Glen Reads Gothic Horror (to you)
Where Glen Nuzzles reads to you, and you enjoy it
'Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum' by Winthrop Packard from 'The Children's Book of Thanksgiving Stories'

A group of people agree to live together in a house, though none are really 'crazy' or in need of professional help. So I have no idea why it is called an asylum, but there's food at the end... A tale as old as time.

'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper' from the Blue Fairy Book

Falling in love is easy when you only care about looks, lucky for this lady she had a god-mother who doesn't see any problems with that.

'Rumpelstiltzkin & Why the Sea is Salt' from the Blue Fairy Book

The first story, about a weird man who just wants a kid. The second, another story about a dumb person who has unlimited power and doesn't know how to use it.

'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp' from the Blue Fairy Book

A creepy kid stumbles on two items that bring him unlimited wishes. Of course he keeps forgetting that and spends the rest of the story wasting his own time- And also forcing a woman to love him.

'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.