Throughout October I'll be reading old ghost and horror stories. This one was written by Arnold M. Anderson and was published in 1904 by J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company.

Please enjoy this Korean tale titled "The Enchanted Wine Jug."

Listen to "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde.

This episode is a reading of “The Farmer and the Badger” translated from Japanese by Yei Theodora Ozaki. This story was published in her book titled, “Japanese Fairy Tales” published in Tokio in 1908. Ozaki published three other books where she liberally translated the old stories and fairy tales of Japan. Even though she steeped herself in Japanese traditional stories, she bucked the cultural norms by refusing an arranged marriage, leaving her father’s house, and becoming a teacher and secretary to support herself. She later married a Japanese politician named Yukio Ozaki. 

This episode features a Japanese story preserved by Lafcadio Hearn in his book titled, Shadowings which was published in 1900. Hearn also went by the pen name Koizumi Yakumo. His works focus on Japanese culture. His most famous work is, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things which was later made into the movie Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi.

Please enjoy Nathaniel Hawthorne's interpretation of the Greek myth of the three golden apples read by Nathan Hansen. Published in 1851, this classic tale has had generations on the edge of their seats! Nathaniel Hawthorne is also the author of The Scarlet Letter, Twice Told Tales, and The House of Seven Gables.

This reading of "the Magic Bon Bons" by L. Frank Baum comes from his book titled American Fairy Tales published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company.

This is an original adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, "Three Little Men in the Wood." This story is adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, published by the Penn Publishing Company in 1922.
The original publication can be viewed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52521/52521-h/52521-h.htm