These 10 great, short audio dramas are perfect for a fiction podcast book club.
Do you want to listen to more fiction podcasts with your friends? Setting up a book club is pretty socially acceptable, but trying to convince a small group of people to listen to all four seasons of Wolf 359 in a week is apparently ‘kind of a big ask’. These 10 great shows are loads of fun, and you can get your favourite people to finish them with you. If you’ve ever wanted to start an irl podcast club, this is your sign…
I listened to 65 podcasts in 2025. Granted, I only fully finished 27 of those podcasts, but that’s still a lot of minutes of audio drama. An
Just finished my list of the 13 best podcasts of 2025!
Out of the 65 podcasts I listened to this year, this is the roundup of all the shows that stood out the most. I picked them because they made me cry, gasp, flinch or laugh in public. They’re smart, weird, gripping and (especially number nine) might rewire your brain chemistry a bit. Whether you like horror, comedy, fantasy or more, this list will have something for you. Plus, some of them are massively underrated, so click through and let me know which ones you love.
(Also, the podcasts on this list all started in 2025, except for one that was just even better in 2025.)
Nowadays, if you want to catch up on podcasts from The Rest is Politics to The Magnus Archives, you head to the nearest app that plays them.
Are you listening to your podcasts on Spotify?
No problem if you are, but did you know there are alternatives that are WAY better?
I’m talking free apps, instantly skippable ads and tidy-looking homepages. You can listen to the radio, get transcripts, and make smart playlists that let you choose what podcasts, episode lengths and air dates will be included. You can automatically skip ads, intros or outros (still for free) on your favourite shows, and you can even get alternatives to Spotify Wrapped, made by people who don’t run ad campaigns for ICE.
And you can find which of these nine options are best for you by clicking on the link!
You’ve finished your favourite hit audio drama. Now you’d like to try another one — but which one? If you loved The Magnus Archives, you don
These are the fiction podcasts that are perfect for fans of Sherlock and Co., WtNV, The Black Tapes, The Magnus Archives, Old Gods of Appalachia and more. Whether they have similar settings, romances, characters or vibes, they might be your next favourite listen.
Here’s a collection of amazing fiction podcasts and the poems with matching vibes.
Do you love fiction podcasts like The Magnus Archives, Malevolent, Old Gods of Appalachia and more? Do you want to know which famous poems fit the characters or plot?
For worlds that are full of “every kind of blooming horror”, travellers from “a small and lonely planet”, female pirates with Sappho vibes and characters who “wanted to be with you forever”, these podcasts and poems have it all.
Audio drama fans! Do you like finding new fiction podcasts? Do you want to hear a group of audio fiction creators talk about what they do and how they do it? Then you should check out this new magazine/bi-monthly newsletter/podcast!
EAR•WAX is an audio drama/indie music project made by Greater Boston co-creator Jeff Van Dreason (@earwaxblog).
There’s going to be a monthly themed mixtape, a bunch of audio drama reviews, and talks about podcast production with Tal Minear (Re: Dracula), Jade Madison Scott (founder of WGC Productions), Oliver Morris (Creative Producer for Skadi's symphony podcasting group) and Editor in Chief Jeff.
I’m writing reviews of new fiction podcasts on there (like Higher Grounds), but there are also incredible writers like:
🚋 Jordan Stillman (works on The Land Whale Murders and Greater Boston, also the production manager)
This project is bringing attention to new musicians and audio drama, and if you follow it, you’ll also be supporting the work of writers and creators.
The magazine already has blog posts on it, and the first podcast episode released yesterday. This episode has a review of Something’s Amiss at Juniper's House, an interview with Lauren Shippen and loads of other cool stuff!! And after that it’ll be releasing every fourth Wednesday a month. Anyway, you can find the website here.
Music curation, audio fiction reviews, cool sounds, soothing tones. All things ears.
And if you want to follow the magazine on Patreon, you can do that here (because you’ll get ad-free listening to the podcast, and some other goodies).
Get more from EAR•WAX Magazine on Patreon. A newsletter & several podcasts about music and audio fiction.. Support EAR•WAX Magazine and get
Malevolent has been running since July 2020, sharing the story of PI Arthur Lester as he gets possessed, attacked, traumatised and falls dow
Here’s my interview with the incredible Harlan Guthrie after the season 5 finale. He talked about his opinions on Lovecraft, his favourite thing about John, a Magnus Archives retrospective and Malevolent Season 6!
These vacations might not be peaceful, but they’re all a treat to listen to.
If you want to listen to some audio dramas about people going on holidays or taking long journeys (in time for the summer), here are some recommendations! They’re mostly horror, but there’s a peaceful sci-fi, a murder mystery, and lots of cool stories with exciting plots. Check it out if you want to feel like you’re going somewhere new.
