Best Audio Fiction Shows Completed In 2023

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

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Out of the hundreds—if not thousands—of audiodramas, audiobooks, and fiction podcasts that completed in 2023, I recommend these to you. Each of these previously appeared in one (or more) of the issues of the newsletter, which I assume you are already subscribed to. But if not, fix that. Each week I send out a list of recently completed series, recent season finales, as well as show returning in a few days or weeks for a new season. Click the title of any show to get more information, including links to listen via a couple dozen different listening apps beyond the usual suspects.

As he listens, stories will be removed from this list and, hopefully, added to other Collections and possibly get that coveted Recommended badge!

Best Audio Fiction Shows Completed In 2023

Socio-political thriller about the ethical dilemmas that surface when the pursuit of human connection blurs the lines between technology and reality.

Ad Lucem

Dramatized scifi thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

When fiercely independent Princess Adelaide of Alpinoa discovers she must be married by Christmas in order to be crowned queen, she decides to secretly create the perfect prince out of handsome American commoner, Hayden.

Build a Prince

Dramatized Christmas rom-com

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas.

Candy Claus, Private Eye

Dramatized Christmas comedy mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Julie Burke partners with eccentric entrepreneurs "The Toade Bros” to desperately pitch their half-baked ideas to a string of bewildered investors. After the Toades manage to do the unthinkable, Julie is left with no choice but to take action.

Conference Call

Dramatized satirical comedy series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A thrilling and spine-tingling limited audio series showcasing things that go bump in the night.

Dark Sanctum

Dramatized horror thriller

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Oct 25, 2024

Recommended

On a lonely highway between life and the next life there’s one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station serves travelers as they embark on their journey through the celestial spheres.

Desert Skies

Dramatized scifi afterlife series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

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.

Deviser

Dramatized horror series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Set in a futuristic United Kingdom where Dome-covered cities are governed by the Happiness Programme—a government-mandated drug eliminating negative emotions for universal bliss. Lurking beneath the Dome’s facade of utopia, a few individuals remain immune to the drug’s influence.

Everyone’s Happy

Dramatised scifi

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Aspiring drag queen and Ring Wireless representative Akbar Shahzad has a problem with his ex-boyfriend. Anxious mother Valerie LeVac has a problem with her phone bill. Over a series of calls their lives will be changed by the brief but meaningful relationship that develops between them.

Feedback: A Comedy of Impeccable Customer Service

Dramatized romcom series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Upon learning his workmate holds a winning ticket for the Global Early Retirement Lottery, a listless factory worker stops at nothing to ensure the reward goes to a more deserving citizen, namely himself, only to discover the prize is not exactly as advertised.

Goodbye Blue Mondays

Dramatized absurdist scifi comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Rediscover a sense of wide-eyed wonder as you encounter unexpected moments of beauty during this 73-minute multi-sensory experience of mindful listening, vivid daydreaming and calming wildlife relaxation. One thing is for sure: it will feel like a world away from everything.

Hajmiin

Narrated fantasy soundscape

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Hannah is a zombie ‘living’ her best life long after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone.

Hannahpocalypse

Dramatized horror comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A low-level ad man fated to lose at everything is informed by a psychic that the universe is against him, so he vows to change his destiny. Cheered on by his co-worker and best friend, he studies philosophy and faces an epic showdown with supernatural forces.

In The Cards

Dramatized existential romantic comedy series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Meaney and Llewellyn are cadets in Lead Service, an organization established to police and protect the ever-expanding multiverse. They soon learn that things don’t always go by the book. JUMP LEADS is a science fiction comedy audiodrama series based on the webcomic of the same name.

Jump Leads

Dramatized scifi comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure.

Leaving Corvat

Dramatized surreal post-modern urban fantasy travelogue

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions, LIARS & LEECHES delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.

Liars & Leeches

Dramatized supernatural horror series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An audio drama following Murphy, Jack, and Elliot as they travel across the UK and Europe in search of creatures from folktales. Soon they realize something dark is at work, and must find the source before it’s too late.

Murphy

Dramatized scifi series

New Season Coming Soon Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Nov 27, 2024

Recommended

PETRIFIED tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates.

Petrified

Dramatized horror anthology

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A multi-protagonist period drama set in a post-revolutionary Haiti that asks the central question: How far will people go for power?

Prestige

Dramatized historical fiction series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

If you want a person dead, you call a hitman. If you want a monster dead, you call Lincoln Franks. But you better be able to pay the price he asks because Lincoln gets that paper — pay to slay, bitches.

Scott Sigler Slices

Narrated scifi horror stories

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Something strange is going on in Spire. After the death of one of the city’s most important figures, change is in the air. But when two inhabitants of the city find themselves swapping places back and forth, they realise just how curious Spire is. And exactly how deep down the rabbit hole goes.

Spire

Dramatized scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

While traveling through Europe, newly-wed influencer couple, Karlie and Tre, notice an almost identical couple is following them and posting the same content - imitating their photos, poses, filters, and tags. Their inquiry snowballs into a double homicide and an influencer-targeted cult.

TAGGED

Dramatized thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An everyday internet support technician can also speak to people in the past and the future! After making a friend from 1999, he encounters a physicist living in the year 2052. How has she made contact? And does she know anything about the mysterious wormhole that appeared in his basement?

The Dial-Up

Dramatized scifi comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

An immersive audio drama about a disparate group of vampires living in the wild-and-wooly world of 1978 New York City. They've been safe and secure for decades… Until one night when a discovery of three little kid vampires turns their world upside-down forever.

The Lesser Dead

Dramatized thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Deep in interstellar space, the notorious pirate Captain Dolion of the Nebula stalks his prey. For ten years he has pursued the Nova Alliance in his vengeance for the deaths of his parents. Ten years he has hunted. Ten years he has dreamed of only one thing: Death to the Nova Alliance.

The Nebulous Saga

Dramatized scifi series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A serialized thriller fiction podcast that weaves magical realism with urban mythology.

The Rat King

Dramatized urban fantasy thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A four-episode horror/thriller audio drama that follows 17-year-old Charlie and his best friends, Gama and Zoe, as they’re pulled into a life and death version of a video game called 13 Keys.

The Timekeeper: Win or Die

Dramatized horror thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They’re short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing.

The Truth

Dramatized fiction anthology

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

In 2057, Earth sends the first manned missions to Mars on a one-way trip to establish a permanent, sustainable human presence on another world. This is the story of what happened.

Transmissions From Colony One

Dramatized hard scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

5 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

5 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

When Myra Abernathy’s estranged father dies in a grisly “accident,” she comes home to take up his secret obsession: the hunt for her baby sister’s cold-case killer.

Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene

Dramatized mystery thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it.

Underwood and Flinch

Narrated horror stories

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

15 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

15 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town’s boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house’s strange assortment of residents.

Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

Dramatized gothic mystery

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

5 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

5 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

18 years after the Outbreak, the world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, but many different forms of humanity are still struggling to survive in the aftermath. And deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting.

We're Alive

Dramatized horror thriller series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

7 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

7 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Fans of Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo will delight in this hilarious, opioid-fueled dive into the world of latch-key children and the haunted, dangerous places that meddling leads.

Zoinks!

Dramatized comedy mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster.

Midst

Dramatized trippy science fantasy western series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake.

Old Gods of Appalachia

Narrated horror anthology

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Oct 31, 2024

Recommended

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