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[th0rax]

(Primarily Horror) Audio Drama & Podcast Master List

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I'm in the midst of a pretty big and complicated fiber arts project at the moment, so I really needed the hours upon hours of listening material. I thought it might be nice to list everything that has been suggested (including what I myself listed) in case others are looking for new podcasts and want a quick reference.

The Magnus Archives.

Wolf 359.

Archive 81.

Alice Isn't Dead.

Dracula: The Danse Macabre.

The Silt Verses.

Welcome to Night Vale*

The Magnus Protocol*

Sherlock & Co* (not horror)

Malevolent*

Ethics Town*

Red Valley*

WOE.BEGONE*

Death by Dying*

Camp Here & There*

The Grotto*

I Am In Eskew.

Shelterwood.

Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery.

The White Vault.

Within the Wires.

Margaret's Garden.

Limetown.

Spines.

The Grimoire Diaries.

Impact Winter*

Hi Nay*

How I Died*

Do You Copy?*

The Cellar Letters

Old Gods of Appalacia

Eeler's Choice

Twigs and Hearts

King Falls AM

The NoSleep Podcast

Shadows at the Door

Hello From the Hallowoods

The Penumbra

The Message

The Night Post

Midst

The Bridge (warning: unfinished and will never be finished)

Out of Place

Sayer

Leeches & Liars

Tales of Thattown

A Paladin's Bargain

The Armitage Account

Stella Firma

The Black Tapes (allegedly bad/guilty pleasure)

Asterisk* denotes an ongoing work

Period. denotes a completed work

Will add more to the list as I see them. May organize better later.

Green - Loved. Will absolutely listen again.

Blue - Liked. I really enjoyed this, but 50/50 whether I will relisten.

Orange - not my audio drama preference, but maybe it's yours. Like teen characters and/or literary storytelling? Browse the orange titles under the cut for details!

Purple - Currently listening

Original post under the Orange Explanations under the cut.

Not For Me, Maybe For You

This is the section for every podcast I haven't cared for, but for reasons that may actually be points of appeal to other people. I typically enjoy immersive storytelling with a diverse cast of primarily adult characters, and I have trouble engaging with stories that could easily be someone reading or acting out an audiobook. None of this means the storytelling isn't good or doesn't deserve your attention!

There may be other reasons a story isn't for me, but if you wish to know, message me to learn.

Old Gods of Appalacia

Do you want to feel like you're sitting around a fire, listening to an older gentleman recount fables and legends from the Appalacian woods? This podcast features antlered gods and witchy women in the context of early American settlements and superstition.

Eeler's Choice

Eeler's Choice takes place in an alternative 1800s setting, in a world where magical, celestial eels are hunted for profit to benefit the rich. It's dangerous and unethical work - eeler's make decent money as far as fishermen go, but many ships never return. This maritime story is told through both acting and narration, switching perspectives as it follows several precocious young protagonists who learn their relationship to the powers that govern the sea, the questionable ethics of eeling, and what they're going to do about it.

Twigs & Hearts

Campers have been going missing...and those who set out to find them often disappear just as quickly. The fair folk can be mischievous lot, and they like to play with the lives of humans. When her crush disappears in the woods, one teen girl sets out with a friend to find them, determined to take every precaution and never lower her guard. But will she be able to trust her own perception long enough to save anyone? Give this scrappy indie production a try and find out.

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Horror Audio Drama Recommendations?

Or adjacent. I enjoy nuanced explorations of the complexity of what it means to be human and the extent of forgiveness, the complexity of morality, acceptance of the strange and unsettling, ideally with a supernatural element, bonus points if there is a ritual component.

My favorites ranked so far:

1. Malevolent

2. The Magnus Archives

3. Wolf 359

4. Sherlock & Co (one of these things is not like the others)

5. Camp Here & There

6. Archive 81 (favorite to least favorite seasons: 3,1,2)

[yellow-cat]

fluffy

[persisting]

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

[ruffboi-mags]

Like I'm nearing 40 and I don't feel significantly different as a person than I did at 20, other than being less depressed.

I know I'm different bc i respond in different ways to things now, but there's not a sense of "ah yes I am become adult" that's for fuckin sure. It's normal. It's okay. So stop infantilizing yourselves about it.

[ceekari]

And stop infantilizing others about it, too. Yes, you're realizing at 25 that you still don't feel like an adult, but you cannot use that feeling to let yourself think of people who are younger than you as "even less of an adult than I am" when they are, in fact, adults. And you have to be very, very careful not to let that feeling convince you that it's okay for young adults to have fewer rights.

There's no age at which you magically stop being worried that you're not doing it right or well enough. Every single person alive is the oldest they've ever been and we are ALL winging it. Being scared of getting it wrong doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to get it wrong.

[attackofopportunity]

It is universal, and it doesn't end.

[skull-bearer]

The only way you feel like an adult is by experiencing these things until you know how to deal with them, not by evasion.

[seabeck]

Mossy scene

[woebegonepod]

what if season 19 opened and it was y and all of the iterations he came from and the season was entirely about them

[gringolet]

jpeg from an alternate universe where they have new yorker cartoons at camelot

[thatsbelievable]

[dughole]

where’s that picture of franz kafka where he looks really gay

[dughole]

[retarde]

come on 1895 prague lets get sickening

[whitepeopletwitter]

[fakearchivist]

Via Black Cat Sabotage!, 1996.

[mezimraky]

the resurrection (2025) by ben tuna (via ig)

[pagingcs]

Byzantine mosaics, assorted locations

[oyasumikudasai]

"You’ll just have to pay me later."

[thebigmandownstairs]

Here…… take this…..

[teethovgod-deactivated20250812]

One day, I will clean that mirror 🥹

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[cosmonautroger]

Debbie Harry, Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983