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These are the best of the best in my opinion, both in terms of my enjoyment and the quality of the writing, acting, and production. I'm slowly but surely going through and reviewing each individually, and I add to it regularly.

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Created December 13, 2022

Updated April 12, 2024

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  1. An investigation into the 1926 haunting of Lenora Bowen, a speakeasy bartender in St. Augustine, Florida who recorded her personal account onto a series of wax cylinders. Recently discovered in an antique steamer trunk, archival audio from thes
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  2. The internet has grown into a fully immersive virtual world known as the Ambit. It's a chaotic conglomeration of parks where people can indulge in all kinds of games and fantasies – for a price.
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  3. THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They're short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected places using only sound. If you're new, some good startin
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  4. Do not fear the dark, fear what darkness brings... Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness.Blind, terrified, and confused
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  5. “Make your statement, face your fear.” A weekly horror fiction podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join Jonathan Sims as he explores the arch
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  6. In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath them. These are the darkest mountains in the wo
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  7. Arnie Niekamp fell through a dimensional portal behind a Burger King into the fantastical land of Foon. He's still getting a slight wifi signal, so he uploads a weekly podcast from the tavern the Vermilion Minotaur where he interviews wizards,
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  8. An investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. From H.P. Lovecraft.
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  9. 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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  10. The year is 1999. Lurking somewhere between Hot Topic and the food court, five misfit demons from Hell kill time inciting sin in a suburban shopping mall. When the lead singer of their band goes mysteriously missing, the demons only have two we
  11. 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
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  12. The crew of the MRS Hyacinth rush to survey a Jovian asteroid, hoping it is worth enough to ransom the crew of their sister ship - the Corvus - before the deadline hits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  13. Join parapsychologist and radio broadcaster Dr. Malcolm Ryder as he helps those who suffer the supernatural on his call-in radio show.
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  14. “Build your planet, keep in line… also clones."Stellar Firma is a weekly Science Fiction, Comedy podcast following the misadventures of Stellar Firma Ltd.'s highest born but lowest achieving planetary designer Trexel Geistman and his bewildered
  15. 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 de
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  16. Tales of supernatural suspense written and produced by Soren Narnia.The text of these stories is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarniaAlso by the auth
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  17. Andrew Moss loved his anthropology job, until mysterious artifacts from a Mr. Havisham started arriving in brown paper bags. The artifacts are... Wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  18. A multi-award-winning conspiracy thriller, written by Matthew Broughton.
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  19. A present day journalist uncovers the audio tapes of a 1950s private eye who cracked the greatest unsolved murder mystery Hollywood has ever known... and didn’t tell a soul. Starring Joe Manganiello, Alfred Molina, Constance Zimmer, Alan Tudyk,
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  20. Award-winning anthology series of audio dramas, in the realm of the strange, speculative, and supernatural. Some episodes include more mature content, but have warning labels.
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  21. We are midway through the 26th Century, out at the edge of Human space, in the Teegarden system.John B, a humble repairman and ”former human” (having lost his legal status as such), has left the Earth for mysterious reasons. He is perhaps th
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  22. RONSTADT, starring Rhett & Link, is a supernatural noir comedy set on the mean streets of LA about a 9-1-1 phone jockey whose night job, along with a self-described “Craydar,” leads him deep into Side B - a world filled with magic, monsters, an
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  23. The crew of an orbital station discovers a strange celestial object, creating something that threatens to enmesh them all. Armed with the recordings of the events, a federal agent scours the logs and entries of the crew in search of the truth b
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  24. The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
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  25. In partnership with Warner Bros. and DC, this scripted audio original, Gotham City comes to lurid life in the theater of your mind…with a sensational pageant of technicolor villainy unlike any other on Earth. Mafioso Penguins. Thieving Catwomen
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  26. The BBC and Darkfield present an unnerving trilogy of immersive binaural experiences. Meet yourself in the DEADHOUSE.DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headpho
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  27. The Green Country is an audio-fiction fantasy podcast set in a backwater forest kingdom. Each month, new stories are released which feature the denizens, locations, creatures, and legends of The Green Country. The world we’ll explore in these t
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  28. 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
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  29. A team of xenoarchaeologists travel to distant worlds searching for traces of a now-vanished alien race. Each season brings a new site, new secrets and new dangers.
