorsed by Carnival Films, ITV, or the official Downton Abbey franchise. If tonight's story leaves you wanting more of this world, our sister channel Sleepbound Nights carries a sequel series set in the world of Downton — well worth a quiet evening. Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Beverages, Food, Mention of Debt, Romance. (00:07) - At Home
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 7 30.04.2026 37min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 7 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Spears greet them at Obehol's shore — and before Ged and Arren can turn back, the wound is dealt and Sopli, lost to the pull of an immortal dream, slips beneath the waves. Two survivors, adrift on an empty sea, are gathered at last by the quiet people of the great raft-town, who ask nothing and offer shelter. It is there, in the slow time of healing, that Arren speaks aloud the shame he has carried — the doubt, the betrayal, the creeping despair that had nearly unmade him. And Ged, for the first time, calls him Lebannen, and speaks of death and selfhood and the dance above the abyss. A chapter of reckoning and restoration — one of the most quietly luminous nights in all of Earthsea. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea Cycle — a luminous, philosophical fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the ends of the world to find why magic is fading from the land. Its deep stillness, ocean rhythms, and meditations on mortality and meaning make it one of the most naturally suited novels ever written for slow, late-night listening. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  Whose Body? 30.04.2026 6h

  Whose Body? — The Complete Audiobook By Dorothy L. Sayers Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Hello, dear supporters — thank you so much for being here. Tonight's reading is a real treat: the complete, unabridged audiobook of Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers, all thirteen chapters in one long, cosy listen. This is the mystery that introduced the world to the wonderfully witty Lord Peter Wimsey — a nobleman with a monocle, a quick mind, and an irresistible fondness for puzzles. When a naked stranger turns up in a Battersea bathtub, and a prominent financier vanishes from his London townhouse on the very same night, Peter can't help but get involved. What follows is a deliciously clever tale of imposture, deduction, and a villain hiding in plain sight — all unfolding at a pace perfectly suited to a quiet evening under the covers. We hope it carries you gently off to sleep. Settle in, get comfortable, and let tonight's mystery do the rest. Thank you, truly, for making this possible. 🤍 ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepbound 🌙 More audiobooks: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ 💛 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 9 29.04.2026 50min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 9 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Ged and Arren sail into the Dragons' Run — a labyrinth of wind-carved rock and maddened dragons, stripped of their Speech, tearing at one another in silence. On a desolate beach, a great dragon lies dying, the sea dark around it. At the Keep of Kalessin, Orm Embar returns — wordless now, speaking only through intent and gesture — to deliver the one truth that matters: Cob is on Selidor. Then, late in the night, as Arren sleeps, Ged speaks quietly to no one but the dark — of Tenar, of Ogion, of the forests of Gont he may never walk again. A chapter of ruin and silence, and one man's longing for home. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea Cycle — a lyrical, elegiac fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and a young prince voyage toward the edge of the world to confront a darkness draining all magic from the land. Its measured pace, vast oceanic silences, and quietly devastating emotional depth make it one of the most beautifully suited stories for late-night listening imaginable. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 12 29.04.2026 39min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 12 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound On the fog-grey sands of Selidor, Ged lies barely breathing — the door sealed, Cob defeated, but every thread of his wizardry spent and gone. Arren tends him through the quiet hours, finding water, keeping watch, until the oldest of all dragons descends from the sky: Kalessin, iron-coloured and rust-red-winged, speaking Ged's name three times like a benediction. There is something unutterably tender in this ending — the great Archmage lifted on a dragon's back, his yew staff left half-buried in the sand, the long voyage home made on wings older than memory. Tonight's reading carries us back to Roke Knoll, where Ged kneels before Arren in the early light and a long and irreversible farewell begins. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the final book of the original Earthsea trilogy — a lyrical, deeply philosophical fantasy about death, sacrifice, and what it costs to keep the world whole. Its elegiac pacing and spare, luminous prose make it one of the most quietly moving audiobook experiences in the fantasy canon. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 8 29.04.2026 38min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 8 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound The Long Dance of midsummer falls suddenly silent on the great raft-town — the chanters have forgotten the words, the song dissolving into the warm night air. Ged turns to Arren and commands him to sing, and so Arren raises his voice alone, offering up the Creation of Eá, the oldest song in the world, until the dance is restored and carries them gently through to dawn. Then, in the pale first light, a great golden dragon — Orm Embar — descends from the sky and settles upon the rafts. He and Ged speak in the Old Speech of things that are breaking in the west, of dragons being destroyed, and of a darkness that must be followed. Tonight's reading holds within it something rare: a moment of song in the midst of forgetting, and the quiet, solemn weight of a promise made at the edge of the world. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third volume of the Earthsea trilogy — a lyrical, philosophical fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the ends of the world to find the source of a great unravelling. Its quiet pacing, vast open-sea imagery, and deep meditations on life, death, and what it means to be whole make it one of the most naturally restful stories ever written. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 11 29.04.2026 33min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 11 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Ged and Arren walk at last through the Dry Land — the cold, starlit realm of the dead — past silent cities of hollow-eyed shades who drift without purpose or memory. At a dark crossroads they find Thorion, the lost Master Summoner, and Ged holds him gently before sending him on toward the wall. Descending the Dry River to the Mountains of Pain, they come finally to Cob — eyeless, ruined, stripped of everything but the terrible spell he cast and the hollow promise of life without end. In a still and devastating confrontation, Ged names every self-deception aloud and draws the Rune Agnen to seal the breach between the living and the dead. Tonight's reading is the turning point — quiet and devastating, full of darkness, mercy, and the weight of what it costs to mend a broken world. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea cycle — a lyrical, profoundly moving fantasy about a young prince and a great mage sailing to the edge of the world to confront a wound in the fabric of life itself. Its quiet gravity, vast silences, and luminous prose make it one of the most naturally restful listens in all of fantasy literature. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 10 29.04.2026 26min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 10 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound They have reached the edge of the world. Selidor — westernmost of all islands, empty and wind-scoured and achingly beautiful — is where it must end. Cob's sending appears on the dune-crest, imperious, calling itself Lord, and Ged names it for what it is: mere shadow, mere trick. But the shadow has a body waiting beyond the dunes, and Orm Embar, the great golden dragon, knows the way. Tonight's reading carries us to a beach built from the bones of dragons, where power and sacrifice collide in one shattering moment — a chapter of terrible beauty, of a creature choosing its own ending so that something greater might survive. Still your breathing and settle in. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea cycle — a profound, quietly devastating fantasy about mortality, loss of magic, and what it costs to hold the world together. Its measured prose and deep stillness make it one of the most naturally suited novels imaginable for late-night listening, each chapter unfolding like a long, lucid dream. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 6 24.04.2026 40min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 6 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound The voyage west grows slow and strange. Sopli crouches terrified by the mast, and Arren — once steadfast — finds his trust in Ged quietly unravelling, replaced by a creeping conviction that the Archmage is fey and purposeless, steering them toward death out of pride rather than wisdom. In the heavy, veiled stillness of the southern sea, Arren and Sopli share an unlikely and unspoken alliance — both drawn by the same whispered promise of undying life, both shadowed by the same doubt. A chapter of drifting days and interior distances, where the darkness isn't outside the ship — it's already within. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is a profound and quietly haunting fantasy — the third book in the Earthsea series — following the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren as they sail toward a creeping darkness draining all magic from the world. Its measured, luminous prose and deep moral stillness make it one of the most naturally soothing novels ever written — a book that asks the largest questions in the gentlest voice. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 1 22.04.2026 59min

  Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 1 By Hugo Ashcombe Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Welcome, dear listeners — and a warm welcome to those settling in with Sleepbound for the very first time tonight.We begin something new this evening: an original fan fiction audiobook set in the world of Downton Abbey, following seventeen-year-old Violet Pembury through her second London Season. Clever and quietly aware of every penny her family doesn't have, Violet surveys the marriage market at Lady Whitmore's glittering ball — until a quiet viscount with steady brown eyes and working hands catches her attention rather more than she'd planned.This is an original fan fiction work — not affiliated with the official Downton Abbey franchise — written and produced with deep affection for that world.As a Patreon supporter, the complete audiobook is yours to download and keep. Thank you, truly, for being here. Beauty, wit, blood — and no money. The mathematics of the Season were brutal, and Violet had learned them early. Follow the channel and leave a like if you're enjoying the story — it makes a real difference. If you love the world of Downton, our sister channel Sleepbound Nights carries an original sequel series set after the show — well worth a listen. Next episode, Violet finds herself seated beside Lord Downton at supper, and the conversation takes a turn neither of them quite anticipated.Sleep well tonight. Includes mentions of: Beverages, Gaslit settings, Romance, Financial pressures, Period social customs. (01:30) - Quite Sufficient
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 5 17.04.2026 20min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 5 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound The silk island of Lorbanery should hum with looms and colour — but Ged and Arren find it hollowed out, the dyes running false, the crafts forgotten, the people drifting through their days like sleepwalkers stripped of purpose. In a quiet, sorrowful scene, Ged visits the mad dye-mistress Akaren — unable to heal what has been broken in her, but able to offer something gentler: a new name, a soft gesture of rebirth, and one brief moment of stillness in the ruin of her mind. He weeps when he leaves her. And then her son Sopli, wild-eyed and muttering of an immortal place, falls into step behind them on the road — and against all caution, Ged lets him come. Tonight's reading is full of grief held gently, of beauty draining from the world, and of a wizard who knows the limits of his power. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third volume of the Earthsea cycle — a quiet, elegiac fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the edges of the world to find the source of a great unravelling. Its slow, oceanic pacing and deep emotional weight make it one of the most naturally soothing works in the fantasy canon — a book that reads like a long, thoughtful exhale. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 4 10.04.2026 29min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 5 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Sailing slowly south toward Lorbanery, Ged and Arren share the long, quiet evenings at sea — speaking of evil as an unmeasured hunger for life, of dragons as creatures of dream rather than deed, and of the ancient Pelnish Lore that calls the dead back across the wall of stones. Then, in a calm midnight, Ged speaks a name — Cob — and falls silent. Arren's dreams of dark moors and bottomless pits grow harder to shake. Tonight's reading is unhurried and philosophical, full of open water, low stars, and the slow chill of something pulling at the world's roots. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Chapters 00:00 – Welcome and settling in 0:03 – Chapter 5 29:40 – Soft music to drift away ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea Cycle — a quietly profound fantasy about a world losing its magic, and the young prince and aging archmage who sail to the ends of the earth to understand why. Its measured pace, seafaring solitude, and deep meditations on life and death make it an extraordinary choice for late-night listening. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 3 03.04.2026 1h

