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A list of my favorite fiction podcasts. No particular order.

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Created May 23, 2020

Updated March 27, 2024

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  1. Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

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    Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature – Second Year Classics, C667, Professor [REDACTED]. This course discusses the Anterran Civilization, examining the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific
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  2. Dirt - An Audio Drama

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    A strange letter. An impossible sender. Secrets hidden in the ground. From STUDIO5705, a scripted fiction podcast set in present-day Washington State about a man’s journey to unlock a family mystery—and find things long ago buried. Three comple
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  3. BOOM

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    It's 1999 and Enron finance manager Jim Yang has received an email from the future.BOOM is a groundbreaking audio drama from Stak and the makers of The Offensive and Jackie the Ripper.Stars Akie Kotabe, Omari Douglas, Sharon D. Clarke MBE, Meg
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  4. Badlands Cola | A Strange Audio Drama

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    Badlands Cola is a cinematic mystery/horror audio drama about eldritch fossils, hate-flirting, and liminal nightmares that yawn wide in the night. In a desert town full of strange fossils and even stranger people, a hard-hearted PI and a broken
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  5. Sherlock & Co.

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    My name is Dr. John Watson, once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in Central London. I don't have much experience in criminology, so this is mostly a record of how I met possibly the most br
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  6. Station 151

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    Station 151 is Antarctica’s first and only astronomical radio observatory. Built by the Telders Corporation at an estimated cost of $200M USD, the station promises to reveal the darkest secrets of the universe. Join Astrophysicist Wayne Roberts
    FictionScience Fiction

  7. ReMade

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    “The suspense in Remade is gripping.”— Observer Twenty-three teenagers from different backgrounds die at the same time, reawakening in a mysterious world overtaken by deadly robots. Alone and abandoned in a futuristic hellscape where killer m
    FictionDramaScience Fiction

  8. Midst

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    Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster.
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  9. Where the Leaves Fall Purple

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    “What does where the leaves fall purple mean?”Ben Miller has a problem. He’s in his final year of university with nothing to show for it. His true crime podcast only has a handful of listeners and he’s starting to lose hope. His only true sup
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  10. Bookburners

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    Magic is real. And it’s dangerous. It’s locked in books and relics imbued with power. But sometimes, whether by accident or by design, magic escapes and wreaks havoc upon the world. That’s when Team Three is deployed—known by their enemies as:
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  11. Restart

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    They claim to cure video game addiction - but what's really going on? Mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher, starring Armin Karima (Sex Education).
    FictionDrama

  12. Echoes (In) Between

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    Journalists Gemma Avots and Thomas Fonte accompany their listeners on an intriguing journey into their own childhood memories by way of a brand new memory recovery program, developed by world renowned expert, Dr. Adrian Thorne.
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  13. Midnight Burger

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    When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along wit
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  14. POD115

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    A Nevada college podcast is disrupted by bizarre signals, leading its student crew to an unearthly and horrifying discovery deep in the desert.
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  15. The Soyuz Files

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    The Soviet Union has won the Space Race and American astronauts never landed on the Moon. Told through radio news broadcasts in 1968 and 1969, The Soyuz Files takes you from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the spires of the Kremlin. Join invest
    FictionHistory

  16. Cryptic

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    Cryptic is an audio drama. Cole and Julie Kurtz, a brother-sister team investigate cryptid sightings in their home state of Ohio. Oh, by the way, all of these legends are true!
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  17. Give Me Away

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    From the writer of The Message, Life/After, and Steal the Stars. They call the crashed spaceship “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners trapped in its horrific mainframe. The only wa
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  18. The Subjective Truth

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    In June of 2020, Buddha Kline vanished from the Carson National Forest while searching for the legendary Fenn Treasure. From alien abductions to haunted hotels to reincarnation robots, everyone has a theory to push. A narrative they're hoping t
    FictionScience FictionDrama

  19. The Lovecraft Investigations

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    An investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. From H.P. Lovecraft.
    FictionDrama

  20. Agent Stoker

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    AGENT STOKER is a paranormal thriller – part Raymond Chandler, part Philip K. Dick, and all macabre all the time. AGENT STOKER is the love child of The Shadow and Black Mirror, it’s “The X-Files with a drinking problem.” AGENT STOKER is the tal
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  21. Motherhacker

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    Bridget’s life is a series of dropped calls. With a gift for gab, an ex-husband in rehab, and down to her last dollar, Bridget’s life takes a desperate turn when she starts vishing over the phone for a shady identity theft ring in order to supp
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  22. Rabbits

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    When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more t
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  23. The Black Tapes

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    The Black Tapes is a weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Alex Reagan. The Black Tapes Podcast is a serialized docudrama about one journalist's search for truth, her subject's mysterious past, and the
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  24. Stories from Among the Stars

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    This season we return to the stars with J. S. Dewes’s acclaimed space-epic THE LAST WATCH. The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in this fast-paced, sci-fi adventure, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation. The Divide.
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  25. Limetown

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    Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, "What happened to the p
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  26. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

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    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP.Releases every other week during season.Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living i
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  27. The White Vault

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    Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below
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  28. A Man of the Mountain

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    The adventure begins: 11/26/19A Man of the Mountain is an audio drama telling the story of Jonas, a man hell bent on maintaining the Bigfoot legend, and Shirley, the intrepid tabloid reporter trying to stop him. Things escalate when real mons
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  29. What Happened in Skinner

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    In the fall of 2021, an obscure YouTube channel streamed what became the most talked-about mystery on the Internet. But what really happened that night? And how much deeper does the story go? Join Marlowe Verne, as she ventures out to the rem
    Audio DramaFiction

  30. When Angels Visit Armadillo

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    When Angels Visit Armadillo uncovers a mystery shrouded in conspiracy, tucked away behind the moss in the rural town of Armadillo, Florida. Through interview recordings and phone calls, WAVA delves into the story of Magnolia Waters-- an unapol
    FictionScience FictionDrama

  31. Video Palace

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    When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin and find themselves caught up in a web of c
    Audio DramaArts

  32. Passenger List

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    Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Passenger
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  33. ars PARADOXICA

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    When an experiment in a time much like our own goes horribly awry, Dr. Sally Grissom finds herself stranded in the past and entrenched in the activities of a clandestine branch of the US government. Grissom and her team quickly learn that there
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  34. The Deca Tapes

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    An eight-part mystery story. Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.
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  35. The Left Right Game

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    Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a superna
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  36. Ostium Podcast

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    Ostium is a fictional podcast about a man who discovers a secret town with many doors that lead him to strange and interesting places.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ostium. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati
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  37. Station to Station

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    Dr. Miranda Quan's lab partner is MIA. But his notes, and a tape player that may contain his final words, have made it onto the research ship headed hundreds of miles into the North Pacific — along with a sinister secret that endangers everyone
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  38. The Dog Is Dead

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    It's like the Twilight Zone for an optimist's heart. Every episode starts with the same line, but becomes a totally different story. And yet, they’re all intertwined. Can you find the connections?**Winner - Second Rounder - Austin Film Festiv
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  39. Mirrors

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    Three women. Three centuries. One haunting. Mirrors is a sci-fi ghost story from ZoomDoom Stories.Find out more at https://www.mirrorspodcast.com/Our cover image is courtesy of the Wellcome Library and has been made available under Creative
    Audio DramaArts

  40. The Six Disappearances of Ella McCray

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    On March 20th, 2014, Ella McCray disappeared.There were six witnesses to her disappearance.Six conflicting accounts of what happened to her.Who is lying? Who is telling the truth? And what really happened to Ella?You can support the show by
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  41. Down

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    Down is a 24-part science-fiction series from Definitely Human about an expedition into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of wi
    FictionScience Fiction

  42. Olive Hill

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    In 2001 two girls, on opposite sides of town, in the dead of night, stopped what they were doing and walked into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Now, a journalist who grew up with the girls is coming home to find out what happened that night
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  43. Red Valley

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    A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present & future, & trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2. 
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  44. Tracks

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    A multi-award-winning conspiracy thriller, written by Matthew Broughton.
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  45. Borrasca

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    A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer his sister disappeared; the friends he made, the legends he heard, the pain and confusion of loss
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  46. We Know None

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    Gwen Thomas' girlfriend, Frankie, disappeared two weeks ago. Following her trail, will Gwen find Frankie, or is she really gone? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  47. The Sheridan Tapes

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    In 2018, famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes. Detective Sam Bailey is tasked with piecing together what happened to Anna Sheridan from the seemingly impossible encounters she rec
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  48. Parkdale Haunt

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    Ever since Judith’s lifelong best friend, Claire Sterback, inherited a house from a biological family she never knew, things have begun to change. Claire has begun to change. It isn’t just that the house is full of cryptic notebooks, ominous sc
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  49. The Cipher

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    When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she’s recruited to track down a serial killer... who might not be from this world. Starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo. New episodes Tuesdays.Cast:Sabrina – Anya ChalotraBenny – Chan
    FictionDrama

  50. From Now

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    A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks mysteriously​ looking the exact same age as when he left​. Following the ensuing media chaos, he final
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  51. King Falls AM

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    King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.New shows available the 1st and 15th of every month! Be sure to start from Sammy's first show (May
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  52. Chronicles of the Essence Guard

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    Whether the Essence is an element that can manipulate time or the Essence is the source of time itself remains uncertain. Be that as it may, its power has omnipotent potential that demands shielding it from evil a necessity. The Essence Guard i
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  53. The McIlwraith Statements

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    Sarah McIlwraith is haunted by the past. It doesn't help that she can also see ghosts. Listen to Sarah as she recounts her involvement in the infamous IPP study, and her search for the truth behind the disaster.
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  54. The Call of the Void

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    In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity besetting the city.The Call of the Void is an indie science-fiction podcast produced by Acorn Arts
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  55. The Adventures of Elizabeth Crowne

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    In the uncanny world of Elizabeth Crowne, anything can happen: Murderers levitate through trees. Werewolves stalk unsuspecting bootleggers. The undead run their own zeppelin service. In this serialized podcast, listeners learn Elizabeth's origi
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  56. Body Horror

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    What price a new body? Welcome to 2050, where the booming transplant industry can cater for all your wildest desires
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  57. Ctrl-Alt-Destroy

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    Starring Firefly’s Summer Glau as a video game designer who discovers that the game she created has been stolen as part of a top secret project—and might be the only thing keeping the world from plunging into war. While battling monsters and
    FictionScience Fiction

  58. The Antique Shop

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    People only find the antique shop when they need to. Just at the right time.
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  59. Blackwood

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    Five years ago, Molly Weaver, Bryan Anderson, and Nathan Howell started a podcast focused on the local legend of a monster called The Blackwood Bugman. Quickly, the investigation grows out of their control, as they discover that, not only are t
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  60. Dark Heights

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    A small California town—and three people within it—become the targets of an ancient evil.Tess Bellamy’s return home is anything but triumphant. She’s decided Hollywood isn’t for her, resigned to a normal life of caring for her ailing mother.
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  61. Silverwood

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    Deep in the serene forest of Silverwood, California, a monster from another dimension is desperate for the human blood it needs to return home. What begins as a relaxing week in the woods for two groups of campers—employees on a corporate ret
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  62. Syntax

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    A science fiction, horror audio drama podcast that follows Silas Caldwell, a linguist, who finds himself employed by VINCULA, a biotech company with an unearthly set of artifacts in their possession. Alongside a team of scientists and explorers
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  63. Soft Voice

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    Lydia was perfect, because Soft Voice told her exactly what to do and what to say. But one day, Soft Voice left. SOFT VOICE is an immersive audiodrama about imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and self-loathing starring Naomi Scott, Bel Powley an
    FictionDrama

  64. Bridgewater

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    When a relic from his past is rediscovered, folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw puts his life on hold to solve the mystery. Along the way, he’s helped by people who challenge everything he believes in, and ultimately tries to answer the question
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  65. Tomorrow's Monsters

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    Headphones are highly recommended for this immersive, psychological, sci-fi thriller! John Boyega (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) stars as Jack Locke, a mysterious conman with a vendetta who infiltrates NextCorp, a Silicon Valley body-hacking st
    FictionScience Fiction

  66. The Burned Photo

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    The hit horror show, The Burned Photo is back. This suspense-filled thriller tells the story of Felicia (Charmaine Bingwa, THE GOOD FIGHT) and Kira (Kat McNamara, SHADOWHUNTERS), two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they
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  67. Duggan Hill

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    On a back country road outside the hamlet of Duggan Hill, Saskatchewan, a woman named Sasha Ismond goes missing without a trace. She had been travelling from Vancouver for the past day, and was mere minutes away from her father's home. The last
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  68. Impact Winter

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    “They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting.”From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible O
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  69. Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery

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    Tig Torres is back! The Lit Killer saga continues in Season 2 as friends new and old return to Hollow Falls for the grand reopening of the Montague Hotel. But the town is in for a rude awakening when bodies begin to drop, with an antique music
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  70. Riordan's Desk

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    Crime fiction by Mark Coggins featuring private investigator August Riordan. Each season is a one chapter/one episode reading of a Riordan novel by the author. Season 1 is THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL, a book the New York Journal of Books called a “Glo
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