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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the story “The Three Golden Apples” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and found in “A Wonder Book” originally published in 1851. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

This is Hawthorne's retelling of Hercules’ search for three golden apples. Along the way he meets the Old Man of the Sea, a six-legged man creature and the mighty giant, Atlas.

This story also features the Hesperides. In Greek mythology, they are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets. The Hesperides love to sing, and they spend their time tending to Queen Hera’s apple orchard.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to the classic children’s story “Heidi”, published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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In the previous episode, Heidi teaches Peter how to read during the snowy winter. Then spring comes, and the Grandfather and Heidi move back up the mountain. Clara and her Grandmama come to visit. Clara is carried in a sedan as she is unable to walk, and Grandmama rides a horse. We will pick up our story with Heidi showing Clara around the grounds of their alpine home.

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***Dear Listeners, we regret this episode was not available at it's regularly scheduled time but are happy to announce that 'V' just welcomed the next little snoozer 'X' into this world on 10/13/21, please accept our apologies for the delay and we hope you enjoy this next episode in our October horror series***

Tonight, as part of our third annual October classic horror sleep story series, airing every Wednesday this October, we’ll read our adaptation of the opening to “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” It is the third full novel featuring Sherlock Holmes and was published in 1901, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyal.

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” is a mystery about an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a diabolical hound of supernatural origin. One of the most famous stories ever written, it is considered by Sherlockian scholars to be the most perfect novel.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a Brazilian fairy tale called “The Seaside Princess” or “Why the Sea Moans” adapted by Snoozecast from “Fairy Tales from Brazil” published in 1917. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Princess and the Goblin”, a children’s fantasy novel by George MacDonald. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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When we left off, Princess Irene follows her Grandmother’s instructions to follow the gossamer thread wherever it goes. It took Irene directly to Curdie’s cave prison cell deep within the mountain.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. 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. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

This novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century, and partly by an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton, inspired by a German opera.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read from “Games for Hallowe’en” written by Mary Blaine and published in 1912. It describes step by step how one would throw a Halloween themed party at this time. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Traditional Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins or turnips into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films.

Join us every Wednesday this month for Snoozecast’s third annual classic horror sleep story series!

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Secret Garden”, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett published in 1911. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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In the last episode, Mary and Dickon get to know each other. She brings him to help her with the secret garden. Dickon not only has a way with wild creatures, but also with plants. He teaches her how to learn if plants are “wick,” which means “alive” in his dialect. They both wonder at how the garden has been shut up for ten years, when it seems as if there has been some minimal maintenance done since then, according to Dickon.

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Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt about bicycle etiquette from “Twentieth Century Culture and Deportment for the Lady and Gentleman at Home and Abroad” by Maud C. Cook published in 1899.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the advent of the automobile. The grading of smooth roads in the late 1800s was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of bicycles along with horse buggies.

By the turn of the century, when this book was written, cycling clubs flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and touring and racing became widely popular.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read cat-themed stories written by English author and poet Edith Nesbit, published in 1899. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Nesbit wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature under the name E. Nesbit, along with being a political activist.

This particular collection of stories follows the lives of various cats and dogs and will appeal to all of our animal-loving listeners.

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