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 4 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Arren wakes in chains in the darkness of a slave galley — parched, aching, surrounded by the broken and the voiceless. But out on the water, across the fog-thick night, Ged is coming. He walks aboard the ship blazing with cold magelight, stilling every oar where it dips — and one by one, the chains fall away. Tonight's reading carries us from the depths of the hold to the open sea, where a weeping boy and a quiet mage drift together on Lookfar, and something gentle is spoken beneath the stars. A chapter of rescue, of tenderness, and of the sea holding both of them gently in the dark. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Chapters 00:00 – Welcome and settling in 0:03 – Chapter 4 1:00:07 – Soft music to drift away ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is a luminous fantasy of unravelling magic, quiet courage, and a young prince sailing into the unknown at the side of a great wizard — told with the unhurried grace that made Le Guin one of the finest storytellers of the twentieth century. Its deep sense of sea, stillness, and mythic weight makes it a perfect companion for the edge of sleep. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 2 27.03.2026 43min

  The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 2 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Ged and Arren sail into Hort Town — a grey, joyless port where the old order has rotted away and hazia smoke drifts through empty streets. There they find Hare, once a weather-wizard, now ruin-faced and hollow, whispering of a way back from death and a great man waiting in the dark. That night, Ged follows Hare into a dream-place beyond waking, while Arren stands guard over his sleeping body — until shadows creep in from the edges and everything goes terribly wrong. A slow, unnerving chapter full of decay, mystery, and the first real weight of danger pressing down on two very different souls. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea cycle — a quietly devastating fantasy about a world where magic is slowly dying, and two companions sail toward the source of that unravelling. Its measured pace, mythic atmosphere, and deep sense of melancholy make it a natural fit for late-night listening — the kind of story that settles into you like a tide coming in. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.
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  The Farthest Shore – Part 1 20.03.2026 28min

  The Farthest Shore — Part 1 By Ursula K. Le Guin Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound --- Welcome back, dear listeners — and a warm welcome to those joining us for the very first time. 🌙 Tonight, we begin something quietly extraordinary. In the sunlit fountain-court of Roke, where young ash and elm leaves tremble in the March light, we meet two souls whose fates are about to be woven together: Ged, the Archmage — hawk-faced, fierce-eyed, gentle in voice — and Arren, a young prince of ancient bloodline who has sailed far with heavy news. Magic, it seems, is quietly dying across the islands of Earthsea. And something deeper than anyone yet understands is the cause. It's a beginning steeped in stillness and shadow — perfect for tonight's reading. Settle in, let the fountain's soft music carry you, and let this world unfold around you slowly. This is Chapter 1 of 13. Our journey has only just begun. 🌊 Thank you so much for your support — it means everything. Sweet dreams, and we'll see you in Part 2. 🎧 Full audiobook: headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/@sleepbound ❤️ Support us: patreon.com/cw/SleepBound
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  Howl’s Moving Castle: The Winter King 30.10.2025 2h

  Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Picture a castle that never stays still — smoke trailing from its towers as it picks its way through a frozen kingdom at the edge of winter. Howl's Moving Castle: The Winter King is a complete five-chapter audiobook: a wizard, a curse, and a king whose cold is the kind that gets inside. Includes mentions of: Curses, Light Peril, Romance, Weather, Travel, Magic. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian
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  Santa Claus: The Movie – The Novel - Full Audiobook 27.10.2025 8h 8min

  Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Tonight, we follow a kindly woodcutter and his wife on the night a blizzard sweeps them off a forest road and into something far older than winter itself. This is the story of how Santa Claus came to be — told complete and unabridged, from the very first snowfall to the very last gift delivered under the glow of Christmas morning. Includes mentions of: Weather, Animals, Light peril, Food, Travel, Magic. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian