Best Audio Fiction Shows Completed In 2024

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

Out of the hundreds—if not thousands—of audiodramas, audiobooks, and fiction podcasts that completed in 2024, these are the best. Keep in mind that "completed" means season finales, so long-running shows with multiple seasons that span years will likely appear in multiple "best of " collections. At least until the show is finished. Enjoy this walk down memory lane!

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 2024

A story of love, madness, murder, mysteries and dead gods set in the1920's. It is an epistolary audio drama as told by Jon and Elizabeth to each other in their letters, with the action in Season Two focussed on Egypt, as well as Ireland and England.

This House Will Devour You

Narrated horror series

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

When Peace of Ship opens a new HQ in Brazil, Jemma finds herself in new territory: Interim Head of HR. Her first task? Hire a new CTO. That is, until one candidate ends up dead. Now she must find the killer to save the company. What could go wrong?

Murder in HR

Dramatized comedy mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Arkham P.I. Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired.

Malevolent

Dramatized Lovecraftian horror series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 5 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Weaving science fiction and spirituality, Leylines is an adventure across the globe as the Harbor brothers confront billionaires, the US government, and each other to save their father and Earth as we know it.

Leylines

Dramatized scifi adventure series

Limited 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

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

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 4 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 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

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 16 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

15 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

15 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

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

Petrified

Dramatized horror anthology

Season Finale Fully Released

Season 4 slated for 2025

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

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 5 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Jess and Corey’s dad was not exactly the adventurous type. At least that’s what they thought until his past caught up with him. Turns out, Dan, the anxious and overprotective middle school science teacher used to be a daring archaeologist and adventurer.

Discovering Dad

Dramatized mystery/adventure series

Limited 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

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

Slated for Q2 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A frozen body is found inside the Zamboni of the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario. The driver—and town’s only Francophone—is instantly arrested for murder. Can he solve the murder and clear his good Québecois name in time to prepare the ice for tonight’s big hockey game?

Sorry About The Murder

Dramatized murder mystery/comedy series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Nov 2024

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

The first test of light speed flight has gone wrong, hurling an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race. 12 Episodes. Created, written and directed by Alexander Adell.

Celeritas

Dramatized scifi action thriller series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Mar 2025

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Mar 07, 2025

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

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 5 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Sitcom superstar, Carson Carson, gets blacklisted from his grotesque sex tape leak. Now, with his tail between his legs, he heads back to his small town in an attempt to reboot his life. Carson is then forced to reprise his job (pre-fame) at the local Supermarket, where things quickly go bananas…

Supermarket

Dramatized comedy/sitcom

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

You got a monster, and you want it dead, but you ain't got the guts? You better pony up the bucks because the Man in Grey doesn't do freebies. Pay to slay, bitches. SLAY is the first novel in a five-book series featuring monster-hunting anti-hero Lincoln Franks.

SLAY (The Man in Grey Book 1)

Narrated monster-hunting 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 lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you.

Galactic Football League (GFL) Series

Narrated scifi series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 8 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

7 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

7 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Dec 26, 2024

Recommended

June 1949. Heiress Mitzi Ballantyne has gone missing during her “Reno-vation” at the Sidewinder Resort. Detective Francis O’Connell, a Bible-toting bloodhound, would rather be at his Ma’s sickbed. Instead, he steps off the train and into a den of liberated ex-wives who test his every nerve.

Divorce Ranch

Dramatized western/noir series

Limited 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

Follow Seth as he steps into the unknown and unravels the mysteries of an underground facility, and AICS the enigmatic AI designed to help him survive. Can she be trusted or is she a hidden adversary?

The Box

Dramatized sci-fi mystery 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

Invited to document her genius sister's new invention–-a machine that records dreams–Kay can’t resist. How could she know her sister believes there’s something alive in dreams. Something that holds the key to the tragedy that tore them apart seven years ago. Something that can scare them to death.

Dream Sequence

Dramatized scifi horror series

Limited 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

On a map redrawn by the rampant sea-level rise of the twenty-second century, survivors war over the ruins of high-ground whilst pirates and slavers plague the vast new seas that surround them.

Tales of the Risen Tide

Narrated modern fantasy audiobook

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 human and an A.I on the first ever faster-than-light speed ship find themselves twice as far as they meant to go, with no fuel for a return flight. As they work together to solve the problem, they forge a friendship that could change the course of human history.

Ask Your Father

Dramatized scifi drama romance thriller series

Limited 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

After a mission to steal a relic from the far ends of Myracula Galaxy doesn’t go as planned… our three sisters, The Trinity Squad, find themselves thrown into their ultimate destiny…To save Myracula.

THE TRINITY SQUAD

Dramatized YA adventure comedy

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Season 3 slated for mid 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Raul’s life in Hong Kong is thrown upside down when he discovers he can exchange letters with his favorite author, a woman in Paris who died thirty years ago. A nine part limited series, written and directed by Alex Kemp (The Imperfection, Modes of Thought) and produced by Wolf at the Door Studios.

The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen

Dramatized surrealist romance series

Limited 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

If this place were a country, it’d be the wealthiest on Earth. It’s a place full of disruptors. But that edge cuts both ways. A hacker with a shadowy past has come to teach the most powerful people in the Valley a lesson. In a world full of high risk and high reward, revenge is a feature… not a bug.

The Valley

Dramatized revenge techno-thriller series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Inspired by the radio of the past, but built for modern ears, LampLight Radio Plays are audio adaptations of stories from LampLight Magazine. The hallmark of LampLight is stories that are chilling, rich, and that work on multiple levels, and the Radio Play is bringing that to the world of audio.

LampLight Radio Play

Dramatized "quiet horror" anthology

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Follow along as Ishmael works his way through the ranks as an interstellar merchant mariner from the lowest quarter share until he finally earns an owner’s share at the helm of his own company. Along the way he finds a new family, a sense of purpose, and - eventually - himself.

Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper

Narrated cozy scifi series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 5 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Hello, and welcome to the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. The Audio Tour Guide will be your window into the history of the museum and its exhibits today. If you notice your Guide behaving oddly, kindly ensure that you dispose of your Device in the nearest incinerator.

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

Dramatised supernatural mystery series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

6 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

6 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Heather Haskins went missing two years ago. Discovered aboard a flight without a ticket or identification, she now believes she's a woman named Coral Goran - and that it's 1938.

The Skies Are Watching

Dramatized scifi series

Limited 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

Stranded on Catalina Island after the outbreak, a small group of Venture Scouts confront the “Infected", testing their mettle and the strength of their friendships as they navigate the rugged island, discovering the essence of courage and sacrifice in the face of an apocalypse.

We’re Alive: Scout’s Honor

Dramatic horror adventure series

Limited 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

These are the dispatches of ”83” a radio operator working alone in Limbo. Stationed at remote outpost amongst a constant drizzle of radio static, he monitors the scruffy airwaves and reports his findings to an un answering ”HQ”.

Limbo Calling

Experimental new audio project

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

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

Slated for Nov 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a mysterious cult. A mind-bending mystery/thriller from Cryptic Radio.

Close Your Eyes

Dramatized mystery thriller series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 2 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Sep 26, 2024

Recommended

Weapons manufacturer and President, Nathaniel Dex, works to run his company and steer planet-wide politics. It’s a game of chess on a global scale and his children will be key players. But unleashing three teenage super soldiers on the world comes with more complications than anyone anticipated.

The Dex Legacy

Dramatized political military scifi series

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves.

Birds of Empire

Dramatized post-apocalyptic fantasy series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Dec 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

In the Appalachians, girls have gone missing for decades. When a young woman journeys there, she uncovers the truth about the mysterious man who wanders the woods and his connection to the missing women and puts herself in danger from those who want to protect the town and keep its secrets.

The Love Talker

Dramatized folk horror tragedy 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

Do you know of an audio fiction show that should be in this collection? Shoot us a note! We're always on the hunt for finished audio fiction shows to add to our directory and collections just like this!