The psychological horror thriller space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 34 of the best, including The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Night Vale, and Knifepoint Horror.
The Magnus Archives
“Make your statement, face your fear.” The Magnus Archives is an award winning weekly horror fiction audiodrama podcast examining what lurks in the...
Welcome to Night Vale
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never ...
Knifepoint Horror
Tales of supernatural suspense written, produced, and narrated by Soren Narnia. The text of these stories is licensed under Creative Commons Attrib...
Alice Isn't Dead
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 ...
Archive 81
Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious. New episodes will be released every other Wednesday. Start from "01 - A...
OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween
A genre-bending audio drama of character-driven adult dark fiction, thrillers, horror & suspense. Each story is fully dramatized with exce...
The Left Right Game
Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist trying to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed wit...
The Black Tapes
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 seri...
Limetown
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...
Scare You To Sleep
Curl up and relax as I read you a spooky bed time story! Join me in enjoying the soothing, although somewhat unnerving, sounds of all that goes bum...
Baking A Murder
If psychological thrillers & horror movies/books are your guilty pleasure - you're at the right place. Brought to you by Rotten Mango hosts!
Video Palace
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 girl...
Borrasca
A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer ...
Soft Voice
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 audiodr...
Cassettes
Protagonizada por Martha Higareda, y con las actuaciones de Mariano Palacios, Odiseo Bichir y Patricia Manterola. Tras la muerte de su madre, Ana s...
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Psychological Horror Thriller
The Mantawauk Caves
Winner: Best Fiction Podcast, iHeart Podcast Awards. On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only o...
SADISTIC
All original. Mostly horror. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday. Written and edited by Jon Saks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
Homecoming
Now a Prime Original TV series. From Spotify Studios, Homecoming centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and...
Darkest Night
Darkest Night is a binaural audio drama that places you, the listener, at the center of a recovered memory that sounds as though it's happening aro...
Palimpsest
Palimpsest is a (mostly) single-voiced audio drama about memory, identity, and the things that haunt us. Each ten-episode season is a unique and se...
Agent Stoker
AGENT STOKER is an immersive paranormal thriller -- part Raymond Chandler, part Philip K. Dick, and all macabre all the time. It's the love child o...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
SOMNARIUM.
A psychological horror audio drama from Haunted House Studios.Follow Alex as he digs through recovered case notes and recordings from Dr. Susan Ren...
Red in the Dark
Red in the Dark is a psychological horror thriller about what happens when good intentions blur into harm. The story follows intersecting lives—wor...
UNWELL
You saw it on TikTok. That weird green powder, the mouth taping thing, the "internal shower" that looks suspiciously like laxative lemonade. You’re...
The Nowhere Realm
Enter The Nowhere Realm. A dark, mind bending Bi Weekly podcast where reality twists, time fractures, and every story slips into the unknown. A hau...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
Dead Static
Something is always listening. Dead Static is a psychological horror fiction podcast delivering short, immersive stories designed to unnerve. Each ...
The Black Dirt Tapes
The Black Dirt Tapes is a true crime podcast uncovering the dark, forgotten stories buried beneath Iowa’s surface. Hosted, written, and produced by...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
The Spoken Reel
Where imagination isn’t just heard it’s felt. The Spoken Reel is a cinematic audio fiction podcast delivering original, immersive stories in every ...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
Darkwood Library
Darkwood Library is a cozy, critical podcast for readers who love fantasy, romance, and sci-fi, and want to dig deeper. Host Sarah blends warm book...
Content:
Psychological Horror Thriller
Ritualist Edit Podcast
You do everything for everyone. These weekly audio letters are for the part of you that usually has no space to think. theritualistedit.substack.com
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Psychological Horror Thriller
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