Tonight, we'll drive through a thunderstorm to Elderhurst Manor, an old house on a hill that keeps rooms for travellers, where a kind host sets candles in the windows on Halloween night.
Harriet arrives at Elderhurst Manor in a thunderstorm, and Mrs Fairley has the porch door open before she reaches the bell. There are pumpkin and turnip lanterns in the porch, soul cakes in a tin by the door, and a ginger cat called Marmalade asleep in a bowl of walnuts. Every small sound in the old house turns out to have a kind reason. Nothing much happens. The storm stays on the far side of the valley.
This is a cosy Halloween, not a scary one: candlelight, rain and old customs, told in a calm, slow voice. The story and the sleep affirmations last about 37 minutes, and soft music carries on after that for about three hours in all, so you can drift off without touching your phone. At 11 minutes the screen fades to black, so the room stays dark while you sleep.
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Full 3-hour version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FKm3BgmNroo
