Best Audio Fiction Shows Completed In 2022

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Out of the hundreds—if not thousands—of audiodramas, audiobooks, and fiction podcasts that completed in 2032, 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. #GoPodcasting

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 2022

A local radio reporter is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Through the radio show he gradually becomes a media sensation and unexpected anti-hero during a nail biting 63-hour standoff.

American Hostage

Dramatized thriller

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

Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody business.

Blood Ties

Dramatized thriller

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

It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. The gap between rich and poor rapidly expandsg as more pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Historical lives converge in this series about the fastest growing city in the world.

Burning Gotham

Dramatized historical fiction

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

It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events.

Crooked River

Dramatized historical fiction

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

Cleo's been redacted. She finds herself in a weird, empty London full of 9 million ghosts. There's no Abby to make plans, no Shawna to kick ass. Just Cleo and half an AS level in drama. Oh, and also this weird blue box, with a woman stepping out of it.

Doctor Who: Redacted

Dramatized 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

Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.

Fulmar's Folly

Dramatized scifi 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

Recommended

Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.

How I Died

Dramatized horror series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Q1 2025

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

14-year-old Elgin spends the summer of '88 with his younger brother at his father’s house in Arizona. Not long after arriving, he witnesses a series of child abductions by the local ice cream truck man. When nobody believes him, Elgin and his neighbor Olivia do their own investigation.

ICE-CREAM

Dramatized horror 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

12-year-old Iowa is not most people. When she’s rescued by the last remaining dog, she realizes the responsibility she has to keep this creature safe. Pursued by the evil Regulators, they set off on a journey in search of a legendary island it's believed animals are still living.

Iowa Chapman and the Last Dog

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

You haven’t been back home in years, but the old answering machine is filled with messages from a high school friend named John. JOHN FROM BACK HOME is about leaving friends behind, keeping secrets hidden, and the dangers of trying to live someone else’s life.

John From Back Home

Dramatized horror 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

It’s 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city—and each other?

Lake Song

Dramatized scifi

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 super yacht sets off on what looks like an expedition funded by a grieving billionaire to recover the flight that his wife and daughter were on. The crew soon find themselves in increasingly perilous situations that point to a saboteur among the group, and a looming threat in the deep waters.

Last Known Position

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

In that magical month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a "department store" Santa, who claims to be the real Santa Claus, disrupts the commercialistic workings of Macy's Department store, and in so doing, touches the hearts of a cynical woman and her daughter.

Miracle on 34th Street: The Radio Play

Dramatized heartwarming Christmas tale

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 the future, mind readers are outlawed in Los Angeles. Sid’s true identity risks exposure when she becomes entangled in a romance with a mysterious woman named Andie. But after spending her whole life in the shadows, Sid is willing to do anything to love and be loved.

Narcissa

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

San Francisco homicide inspector Bryan Clauser is losing his mind. How else to explain his dreams, dreams that mirror — with impossible accuracy — gruesome murders drenching the city in blood? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him? Not disgust, not horror, but excitement.

NOCTURNAL

Narrated urban fantasy horror 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

When human bones are discovered in a Mississippi river bed, a loner with peculiar gifts returns to her small town to probe the origins of her mother’s long-ago disappearance and confront the ghosts of her family, both living and dead.

Pearl River Remains

Narrated southern gothic ghost story

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 Carly Parker’s friend goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits.

Rabbits

Dramatized thriller series

Limited Series 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

A mystery drama about the limits of experimental science, confronting your own past, present and future, and; trying to remember the level select cheat from Sonic 2.

Red Valley

Dramatized scifi thriller 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

They claim to cure video game addiction - but what’s really going on?

Restart

Dramatized 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

1587, North Carolina: Agnes is a reluctant settler in Roanoke, forced to leave England with her preacher husband. Agnes fears this colony will suffer the same fate as the first. When a series of ritualistic murders occur, she finds her purpose: to find the monster and protect her community.