  30. On a Dark, Cold Night is the ideal podcast for horror-lovers with insomnia; a creepy friend to tell you bedtime/ghost stories. The podcast involves Your Narrator telling you a spine-chilling yet soothing ghost story every week. Launched in Janu
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  31. 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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  32. Eleanor "El" Rivkin is a misanthropic information broker who grapples with a tangled web of corruption, murder, and her own mysterious abilities in 1990s New York City. Starring Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical), Erin Darke (Mrs Maisel), Moises A
  33. A series of weird horror podcasts set in the midwest. The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio is a horror-comedy fiction podcast set within one of the last remaining Dead Letter Offices in the country. Join Conway, Wren, and the rest as the
  34. NOCTURNAL TRANSMISSIONS is a fortnightly short story podcast featuring masterful performances of dark tales, both old and new, by voice artist Kristin Holland. If you enjoy playful, chilling, compelling narrations of horror stories, this is the
  35. Outliers is an historic fiction podcast that explores how big events filter down and are viewed and shaped by the people in the shadows. Themes of otherness, change, gender and the meaning of power are explored through the eyes of characters wh
  36. Sentinel Creatives brings you weekly audio books, radio plays, and related content! Sentinel Creatives is a South African indie press, production house, and distributor of superb works of fiction and near-fiction in a variety of formats. Consid
  37. An anthology of the unexplainedPatreon.com/sessionsxWritten by Matheus H Macedo https://mhmacedo.weebly.com/
  38. Blake Elrich, an urban explorer with a haunted past, travels the country in an old RV with his partner and producer Lazari. At every stop along their journey, they encounter an inexplicable occurrence—something that could not be happening. What
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  39. Shocked by his sire’s murder, young vampire Titus Reed returns to the city of his embrace only to discover an old friend has confessed to the crime. Unconvinced of her guilt, he reopens the case and vows to hunt down the real killer while confr
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  40. There are things we're simply not meant to know. A horror anthology podcast.-Follow: https://twitter.com/WNMTKpod-Contact: [email protected]
  41. The Sandman: Dreamcast is an immersive audio experience that transports listeners to the realm of the Dreaming through the power of imagination and sound. In this limited audio series, fans will relax and rest alongside beloved characters such
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  42. Award Winning Sitcom - Start with Season 1 Episode 1Rudyard 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
  43. 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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  44. The first test of light speed flight has gone wrong, hurling an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race. 12 Episodes. Created, written and directed by Alexander Adell. Join our Discord for bon
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  45. 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.
  46. Space exploration is lawless, dirty, and inconvenient, but that doesn't stop Rho from seeking to recover lost memories and find her place in a universe that seems hell-bent on destroying her. SPECTRE is a swashbuckling space opera about the dan
  47. Petrified - a horror fiction anthology podcast from a darker Ireland. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates.Written and directed by Peter Dunne. Produced by Liam Geraghty
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  48. Nominated for BEST PODCAST OF THE YEAR and BEST FICTION SCREENWRITING at the AMBIES 2022!! Also an Official Selection at Tribeca Film Festival! Here's the deal: Charlie and Amber both suffer from a rare condition that causes them to hallucinate
  49. Scout-explorer Gwen Hartley has five years to explore and prepare her planet for settlement. With no aid but her robots and the anxious voice of her long-distance scout-minder Bell Summers in her ear, she's hoping to be ready for anything. St
  50. A surreal MicroFiction Podcast."A role playing game hums within a global network of power lines, fiber optic cables and obsolete satellites. Players who gain access to this mysterious phenomenon create a projection and are guided by the Dictat
  51. 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
  52. What happened at the Observatory? Who is Dr. Bruknenko? What is in those core samples? And, most importantly…Where is Jimmy Curtains?
  53. In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials. The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about what comes after. It's a story of outer space, survival, espionage, resistance, identity, friendship, found family, romance, and secrets. (A
  54. From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences.
  55. 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
  56. Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Lost Trail” is an epic quest that takes place in the Louisiana bayou. Following the events of Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Long Night,” Logan (Richard Armitage) returns to New Orleans in search of redemption, only to discov
  57. A scientist is attempting a dangerous experiment in this Frankenstein-inspired, speculative fiction podcast that takes place during an alternate version of the Victorian era. As the scientist seeks to perfect her formula and find a suitable spe
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  58. The Violet Hour presents - IN ANOTHER ROOM.An amateur paranormal investigator gets trapped inside a notoriously haunted house, where every room she enters transports her to the last inhabitant’s grisly murder.Learn more at www.VioletHourMedia
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  59. Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is true.
