Nighttime Stories

Nighttime Stories

Stories told at night.

Episodes

Episode 11 - The Colour Out of Space, pt. 2 - H.P. Lovecraft

November 2, 2015 • 39 mins
Happy after-'Ween. We hope you enjoyed your costumes, breaking time, and debauching in honor of dead ancestors. If you heard our pre-Halloween episode, part 1 of 'The Colour Out of Space', today’s episode we’ll be bringing you the second part. If you have not, go back and have a listen earlier in your podcast feed, or on the web here: https://nighttimestories.org/colour-out-of-space-pt2-lovecraft And if you have, I have go...
Mark as Played

Episode 10 - The Colour Out of Space, pt. 1 - H.P. Lovecraft

October 28, 2015 • 38 mins
What wanders the stars? It troubles man in myriad forms even while it excites the imagination. So often the supernatural is rudely confined to terrors borne of the Earth we live and will always live on. For many of us, the most alien landscapes we ponder lie between our ears or out of sight. And when we’re visited by something further away, it’s put forever in the context of the awful things it might bring here. This is ap...
Mark as Played

Episode 9 - Selections from the SCP Foundation

October 21, 2015 • 42 mins
This week we bring you a curated selection from a project called the SCP Foundation. Unlike our usual tales here at Nighttime Stories, the veracity of this information can neither be confirmed nor denied; we bring you this information in the hope that understanding and knowledge can only preserve you! If you fear this isn’t the case, please, for what in our world is good and holy… If you’re following along on the SCP Foundation ...
Mark as Played

Episode 8 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot

October 14, 2015 • 10 mins
T.S. Eliot left us several rather famous poems, and is still a much-perused and often criticized poet to this day. He was a Missourian American and later subject of the crown of the United Kingdom. Such a puzzle to me that kind of immigration and that sort of time in the world, but for that is an explanation best left to you to seek and resolve. For our subject today, however, emigration into old age, back into recesses of obser...
Mark as Played

Episode 7 - The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

October 7, 2015 • 42 mins
Today we bring you 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published 1892 in "The New England Magazine". One of the unspoken principles of my upbringing in Williamsburg Bluffs was that of rigid roles for women, especially for mothers, in contrast to the relative freedom of men. While in the late 20th century male children were being raised with an understanding that their roles were important but their responsi...
Mark as Played

Episode 6 - The Musgrave Ritual - Arthur Conan Doyle

September 29, 2015 • 41 mins
This week we bring you the story originally intended for last week's episode, though we were overjoyed to be able to share an account of a dark god. Our story today, however, is a story of cold logic unlocking secrets in a world without a god, a world where even the prejudice we all turn toward cannot bar the incision of a well-trained mind. We hope you enjoy Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Musgrave Ritual', sometimes known as 'The Ad...
Mark as Played

Episode 5 - Nyarlathotep - H.P. Lovecraft

September 22, 2015 • 10 mins
A prose poem selected for this week, 'Nyarlathotep', by H.P. Lovecraft, first published in 1920. This week, we bring you a shorter episode than we had originally intended, having just recovered in the studio from a brief catastrophe. Yesterday, the information pipelines in our region were severed by the trident of a great scaled king. Having emerged initially from gods-know-where at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution ...
Mark as Played

Episode 4 - Afterward, pt. 2 - Edith Wharton

September 13, 2015 • 43 mins
In this week's episode, we continue the story from episode 3, 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton. Listen on to complete the story of what you won't know until afterward. If you haven't listened to pt. 1, please look back in your podcast feed or visit here: http://nighttimestories.org/afterward-pt1-wharton
Mark as Played

Episode 3 - Afterward, pt. 1 - Edith Wharton

September 7, 2015 • 30 mins
Today's episode is the first of two parts of 'Afterward' by American author Edith Wharton. She spent her life in the stubborn and delightfully unbehaved pursuit of literature, a writer not many years after she could walk. Her material was brownstones, cobbles, and the role that was given to her, one she sought to push and break, and where she couldn't do either, slowly grow around and out of, like a tree on a fenceline. As ink o...
Mark as Played

Episode 2 - Ligeia - Edgar Allen Poe

September 1, 2015 • 42 mins
Edgar Allen Poe is well-known and poorly understood. There are many a curious gem scattered in the history of his life. Most recently, I learned of 'Eureka: A Prose Poem', which, while not exactly a prose poem in the sense I’m used to, is fascinating. And frankly sort of maddening. It is exactly what should be becoming popular of his at just around this moment in our history. I’ll refrain from further comment. But this story is not...
Mark as Played

Episode 1 - Celephaïs - H.P. Lovecraft

August 24, 2015 • 17 mins
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an author little-known in his lifetime, but a huge influence in the 20th century and beyond on the horror and other genres of media. He grew up and lived almost his entire life in a city called Providence in what is now known as Rhode Island; he lived there and he died there as far as the histories tell us. One of my earliest influences , he always seemed to really believe through his voice as a wri...
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Stuff You Should Know

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    Cardiac Cowboys

    Cardiac Cowboys

    The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

    On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

Explore

iHeart

Live Radio

Podcasts

Artist Radio

Exclusives

News

Features

Events

Contests

Photos

Information

About

Advertise

Blog

Brand Guidelines

Contest Guidelines

Subscription Offers

Jobs

Get the App

Automotive

Home

Mobile

Wearables

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.