Bedtime stories cover

Bedtime stories

by Diana Secker Tesdell

Contains: The thing in the forest / A.S. Byatt -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman -- The poacher / Ursula K. LeGuin -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The industrious tailor / William Maxwell -- The dragon / Vladimir Nabokov -- Night / Guy de Maupassant -- Where the tides ebb and flow / Lord Dunsany -- The night face up / Julio Cortázar -- [An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W) / Ambrose Bierce -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A visit / Steven Millhauser -- The tiger's bride / Angela Carter -- The dancing dwarf / Haruki Murakami.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?