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Re: Dracula

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.

Perfect if you have any interest in Dracula at all, whether you've read the original or not.

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Hearthbound

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.

Perfect if you're looking for a gentle story about people connecting and reconnecting, and/or you're a fan of folk music.

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Alice Isn't Dead

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.

Perfect for fans of slow burn, weird horror, with a quiet, tense atmosphere, and especially if you're looking for a really good female and/or queer and/or POC protagonist.

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Mabel

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.

Perfect if you're a fan of unconventional love stories, the dark weirdness of faeries, and all the aesthetic that comes with that.

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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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The Silt Verses

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jon Ware and Muna Hussen, Eskew Productions Ltd Aired: 2021-2024 Episodes: 45

In this horror/fantasy serial drama, Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations.

As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories.

From the same creator as I Am in Eskew, the show takes place in a world saturated with gods old and new. The variety in the pantheon makes for some fascinating worldbuilding, as the two main protags embark on a pilgrimage to find and possibly strengthen the remnants of their religious order. Over time it branches out to include other characters. The sound quality in season 1 is kinda rough, but it improves over time.

Perfect for fans of cosmic and body horror, cults and religious horror.

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Wooden Overcoats

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Wooden Overcoats LTD, David K Barnes, Andy Goddard, John Wakefield, Elizabeth Campbell Aired: 2015-2022 Episodes: 34

Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family’s failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone enjoying themselves at the funerals of a new competitor – the impossibly perfect Eric Chapman! With their dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, the Funns are taking drastic steps to stay in business…

This is one of those classic podcasts that gets rec'd a lot for good reason - it's just a whole lot of fun! Well written, heartfelt, full of antics. This is what the word "shenanigans" was made for.

Perfect if you're looking for a charming feud with lots of quirky, lovable characters getting into trouble.