The Mystery Hour (Nighty Night)

This week, we encounter H.P. Lovecraft's short tale of malevolent forces beyond our understanding that are at play in the universe and all around us... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of people try to escape their pasts and start over in the city that never sleeps. But when hate and death are looking for you, no place is safe. Follow us on Instagram: rabiasquared2 elleryqueenmm alfredhitchcockmm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we continue to look into Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. In today's episode we are taught lessons about the consequences of obsession, the power of memory and influence, and the dark side of intellectual pursuits... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all know helping a stranger is a good deed, but often forget that it can lead to unintended, and perilous, consequences. Follow us on Instagram: rabiasquared2 elleryqueenmm alfredhitchcockmm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we revisit the master of horror, Edgar Allen Poe, in a very short story about the supernatural and what happens when an obsession turns into tragedy... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a serial killer is on the loose, even a physical body cannot contain a spirit bent on justice. Follow us on Instagram: rabiasquared2 elleryqueenmm alfredhitchcockmm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good evening and welcome to Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry: Bedtime Stories To Keep You Awake. Tonight's tale is about a woman who discovers a little too much about her family history. Please enjoy...Sunken. Tonight's tale was written by Jay Richardson. Original Airdate: 05/03/2022 Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sweet Mary has a very bitter son-in-law who makes her life hell, but a garden that is a little piece of heaven. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In another tale from Ambrose Bierce, we encounter a prank gone deadly and bravado that did not serve anyone well... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The tropics can be relaxing and beautiful, especially for an exhausted homicide detective needing a break. Unfortunately, murder never takes a break, and what’s beautiful can also be deadly. Follow us on Instagram: rabiasquared2 elleryqueenmm alfredhitchcockmm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's story from Sabine Baring-Gould comes to us from 13th century Iceland. In it we learn how a brave man will come to regret his courage for the rest of his life... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A storm is brewing, police lights are flashing, and an entire neighborhood is on alert with a killer on the loose in the premiere episode of The Mystery Hour, "A Small Mercy". Follow us on Instagram: rabiasquared2 elleryqueenmm alfredhitchcockmm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we return to finish Nathaniel Hawthorne's Feathertop as we find out what happens to our gentleman scarecrow when he ventures out into the big scary world... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabia Chaudry presents the Mystery Hour featuring the Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines premieres July 17th wherever you listen to podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we begin our journey into Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1852 story, Feahtertop. It's a dark tale that blends elements of witchcraft, morality, and teaches us a lesson on human vanity... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's tale from Sir Walter Scott brings us the assurance that it's okay to be afraid... because even the bravest of heroes are not immune from horror... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you know about the missing chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula? This week, Rabia shares this lost story and the monster you might be surprised to find in this vampirical tale... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good evening and welcome to Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry: Bedtime Stories To Keep You Awake. Tonight's story gives us an inside look of what it feels like to be a monster living among us. Please enjoy Schrödinger's Beast. Story by Sarah Cailean Original Airdate: 02/08/2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we conclude F. Marion Crawford's classic tale of a haunting at sea... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we revisit Rabia's deepest nightmares, the deep dark ocean, in part one of perhaps F. Marion Crawford's most famous horror story... Check out our great sponsors! Aura: Get a 14 day trial PLUS a check of your data ALL FOR FREE at Aura.com/trust Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's tale is about a woman who was born with what many would consider a gift. She has an incredible sense of smell. But, as you'll quickly learn, what might be one woman's treasure... is another woman's putrid, rotting trash. Please enjoy, ROT. Original Airdate: 9/7/21 Check out our great sponsors! Aura: Get a 14 day trial PLUS a check of your data ALL FOR FREE at Aura.com/trust Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we revisit the master of horror, Edgar Allen Poe, in a chilling tale about blood feuds... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Rabia leads us through Ambrose Bierce's suspenseful climb to terror... met with multiple plot twists... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we encounter Charles Dickens' tale of true justice from beyond the grave in one of the first ghost stories to be widely published... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia shares one of her favorites in the E.F. Benson's haunting tale that leaves us guessing who the real victim is... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's tale we revisit a story by Ambrose Bierce where the protagonist learns the hard way that there's nothing to fear but fear itself... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we visit Victoria Glad's bone-chilling tale of when love and blood lust intersect... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we return to H.P. Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear as it continues to spiral into crescendos of terror until reaching a final horrifying conclusion... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, H.P. Lovecraft leads us into a story full of cosmic horror, human degeneration, and the terror of the unknown... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this 1973 short work from Ursula K. L Guin, we are forced to consider our own morality and the choices we make in order to enjoy our day to day lives... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia narrates H.P. Lovecraft's widely influential story about how to reach immortality and at what cost... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published in 1914, this tale from Francis Oscar Mann poses the question of the wickedness of natural human desire and whether the devil realy resides in us all... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we encounter Edith Nesbit's tragic tale of a love so true, that even death cannot tear the couple apart... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia plunges into the suspenseful world of H.P. Lovecraft and the tainted ancestry of the Jermyn family... Nighty Nighty is sponsored by Progressive! Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia reads the Richard Middleton tale about a man who is given a note informing him that he will soon be in need of a coffin... Factor: Head to FactorMeals.com/nighty50 and use code "nighty50" to get 50% off! Progressive: Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia narrates Edith Nesbit's 1905 tale of how "dark" secrets can come back to haunt us... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1833, the story follows our narrator at sea in the midst of a series of harrowing events... Nighty Night is sponsored by Progressive Insurance. Quote today at Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia reads Mary Elizabeth Braddon's classic gothic tale about how the shadows that haunt us, whether real or imagined, often have real life consequences... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia visits Francis Marion Crawford's tale of undying love... and the undead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabia reads the E.F. Benson classic about a brilliant neurosurgeon with a cryptic curiousity! Thanks for supporting our sponsors! Progressive Insurance: Quote today at https://Progressive.com to try the Name Your Price® tool for yourself, and join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Truman Capote classic, Rabia shares an encounter between a lonely widow and a startlingly precocious young girl. Check out our great sponsors! Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Factor: Head to FactorMeals.com/nighty50 and use code nighty50 to get 50% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's tale is about a woman who forgot the golden rule of survival: When it comes to strangers, being polite can be deadly. Please enjoy...The Little Hairs written by Sarah Cailean. Original Airdate: 10/19/2021 Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight's story shows us that when it comes to Killers on the run, you can't trust anyone. Please enjoy...Old Country Road. Tonight's tale was written by Rabia Chaudry. Original Airdate: 1/11/2022 Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia shares E.F. Benson's classic tale of how guilt will not even allow the dead to rest easily... Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we revisit the master, Edgar Allan Poe, with a story featuring themes of contempt, guilt, and insanity that will chill you to the bone... Check out our holiday sponsors! Factor: Head to FactorMeals.com/nighty50 and use code nighty50 for 50% off! Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First published in 1890 by writer and veteran Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is set during the American Civil War, and is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia shares Robert Louis Stevenson's short story of how there really is no rest for the dead... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia shares Guy de Maupassant's haunting tale of a man who comes under the influence of what he believes to be a supernatural dark force... but perhaps this force is just a descent into his own madness. Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabia shares W.W. Jacobs' classic tale about why you should be careful what you wish for... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween! In the first episode of the re-launch of Nighty Night, Rabia Chaudry shares two of the all time great scary story classics, Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Nighty Night is sponsored by BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/nighty to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices