The Piebald Hippogriff

From Dreamful Bedtime Stories by Jordan Blair

October 3, 2025 · 26 min

About this episode

A dreamy short story about a boy named Johnny who discovers a magical world at the edge of reality.

Fall asleep to a dreamy short story from 1962’s Fantastic Stories of Imagination: The Piebald Hippogriff. A boy named Johnny reaches the world’s edge, looks past the granite lip into an endless blue, and finds islands adrift, star-flowers nodding, and a herd of hippogriffs turning the air into a playground. If you love myth, gentle peril, and the feeling of wind in your ears as the world falls away, this bedtime story will meet you where your breathing slows and your imagination widens....

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Blair

Topics covered

bedtime stories
myth
imagination
fantasy
children's literature

Keywords

hippogriff
dreams
storytelling
fantasy
children

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fantastic Stories of Imagination