Roanoke Falls

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

Audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future.

SINKHOLE

Narrated 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

This suspense-filled thriller tells the story of Felicia and Kira, two women, whose lives become intertwined when they discover they are being terrorized by the same multi-generational curse that is determined to end their family lineages.

The Burned Photo

Dramatized horror thriller series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

In the year 2320, a skip tracer hunts down a dangerous escaped criminal on a derelict space station. In the process, she must confront murderous alien life forms, as well as unspeakable horrors from her past.

The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station

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

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

In this audio dramedy, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men.

The Dragoning

Narrated urban fantasy series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A cerebral thriller that takes place in a tilted near-future where terminal cancer patients who wish to end their suffering must attend a weeklong bootcamp. Two best friends wrestle with their goodbye after one enrolls in the program and the other grows skeptical.

The End Up

Dramatized scifi thriller seres

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

Charlie and Amber both suffer from hallucinations, but when their psychiatrist suddenly goes missing, they rally together with the doctor’s other patients to search for him. Along the way, they encounter many secrets and surprises. But how do you find the truth when you can’t tell what’s real?

The Imperfection

Dramatized comedic mystery series with a splash of magical realism

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 stories that navigate the horrors of brash industrialization, unchecked consumerism, and intergenerational trauma.

The Iron Anthology

Dramatized multigenre 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

Chartrulean was to be the messiah, but he abandoned a life of piety to become what the world needed: a shipbuilder. He helped end a war, but mysterious forces infect his ships, driving him mad. All amidst a delicate game of politics. He is torn between those he trusts and the gods he’s angered.

The Madness of Chartrulean

Dramatized scifi fantasy series

Season Finale Fully Released

In production

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

When a supernatural threat drives mankind to the point of extinction, survivors around the globe struggle to endure in a world with just three rules: Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.

The Phenomenon

Dramatized scfi horror series

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

Recommended

Originally heard on Radiotopia’s Showcase, THE POLYBIUS CONSPIRACY tells the story of a mysterious arcade game from the '80s whose alleged existence in the Pacific Northwest is fueled by a blending of fact and fiction.

The Polybius Conspiracy

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

Lockie, a charismatic con man, escapes to St Kilda with the promise that this time he’ll change his ways. Unfortunately, the island and its unusual inhabitants have other ideas. He seeks redemption and they seek a saviour, but you know what they say - no change without sacrifice.

The Secret of St Kilda

Dramatized horror series

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

In 2022, angsty teen Derek is a pop punk poser living in the past; but when his mysterious substitute teacher sends him back to Warped Tour 2005 to stop the abduction and replacement of the pop punk princess, Avril Lavigne, his dreams of fulfilling his pop punk destiny become a reality.

Who Killed Avril Lavigne?

Dramatized scifi 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 UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavours to find answers in the wreckage.

Wake Of Corrosion

Dramatized scifi series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 4 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 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

A multi award-winning dystopian sci-fi drama of loss, isolation and hope, about a woman navigating a post-apocalyptic future.‍

Chaika

Dramatized dystopian scifi series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

TBD

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Sara and Noah wake up in complete darkness, trapped miles below the Denver International Airport (DIA). As they struggle for freedom from a mind-bending labyrinth filled with unimaginable horrors. Their only hope could come from the complete stranger they can send voice messages to.

Escaping Denver

Dramatized scifi thriller 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 Oct 21, 2024

Recommended

A band of survivors forms a resistance in the fallout shelter of a medieval castle. A battle-tested vampire hunter is at the front line leading the charge to save humanity while her younger sister wants life to return normal so she can go above ground and know what it’s like to live again.

Impact Winter

Dramatized scifi horror series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 3 now releasing

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below.

The White Vault

Dramatized horror series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 7 Now Releasing

First Season Fully Released

6 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

6 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Oct 15, 2024

Recommended

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