Glen Reads Books (to you)
Where Glen Nuzzles reads to you, and you enjoy it
'The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was' from the Blue Fairy Book

Another episode where I read fairy tales like a crabby uncle. This one, about a boy who wants to feel fear so he lights fires and kills his way toward understanding… Because he’s a psychopath. That’s his real problem. It’s the story of a boy with a seriou

‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’ from the Blue Fairy Book

One story ends pretty abruptly, but that’s how it goes when the protagonist is murdered. The other involves marrying your grandma. I don’t even care what the rest of the story was about beyond that.

‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ from the Blue Fairy Book

What do you do if you’re poor as hell, but have a beautiful daughter? Sell her off to a white bear for money.

‘The Yellow Dwarf’ from the Blue Fairy Book

You know what takes a fairy tale from average to ‘top-shelf’? A yellow dwarf sitting in a tree eating oranges. Everyone dies in the end.

‘The Bronze Ring’ and ‘Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess’ from the Blue Fairy Book

‘The Bronze Ring’ is the story of hubris. ‘Prince Hyacinth…’ is about how you should hope you’re never born ugly.

‘The Judge's House’ by Bram Stoker

When a student’s idea of a ‘fun vacation’ is to just to be alone in an empty house so he can study- it’s about a fun as you’d expect.

‘The Signal-Man’ by Charles Dickens

The story of two men who’s love is cut short by a spectral warning.

‘The Body-Snatcher’ by Robert Louis Stevenson

Terror comes in all guises. Even in the form of a clerical error.