Audio drama and fiction podcast collections
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Updated August 29, 2026
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44 audio drama and fiction podcast collections.
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Serious sci-fi
High-stakes science fiction with a stronger appetite for tension than banter.
Funny space disasters
Shipboard chaos, station nonsense, and the kind of space comedy that keeps spiraling outward.
Cold isolation horror
Bleak settings, locked-in pressure, and the feeling that the air itself is against you.
Time-bent and weird
Loops, paradoxes, and shows that start by pulling the floor out from causality.
Late-night tension
Shows for when quiet rooms, suspicious signals, and bad choices sound better after dark.
Headphones-on immersion
Dense sound, strong atmosphere, and stories that reward close listening.
Completed shows
Finished or clearly bounded fiction for listeners who want an ending before they start.
Quick first listens
Shorter shows or easy places to start when you want a taste before committing.
Warm weird comfort
Gentler strange stories for when you want odd worlds without being crushed by them.
Survival pressure
Stories where the next decision matters and the world keeps closing in.
Worldbuilding deep dives
Bigger worlds and longer arcs for listeners who want systems, history, and scope.
Small-town strange signals
Broadcast booths, local static, and communities where the weirdness feels built into the streets.
Ensemble chaos with heart
Big casts, comic collisions, and enough emotional follow-through to keep the mess from feeling disposable.
Fantasy detours and hidden worlds
Portal fantasy, supernatural backroads, and larger worlds that open up by degrees instead of exposition dumps.
Short finished thrillers
Compact, finished mysteries and thrillers for a weekend binge or a few focused nights.
Found recordings and buried evidence
Recorded evidence, recovered tapes, and investigations where the format is part of the mystery.
Folk horror and old gods
Folk horror, living traditions, and places where the old story is still in force.
Comedy with a mystery
Funny investigations, eccentric detectives, and mysteries that still know when to be silly.
Completed Sci-Fi
Completed science-fiction shows with a clear ending.
Shows like Midnight Burger
Warm, funny, cosmic-adjacent shows for listeners chasing that strange found-family feeling.
Shows like Derelict
Dark sci-fi mysteries with pressure, atmosphere, and a signal you probably should not follow.
Shows like The White Vault
Cold, remote horror and science fiction for listeners who want isolation to do real work.
Shows like Wolf 359
Character-first sci-fi comedies and adjacent ensemble stories that can grow larger if you stick with them.
Shows like We're Alive
Survival stories where group decisions, attrition, and constant threat matter more than polish alone.
Shows like Impact Winter
Aggressive genre pressure, high-stakes survival, and polished danger for listeners who want the cold to bite back.
Shows like Ars Paradoxica
Idea-forward sci-fi mysteries for listeners who like the thinking as much as the plot movement.
Shows like Tower 4
Remote-post paranoia, steady voice-driven unease, and the feeling that a quiet place is not actually safe.
Shows like Station 151
Off-kilter outpost fiction for listeners who want the station setting, the weirdness, and the laugh that sounds a little wrong.
Shows like Oz 9
Loud, ensemble-led comedy fiction for listeners who like their competence levels low and their disaster density high.
Shows like Welcome to Night Vale
Voice-driven weird fiction with community-scale menace, dry humor, and the sense that the town itself knows more than it should.
Shows like Midst
Big-concept fiction with a strong narrator voice, strange systems, and enough propulsion to make the weirdness feel deliberate.
Shows like Malevolent
Voice-led occult horror for listeners who want possession, mystery, and a relationship at the center of the dread.
Shows like The Magnus Archives
Case-file horror with an expanding mythology for listeners who want strange encounters to add up to something larger.
Shows like The Amelia Project
Darkly funny, voice-led fiction about reinvention, eccentric schemes, and people who become a family by accident.
Episodic Comedy
Episodic comedy shows.
Ongoing Sci-Fi
Ongoing science-fiction shows for listeners who want a story to follow.
Ongoing Comedy
Ongoing comedy shows for listeners who want a story to follow.
Ongoing Horror
Ongoing horror shows for listeners who want a story to follow.
Completed Drama
Completed drama shows with a clear ending.
Anthology Horror
Horror anthology shows.
Episodic Horror
Episodic horror shows.
Episodic Mystery
Episodic mystery shows.
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