Top Fiction Podcasts

1976
Fiction

Death by Dying

The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths… when he is supposed to simply be writing obituaries. Along the way he encounters murderous farmers, man-eating cats, haunted bicycles, and a healthy dose of ominous shadows. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deathbydyingpod Read More
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1977
Fiction

Palimpsest

Palimpsest is a (mostly) single-voiced audio drama about memory, identity, and the things that haunt us. Each ten-episode season is a unique and self-contained story, exploring the spaces between horror, fantasy, and psychological realism. #embracewhathauntsyou Read More
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1978
Fiction

A World Where

Created by Ani Rider & HK Goldstein. // Tales of tomorrow... assuming there is one. // NOTE: A World Where contains strong language, graphic violence, and explicit content which may be triggering for some listeners. Specific content warnings for each episode are available in the show notes. aworldwhere.com Read More
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1979
Fiction

Wrong Station – The Wrong Station

Wrong Station is an award-winning podcast anthology of original horror and weird fiction. Drawing on the tradition of The Twilight Zone and the classic radio serials that inspired it, Wrong Station transports the listener into the darkest corners of appalling new worlds with each episode. Wrong Station is not suitable for anyone. It may however be enjoyed by viewers of David Cronenberg, by readers of Shirley Jackson, and by listeners of Quiet Please. Listen to Wrong Station. Let it Change you. For more about Wrong Station, visit our website at www.wrongstation.com. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Bluesky @thewrongstation or on Facebook. For exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes content, and more, you SIMPLY MUST explore our Patreon at www.patreon.com/thewrongstation. Wrong Station is an entirely independent production that relies on Patreon subscribers to produce the show and pay performers. Your support, tribute, and burnt offerings are what make Wrong Station possible. Read More
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1980
Fiction

Olive Hill

In 2001 two girls, on opposite sides of town, in the dead of night, stopped what they were doing and walked into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Now, a journalist who grew up with the girls is coming home to find out what happened that night in Olive Hill.

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1981
Fiction

Tides

Tides is the story of Dr. Winifred Eurus, a xenobiologist trapped on an unfamiliar planet with hostile tidal forces. She must use her wits, sarcasm and intellectual curiosity to survive long enough to be rescued. But there might be more to life on this planet than she expected. . . Read More
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1982
Fiction

The Hidden Frequencies Podcast

Love the Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside? You’ll enjoy this science fiction horror anthology of audio dramas. Read More
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1983
Fiction

Another Kingdom

A young Hollywood wannabe Austin Lively walks through a door and suddenly finds himself a murder suspect in a bizarre fantasy land. Read More
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1984
Fiction

Dreamboy

Someone is changing all the streetlights in Pepper Heights, Cleveland. The color of nighttime is shifting. Everyone thinks they know what happened at the Pepper Heights Zoo… But do they, really?

Dane, a spun-out musician spending the winter in Cleveland, Ohio, has two main goals: keeping his job at the Pepper Heights Zoo and trying not to waste all his time on Grindr. What he doesn’t expect is to get swept into a story about dreams, about forevers, about flickering lights, about unexplained deaths, about relentless change, and about the parts of ourselves that we wish other people knew to look for. Oh, and also a murderous zebra.

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1985
Fiction

The Lucky Die

An actual play D&D podcast, The Lucky Die is a character driven story, set in an apocalyptic fantasy world. In Diskora, Demons and Celestials have started stalking the lands, tensions between the factions leave death in their wake and blood red clouds boil across the sky. You would be forgiven for thinking that the end was nigh, question is - do you want to face the end alone? I guess we're about to find out. Read More
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1986
Fiction

Heart Beats

A Cute Fantasy Slice of Life Audio Drama And TTRPG Actual Play Hybrid. Join Charlene (Played by Jazz) and Jacque (Played by Rob) as they leave the Metropolitain capital and try to setting in to the strange fantastical small town of Heart Beats. Where Ordinary People live Extraordinary Lives. Described as Twin Peaks meets Dungeons & Dragons. We weave a silly, light hearted story full of adventure, mystery, and magic without leaving our small little town. Read More
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1987
Fiction

The Horror of Dolores Roach

With blood on her hands, the infamous Dolores Roach has fled the recent shocking destruction in Washington Heights and gone into hiding deep under New York City in an abandoned subway tunnel. But she’s not alone underground, and her dark night of the soul is interrupted by an extremist faction of similarly self-exiled tunnel-dwellers whose space she's invaded. Facing re-incarceration back above ground, but pushed to the limits of shame, paranoia, lust, hunger, and depraved entrepreneurialism below it, Dolores is the outcast of the outcasts again - until she takes her survival in the tunnels into her own Magic Hands. Season 2 of The Horror of Dolores Roach is written and directed by Aaron Mark and stars Daphne Rubin-Vega, Donnell Rawlings, and Amy Ryan. Read More
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1988
Fiction

