To much buzzing in your skull to sleep?! Let's get Grimm! Join me for tonight's classic yet seemingly hopeless task of spinning straw into gold! We follow one woman (whose father boasts about her ability to spin straw into gold to the king, who simply MUST "employ" this woman right away to fill his treasury! Of course... she has no such ability. Enter in the mischievous Rumpelstiltskin, always ready to make a bargain! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "Rumpelstiltskin," 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! "Ascending the Vale" 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 tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). #Animation #Fairytale #Grimm #ASMR #fairytales #asmrreading #asmrsleep This episode originally released on YouTube on 8/20/2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Follow along with me as I read this classic ghost story - I'm sure we'll have more than a few shared scares! Tonight, we begin Henry James' chilling "The Turn of the Screw" with the Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. We get the whole creepy origin and set-up to infamous Bly, and more than a few hints to it's mystery are already peppered in! We get a frightful amount of set up - Douglass has gathered a curious group around the fire in an old house to tell the story of Bly out of a red gilt manuscript. We (through the beautiful handwriting of the governess) meet Mrs. Grouse and little Flora, and get a grand little tour of the big house… which feels like a ship adrift at sea it seems. We also learn that young Miles has been kicked out of school, and that the previous governess has died. Mysteriously. And that’s about as much as Mrs. Grouse will let on! This tale, "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James is read in a soft voice and set to some light and eerie background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's start into an old ghost story! "Blue Feather, Reaching Out, Parting of the Ways" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale, "The Turn of the Screw" is by Henry James, and is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). #Animation #ASMR #BlyManor #TheHauntingofBlyManor #ASMRStorytelling #asmrreading #asmrsleep #GhostStory This episode originally released on YouTube on November 11, 2020 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How about something on the lighter side? Something to counteract the gloom and doom and nightmares? Let's get cozy for tonight's tale "The Three Spinners," which has been collected by a great many people, including the Brothers Grimm, and this version specifically by Katherine Pyle. Somehow, everything works out just perfectly in this fairy tale, and everyone truly does have a Happily Ever After?! How rare! This tale, "The Three Spinners," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's short story! Voice Over Editing ► Zachary K. "Ascending the Vale" 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 tales collected by Katherine Pyle, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). This episode originally released on April 27, 2020 on YouTube. #Animation #Fairytale #Grimm #ASMR See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Grab some hot cocoa and join me for tonight's fairy tale: "The Story of King Frost!" Come for the story, stay for the prophetic talking barking doggie!

Join me for tonight's adventure into a fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm - "Snow White and Rose Red!" We follow two inseparable sisters as the get courted by a bear, save a dwarf three times, and are nearly eaten by their beloved! I do hope you enjoy the this evening's fairytale!

Some would do anything for love… others wouldn’t do that. This twisted old tale pushes the limits of love, and there are quite a lot of poetic tears to shed along the way!  This story, "The Nightingale and the Rose" is from a collection of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, very light commentary, and creative commons music. "Parting of the Ways, Relent" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To much buzzing in your skull to sleep?! Let's get Grimm! Join me for tonight for a familiar tale - "The Ash Maiden" a form of "Cinderella!" This one is, of course, a bit more Grim... which is unsurprising as it's collected by the Brothers Grimm! Two evil stepsisters, an evil stepmother, a wishing tree with a bird that produces the finest of dresses, 3 nights of a royal ball, exclusive dances with the (really dense?) prince, a lost shoe, escape plans, and so much more! We have quite an action-packed adventure in store this evening! This tale, the Brothers Grimms' "The Ash Maiden," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's Cinderella Fairytale! "Midnight Tale, 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 tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, which is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). This episode originally released on YouTube on September 1, 2020 ► https://youtu.be/29RKFIr-Gxo See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

PIGS HAVE INVADED THE KINGDOM. What now?! Join me in tonight's epic adventure among the sun, moon, and even the house of the wind. We journey with one woman on as she muddles through a dragon's deceit, and makes the journey of a lifetime to fix what trust had been broken by... not communicating. We meet celestial beings (and their mothers) and even construct a rather grim ladder in order to make the world right again.

Fairytale Read: The Nix of the Mill Pond (Brothers Grimm) Soft spoken reading with commentary and soft music for sleep and relaxation.

There's nothing like a picturesque ghost story, is there? What's that? Join me for tonight's tale and find out! Let us float over lush landscapes and escape into gnarly orchards... that are haunted? Gasp! This is an easier, but still mysterious, ghost story set in a sleepy New English countryside. This tale, "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard Le Gallienne, is read in a soft voice and backed by eerie and wistful piano background music.

