Bedtime Stories

The tales collected here in beautiful hardcover represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire.

As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the real and the unreal, between waking and dreaming. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” to the unspeakable...