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Top Podcasts for Small Town Horror in 2026

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  1. The Magnus Archives
    The Magnus Archives
    “Make your statement, face your fear.” The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction audiodrama podcast examining what lurks in the archives of th...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +3
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Narrative StorytellingSerialized Fiction
    When:
    Long DriveWeekend Deep Dive
  2. The NoSleep Podcast
    The NoSleep Podcast
    The NoSleep Podcast is a multi-award winning anthology series of original horror stories, with rich atmospheric music to enhance the frightening ta...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesHaunted PlacesSmall Town Horror
    +3
    Audience:
    Horror CreatorsSci-Fi Fans
    When:
    Background NoiseLong Drive
  3. Up and Vanished
    Up and Vanished
    Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate two mysterious disappearances from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investiga...
    Content:
    Cold Case InvestigationsMissing PersonsSerial KillersTraveler CrimeTrue CrimeSmall Town Horror
    +1
    Audience:
    True Crime Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    DocumentaryInvestigativeNarrative StorytellingSolo Commentary
  4. Welcome to Night Vale
    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 ...
    Content:
    Audio FictionConspiracy TheoriesDark FantasyDark FictionFictionSmall Town Horror
    +3
    Audience:
    Book LoversFantasy FansGen ZSci-Fi FansWriters
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Narrative StorytellingSerialized Fiction
    When:
    Background NoiseWeekend Deep Dive
  5. Midnight Burger
    Midnight Burger
    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, ...
    Content:
    Audio FictionFictionSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Fantasy FansSci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  6. Lore
    Lore
    The award-winning podcast (also a TV show & book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events...
    Content:
    Dark FantasyDark FictionFictionFolk TalesGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +9
    Audience:
    Fantasy FansHistory BuffsStudents
    Goal:
    Following A StoryLearning New SkillsRelaxingSleeping BetterTo Fall Asleep To
    Style:
    DocumentaryNarrative StorytellingSolo Commentary
    When:
    Background NoiseBefore BedCommutingLong DriveWeekend Deep Dive
  7. Old Gods of Appalachia
    Old Gods of Appalachia
    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 unk...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionFolk TalesSmall Town Horror
    +4
    Audience:
    Fantasy FansHorror CreatorsSci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
    When:
    Long Drive
  8. The White Vault
    The White Vault
    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 Ou...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +3
    Audience:
    Horror CreatorsSci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  9. S-Town
    S-Town
    S-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company. The story follows a man named John who despises his Ala...
    Content:
    Audio FictionCold Case InvestigationsFictionTrue CrimeSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    True Crime Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    DocumentaryInvestigativeNarrative StorytellingSerialized Fiction
    When:
    Doing ChoresLong DriveWeekend Deep Dive
  10. Archive 81
    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...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +2
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
    When:
    Weekend Deep Dive
  11. Small Town Dicks
    Small Town Dicks
    Small Town Dicks takes you behind the scenes of small town crime cases with the real detectives who investigated them. Hosts Yeardley Smith, twin d...
    Content:
    Law EnforcementLaw Enforcement CareersNypd DetectivesTrue CrimeSmall Town Horror
  12. How i Died
    How i Died
    Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without h...
    Content:
    Ttrpg Actual PlaySmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  13. The Black Tapes
    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...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +5
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  14. Limetown
    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...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FictionFictionHistoryPsychological HorrorSmall Town Horror
    +2
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi FansStudents
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Narrative StorytellingSerialized Fiction
    When:
    At The GymWeekend Deep Dive
  15. The Left Right Game
    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...
    Content:
    Dark FictionFictionSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  16. The Void
    The Void
    What do you know about the dark? When you look into the shadows, do you feel them watching back? In the town of Milton, the darkness isn't just in ...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Fantasy Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Narrative StorytellingSerialized Fiction
  17. TANIS
    TANIS
    Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the Public Radio Alliance, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and s...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
    +1
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  18. Alice Isn't Dead
    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 ...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +2
    Audience:
    Fantasy FansSci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
    When:
    At The Gym
  19. The Lovecraft Investigations
    The Lovecraft Investigations
    An investigation into witchcraft, the occult and secret government operations. From H.P. Lovecraft.
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +6
    Audience:
    Fantasy FansSci-Fi Fans
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  20. Borrasca
    Borrasca
    A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer ...
    Content:
    Dark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  21. The Mysteries Of Derlin County
    The Mysteries Of Derlin County
    Brandon returns home to Derlin county to solve a mystery surrounding a girl who went missing from his high school. After figuring it out, he soon r...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  22. Hello From The Hallowoods
    Hello From The Hallowoods
    Come walk between the black pines! In this award-winning queer horror podcast, a cosmic narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of th...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionSmall Town Horror
  23. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery
    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery
    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP.Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +2
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
    When:
    Commuting
  24. Bridgewater
    Bridgewater
    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 help...