Trick or Treat? Happy Spooky Season, Friends and Fiends! I do hope you consider today's storytelling a treat! I'm so excited to share it with you, as it is kinda creepy in the "Coraline" "Other Mother" kind of way! I do believe Neil Gaiman (author of "Coraline") took some inspiration from this particular creepy tale. Join me as we follow the two "good" sisters, Blue Eyes and The Turkey, as they try their best to impress a strange bedraggled girl with a most curious and unique peardrum! This enigmatic and aloof wanderer will only let the girls see the tiny dancing man and woman inside it if they are very bad. Truly bad. Naughty and terrible beyond belief! This understandable upsets their sweet real mother, and she threatens to leave them to The New Mother, who has glass eyes and a long wooden tail, if they do not change their behavior! Will they turn out good? Will they be bad enough to see the dancers from the pear drum girl? Is this New Mother just as bad as Coraline's Other Mother? We shall see, right now, in this Coraline origin story of sorts! This tale, "The New Mother," by Lucy Clifford, is read in a soft voice and set to some light and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's short story! "Reaching Out, Floating Cities, Relent, Magic Forest, Blue Feather, Reaching Out, Constancy Part 2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This tale is by Lucy Clifford. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). This episode originally released on YouTube on 10/13/2020 https://youtu.be/RHtVZ-5437c See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trick or Treat! Welcome, friends and fiends, to the final part of our Spooky Season reading of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!" (aka, the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane story!) Join me as I read Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Part 4! Tonight everything comes to a head. We finally meet the infamous Headless Horsemen of legend, and it's up to you to decide if what happens is true or not. Depends on who you ask, really! The country wives would tell you fairy folk and demons had worked magic on the ill-fated night that Ichabod Crane and Gunpowder tried to outrace the Headless Hessian, but good old Brom Bones would probably just chuckle! Hmm. Wonder why that is Brom?! Got Katrina Van Tassel all to yourself now? Also, just where and why is there a smashed pumpkin near the church graveyard? All this and more are (finally!) revealed in tonights story! This tale, Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and eerie background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spooky story, and are ready for a whole host of other ghost stories as well!

The opal is October's birthstone, but do you know how it was made? Well, get comfy and cozy for tonight's romantic fairy tale bedtime story. You may not get the answers you seek, but I promise you're in for an emotional rollercoaster of a fairytale.

Trick or Treat! Welcome, my friends and fiends, FEASTY HOLLOW! Err... to our Spooky Season read of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!" (aka, the Headless Horseman lore) Join me as I read Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Part 3! Tonight we finally get to the spooky ghost stories that haunt the little village of Sleepy Hollow. Old wives tales, headless horsemen, and so many other spooky specters populate tonights telling! Also, of course, and again, FOOD. Heaps and bounties and abundances of autumnal foodie descriptions. So, again, have a snack close at hand! OH! We also learn that Ichabod Crane is an exceptional dancer? Either that or his tall lanky form looks quite unlike any other dancer! This tale, Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and eerie background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spooky story, and are ready for a whole host of other ghost stories as well!

Feeling cozy? In the mood for a Halloween Frolic? Love "Over the Garden Wall?" This story is for you! Join me for "A Tale for Halloween" read in a soft spoken voice. We'll meet the leader of the festivities, the Pumpkin King, all of the other dancing vegetables, some wonderful witches and their cat familiars, and Babette and Antone, who are about to have a Halloween party like never before! So, get comfy and cozy, summon your own familiars, grab a hot cider or tea, light some candles, wrap yourself up in a warm quilt, and follow me into a most festive Halloween story!

Trick or Treat! Welcome, friends and fiends, to MORE Spooky Season! Curious what happens next in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? (You know, the Headless Horseman story?) Me too! Join me as I read Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Part 2! Tonight we learn all about Ichabod Crane's beloved, Katrina Van Tassel, and her love (and, therefore Icabod's rival) Brom Bones! He seems to me to be essentially Gaston, but that's just my take! OH YES. This evening's story has FOOD. Heaps and bounties and abundances of autumnal foodie descriptions. Welcome to Feast-y Hollow I suppose? So, you know, have a snack close at hand? This tale, Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and eerie background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spooky story, and are ready for a whole host of other ghost stories as well!

In the mood for something a bit on the spooky side? Join me for tonight's ghost story, "From The Tomb," if you dare! Set in an idyllic bathhouse resort, two strangers with a mysterious past pique their fellow bathers' attention - in a creepy, "touched-by-death" sort-of-way. The strangers then recount their horrendous ordeal... and then go about their merry way?! This tale, Guy de Maupassant's "From The Tomb," is read in a soft voice and to some light and eerie background music. I hope you enjoy this evening's chilling short story!

Welcome, friends and fiends, to SPOOKY SEASON! I figured we'd start this one off right with a classic and haunting story! Join me as I read Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Part 1! We get to see just what makes this neck of the woods so enchanting... and so haunting! And, along the way, we'll get so many festive descriptions of our favorite season: AUTUMN! We'll also learn all about Ichabod Crane: A schoolteacher from Connecticut who, after my own heart, just loves all the sweets the season has to offer! We'll also meet Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, the Headless Horseman, and food. A LOT of food. This tale, Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is read in a soft voice and set to some light and eerie background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spooky story, and are ready for a whole host of other ghost stories as well!

Have a bunch of thoughts keep you up or worried? Well, at least it's not the voice of death whispering to your soul! (At least, I hope it's not?) We've got a two-for tonight - part fairytale, part ghost story! How fun! This tale, "The Voice of Death," 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 fairy tale!

Get comfy and cozy and snuggle up for this regal autumn story! Prince Autumn is read in a soft-spoken voice and set to wistful music. So, grab a hot cider or cocoa, pick up some knitting and follow me into tonight's ASMR storytime!