#ffye body horror

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The Gospel of Haven

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.

Perfect if you're interested in body horror, cult horror, or squishing noises of all kinds. Pretty much a must listen if you're a Silt Verses fan.

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The Beating Heartland

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.

Perfect if you're looking for something in a similar vein to Magnus or Ghost Wax, or if you're interested in a midwest take on the classic supernatural conspiracy horror.

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Silentium

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Arcane Canvas Aired: 2025- Episodes: 6.5

A solo-narrator horror fiction podcast following Vatican linguist Father Tommaso Lanza as he investigates deaths for the Custodia Ultimae Vocis. Each episode documents a new case as he attempts to translate an ancient, impossible language that appears only at the moment of death.

This may be another "man speaks furtively into his recorder" podcast, but it's not one you're gonna want to miss. The focus on history and religion is really interesting as it asks, what if God's "miracles" were cosmic horror?

Perfect if you're looking for moody, academic horror, of if you have an interest in linguistics particularly.

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The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Zachary Golden / Slapdash Studios Aired: 2024--present (ongoing) Episodes: 13 + bonuses

In The year of Enlightentment 976… Radulf Burtwine, former monk turned traveling investigator, dedicates his life to uncovering the profane secrets of a world in which viruses are gods and humanity, merely their plaything.

It has been called “Umberto Eco meets HP Lovecraft.” THORB is a horror fantasy medical mystery podcast with an aesthetic that can only be described as Occult Academia and Laboratory Judaica.

Take care dear stranger, and remember, some secrets are better left unknown.

Takes place in a completely different world from ours, where the culture is medieval, but some of the technological and medical advances are pretty incredible. Radulf Burntwine is a natural philosopher who goes from place to place solving medical mysteries. Each episode he tackles someone with a semi-familiar affliction (zombies, werewolves) but from the point of view of an academic treating symptoms rather than unraveling magic and ritual.

The found audio includes a continuous Clicking noise - if this bothers you, clean audio versions are available on the Patreon, on the free tier I believe.

Perfect for anyone who hears "treating werewolves with steroids" and thinks that sounds damn intriguing, or if you're interested in very dense world-building.

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I Am In Eskew

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.

Perfect for the hardest of the body horror fans, the keepers of the wettest, sadest cats, and for those who just really like listening to rain SFX.

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Archive 81

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger, Dead Signals Aired: 2016-2019 Episodes: 37

Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.

A found audio podcast that at least begins in the real world. It is presented as a podcast in a podcast as Marc tries to locate his friend Dan, who disappeared after being hired to help in an archival project involving strange and unsettling tapes. It sounds like a generic setting these days but you're not prepared for how much weirder it gets in season 2.

Season 3 and it continuation follow a different set of protagonists and they're more or less standalone. Worth giving a listen to even if you bounce off season 1.

The podcast is VERY DIFFERENT from the Netflix show, try not to take anything from that into your experience of the podcast if possible.

Perfect for horror fans looking for weird body horror, but with some of the same whimsical nonsense logic of a fairy tale.

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Ghost Wax

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).

Perfect for fans coming off TMA looking for something similar, with a wide variety of inventive horror and great character dynamics.

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The Hotel

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Veronica California & Mark Whitten, Midnight Disease Productions LLC, Bloody FM Aired: 2018-2025 (looks like it just wrapped up this year) Episodes: 71

It's not haunted... It's not hell... It's THE HOTEL!

From five star resorts down to seedy motels, each episode the Hotel changes her shape and a new guest checks in with The Manager, The Lobby Boy, and The Owner. Good and bad, innocent or guilty, Hotel policy is no one is turned away, and no one checks out. Not even the staff.

In true Silent Hill fashion, various guests on their way to somewhere else find themselves in The Hotel, a sinister and supernatural building/maybe-creature staffed by three employees. Each episode features a member of the staff (often the Lobby Boy) narrating the grisly fate these customers face once they've checked in. There is some overplot about the nature of the titular Hotel, who its staff are and what it means that they're there, but it does take quite a while for that aspect of the plot to get underway.

Perfect if you like your episodic horror narrated to you by just the saddest wet cat boy possible. It has a uniquely dreary atmosphere that's worth checking out to see if it's your thing.