Hi everyone. My name's Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.

I've got another nice spooky bedtime story for you tonight, the Sarktober, one week before Halloween.

But before we get to this snoozy reading, I just want to thank our brand new patrons on patreon.com.

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Thank you all so so much for donating and being a part of making this show. It really means a lot.

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And as always, the music you're hearing is by my good friend James Lev Kowski and the cover

out for sleepy is by Gracie Cana. I have another spooky story for you, this Halloween

from one of my personal favorite writers to read on the show, Edith Nazba.

This is from a short story collection that she wrote called Tales of Men in Ghosts.

And tonight I'm going to be reading the first couple chapters of her story, The Bolted Door.

Um, I do want to give a quick disclaimer that again this month, they are slightly spooky or

stories. They're a little bit more engaging, which means maybe less easy to fall asleep to. And

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