There are so many female-lead horror podcasts! And theyβre so good!!
Primordial Deep is technically a science fiction/thriller but it is scary. A marine biologist is tasked with researching prehistoric monsters that are rising from the deep. If deep water and the vast things that could be living there freak you out, this is for you.
You Are the Ghost in This House is a little slow-paced, but itβs got very gothic, descriptive, Shirley Jackson vibes. Two women move back in to the rotting Manor House where they grew up. Obviously, the house is haunted.
The Silt Verses follows two worshippers travelling along a great black river, on a pilgrimage for an outlawed god. Just brilliant.
The Holmwood Foundation is slightly more fun and Scooby-Doo feeling, but still very dangerous. Also, itβs got two leads, and only one is a woman. In this modern-day sequel to Dracula, two staff members of a vampire research foundation go on the run across the Yorkshire moors after their workplace (and everyone in it) is destroyed. They donβt have their phones, theyβre possessed by the ghosts of Mina and Jonathan, and theyβre carrying Draculaβs disembodied head.
Mockery Manor is a mystery, but itβs fun and murderous and spooky. The villain is MESSED UP. The two protagonists are twin sisters, spending their summer working at a weird UK theme park.
Mabel is a fairy-tale classic with terrifying sound effects. A live-in carer tries to get in touch with Mabel, her patientβs granddaughter. Mabel isnβt picking up her callsβ¦
Hi Nay follows Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin as she stops dangerous supernatural events in Toronto. This podcast has frightening entities, long-term arcs and a great ensemble cast.
Alice Isnβt Dead is a great horror about a truck driver searching for her wife across America. Made by Night Vale Presents, itβs got an amazing story and loads of strange, unexpected events.
Iβm calling it now. Thereβs going to be a reveal in this season or next season that Regina looks nothing like Claudia and itβs all in Louisβs head and itβs gonna be devastating.
Maybe she looks vaguely like Claudia, but not just like her like weβre seeing.
Fun interview with the vampire detail: in the new episode when Lestat is performing Big Boss it looks like heβs wearing the same pants from the trial in season two
βWhich one of you have ODed before?β Lestat asked to the noted ex drug addict (maybe not so ex anymore) and his social media manager heβs probably seen take drugs.
I find the difference between American and British televisions depictions of guns very amusing. Because with British television, thereβs a gun in a desk draw an people are concerned and itβs an implication of mental health issues, with American television itβs like βah yes a fridge gun, a totally normal thing for someone to haveβ
This is the first celebrity death to actually affect me. I was raised on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Repo iβve been watching Buffy since I was five and listened to the repo soundtrack since I could understand words.
He has a good run, time to listen to once more with a feeling to cope!