The audio fiction space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 100 of the best, including The Why Files: Operation Podcast, Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, and Relatos de la Noche.
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files covers mysteries, myths and legends. We tell stories and seek the truth in a fun and lighthearted way. Our content is heavily researc...
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories narrated by Hugh Bonneville. A woman struck dead after hearing a haunting whistle. A series of child-like drawin...
Relatos de la Noche
En la tradición de los clásicos de la radio, aquí se cuentan las historias, relatos y leyendas que habitan las calles de México e Iberoamérica.
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...
Desert Island Discs
Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.
Scared To Death
The paranormal comes to life as husband-wife duo Dan Cummins (acclaimed standup comedian and true horror fan) and Lynze Cummins (costume and wardro...
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...
The Sleepy Bookshelf
Fall asleep to classic works of fiction, adapted and narrated to help you relax. Each episode begins with a brief moment of relaxation followed by ...
Something Was Wrong
Something Was Wrong is an award-winning docuseries about survivors' discovery, trauma, and recovery from crime and abuse.
Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep
Welcome to the realm of Dr. NoSleep® — home of diabolical horror stories, creepypastas, and original scary stories. This horror podcast features pr...
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, ...
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 ...
Sherlock & Co.
My name is Dr. John Watson, once of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier Regiment, now a true crime podcaster based in Central London. I d...
The Blindboy Podcast
Hosted by Blindboyboatclub, who is an artist and author. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy. Hosted on Acast. See ...
Six Minutes
Discover the most downloaded family audio drama in history. Eleven-year-old Holiday is pulled from the icy waters of Alaska with no memory of who s...
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...
Circle Round
WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103. Each 15 t...
Creepy
From creator Jon Grilz, a collection of the most famous and disturbing creepypastas and urban legends in the world. Listener discretion is advised....
Tales from the Stinky Dragon
Tales from the Stinky Dragon is an actual-play D&D comedy podcast that features four foolish friends and their (very patient) dungeon master. Join ...
Machine Gods
The official podcast of the singularity. News, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the AI future. New episodes twice weekly s...
The Adventure Zone
Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. Join the McE...
Horror Stories
Step into the shadows with Horror Stories, where spine-chilling tales and eerie mysteries come to life. From ghostly encounters to terrifying legen...
Erotic Stories
💋 Welcome to Erotic Stories Podcast. I’m Mia, your guide into a world of sensual escapism. Every single day, I bring you a brand-new erotic tale — ...
The Amelia Project
The Amelia Project is a secret agency that fakes its clients' deaths, then lets them reappear with a brand new identity! A black comedy full of sec...
Hello From The Magic Tavern
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...
Wooden Overcoats
Award Winning Sitcom || Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family’s failing funeral parlour, where they get the body ...
Malevolent
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 happe...
Limelight
The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
Scottish Football Podcast
The latest talking points in the national game with the BBC Scottish Football Podcast. Breaking news, views and analysis
Terrores Nocturnos
Historias de terror, misterio, casos reales, hechos inexplicables... Cada martes te traemos una nueva historia que no te dejará dormir y cada domin...
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...
Wolf 359
Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around re...
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
“48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty takes you inside true-crime investigations like no one else, taking on killers and those accused of crimes. ...
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...
Caso 63
Toda gran historia, tiene un gran final. Año 2062: inmersos en una realidad apocalíptica debido a las secuelas de Pegaso, un grupo de científicos y...
Arc
Arc is home to premium cinematic audio drama series: sharp, funny, and emotionally honest stories about the moments that change us.Series 1 is Peop...
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 ...
We're Alive
We're Alive is an award-winning audio drama that follows a group of Survivors in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles now ruled by the "Infected."It begi...
Passenger List
Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college s...
The Harbingers
Adam Blackwell and Amy Stirling met as graduate students in anthropology, both obsessed with studying the same dead language and long-lost culture....
The Lovecraft Investigations
Julian Simpson's mystery thriller/horror fiction series, based on several works by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos.
We Fix Space Junk
'We Fix Space Junk' follows seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange...
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...
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 ...
Midst
Taking place several decades after the events of Midst and Moonward, UNEND focuses on a supernatural ship and a remarkable crew set forth on a...
Mission To Zyxx
An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote a...
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 Truth
The Truth makes short, cinematic stories meant to be listened to closely, like short films for your ears. Each episode is a brand new story wi...
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...
The Penumbra Podcast
At the Penumbra, you might follow Juno Steel, a brooding, sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he tangles with an elusive homme fatale, tracks dang...
Suspect
Suspect is an investigative series about mislaid justice and the kinds of weighty decisions that detectives, lawyers, and jurors make every day - d...
The Leviathan Chronicles
Welcome to Leviathan Audio Productions, home of The Leviathan Chronicles, The Rapscallion Agency, The Invenios Expeditions, and more! At the heart ...
Batman: The Audio Adventures
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 sensation...
DUST
New to DUST? Start with Season Three: CHRYSALIS, starring Corey Hawkins, Toni Collette, and more!DUST is the premier destination for immersive scie...
Table Read
Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best.Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... ...
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...
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...
Wrong Station
Wrong Station is an award-winning podcast anthology of original horror and weird fiction. Drawing on the tradition of The Twilight Zone and the cla...
Borrasca
A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer ...
The Silt Verses
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 ...
Romantic Sex Stories
You can enjoy exclusive and intense erotic audio by grabbing your copy of the Wylde Erotic App on the Apple Store,or downloading the very unofficia...
American Afterlife
What happens when the ground beneath you literally crumbles, leaving you to navigate a world turned upside down? In this gripping series, American ...
The Cleaner
A "cleaner" who eliminates targets for a clandestine government agency, is tasked with taking out the one target he can't eliminate... the daughter...
Dear Nikky: Hidden Desires
Award-winning podcast and International Bestselling AuthorDear Nikky is an erotic podcast that shares private encounters and secrets. Each week, I ...
Victoriocity
A detective comedy drama || Even Greater London, 1887. In this vast metropolis, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investiga...
Petrified
Petrified - a horror audio drama anthology from a darker Ireland. Petrified tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatur...
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...
DC High Volume: Batman
Bringing essential DC comic stories to life off the page and into the audio space — DC High Volume: Batman begins with the four-part adaptation of ...
The Program audio series
A science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a ...
The Bright Sessions
The Bright Sessions is a science fiction audio drama that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a...
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...
Historias De Terror
Adéntrate en las sombras con "Historias De Terror", donde historias escalofriantes y misterios siniestros cobran vida. Desde encuentros fantasmales...
Hero Adjacent
Hero Adjacent is an epic fantasy, genre-busting TTRPG Actual Play where four sort-of-but-not-really-heroes that the world doesn't need at all are t...
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...
Within the Wires
An immersive fiction podcast told through found audio from an alternate universe. Each season is a standalone story set in the same world. Written ...
Bitcherton
An improvised comedy podcast satirizing the world of Jane Austen that tells the tale of a wealthy family's scandals and shenanigans.
Incoming
EMERGENCY ALERT. BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INCOMING.SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.What would you do if you only had 20 minutes left to...
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...
From Now
A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks myste...
Historias y cuentos para dormir
Historias y cuentos para dormir te ofrece cuentos clásicos narrados con calma para acompañarte al final del día. Un podcast para dormir que te acom...
Josie's Lonely Hearts Club
JOSIE'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB is a semi-scripted audio drama set in the best relationship call-in show in the greater New Mexico broadcast region. &nb...
HAUNTED: The Audio Drama
HAUNTED: The Audio Drama tells the story of reclusive alcoholic writer James Hunter, bubbly enthusiastic podcaster Abigail Corbin and police office...
Alba Salix, Royal Physician
The award-winning fantasy-comedy! In Alba Salix, overworked, cynical witch Alba tends to the health of the King, Queen and citizens of the kingdom ...
Our Fair City
Our Fair City is a campy, post-apocalyptic audio drama, produced by HartLife NFP in Chicago, IL. Learn more at www.ourfaircity.com
ars PARADOXICA
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 activ...
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Shows are selected from PodSEO topic associations and matched AI recommendations. They are ordered by their average PodSEO score over records dated since seven days ago, with ties ordered by show name. The score combines podcast-platform search visibility, editorial placements, and chart performance, with adjustments for Apple listing status. AI recommendations help identify candidates; their frequency does not determine the order. Each list includes up to 100 shows with an Apple Podcasts ID and updates when regenerated.
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