    Content:
    Audio FictionFictionSmall Town Horror
  25. Rabbits
    Rabbits
    When Carly Parker's friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly's search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancien...
    Content:
    FictionSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Sci-Fi Fans
    Goal:
    Following A Story
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  26. Hometown Ghost Stories
    Hometown Ghost Stories
    Hometown Ghost Stories dives into the history of haunted locations and investigates why and how these places earned their terrifying reputation. Ro...
    Content:
    Ghost StoriesHaunted PlacesParanormal InvestigationsSmall Town Horror
  27. Death by Dying
    Death by Dying
    The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths… when he...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionSmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  28. I Am In Eskew
    I Am In Eskew
    Trapped in the horror-filled and impossible city of Eskew, a man makes endless recordings of his day-to-day experiences, hoping to reach the outsid...
    Content:
    Dark FictionPsychological HorrorSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
  29. Pretending to be People
    Pretending to be People
    Pretending to be People is a mystery/horror role-playing podcast. Join Zach, Thomas, Luke, and Joe as they navigate a terrifying campaign filled wi...
    Content:
    Ttrpg Actual PlaySmall Town Horror
  30. Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations
    Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations
    Dakota Spotlight is a true crime series investigating unsolved murders, cold cases, and missing persons in North Dakota and the Midwest. Hosted by ...
    Content:
    Cold Case InvestigationsMidwest StoriesMissing PersonsTrue CrimeUnsolved MysteriesSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    True Crime Fans
    Style:
    Investigative
  31. The Call of the Void
    The Call of the Void
    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 bese...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FantasyDark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
    +3
    Audience:
    Horror CreatorsSci-Fi Fans
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  32. King Falls AM
    King Falls AM
    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...
    Content:
    Audio FictionFictionGhost StoriesSmall Town Horror
  33. Uncanny County
    Uncanny County
    Mystical truck drivers. Robots gone haywire. Killer clown demons. And pie. So. Much. Pie. This quirky, darkly comic, Southwestern-flavored antholog...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  34. Shelterwood
    Shelterwood
    Shelterwood: A Suburban Gothic is a Docu-Horror Podcast written and produced by Stephen Indrisano. Join one man’s quest to find his long-lost siste...
    Content:
    Dark FictionFictionGhost StoriesSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Horror Creators
  35. The Town Whispers
    The Town Whispers
    The Town Whispers is a narrative horror podcast, that will tell the many stories hidden behind the fog and the trees and the rain of a town called ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  36. Dark Woods
    Dark Woods
    From Legendary Producer Dick Wolf and Wolf Entertainment comes a new fiction series starring Corey Stoll (House of Cards, Ant-Man), Monica Raymund ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  37. Ethics Town
    Ethics Town
    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, b...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  38. Ghosts In The Burbs
    Ghosts In The Burbs
    A cozy collection of (fictional?) stories. Here you'll find a lot of ghosts, a handful of demons, some monsters and an increasing amount of mysteri...
    Content:
    Ghost StoriesHaunted PlacesSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
  39. Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama
    Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama
    Lovecraft Country meets True Blood in this new series from award-winning producers Tonia Ransom and Jen Zink. In season one, a small East Texas tow...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  40. NORA
    NORA
    These recordings were emailed to us without explanation. The sender has not responded to any questions. We cannot confirm the veracity of the infor...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  41. Ghost Town
    Ghost Town
    An archaeologist retires to teach high school, but when his students tell him about a nearby abandoned town, they set out to investigate. There the...
    Content:
    Audio FictionGhost StoriesHaunted PlacesParanormal InvestigationsUnsolved MysteriesSmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Investigative
  42. The Occurrence in River Oaks
    The Occurrence in River Oaks
    The Occurrence in River Oaks is an all new, entirely voice acted sci-fi horror audio drama from writer/director Nikki Durbin and Rogue Luna Enterta...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  43. Wayward Guide For The Untrained Eye
    Wayward Guide For The Untrained Eye
    Wayward Guide is a fictional investigative podcast about the sordid world of local politics, backroom dealings, and werewolves. When an alluring co...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  44. Weeping Cedars
    Weeping Cedars
    A slow burn horror story in the town of Weeping Cedars. Learn about both the past and present of Weeping Cedars with Documentary episodes from the ...
    Content:
    Supernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
  45. Cicatrix
    Cicatrix
    While searching for his missing father, audio engineer Paul Harmon discovers a series of grotesque and unsettling revelations left in an abandoned ...