Arden

On December 25th, 2007, movie star and heiress Julie Capsom crashed her car into a tree in Northern California, walked into a nearby clearing, and vanished, leaving behind a male torso in her trunk. 10 years later, reporter Bea Casely and private detective Brenda Bentley are going to reopen the case. Each has a personal tie to the story. Each thinks they know what happened. And each knows the other is going to screw this whole thing up. Join Bea, Brenda, and the rest of the Good People at Wheyface Radio as they attempt to answer once and for all: what happened to Julie Capsom? Read More
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1989
Fiction

Have Gun Will Travel

Have Gun Will Travel stories revolved around gun-for-hire with principles, Paladin (his real name was never revealed). Though Paladin, played on the radio by John Dehner preferred to try to work out problems without violence if possible, he worked for people who he felt were wronged and could pay.  Occasionally, if he felt people who couldn't pay were in a really hard situation with bad guys, he worked for free. If, during the course of his work, he discovered his employer turned out to be shady, Paladin would turn on his employer. Read More
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1990
Fiction

Passage

150 years ago, the S.S. Cumberland disappeared in the Pacific Northwest. A lifeboat from the ship with four skeletons inside just mysteriously showed up in Marrow Passage. Reporter Daisy Bonham attempts to solve the mystery and find out what other secrets are lurking just below the surface. Read More
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1991
Fiction

X-Men: The Audio Drama

X-Men The Audio Drama retells the adventures of the Uncanny X-Men from the very beginning, using the comic book history and stories as a template while retelling and modernizing the tales. Season One told the classic stories of the "First Class," Season Two now delves into the "All New, All Different" era.

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1992
Fiction

The Grey Rooms

The Grey Rooms Podcast is a horror anthology set within a serial audio drama, where the main protagonist experiences death through the eyes of another person. Everyone dies at the end on this show, folks. It's scary stuff. And with over ~2 MILLION~ downloads, the show continues to deliver on its promise since day one; 5-star quality scares in an immersive audio environment. Join us for Season 4 which began on November 26th, 2021.

Season 4 of the Grey Rooms features all new realms of horror as Management breaks down the "Rooms" and sets off across a horizon of terror. A trio of new guests awaken on a luxury train crawling its way across an impossible landscape. At each stop, one of the guests exits the train and finds themselves forced to experience the final moments of another person's life. Every episode features a new, horrific death. And again and again, the passengers find themselves awakening back on the train, forced to live death after death... unable to save themselves from the agony and terror of ends not their own.

The Grey Rooms Podcast is brought to you by the following souls:

• Jason Wilson - Creator, Executive Producer, Host
• JM Scherf - Music Composer
• Arthur Unk - Head Writer
• Graham Rowat - Associate Producer
• Cassie Pertiet - Creative Director
• Brooks Bigley - Communications Director, Behind the Door Host
• Hail Scherf - Director of Videography
• Tori Miller - Community Manager

The Grey Rooms Productions ℗ 2022
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1993
Fiction

1994

1994 is a road-trip comedy set in the spring of, you guessed it, 1994. It follows the adventures of High School junior Scott Sweet and his friends as they attempt to escape the boredom of their dead-end, small-town Arizona suburb by skipping school to go to Disneyland, deliver 20lbs of marijuana to L.A., team up with a bank robber on the lam, escape from angry unpaid mechanics, make a side trip to Las Vegas, accidently take peyote with a traveling band of hippies, avoid the cops, get laid, convince their parents not to ground them when they get home and maybe, just maybe, score enough money to take his high school crush to the prom. Hey, it beats 2nd period algebra! Read More
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1994
Fiction

Adventures in New America

Adventures in New America is the first sci-fi, political satire, Afrofuturistic buddy comedy, serialized for New Americans in a new and desperate time.

Set a few years in the future, Adventures in New America follows the escapades of two mismatched African-New-American best friends — fat, lonely, curmudgeon IA and lesbian sneak-thief Simon Carr — who take on a series of increasingly wild heists to get quick cash to pay for IA’s medical treatment while attempting to survive the wilds of New New York City — and a secret cabal of Tetchy Terrorist Vampire Zombies from outer space. Intrigued? Good! Frequently, there will be musical numbers... and radical reflections on our dangerous, beautiful, heart-pounding world.

