Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.

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

And this is a spooky midweek short story for you.

Tonight, it's a little bit more of a slow, ethereal, spooky story.

I would say slightly less spooky than some of the other ones that we've read in the show recently and in the past.

It's more of like a cerebral thriller kind of story, which is really wonderful for this month.

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And as always, the music you're hearing is by my good friend James Lekowski,

and the cover art for Sleepy is by Gracie Canaan.

So, a nice short story is by an author I don't believe that I've read on the show before, which is always exciting.

Author by the name of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

And this is a pretty classic, amazing, little spooky story.

I really, really enjoyed reading it.

Her writing is extraordinary, and you really get lost in the scenery that she paints.

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