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  60. Not your typical bi-weekly horror, scifi, telepathic frogs audio drama, Mandible Judy also features a synth-wielding geneticist and strangely sonorous rocks from space.We combine top-notch voice acting by veterans of the world of audio fiction
  61. "Supernatural? We're not super anything. Just a little extra."Cab drivers have tall tales to share, even the vanillas. What if goblins, nationalists, and worse monsters stalked the night? Hapless half-demon Corin Black taxis creatures of the ni
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  62. Starring Leslie Grace and Soni Bringas, this 10-episode supernatural thriller follows Nancy (BRINGAS), a nebbish computer scientist, who becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor. It doesn’t take long for her to uncover a dark secret: t
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  63. A new comedy-horror from Natasha Hodgson (Kill The Beast, Beef and Dairy Network, Tom Neenan is Not All Men).We’ll play your dreams back to you, so you can see yourself clearly. Sleep clean.Starring Alice Lowe, Celeste Dring, David Elms, Jason
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  64. Winner: Best Fiction Podcast, iHeart Podcast Awards. On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someon
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  65. This  ██ from ██ Island.█████████████████████████From an island is a podcast drama built from ‘found’ audio files, ranging from voice notes to news reports. It’s a micro drama formed of short episodes to be enjoyed when you have a spare mom
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  66. We follow Tessa Dixon at a remote army base in Texas as she deals with the psychological and physical trauma of basic training. When she finds a tape of her grandfather’s labeled ‘Ghost Tape’ and plays the haunting audio, she unknowingly unleas
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  67. Lovecraft meets Kafka in this serialized fantasy/horror podcast about Howie, a troubled young man who joins the milkmen on the island of St. Gaff’s, only to discover that the milkmen harbor a dark and dangerous secret. Be sure to start with epi
  68. The entirely true adventures I have had while trying to find my cat.
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  69. A shady governmental group that deals with supernatural entities experiences a containment breach at its main office. One new hire and one mid-level employee from the Bureau of Transnatural Resources are stuck on different floors when the lockd
  70. DEVISER is a Sci-Fi Horror Audio Drama, created by Harlan Guthrie. In this series Son wakes up aboard a spaceship bound for earth in an effort to recolonize. What he discovers however will change everything he knows about his world and himself.
  71. Ghost Wax is a horror fiction podcast following the work of the last “reclaimer”, investigating a series of unnatural killings by raising the dead and committing their final statements to wax cylinder.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for
  72. In a small UK town, a young man's friend is found brutally murdered alongside her family. He makes it his mission to find the culprit, but soon realises there is much more to this sleepy town than meets the eye. Come listen and take a surreal j
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  73. What begins as an investigation into the first documented murder on Antarctica and the South Pole's Amundsen-Scott-Research Station;  has unearthed far more than scientific inquiry. From clandestine government experiments to whispered tales of
  74. Horrifying Audio Theater: Hayward Sanitarium is an original episodic drama that played on National Public Radio's NPR Playhouse. The cult classic features the adventures centered around an old sanitarium that studies patients who claim to be su
  75. A man with no name investigates the supernatural.
  76. In the year 2320, a skip tracer hunts down a dangerous escaped criminal on a derelict space station. In the process, she must confront murderous alien life forms, as well as unspeakable horrors from her past. Starring Gwendoline Christie and Mi
  77. Something has been found at the bottom of Earth's ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. It becomes known as the Vault. A gigantic enigma, buried and forgotten...nineteen thousand feet d
  78. Nothing fancy here -- just the simple audio diary of a girl in space. Also, there’s this weird and potentially ominous light in the distance that seems to be growing steadily closer. Listen for science, guns, trust, anti-matter, truth, beauty,
  79. Welcome to the color soaked psychedelic cosmic nightmare you've been waiting for (whether you knew it or not.)Where every tragedy is a ritual and every sacrifice is a joke.Welcome to Wireland Ranch Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast.
  80. When the space agency ‘Quietland’ detects a mysterious sound coming from beyond our galaxy, four trained musicians are sent in search of the source of this frequency.What will the astronauts discover as they give up their eyes and go searching
  81. Strange things are happening aboard a cruise ship in Antarctica. One reporter interviews passengers to learn the truth about these bizarre phenomena.