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1995
Fiction

Red Rhino – Meghan Fitzmartin

WES WHITTAKER is a high school boy who gets superpowers... that are really lame. Despite his undesirable circumstances, Wes and the mysterious Timeline Keeper, EVANGELINE, must learn how to use his annoying powers to save his family... and his timeline. Through lies, conspiracies, and high school trauma, Red Rhino is a story about family, growing up, choices, and responsibility. Read More
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1996
Fiction

Tara Tremendous

After discovering that her DNA is imbued with the powers of every superhero in the universe, Tara Callahan must unlock the mystery behind her newfound powers and learn how to control them in order to fulfill her destiny as the most powerful superhero of them all. Nominated for a 2023 Kidscreen Award for Best Podcast (Season 4), recipient of the Parents’ Choice 2020 Gold Award for Best Podcast and chosen by NBC’s TODAY as one of the ‘10 Best Podcasts For Kids’, the award-winning Tara Tremendous is a high-quality, cinematic audio series revolving around Tara Callahan, an ordinary girl with extraordinary abilities. Book series coming from Simon & Schuster / Andrews McMeel Publishing, written by series creator Stewart St John. Bonus content available only with a Wonkybot+ subscription on Apple Podcasts. Series Credits Tara Tremendous is an immersive, evolving audio series featuring an ensemble voice cast of over 50 performers, with lead performances by Mariana Harrison as Tara Callahan/Tara Tremendous, Maddie Rowe as Chloe Greene/Elemental Heart, Josiah Mustaleski as Seth Reynolds/Remix, Campbell Ella as Priscilla/Wyshcraft, McKenzie Harms as Felicity/Multiply, Stewart St John as Professor Epicopolis/Dr. Epic, Michael Plahuta as Mr. Barrington and 1102, Michael Myracle as Lucinda DuPont, Casey Maxwell as Abigail Pruitt, and Todd Fisher as EB3. With special celebrity guest stars including Sarah Douglas (from Superman 1 and II), Linda Gray (TV’s Dallas), Deborah Kennedy (from Australia’s #1 award-winning drama A Place To Call Home), Hannah Monson (Netfix’ Glitch), Terrence Crawford (Escape From Pretoria, and Gina Liano (The Real Housewives of Melbourne). Created and written by award-winning writer Stewart St John (Sabrina: The Animated Series, Disney’s Seventeen Again), and produced by St John, Todd Fisher and Michael Plahuta through their company Wonkybot Entertainment. Read More
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1997
Fiction

The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature

Volume I of The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature introduces us to troubled 13-year-old Chloe Lovejoy, who prematurely inherited the mantle and awesome power of Mother Nature from her Grandmother Ivy. Chloe struggles mightily to balance the trials and tribulations of middle school with...you know, saving the world. Volume II of The Natureverse: Cupid and the Reaper. Chloe learns she’s not the only super-powered teenager in the world. Meet thirteen-year-old Mondo Ramirez, a hopeless romantic in Savannah, Georgia, who rarely thinks of consequences. When his elaborate 8th-grade promposal goes awry, Mondo accidentally kills the Grim Reaper, inheriting the Reaper’s cloak and scythe in the process. Marcus Aronson never accepted or understood his parents’ divorce. Logical and socially challenged, Marcus went on a mission to find Cupid himself and finally convinced the winged archer to hand over his arrows and his title. Armed with research, algorithms, and a huge pair of wings, Marcus is determined to change the way people fall in love. Cupid and The Reaper, Volume II of the “Natureverse,” tells the buddy-adventure story of these two mismatched and unlikely heroes. Can Marcus and Mondo learn to work together and harness the powers of life, death, and love to fight off a mysterious supernatural force in their school? And will Chloe see them as friends...or foes? For more great shows and to listen early and ad-free, visit GZMshows.com. Read More
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1998
Fiction

The Lesbian Romantic

Lesbian romance stories brought to you as an immersive podcast. Created to make you smile, blush or keep you on the edge of your seat. Listen with headphones to immerse yourself fully! New wlw story chapter every other Tuesday. Read More
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1999
Fiction

Mirrors

Three women. Three centuries. One haunting. Mirrors is a sci-fi ghost story from ZoomDoom Stories. Find out more at https://www.mirrorspodcast.com/ Our cover image is courtesy of the Wellcome Library and has been made available under Creative Commons License 4.0. Read More
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2000
Fiction

The Shakespeare Sessions

Your one-stop shop for all things Shakespeare. Catch A-List casts in brand new audio versions of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, plus documentaries from the brightest minds on the bard’s life and work.

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