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Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Hannah Wright, Tal Minear, and Stephen Indrisano, Bloody FM Aired: 2023, complete Episodes: 110

Re: Dracula takes the famous horror tale, breaks it up chronologically (every entry of this epistolary novel has a date), and sends the story directly to your podcatcher as it happens. Every time something happens to the characters, Re: Dracula will publish an episode, in as close to real time as it happens. Some entries will be brief, and others will be long and intense.

A full cast reading of the original Dracula, but told in chronological order rather than the original publish order - as inspired by the popular mailing list.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Daisy McNamara, Bloody FM Aired: 2025- (season 2 in development) Episodes: 10

The Gospel of Haven is a horror podcast exploring the intersection of faith and anatomy after the end of the world. A cult has thrived inside the living body of the god they worship, But as their shelter starts to crumble, devotion won’t be enough to keep them safe.

Now THIS is a body horror podcast. Where the blurb says "inside the living body of god" it really means it - the amount of meat and meat noises in this podcast cannot be overstated. A small cast take turns reciting the gospel of their character, mostly voiceover sharing their POV of the events that unfold inside Haven. Its worldbuilding is as grotesque as it is fascinating, mixing cult religion with medicine. Can't wait to see where it goes in season 2.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Denver Baughman Aired: 2024- Episodes: 40

"The Beating Heartland" is a bi-weekly Midwest horror audio drama. Follow the story as radio show host Denver Baughman, with the help of a mysterious agency, tries to piece together the puzzle of his horrifying past through his radio show, therapy sessions, and interrogations.

If you've ever listened to horror fiction podcasts you're going to be familiar with the basic format here: individual spooky stories told by a protag that over time prove to be connected. So far so TMA. HOWEVER, TBH has it's own unique take here. There are three levels to the story from the get go: the stories protagonist Denver reads as part of his spooky radio show; the stories about his own life Denver tells to his therapist; and the interrogation interviews Denver gives to the "mysterious agency" as mentioned in the official synopsis. The cutting between them helps keep things fresh, and the connection between the stories are for the most part more immediately apparent than in some versions of this trope. Halfway through season 1 things start to open up and branch out considerably, as the cast fills out and character interactions intensify. I'm not fully caught up so I'm not sure where season 2 ends (it did so just recently) but I'll update once I know.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Joseph Fink, Night Vale Presents Aired: 2016-2018 Episodes: 30

A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.

This is a classic from one of the creators of Welcome to Night Vale. It's told entirely from the POV of a singular narrator (whose name you don't learn until almost the end of season 1) as she travels the country as a truck driver, searching for her missing wife, broadcasting her travels via CB. It's eerie, it's heartfelt, and the conspiracy is as weird and dreamlike as you might expect from Joseph Fink. And apparently now is a great time to get into it, like I did, because a sequel is coming in April 2026.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jon Ware Aired: 2018-2019 Episodes: 30

I Am In Eskew is a single narrator horror fantasy audio drama. Eskew is a city of steep and winding streets, where the rain seemingly never stops and the buildings change at will. David, the narrator, is from our world, but has found himself trapped in this living, murderous city, unable to find his way home. With escape impossible, David documents his bizarre, often mind-bending experiences in a series of endless recording, hoping that someone – anyone – will hear them. In this twisted city, nothing is what it seems, and the strange population that David meets there – the journalist, obsessed with the letters she receives, the architect who won’t talk about the building they designed, the mysterious woman intent on burning Eskew to the ground – know more than they let on.

Each episode is told in first person from the protagonist: the saddest boy you've ever heard trapped in a bizarre and hostile city. A collection of grotesque episodes that eventually build to finale.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Blackabbey Productions Aired: 2024- ongoing (season 2 about to launch a Kickstarter) Episodes: 12

The Great South was alone. A small rock formed atop the bones of dead gods and leviathans, drifting within an endless ocean. People left to their own petty wars and dogmas. But now, from that same ocean, comes a wave of death in the form of savage invaders, striking without cause against the Eightfold House of Holy Ichors and its 8 Bleeding Monks. In the wake of their eradication, a battlefield scavenger by the name of Jericho Raeke goes picking through the remnants and discovers something that puts him, and his unlikely allies, at the centre of the conflict.

This dark fantasy story takes place in an alt version of late-medieval Ireland, which is being invaded by Northmen. It features a full, talented cast with voiceover, as our protagonist encounters powerful magic and then has to retreat from the encroaching army. It's dark and gory - in terms of tone and conceit I've seen it compared to Malevolent, and I have to agree, there's a lot here for those fans to appreciate. Fair warning though that the protag growl-whispers a lot of his dialogue, so you may want to keep that in mind when choosing where and how to listen.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: R.J. Knutson and Aaron Schoenrock, Far and Tall Tales Aired: 2022 - present (currently making season 2) Episodes: 45 (plus a patreon prequel)

Ghost Wax is a horror fiction podcast following the work of the last “reclaimer”, investigating a series of unnatural killings by raising the dead and committing their final statements to wax cylinder.

Very similar in format to TMA, Ghost Wax is a found audio podcast following Voncid, the only living person left who can communicate openly with the dead. Each episode features a new subject for him to interview, with a meta plot that kicks in fairly early and weaves through the different tales (some connected, some not).

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jack Fitzpatrick, Oliver Morris, and Jude Hodgson Hann Aired: 2017-2023 Episodes: 18 (status unknown)

In a city that never sleeps, the veil between waking and dreaming can fray at the edges. If you can't tell what's real anymore, you might need the services of Lucifer Kane and Brutus Feels: Paranormal Investigators. Horrors and mystery await any who listen.

A pair of paranormal investigators in modern London take on various cases, from ghosts to fae to eldritch gods. Season 1 is episodic with the relationship between the two characters the only real narrative throughline, for the most part. Season 2 is its own full arc and intentionally bizarre and harder to follow. Season 3 is back to episodic, much lighter-in-tone stories. It goes to some dark places particularly with suicide coming up a few times, and there is also a lot of drug use.

Season 2 ends the emotional arc, and season 3 is extra fun that also closes at the end. There was talk about a season 4 but unclear if it's still going to happen.