#ffye romance

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jo Chiang, Stray Lungs Aired: 2025 Episodes: 10

Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards.

Hearthbound is an award-winning folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?

Hearthbound is basically if you re-imagined The Odyssey as a cozy, post-apocalyptic musical road trip. It begins with flavors of Alice Isn't Dead - a woman on the road, hoping to pick up her long-lost wife (Penelope) on her CB. But despite the "something horrific has left America a scattered wasteland" setting, the tone is very chill and hopeful.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Georgia Cook & Fio Trethewey Aired: 2024-2025 Episodes: 7

A modern day sequel to the gothic novel Dracula, we follow Maddie Townsend (Rebecca Root) and Jeremy Larkin (Seán Carlsen), two co-workers at the Holmwood Foundation: a secret organisation that has been maintaining and studying the remains of Count Dracula over the last 130 years, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve their ghost's wishes: stop Dracula once and for all.

This is a story about identity and self discovery, family loyalty and devotion, all wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts and an analogue recorder.

In the spirit (HA!) of the original Dracula, The Holmwood Foundation is told in a semi-epistolary fashion: a mix of audio recordings that the characters leave for each other, along with other found audio like news reports, security cameras etc. It's a fun and effective way of juggling what are essentially four protagonists, where only two can be active at a time. Each of the combinations interacting offer their own unique dynamics, even more so when more characters are added in. There's a lot going on as the group stumbles through their attempts to safeguard the world from vampires, but the characters really shine and keep everything grounded and affecting. By ep 3 I was fully sold on all of them.

If you haven't read Dracula, I recommend checking it out before listening, since you'll get a lot more out of Jonathan and Mina's story if you're familiar. The recent Re: Dracula podcast is a good place to start for that!

EDIT: No word yet on when/if we'll get season 2, but the team says they still want to do it!

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Anna MaGuire, Hodgepodge Audio Aired: 2019-- Episodes: 67

Find Us Alive follows the strange developments at Site-107, a small Foundation research site trapped inside dimensional anomaly SCP-6320, as narrated by the site’s radio operator, Dr. Harley.

This podcast is based on the infamous internet mythos of the SCP Foundation, but you don't have to be familiar with any of that backstory to jump in here, as the show sets everything up fresh. Told in semi-found audio format, the story follows a small, core group of voiced characters as they navigate the challenges of living in a pocket dimension with very little hope of rescue surrounded by several dozen coworkers. It's a long-running show that covers a lot of ground: science fiction scenarios, interpersonal conflicts, trust and betrayal, trauma and camaraderie. The tone is very lighthearted for the most part, sometimes bordering on slapstick, but it knows when to turn up the drama.

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: Becca De La Rose and Maybell Marten Aired: 2016-2022 Episodes: 48

Mabel is a podcast about ghosts, family secrets, strange houses, and missed connections.

Mabel is one of the better known f/f podcasts out there, and for good reason. It's mysterious and atmospheric, with dreamlike writing and emotive acting. It starts as a series of voicemails left on an answering machine, and for much of season one feels like a psychological horror in the making. But over time the fae creep in, and it becomes something more intimate and fantastical. It's a very vibes-driven show, somewhat abstract plot-wise. But it's the emotional connection between these two messy women that are the heart of it.

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: Josie Jaffrey Aired: 2026 Episodes: 5 so far

If the murderer you're looking for is a vampire, then you want a vampire detective. Just maybe not this one.

From their base at Solomon College, Oxford, Jack Valentine and her colleagues are tasked with keeping the existence of vampires secret from humanity. Mostly they hunt those of their number who’ve got carried away while blood-drinking and killed a human by accident, but occasionally they encounter the most dangerous kind of predator: a vampire serial killer.

Jack Valentine, Vampire Detective is an LGBTQIA+-led comedy drama that mashes vampires and police procedural together into a fast-paced, sometimes gritty, sometimes romantic, and darkly funny mix.

Based on a world from the creator's previous novel, Jack Valentine is a full cast paranormal crime drama packed full of vampires. It feels to me very much like a 2010s era supernatural teen drama, in the best way: our heroine is snappy and takes no shit, her supporting cast is full of guys who all sound hot, and the murder mystery is engaging. There's a lot of interesting and fairly unique vampire lore to dig into.

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: ZoomDoom Stories Aired: 2018 Episodes: 24 - complete

One day, Wren wakes up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult ritual. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way. Listen to the complete series now.

SPINES starts as a podcast within a podcast, as Wren spends each episode investigating a lead to her past which draws her into contact with different paranormal situations and characters. Later on, it becomes a bit more thriller oriented than mystery. It features a great performance from the leading actress and some really neat body horror. It's apparently also been adapted into a novel.

It didn't get as many seasons as it wanted, so the ending feels a little abrupt, but it's definitely still worth a listen.