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Tonight, for our final episode of this year\u2019s spooky sleep story series, we\u2019ll read \u201cThe Haunted Orchard\u201d written by British author Richard Le Gallienne and published in 1912.\nBorn Richard Thomas Gallienne, the author changed his last name to \u201cLe Gallienne\u201d after college when he began working in an accountant\u2019s office. Soon after he attended a lecture by Oscar Wilde, Le Gallienne abandoned his job to become a professional writer and poet. Five years later, he met Wilde, they had a brief affair and a longer friendship.\nLe Gallienne married three times and had two children including famous and successful stage actress and director Eva Le Gallienne. After becoming a resident of the United States, he eventually settled in the French Riviera in the 1940s. During the war he refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities and, with no income, once collapsed in the street owing to hunger. He persevered, however, and continued to write into his 70s.\n\u2014 read by V \u2014\nSign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices