So. Here we are in a whole new Era. I'll need a few posts to fit all this in.
But before we get started, this is my personal list of 50 recommendations:
I've listened to all of these so ask me about them.
Bold is complete
Narrative Dramas
The Once and Future Nerd
When three high school students from modern-day Pennsylvania find themselves trapped in a world of wizards, elves, and feudal intrigue, they must learn to survive in their new surroundings, and undertake an epic quest to save the world from the encroaching forces of chaos. WARNING: This Audio Drama contains adult language, graphic descriptions of violence, and explicit discussions of sexuality. This is, of course, in the interest of historical realism. We hope you enjoy our story about wizards and elves.
For Army Reserve Soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knew it ended in an instant. One minute, he's in college, and in the next, rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars, and literally tearing people apart. This is the day the dead walk. This is the world of We're Alive. We're Alive is an ongoing series, packing performances and sound effects that rival movies and prove that modern audio drama is undead and well. Join our survivors as they band together, struggle to fortify a safe haven known as the Tower, and discovers that zombies are far from the worst thing in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where the rules of human decency no longer apply. Little food. Little water. Little hope. Who is lucky enough to say "We're Alive?"
Liberty: Critical Research is a serialized audio drama set within the universe of the sci-fi comic book series, Liberty! Follow Dr. Kovski's team into the Fringe, a lawless sector of the war-torn space colony Atrius. Any sacrifice must be made to ensure the ultimate goal: that Atrius Endures
Second Shift follows an ambitious, character-centric story arc about three college students from Boston who find themselves "shifted" against their will to another world. They must find their place in that world while trying to return to theirs. If you've just found Second Shift, please be sure to start with episode one: "Everything to Everyone, Part 1"!
EOS 10 is the story of two maladjusted doctors and their medical team aboard an intergalactic travel hub on the edges of deep space — along with a deposed prince who's claimed the foodcourt kitchen as his new throne.
King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants. That's 660 on the radio dial.
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 seven-part podcast, American Public Radio host Lia Haddock asks the question once more, "What happened to the people of Limetown?"
SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth's man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics.
Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur...
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 enigmatic subject's mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. Do you believe?
Dr. Bright provides therapy for the strange and unusual; their sessions have been recorded for research purposes. The first season follows three patients discovering and coping with the atypical realities of their lives.
The Message is a new podcast following the weekly reports and interviews from Nicky Tomalin, who is covering the decoding of a message from outer space received 70 years ago. Over the course of 8 episodes we get an inside ear on how a top team of cryptologists attempt to decipher, decode, and understand the alien message. Each week she'll bring you the latest chapter, so it's important to listen in starting with Episode 1.
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale.
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 red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station's sentient, often malfunctioning operating system HERA. He doesn't have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcast from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station. But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life in extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people's minds. Even the simplest of tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that.
On the overlooked Channel Island of Piffling, obstinate undertaker Rudyard Funn runs his family's failing funeral parlour. But when new and sexy undertaker Eric Chapman sets up shop across the square and becomes an immediate sensation, Rudyard realizes he'll have to take drastic steps to stay in business.
You don't have to believe the stories on my blog, you can dismiss them as good hallucinations or bad fiction if you want to but they're all true. The darkness was never empty, there are things that wait for the innocent and unwary to turn their backs. What is it you think I'm talking about here? Ghosts? Vampires? Ghouls? If only it were that simple. The creatures of the night are still out there but they're not shadowing your every footstep. They just check your status updates from the comfort of their tombs. All I ever wanted was to be a Do-It-Yourself style reporter but more often than I like I find myself becoming part of my stories. It turns out gods and monsters don't like their secrets getting out any more than your standard politician or celebrity. We all know how this is going to turn out in the end; I'm already long overdue for jail, the looney bin or a guest of honor spot at a monster buffet but until that fateful day I'm not going to back down or give up. My name is Brian Foster and some people call me The Night Blogger. But I wish they wouldn't it's kinda cheesy.
The Metamor City Podcast was a sci-fi/fantasy audio fiction series that ran from 2007 to 2010, with some additional content in early 2011. It is distributed for free through this website. It features a mixture of short stories and full-length novels, all taking place in one large world with an overarching story arc. Combining the narration of audiobooks with the music and sound effects of a serial radio drama, The Metamor City Podcast provided an immersive audio experience of a world like no other.
Recently, the podcast relaunched as the Raven and the Writing Desk and has begun rebroadcasting where the story left off.
HG World
A small town riding out a global zombie uprising from inside the walls of a massive House and Garden warehouse in the rurals of north-central Pennsylvania.
CrimeWAV S1&S2
CrimeWAV S3
CrimeWAV.com is a new podcast series of crime short stories by some of today's best contemporary writers in the genre. Call it detective fiction, hard boiled, action, mystery, whatever you want. This is the place for the stories you'll love!
The Takeover
If you've ever worked with corporate zombies, then you've experienced The Takeover. Web designer Maureen and her friends struggle to adapt to their new work environment as coworkers from Zombinc, the zombie staffing company, come to work with them. Language barriers, arguments over the contents of the work fridge, and what a "promotion" really means are all addressed in this "Shaun of the Dead" meets "The Office" audiodrama.
A Different Point of View
Originally aired as a segment for Michael and Evo's Wingin' It! podcast, A Different Point of View is a series of essays about the Star Wars Universe as seen through the eyes of lowly sandtrooper, TD-0013. It takes everything you thought you knew about the Star Wars saga and flips it around to expose the ugly underbelly of the Rebellion, The Jedi, and everything else.
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 serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
Do you like Old Time Radio? Do you like Giant Robots? Do you like Heroes tha fight against Nazis? Then Mister Adventure is for you! Old Time Radio, New Time Tech
Imagine if the world as you know it, was nothing more than an illusion. What if creatures like elves, dragons, vampire, zombies and werewolves walk amongst you every day. But you never see them. This is the world I walk in. I am called Byron. And these are my chronicles.
Edict Zero - FIS
EDICT ZERO – FIS is a science fiction audio drama series created by Jack Kincaid and produced by Slipgate Nine Entertainment, a not-for-profit endeavor dedicated to the release of free speculative fiction media.
This is a strict modern audio drama, devoid of narrative. The story is cyberpunk, being a mix of science fiction, law enforcement procedural, crime, suspense/mystery, and dark fantasy. Listeners have made comparisons to Bladerunner, The X Files, Fringe, Lexx, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Millenium, The Matrix, Tron, and a diversity of shows. Have a listen for yourself and make your own decision.
In this show, you'll hear a stereo soundscape of professional technical quality. This is an orchestration of talented voice actors, extensively employed sound effects, and meticulous musical layering to create the movie-in-the-mind experience to which many shows aspire.
Escape Velocity is a new full-cast audio science-fiction serial, written and produced by Christopher Jarvis and The Radio Theatre Workshop, based on the video game Elite: Dangerous.
Join the mysterious Commander Thane as he is thrown across the universe on an unexpected adventure, fighting to stay alive amid the plotting of desperate, greedy and dangerous factions.
The Elysium Project is an independently produced audio drama series created and produced by Natalie Van Sistine.
The story follows those who are pulled into the world of a powerful formula that allows it's subjects to manipulate the world around them based on thought and desire.
Artifice
Maiden Flight of the Avenger
Fires in the Snow
Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets of magic from the greedy world beyond. However, a ravening shadow appears with a hunger for Seekers and Jonathan finds himself out of his depth. When Jonathan's friend is attacked and the young initiate is assailed with apocalyptic visions of the future, he must find a way to uncover the past and stop the beast before it tears his group, and the world, asunder. It's a ripping tale of magic, adventure and gunfights!
HorrorAddicts.net presents, GothHaus, the comedy reality show with a deadly twist. GothHaus is about a group of Goths, picked to live in a haunted house by an eccentric artist who wants to teach the world what being Goth is really about. The mini-sode audiodrama that has been called "The Addams Family on speed" and "Saturday Night Live meets Elvira" is offered up for your pleasure
In the year 2186, Commander Sela Shepard activated the Crucible over planet Earth, destroying the Reaper threat to galactic life. Five years of reconstruction later, and a new threat looms on the horizon. Documents detailing the origin of the reapers and citing the technological gains discovered by Cerberus fanatics have gone missing just as a rise in political pressure from a joint alliance of Batarian, Vorcha, and Yahg threatens to disrupt Council programs to reconnect the Mass Relays which greatly facilitate galactic travel. To those with sufficient clearance to access them, these documents are known simply as... The Leviathan Files.
This is the story of five strangers at the end of the world. Overnight the population of the earth is reduced to less than 2 billion as the cities of the world go missing. Mickey, Jones, Jim, Sarah and Shaun will need to be resourceful in ways they never imagined to stay alive on an earth that has suddenly become hostile. The key lies in solving the mystery of where the cities have gone. If they survive that long.
The Martians Are Here – 34 Episodes that take the characters from the Hawkesbury district of Sydney to Florida and the west coast of the US to the Yukon and British Columbian areas of Canada, to Mars and beyond.
Combining mystery, monsters and exploration of the human spirit, the series builds up to the final climax where the real monsters are revealed.
TMAH has a fully original musical score (over eight hours of music), Rick produced all the voices (and many of the sound effects) himself and we have a host of australian, alien and other characters.
Oh and it has martians.
A podcast story of ancient advanced civilisations, clan wars and conspiracy in an alternative modern Scotland.
Space Casey
Some heroines will steal your heart. This one will steal your wallet.
Set in 1936, Squadron Leader Jack Steel & The Starblade is a twelve part podcast following the adventures of Jack Steel, Charlie Bilkins and Yvette du Lac as they protect earth from an evil alien threat.
Star Trek: Defiant was an ongoing audio drama fan show produced by Pendant Productions.
The series followed the adventures of Captain Jeffrey Bridges and the crew of the USS Defiant.
The ship, and her crew, were later featured in an alternate timeline in the Darker Projects audio drama Star Trek: The Section 31 Files. This is, however, not considered canon to official Defiant storyline.
The show's history dates back to 1995, when Jeffrey Bridges and a groups of fellow Star Trek fans met online in an endeavor to start an online mailing list of Star Trek fan fiction. The crew consisted of the members on the list, and were stationed on the newly commissioned federation starship Defiant (NX-74205). This version of Defiant varies from the one featured in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as it is the federation ship USS Sao Paulo recommissioned after the apparent destruction of the original USS Defiant.
Around 2003, a group on the mailing list discussed the possibility of remaking their fan stories into an audio drama. As a result, a new audio production company named Pendant Productions emerged. Since then, the old mailing list has been decommissioned, and the series has lived on as an audio drama.
On May 29, 2012, Pendant ceased production on all fan shows and voluntarily removed them from their website.
Continuing Mission follows the adventures of the USS Montana under the command of Starfleet veteran, Captain Paul Edwards. During the pilot episode the Montana is flung from its native time period of the 23rd century into the 24th and unable to get back. The crew, feeling a century out of date, choose to continue the one thing that is familiar, their Starfleet mission.
Star Trek: Excelsior
The U.S.S. Excelsior, fourth starship to bear the name, is on a two-year mission of exploration on the far side of the galaxy. Some would call this an honor for Commander Alcar Dovan and his young crew, especially coming so soon after the tragic death of Captain Cortez and so many veteran officers at Valandria. Certainly that's what Admiral Parker's telling the press. Those with a more cynical mindset — such as, oh, I don't know, Captain Dovan himself — would call it exile, a coverup designed to keep the Excelsior out of the public eye after their shocking, top-secret discovery of a terrifying threat to the entire galaxy.
But, as the dedication plaque says, "Wherever you go, there you are," and the Excelsior crew have thrown themselves into their frontier expedition with zest. Since passing through the ancient Iconian Gateway that sent them to this distant region of space, they have had less and less contact with Starfleet Command, and seen sights they could have never imagined. But why is this area so full of Iconian ruins? And why, after a quarter of a million years, are so many of them starting to show signs of life?
Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny
Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny is an independent audio production from Melting Clock Productions created by Mathieu Blondin and Sebastian Prooth. Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny will pickup from the Star Trek TOS episode Mirror, Mirror. The series is being developed and produced by Mathieu Blondin and Sebastian Prooth (Star Trek: The Continuing Mission). Mr. Spock, influenced by the the conversation with Captain Kirk from Mirror Mirror, sets out to rid the galaxy of the Terran Empire and install himself in a position of power to change things for the better. Captain Kirk sees his first officer as a threat to his supremacy and vows to eliminate him. Listen to this six part series to learn what paved the way for the fall of the Terran Empire and rise of peace.
Tales of the Extraordinary
The year is 1926...
...and the Roaring twenties are in full swing, filled with excess and adventure. Wondrous new discoveries take place on a daily basis, be they of lost civilizations or miraculous super-science. Anything seems possible. In Tales of the Extraordinary, anything is possible. Ancient mysticism, robotic automatons, masked vigilantes, or a chimp who thinks he's the Great Gatsby. Tales isn't the way things were. It's the way they should have been.
Wormwood
Doctor Xander Crowe was a formidable psychologist until a terrible tragedy sent him spiraling down the dark pathways of the occult. Now, a strange vision leads Doctor Crowe to the hidden town of Wormwood, where shadows lurk in every corner and evil stains the souls of the inhabitants. Welcome to Wormwood.
How to Succeed in Evil
Alternately funny and dark, How to Succeed in Evil is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. A biting satire of both modern business and the conventions of the superhero genre. There are three portions: the original podcast series, the Novel series, and a prequel Novella. There is a third book not in free audio form.
Jack Wakes Up
What does a movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money? In the three years since Jack Palms went clean - no drugs, no drinking, no life - he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he signs on to help a set of Eastern Europeans score enough coke to settle down and set up shop. All Jack has to do is keep them entertained and get them through their purchase. But when the plan runs into a few problems, and Jack starts getting phone calls from an old friend on the police force, he realizes that this business will take a lot more acting than he first assumed.
This is Life
Jack Is Back! Yes, Jack Palms is back to bring you more of the action, suspense and excitement that you came to expect from the hit podiobook Jack Wakes Up. In This Is Life, Jack Palms finds himself caught in a working relationship with none other than the San Francisco police. When one of their own gets killed and corruption invades the Hall of Justice, Sgt. Mills Hopkins hires Jack to poke around. Is Jack ready for his own brand of police work? Is San Francisco? Follow Jack as he tries to figure out if the life of a Private Eye fits him, hunts a cop-killer, and tries to solve a series of murders that leads him into the heart of San Francisco's sex trade.
Czechmate
This is where it boils down, eager listeners. Jack Palms is back out on the streets of San Francisco after a brief stint in the hospital, and he's ready to track down the man at the heart of the city's problems, Alexi Akakievich. With the Czechs back in town, Detective Shaw more pissed off than ever, and a new batch of thugs on the loose, everything's dialed up to eleven once again. Will Jack make it through this? Listen now to follow this action-packed, episodic ride through mayhem on the urban streets. Forces collide, wills clash, and you've got to hear this one to believe what Seth Harwood has cooked up now! Music once again from Madvillain. "Just remember all caps when you spell the man's name..."
Triad Death Match
Jack Palms in Triad Death Match! You've waited long and hard for this. Now TDM is here and JACK is Back!! That's right, your boy Jack Palms has returned to you in Triad Death Match! Here Jack teams up with Jane Gannon of the SF bureau of the FBI. As the two look in on an illegal fighting tournament in San Francisco's Chinatown, they get much more than they bargained for. Spills, kills and plenty of thrills make this story a much listen for all the Palms Daddies and Palms Mommas in the land!
But before we get started, this is my personal list of 50 recommendations:
- Limetown
- Welcome to Night Vale
- Thrilling Adventure Hour
- Wormwood
- The Leviathan Chronicles
- The Byron Chronicles
- The Bright Sessions
- Decoder Ring Theatre
- The Gearheart
- We're Alive
- The Metamor City Podcast/The Raven and the Writing Desk
- Prometheus Radio Theatre
- The Secret World Chronicle
- Playing for Keeps
- The Truth
- Wolf 359
- Wooden Overcoats
- EOS 10
- The Dreamer's Thread
- The Blacklist Table Reads
- Nina Kimberly the Merciless
- The Kingery
- Chatterbox Audio Theater
- Trader Tales
- FETIDUS
- Alba Salix, Royal Physician
- Alice isn't Dead
- Archive 81
- ars PARADOXICA
- Audio Dime Museum
- Beef and Dairy Network
- Edict Zero FIS
- King Falls AM
- Mars Corp
- Our Fair City
- Paralyzed
- PleasureTown
- Powder Burns
- Roswell B.C.
- Sable
- SAYER
- Star Trek Outpost
- Tale: A Knight Adrift
- The Age of Swords
- The Bridge
- The Cleansed
- The Deep Vault
- Tne Grayscale
- The Magnus Archives
- Tincture
I've listened to all of these so ask me about them.
Bold is complete
Narrative Dramas
The Once and Future Nerd
When three high school students from modern-day Pennsylvania find themselves trapped in a world of wizards, elves, and feudal intrigue, they must learn to survive in their new surroundings, and undertake an epic quest to save the world from the encroaching forces of chaos. WARNING: This Audio Drama contains adult language, graphic descriptions of violence, and explicit discussions of sexuality. This is, of course, in the interest of historical realism. We hope you enjoy our story about wizards and elves.
- Genre: Comedy
For Army Reserve Soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knew it ended in an instant. One minute, he's in college, and in the next, rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars, and literally tearing people apart. This is the day the dead walk. This is the world of We're Alive. We're Alive is an ongoing series, packing performances and sound effects that rival movies and prove that modern audio drama is undead and well. Join our survivors as they band together, struggle to fortify a safe haven known as the Tower, and discovers that zombies are far from the worst thing in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where the rules of human decency no longer apply. Little food. Little water. Little hope. Who is lucky enough to say "We're Alive?"
- Genre: Horror
Liberty: Critical Research is a serialized audio drama set within the universe of the sci-fi comic book series, Liberty! Follow Dr. Kovski's team into the Fringe, a lawless sector of the war-torn space colony Atrius. Any sacrifice must be made to ensure the ultimate goal: that Atrius Endures
- Genre: Sci Fi
Second Shift follows an ambitious, character-centric story arc about three college students from Boston who find themselves "shifted" against their will to another world. They must find their place in that world while trying to return to theirs. If you've just found Second Shift, please be sure to start with episode one: "Everything to Everyone, Part 1"!
- Genre: Fantasy
EOS 10 is the story of two maladjusted doctors and their medical team aboard an intergalactic travel hub on the edges of deep space — along with a deposed prince who's claimed the foodcourt kitchen as his new throne.
- Genre: Sci Fi Comedy
King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants. That's 660 on the radio dial.
- Genre: Paranormal Radio Show. NOTE: Does not break immersion
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 seven-part podcast, American Public Radio host Lia Haddock asks the question once more, "What happened to the people of Limetown?"
- Genre: Investigative Serialized fiction. NOTE: Does not break immersion
SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth's man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics.
- Genre: Horror/Dark Comedy
Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur...
- Genre: Investigative Serialized fiction. NOTE: Does not break immersion
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 enigmatic subject's mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. Do you believe?
- Genre: Investigative Serialized fiction. NOTE: Does not break immersion
Dr. Bright provides therapy for the strange and unusual; their sessions have been recorded for research purposes. The first season follows three patients discovering and coping with the atypical realities of their lives.
- Genre: Fictional Therapy Sessions. NOTE: Does not break immersion
The Message is a new podcast following the weekly reports and interviews from Nicky Tomalin, who is covering the decoding of a message from outer space received 70 years ago. Over the course of 8 episodes we get an inside ear on how a top team of cryptologists attempt to decipher, decode, and understand the alien message. Each week she'll bring you the latest chapter, so it's important to listen in starting with Episode 1.
- Genre: Investigative Serialized fiction. NOTE: Does not break immersion
- Schedule: Show has ended. Unless there is an unanticipated second season.
Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale.
- Genre: Dark Comedy
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 red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station's sentient, often malfunctioning operating system HERA. He doesn't have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcast from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station. But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life in extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people's minds. Even the simplest of tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that.
- Genre: Space-faring adventure character drama absurdist sitcom
On the overlooked Channel Island of Piffling, obstinate undertaker Rudyard Funn runs his family's failing funeral parlour. But when new and sexy undertaker Eric Chapman sets up shop across the square and becomes an immediate sensation, Rudyard realizes he'll have to take drastic steps to stay in business.
- Genre: British Comedy
You don't have to believe the stories on my blog, you can dismiss them as good hallucinations or bad fiction if you want to but they're all true. The darkness was never empty, there are things that wait for the innocent and unwary to turn their backs. What is it you think I'm talking about here? Ghosts? Vampires? Ghouls? If only it were that simple. The creatures of the night are still out there but they're not shadowing your every footstep. They just check your status updates from the comfort of their tombs. All I ever wanted was to be a Do-It-Yourself style reporter but more often than I like I find myself becoming part of my stories. It turns out gods and monsters don't like their secrets getting out any more than your standard politician or celebrity. We all know how this is going to turn out in the end; I'm already long overdue for jail, the looney bin or a guest of honor spot at a monster buffet but until that fateful day I'm not going to back down or give up. My name is Brian Foster and some people call me The Night Blogger. But I wish they wouldn't it's kinda cheesy.
- Schedule: I honestly could not tell you.
The Metamor City Podcast was a sci-fi/fantasy audio fiction series that ran from 2007 to 2010, with some additional content in early 2011. It is distributed for free through this website. It features a mixture of short stories and full-length novels, all taking place in one large world with an overarching story arc. Combining the narration of audiobooks with the music and sound effects of a serial radio drama, The Metamor City Podcast provided an immersive audio experience of a world like no other.
Recently, the podcast relaunched as the Raven and the Writing Desk and has begun rebroadcasting where the story left off.
- Genre: Futuristic Fantasy
HG World
A small town riding out a global zombie uprising from inside the walls of a massive House and Garden warehouse in the rurals of north-central Pennsylvania.
- Genre: Zombie Horror
CrimeWAV S1&S2
CrimeWAV S3
CrimeWAV.com is a new podcast series of crime short stories by some of today's best contemporary writers in the genre. Call it detective fiction, hard boiled, action, mystery, whatever you want. This is the place for the stories you'll love!
- Genre: Crime
The Takeover
If you've ever worked with corporate zombies, then you've experienced The Takeover. Web designer Maureen and her friends struggle to adapt to their new work environment as coworkers from Zombinc, the zombie staffing company, come to work with them. Language barriers, arguments over the contents of the work fridge, and what a "promotion" really means are all addressed in this "Shaun of the Dead" meets "The Office" audiodrama.
- Genre: Horror Comedy
A Different Point of View
Originally aired as a segment for Michael and Evo's Wingin' It! podcast, A Different Point of View is a series of essays about the Star Wars Universe as seen through the eyes of lowly sandtrooper, TD-0013. It takes everything you thought you knew about the Star Wars saga and flips it around to expose the ugly underbelly of the Rebellion, The Jedi, and everything else.
- Genre: The truth about Star Wars
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 serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.
- Genre: Dark Comedy
Do you like Old Time Radio? Do you like Giant Robots? Do you like Heroes tha fight against Nazis? Then Mister Adventure is for you! Old Time Radio, New Time Tech
- Genre: Pulp Adventure
Imagine if the world as you know it, was nothing more than an illusion. What if creatures like elves, dragons, vampire, zombies and werewolves walk amongst you every day. But you never see them. This is the world I walk in. I am called Byron. And these are my chronicles.
- Genre: Modern Gothic Fantasy
Edict Zero - FIS
EDICT ZERO – FIS is a science fiction audio drama series created by Jack Kincaid and produced by Slipgate Nine Entertainment, a not-for-profit endeavor dedicated to the release of free speculative fiction media.
This is a strict modern audio drama, devoid of narrative. The story is cyberpunk, being a mix of science fiction, law enforcement procedural, crime, suspense/mystery, and dark fantasy. Listeners have made comparisons to Bladerunner, The X Files, Fringe, Lexx, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Millenium, The Matrix, Tron, and a diversity of shows. Have a listen for yourself and make your own decision.
In this show, you'll hear a stereo soundscape of professional technical quality. This is an orchestration of talented voice actors, extensively employed sound effects, and meticulous musical layering to create the movie-in-the-mind experience to which many shows aspire.
- Genre: Cyberpunk
Escape Velocity is a new full-cast audio science-fiction serial, written and produced by Christopher Jarvis and The Radio Theatre Workshop, based on the video game Elite: Dangerous.
Join the mysterious Commander Thane as he is thrown across the universe on an unexpected adventure, fighting to stay alive amid the plotting of desperate, greedy and dangerous factions.
- Genre: Sci Fi
The Elysium Project is an independently produced audio drama series created and produced by Natalie Van Sistine.
The story follows those who are pulled into the world of a powerful formula that allows it's subjects to manipulate the world around them based on thought and desire.
- Genre: Sci Fi
- Schedule: slowly
- Best to start from: The beginning
Artifice
Maiden Flight of the Avenger
Fires in the Snow
Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets of magic from the greedy world beyond. However, a ravening shadow appears with a hunger for Seekers and Jonathan finds himself out of his depth. When Jonathan's friend is attacked and the young initiate is assailed with apocalyptic visions of the future, he must find a way to uncover the past and stop the beast before it tears his group, and the world, asunder. It's a ripping tale of magic, adventure and gunfights!
- Genre: Magical Steampunk
HorrorAddicts.net presents, GothHaus, the comedy reality show with a deadly twist. GothHaus is about a group of Goths, picked to live in a haunted house by an eccentric artist who wants to teach the world what being Goth is really about. The mini-sode audiodrama that has been called "The Addams Family on speed" and "Saturday Night Live meets Elvira" is offered up for your pleasure
- Genre: Trash
- Schedule: slowly
- Best to start from: Don't.
In the year 2186, Commander Sela Shepard activated the Crucible over planet Earth, destroying the Reaper threat to galactic life. Five years of reconstruction later, and a new threat looms on the horizon. Documents detailing the origin of the reapers and citing the technological gains discovered by Cerberus fanatics have gone missing just as a rise in political pressure from a joint alliance of Batarian, Vorcha, and Yahg threatens to disrupt Council programs to reconnect the Mass Relays which greatly facilitate galactic travel. To those with sufficient clearance to access them, these documents are known simply as... The Leviathan Files.
- Genre: Fanfic Drama
This is the story of five strangers at the end of the world. Overnight the population of the earth is reduced to less than 2 billion as the cities of the world go missing. Mickey, Jones, Jim, Sarah and Shaun will need to be resourceful in ways they never imagined to stay alive on an earth that has suddenly become hostile. The key lies in solving the mystery of where the cities have gone. If they survive that long.
The Martians Are Here – 34 Episodes that take the characters from the Hawkesbury district of Sydney to Florida and the west coast of the US to the Yukon and British Columbian areas of Canada, to Mars and beyond.
Combining mystery, monsters and exploration of the human spirit, the series builds up to the final climax where the real monsters are revealed.
TMAH has a fully original musical score (over eight hours of music), Rick produced all the voices (and many of the sound effects) himself and we have a host of australian, alien and other characters.
Oh and it has martians.
- Genre: Sci Fi
A podcast story of ancient advanced civilisations, clan wars and conspiracy in an alternative modern Scotland.
- Genre: Speculative Alt Fiction
- Schedule: Complete
- Best to start from: The beginning
Space Casey
Some heroines will steal your heart. This one will steal your wallet.
- Genre: Space Drama
Set in 1936, Squadron Leader Jack Steel & The Starblade is a twelve part podcast following the adventures of Jack Steel, Charlie Bilkins and Yvette du Lac as they protect earth from an evil alien threat.
- Genre: Pulp Adventure
- Schedule: Complete
- Best to start from: The beginning
Star Trek: Defiant was an ongoing audio drama fan show produced by Pendant Productions.
The series followed the adventures of Captain Jeffrey Bridges and the crew of the USS Defiant.
The ship, and her crew, were later featured in an alternate timeline in the Darker Projects audio drama Star Trek: The Section 31 Files. This is, however, not considered canon to official Defiant storyline.
The show's history dates back to 1995, when Jeffrey Bridges and a groups of fellow Star Trek fans met online in an endeavor to start an online mailing list of Star Trek fan fiction. The crew consisted of the members on the list, and were stationed on the newly commissioned federation starship Defiant (NX-74205). This version of Defiant varies from the one featured in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as it is the federation ship USS Sao Paulo recommissioned after the apparent destruction of the original USS Defiant.
Around 2003, a group on the mailing list discussed the possibility of remaking their fan stories into an audio drama. As a result, a new audio production company named Pendant Productions emerged. Since then, the old mailing list has been decommissioned, and the series has lived on as an audio drama.
On May 29, 2012, Pendant ceased production on all fan shows and voluntarily removed them from their website.
- Genre: Star Trek
- Schedule: Complete
- Best to start from: The beginning, assuming you can find the files
Continuing Mission follows the adventures of the USS Montana under the command of Starfleet veteran, Captain Paul Edwards. During the pilot episode the Montana is flung from its native time period of the 23rd century into the 24th and unable to get back. The crew, feeling a century out of date, choose to continue the one thing that is familiar, their Starfleet mission.
- Genre: Star Trek
Star Trek: Excelsior
The U.S.S. Excelsior, fourth starship to bear the name, is on a two-year mission of exploration on the far side of the galaxy. Some would call this an honor for Commander Alcar Dovan and his young crew, especially coming so soon after the tragic death of Captain Cortez and so many veteran officers at Valandria. Certainly that's what Admiral Parker's telling the press. Those with a more cynical mindset — such as, oh, I don't know, Captain Dovan himself — would call it exile, a coverup designed to keep the Excelsior out of the public eye after their shocking, top-secret discovery of a terrifying threat to the entire galaxy.
But, as the dedication plaque says, "Wherever you go, there you are," and the Excelsior crew have thrown themselves into their frontier expedition with zest. Since passing through the ancient Iconian Gateway that sent them to this distant region of space, they have had less and less contact with Starfleet Command, and seen sights they could have never imagined. But why is this area so full of Iconian ruins? And why, after a quarter of a million years, are so many of them starting to show signs of life?
- Genre: Star Trek
- Schedule: Ongoing in Seasons.
- Best to start from: They suggest season 4, but if you can forgive the low quality, I say start at the beginning. It doesn't take very long to improve in quality and I think the story outweighs the annoyances.
Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny
Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny is an independent audio production from Melting Clock Productions created by Mathieu Blondin and Sebastian Prooth. Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny will pickup from the Star Trek TOS episode Mirror, Mirror. The series is being developed and produced by Mathieu Blondin and Sebastian Prooth (Star Trek: The Continuing Mission). Mr. Spock, influenced by the the conversation with Captain Kirk from Mirror Mirror, sets out to rid the galaxy of the Terran Empire and install himself in a position of power to change things for the better. Captain Kirk sees his first officer as a threat to his supremacy and vows to eliminate him. Listen to this six part series to learn what paved the way for the fall of the Terran Empire and rise of peace.
- Genre: Star Trek
- Schedule: on a long hiatus
Tales of the Extraordinary
The year is 1926...
...and the Roaring twenties are in full swing, filled with excess and adventure. Wondrous new discoveries take place on a daily basis, be they of lost civilizations or miraculous super-science. Anything seems possible. In Tales of the Extraordinary, anything is possible. Ancient mysticism, robotic automatons, masked vigilantes, or a chimp who thinks he's the Great Gatsby. Tales isn't the way things were. It's the way they should have been.
- Genre: Pulp Adventure
- Schedule: irregular
Wormwood
Doctor Xander Crowe was a formidable psychologist until a terrible tragedy sent him spiraling down the dark pathways of the occult. Now, a strange vision leads Doctor Crowe to the hidden town of Wormwood, where shadows lurk in every corner and evil stains the souls of the inhabitants. Welcome to Wormwood.
- Genre: Drama Horror
How to Succeed in Evil
Alternately funny and dark, How to Succeed in Evil is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. A biting satire of both modern business and the conventions of the superhero genre. There are three portions: the original podcast series, the Novel series, and a prequel Novella. There is a third book not in free audio form.
- Genre: Superhero satire.
Jack Wakes Up
What does a movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money? In the three years since Jack Palms went clean - no drugs, no drinking, no life - he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he signs on to help a set of Eastern Europeans score enough coke to settle down and set up shop. All Jack has to do is keep them entertained and get them through their purchase. But when the plan runs into a few problems, and Jack starts getting phone calls from an old friend on the police force, he realizes that this business will take a lot more acting than he first assumed.
- Genre: Crime Fiction
This is Life
Jack Is Back! Yes, Jack Palms is back to bring you more of the action, suspense and excitement that you came to expect from the hit podiobook Jack Wakes Up. In This Is Life, Jack Palms finds himself caught in a working relationship with none other than the San Francisco police. When one of their own gets killed and corruption invades the Hall of Justice, Sgt. Mills Hopkins hires Jack to poke around. Is Jack ready for his own brand of police work? Is San Francisco? Follow Jack as he tries to figure out if the life of a Private Eye fits him, hunts a cop-killer, and tries to solve a series of murders that leads him into the heart of San Francisco's sex trade.
- Genre: Crime Fiction
Czechmate
This is where it boils down, eager listeners. Jack Palms is back out on the streets of San Francisco after a brief stint in the hospital, and he's ready to track down the man at the heart of the city's problems, Alexi Akakievich. With the Czechs back in town, Detective Shaw more pissed off than ever, and a new batch of thugs on the loose, everything's dialed up to eleven once again. Will Jack make it through this? Listen now to follow this action-packed, episodic ride through mayhem on the urban streets. Forces collide, wills clash, and you've got to hear this one to believe what Seth Harwood has cooked up now! Music once again from Madvillain. "Just remember all caps when you spell the man's name..."
- Genre: Crime Fiction
Triad Death Match
Jack Palms in Triad Death Match! You've waited long and hard for this. Now TDM is here and JACK is Back!! That's right, your boy Jack Palms has returned to you in Triad Death Match! Here Jack teams up with Jane Gannon of the SF bureau of the FBI. As the two look in on an illegal fighting tournament in San Francisco's Chinatown, they get much more than they bargained for. Spills, kills and plenty of thrills make this story a much listen for all the Palms Daddies and Palms Mommas in the land!
- Genre: Crime Fiction
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