    Content:
    Audio FictionSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
    Style:
    DocumentaryInvestigative
  46. Lake Clarity
    Lake Clarity
    Five teens head up to Camp Clarity to celebrate their last summer together, but little do they know they're about to stumble on dark secrets that s...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  47. The Wicked Library
    The Wicked Library
    The Wicked Library is a Parsec Award winning show featuring horror fiction stories from upcoming, new, independent and bestselling authors. Our Tal...
    Content:
    Dark FictionFictionGhost StoriesPsychological HorrorSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Horror Creators
  48. Blackwood
    Blackwood
    Five years ago, Molly Weaver, Bryan Anderson, and Nathan Howell started a podcast focused on the local legend of a monster called The Blackwood Bug...
    Content:
    Dark FictionSmall Town Horror
  49. Small Town Horror
    Small Town Horror
    Ryan Jennings ran from the horrors of Crayton 18 years ago. Now is is coming back to face his greatest fears and search for answers. Hosted on Acas...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  50. Strange Trails
    Strange Trails
    Finn Mitchell and his best friend Omari Mason travel to a rural town in West Virginia to investigate folklore about a serial killer there known as ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  51. BELIEVER
    BELIEVER
    لأن لنفسك عليك حق, صنعنا بودكاست بليفر لتذكرك اسبوعيا بمواضيع تخص اهتمامك بنفسك,روحك, حياتك وكل مايخصها بحيث انك تكون دائما النسخة الأفضل منك يوم ب...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  52. Small Town Whispers
    Small Town Whispers
    Small Town Whispers is a storytelling podcast where history and the paranormal meet under the glow of the porchlight. Season One, Watseka Wonder, e...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  53. Still Lives
    Still Lives
    Thirteen years after the fall of modern civilization, five survivors live in relative harmony on an isolated farm, where they rarely discuss their ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  54. Small Town Horror with Johnny and Randy
    Small Town Horror with Johnny and Randy
    If you love horror films then this is the perfect podcast for you! Small Town Horror with Johnny & Randy is a Podcast that discusses all things...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  55. The Tunnels
    The Tunnels
    A podcast by The Mole, a revolutionary platform that produces content with the intention of communicating, exploring, progressing and popularising ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
    Style:
    Serialized Fiction
  56. The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York
    The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York
    A documentary audio zine about upstate New York, exploring cozy histories, odd mysteries, and personal dispatches from the land of bucolic barns an...
    Content:
    CultureHaunted PlacesHistorySmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Documentary
  57. Black Knuckle Ranch
    Black Knuckle Ranch
    Black Knuckle Ranch Podcast provides raw perspective into what it actually takes to train horses, run a working ranch, and make the numbers work. W...
    Content:
    Horse TrainingRanch ManagementSurvival SkillsSustainable LivingSmall Town Horror
    Goal:
    Training For A Marathon
  58. Our Daily Show!
    Our Daily Show!
    Our Daily Show is a daily call in show dedicated to the Riverbend Community! From 9-11 AM/Monday-Friday, you'll be able to hear and contribute to c...
    Content:
    BusinessSmall Town Horror
    Audience:
    Entrepreneurs
    Goal:
    Staying Informed
  59. Margaret's Garden
    Margaret's Garden
    Everton was the perfect American suburb, cookie-cutter homes full of every modern appliance imaginable, green grass, and shopping malls, but that w...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  60. Blue Ridge True Crime
    Blue Ridge True Crime
    Compelling true crime stories from the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. This podcast explores crimes and stories, from the notorious to the obscur...
    Content:
    Cold Case InvestigationsHistoryTrue CrimeUnsolved MysteriesSmall Town Horror
    Style:
    Investigative
  61. UNWELL
    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...
    Content:
    Audio FictionDark FictionFictionSupernatural HorrorSmall Town Horror
  62. Knight Falls, CA
    Knight Falls, CA
    On April 10th, 2009, 16 year old Charley Cooper disappeared without a trace. 10 years later, freelance journalist Scott Sinclair journeys to the to...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  63. Small Town Spooky
    Small Town Spooky
    A spooky small town stories, local cryptids and urban legends podcast hosted by your sonic psychopomp Renée Meloche. Small Town Spooky is one part ...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  64. BELIEVER
    BELIEVER
    Hay, I'm a storyteller, here I will tell you all new stories written by me, with the hope that, these stories will provide you some value, please s...
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  65. A Very Fatal Murder
    A Very Fatal Murder
    A Very Fatal Murder sends Onion Public Radio (OPR) correspondent David Pascall from New York City to the sleepy town of Bluff Springs, Nebraska to ...
    Content:
    Political SatireSmall Town Horror
  66. unwell
    unwell
    unwell
    Content:
    Small Town Horror
  67. SABLE
    SABLE
    Content:
    Small Town Horror