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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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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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Shelterwood

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Stephen Indrisano, Bloody FM Aired: 2024-- (ongoing, though there may be a delay before S2 releases) Episodes: 16

Shelterwood: A Suburban Gothic is a 16-part Docu-Horror Podcast centered around one man’s quest to find his long-lost sister in an infinite, monster-infested suburb beyond the veil. With primary inspirations like The Black Tapes, Silent Hill 2, and Limetown, Shelterwood will be one part Gothic, one part Found Footage, and one hundred percent terrifying.

The show follows podcaster Nicholas DeRoso, who stumbles upon an endless expanse of nightmarish suburbia as he searches for his long-lost sister. Will he find her or be lost to the development beyond the veil? What other secrets does the impossible neighborhood hold?

Shelterwood is a podcast within a podcast, with a mix of live audio and the two hosts providing voiceover commentary on it. It's a good balance, allowing for the protagonist's in the moment reactions while also providing an excuse to have someone describe the things that don't show up in the audio. Like the blurb says, protagonist Nicholas slips into the sunnier, "everything is fine and wonderful here!" hyper-Americana version of Silent Hill, where nothing is more sinister than the HOA, hoping to find his sister who disappeared as a teenager.

Perfect for fans of uncanny alt worlds, where the smiling faces are as scary as the monsters.

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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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Last Dance

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Blackabbey Productions Aired: 2024- ongoing (season 2 about to launch a Kickstarter) Episodes: 12

The Great South was alone. A small rock formed atop the bones of dead gods and leviathans, drifting within an endless ocean. People left to their own petty wars and dogmas. But now, from that same ocean, comes a wave of death in the form of savage invaders, striking without cause against the Eightfold House of Holy Ichors and its 8 Bleeding Monks. In the wake of their eradication, a battlefield scavenger by the name of Jericho Raeke goes picking through the remnants and discovers something that puts him, and his unlikely allies, at the centre of the conflict.

This dark fantasy story takes place in an alt version of late-medieval Ireland, which is being invaded by Northmen. It features a full, talented cast with voiceover, as our protagonist encounters powerful magic and then has to retreat from the encroaching army. It's dark and gory - in terms of tone and conceit I've seen it compared to Malevolent, and I have to agree, there's a lot here for those fans to appreciate. Fair warning though that the protag growl-whispers a lot of his dialogue, so you may want to keep that in mind when choosing where and how to listen.

Perfect for fans of dark fantasy, historical settings, and "we have no choice but to work together" character arcs.

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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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Kane and Feels

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Jack Fitzpatrick, Oliver Morris, and Jude Hodgson Hann Aired: 2017-2023 Episodes: 18 (status unknown)

In a city that never sleeps, the veil between waking and dreaming can fray at the edges. If you can't tell what's real anymore, you might need the services of Lucifer Kane and Brutus Feels: Paranormal Investigators. Horrors and mystery await any who listen.

A pair of paranormal investigators in modern London take on various cases, from ghosts to fae to eldritch gods. Season 1 is episodic with the relationship between the two characters the only real narrative throughline, for the most part. Season 2 is its own full arc and intentionally bizarre and harder to follow. Season 3 is back to episodic, much lighter-in-tone stories. It goes to some dark places particularly with suicide coming up a few times, and there is also a lot of drug use.

Season 2 ends the emotional arc, and season 3 is extra fun that also closes at the end. There was talk about a season 4 but unclear if it's still going to happen.

Perfect for paranormal fans who are especially looking for great character dynamics and experimental weirdness.

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Mercy

Official Website Listen on Spotify Created by: Strangekind Studio Aired: 2025-- (ongoing) Episodes: 4

Official Blurb

Wayne Sawyer is a grizzled jack-of-all-trades, helping the folk of Mercy for a mere pittance. When he meets the bizarre and enigmatic academic, Doctor Daisy Gray, they are both thrust into dangers beyond human comprehension. A queer eldritch audio drama set during the tail end of the wild west. For adult audiences only.

Like it says on the tin, Mercy is a western-themed cosmic horror adventure. The chemistry between grisled action man Saywer and his strong-willed, book-smarts co-protagonist feels immediately familiar and keeps the interactions peppy. This is a newer show still airing but one to watch.

Perfect for fans of the intersection of Cosmic Horror and the wild west, especially on the creature feature end of the spectrum.