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  82. Iris blends cosmic horror and teen drama, telling the bone chilling journey of seventeen-year-old ballerina Isabella, who finds herself in a remote dance academy in the woods, unveiling a dark secret that could change her life forever.  Finding
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  83. Art History student Clara Torres disappears while working on her thesis about Ursula Blum, a avant-garde painter from the 20th century. Five years later, journalist Emma Clark decides to travel to Switzerland to continue Clara's investigation a
  84. 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
  85. Since she was a child Jac has been receiving mysterious and disturbing cassette tapes in the mail from an unknown sender. This podcast listens to and discusses each tape while trying to discover who is sending these tapes and why they are sendi
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  86. Ethics Town is a cosmic horror podcast about philosophical conundrums in a weird small town! We're not going to answer the big questions for you, but we are going to dance around them in a fun and theatrical manner!Listeners will follow Janu
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  87. Welcome to Sugar Maple, an eight-episode fiction podcast, with an original soundtrack. Starring Fred Savage. A Fender Telecaster, rebuilt using a scrap of mysterious wood—passes by amazing circumstances to eight different owners over the years
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  88. “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
  89. Star Wars meets Platoon. Fearless Fred Presents: Mud79 - is a fan made Star Wars story that takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.Solomon Kwai is one of countless youths from across the galaxy who find themselves in the Imperia
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  90. THIS HOUSE WILL DEVOUR YOU is a story of love, madness, murder, mysteries and dead gods set in the1920's. It is an epistolary audio drama as told by Jon and Elizabeth to each other in their letters. Season One takes place in Ireland and England
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  91. 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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  92. CASE 63 IS OUT NOWSeason Two of Case 63 transports us back to 2012 where Eliza Beatrix Knight wakes confused and naked in a bathroom at JFK airport, having failed her mission. Taken to a hospital, she is treated by Dr. Vincent Caldwell - a re
  93. Blending sci-fi intrigue with humor, vulnerability, and contemplation this is an introspective and wittily candid, though a bit sweary, Sci-Fi audio drama. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  94. Superhuman Public Radio is an award-winning audio drama telling the surprisingly human stories in a superpowered world. These are the stories that fall between the panels of comic books. Find out more at www.SPRpod.com⁠
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  95. These recordings were emailed to us without explanation. The sender has not responded to any questions. We cannot confirm the veracity of the information contained within, but believe that the creator of these recordings is acting in good faith
  96. ​Somewhere on the borders between Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee in the most remote parts of the Appalachians, girls have gone missing for decades. When a young woman journeys there to the isolated community of Kilruane, she uncovers t
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  97. The year is 1983. The threat of war simmers between the Soviet Union and the US. The moon watches the Earth like a slowly blinking eye, and within the black depths of the cosmos... something watches the moon. Cosmonaut Ilia Zakharov (award-winn
  98. A Gothic Adventure. We inhabit a world forever teetering on the lip of destruction and the fall into darkness. The shadow world. The world of Virgil Kaylock!
  99. This is a story about a machine. A big machine. A supercomputer the size and shape of an ancient pyramid. A device that runs the world from the secret recesses of the White House basement. A machine you never knew existed until now. A machine n
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  100. ://INITIALIZE(); :{" Congratulations! 🎉 You are now able to receive transmissions from any of our deployed PodCube™ recording devices, located throughout the known universe; past, present, and future. What is PodCube™? Beta-testers have
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  101. Occult societies, elaborate hidden tunnel systems, astral travel and paranormal hauntings. Stories that have been told for generations only to be written off as campfire tales. Dark, foreboding and inevitable. Constants is created and written
  102. A detective comedy drama || Even Greater London, 1887. In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.
  103. Underwood and Flinch is a three-time Parsec award-winning vampire audiobook saga by Mike Bennett. “If you think vampire tales are a worn-out genre, Underwood and Flinch will shock and delight you.” Walt Kolenda, Examiner.comFor hundreds of year
  104. IMPORTANT:This 🅿odCube™ Podcast has been moved to the 'PodCube™' RSS feed. New broadcasts from Alabaster's Haberdashery will appear there instead. This collection remains here as 'historical documentation' pursuant to RSA 11:16 of the Tempo
  105. Smile Club: The Audio Series. A six-part immersive dystopian fiction. Created and written by Andrea Heaton and Adam Z. Robinson. Follow @smileclubshow on Twitter.
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  106. A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a mysterious cult. A mind-bending mystery/thriller from Cryptic Radio. Fiction
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  107. In a dystopian city, an ageing courier is forced to go into business with an underworld ganglord in order to pay for the treatment that keeps him alive.
  108. It's 1984, and Daniel Knox is on the run. He's spent his entire life evading mysterious creatures that are disguised as everyday people - the ones he calls 'Shadows'. Preying on humans in secret, the Shadows are an enigma even to Daniel. But he

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