Fictional & Alternative Histories | Completed Audio Fiction

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

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History books are boring, sure. But when creators imagine the conversations and situations that lead up to historical events, it comes alive. And, sure, some of the reimagined and alternate historical events can be a lot of fun too! Here's a collection of shows to get you started.

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

On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, President Pierce makes a secret decision to act, with historic and possibly catastrophic consequences.

Terms

Dramatized political thriller series

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An inexperienced 26 year old attorney and recently minted Justice are both new, untested, and scared out of their minds—and on a collision course to create one of the defining moments of the century. Together, they create one of the defining moments of the century.

Supreme: The Battle for Roe

Dramatized political thriller series

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When their mother goes mysteriously missing in 1942 Berlin, teen sisters are presented with an unthinkable decision; kill a Nazi or risk the truth of their mother’s identity falling into enemy hands.

Wicked Dames

Dramatized historical fiction series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for 2025

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Experience a tragic friendship that shaped the modern world. TEMUJIN faithfully adapts the Central Asian epic "The Secret History of the Mongols," and is the first Asian audio drama to be nominated for a Webby.

Temujin

Dramatized historical fiction series

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1871 Chinatown, Los Angeles. A beautiful young refugee came to LA and fell in love, only to be drawn into a showdown between two of Chinatown’s most notorious gangsters. Before long, the entire city was caught up in a life or death struggle where old-world values clashed with new-world issues.

Blood on Gold Mountain: A Story from the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre

Narrated historical fiction series

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Adolf Hitler and his reluctant psychotherapist meet when Hitler is just an unknown corporal and are surprisingly bound together during Hitler’s rise to power. His downfall begins when Dr. Dromyrk becomes determined to destroy him… Hippocratic Oath be damned.

The Hitler File

Dramatized historical fiction series

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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

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A what-if scripted audio drama based on the oldest unsolved cold case in human history: the murder of “Otzi The Iceman”, found perfectly preserved in ice after 5,300 years… with an arrowhead mysteriously lodged in his shoulder.

Otzi The Iceman Must Die

Dramatized historical fiction

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It’s 1942 Boston and Libby is kicked out of the only job and home she’s ever known after fighting off unwanted advances from the Governor’s son. She takes a new position at a hotel, where she meets composer Francis Key, becoming his muse…and something more. Until her fiancé returns from the front.

The Key of Love

Dramatized historical romance series

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President Lincoln is dead, the country in turmoil. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton takes control, determined to bring the assassin to justice. Consumed by his conviction, Stanton will betray his friends, his honor, and the constitution he swore to protect, all to steer the country towards justice.

1865

Dramatized historical fiction series

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Unknown

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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

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After President Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke, Edith Wilson told no one. For almost a year after the end of World War I, Edith Wilson acted as the de facto unelected President. And all along the way, enemies both internal and external, inched closer to finding out her secret.

Edith!

Dramatized comedic historical fiction

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Chronicling the lives of players in the lottery games while illuminating the self-sustainability of the community’s African American residents.

Bronzeville

Dramatized historical fiction thriller

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Follow the journey of Merry, an ex-con and recovering addict, between the time periods of 1947 to 1968, from a rarely seen Black woman’s point of view.

Address: House of Corrections

Dramatized historical fiction

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In planning

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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

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In planning

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When an errand goes awry, Thomas Jefferson's slave finds himself facing a new sort of blight that turns men rabid. Faced with slave catchers on one side and murderous, blighted hordes on the other, he and Jefferson must work together to save themselves and whoever hasn’t yet been turned.

Pale Columbia

Dramatized historical fiction series

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Unknown

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The story of two young Japanese Americans who meet and fall in love while incarcerated during WWII, only to learn that an even bigger test awaits once the war is over. A portrait of the love and resistance required to believe in an America that doesn’t believe in you.

The Dinner Party

Dramatized historical fiction series

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A kingdom burdened by war, taxes, and a tyrannical monarh. As England struggles to carry on in the absence of the good King Richard, other forces begin gathering to grab power. Meanwhile, those who suffer most are the common folk, crushed under the weight of excessive taxation and lawlessness.

Robin Hood: Rising to Honor

Dramatized historical fiction series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

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An audio drama based on the life and times of “Numbers Queen” Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance.

Harlem Queen

Dramatized fiction series

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Unknown

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ALMELEM is a biblical backstager, set in the first century C.E., about a small group of con artists and true disciples fumbling toward the greatest story ever told.

Almelem

Dramatized historical fiction series

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1942. Washed out of flight school and Inexplicably assigned to the Army Air Forces “First Motion Picture Unit,” Private Oliver Whelan tumbles down the rabbit hole of World War II Hollywood. A hilarious, fascinating and touching audio comedy based in fact.

On The Tinsel Front

Dramatized historical fiction comedy

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Jun 2025

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One family deals with racism in the Jim Crow South months before the Civil Rights Movement begins. Directed by Keena Ferguson.

Blackbirds: Volume 1

Narrated African American historical fiction audiobook

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Nov 2024

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After a fateful meeting abroad, the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo arrives in Paris to establish a new life. Though he soon becomes a cornerstone of high society, mysterious and tragic happenings quickly follow - threatening the Parisian upper class in unimaginable ways.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Dramatized historical fiction series

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In 1946, a crew of California convicts fights wildfires in exchange for their freedom. Thirty years later, while researching the history of American prison labor, a British journalist uncovers evidence suggesting a wide-ranging cover-up of inmate deaths.

Back Fires

Dramatized historical fiction series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Jun 2026

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Two years after Julius Caesar failed to beware the Ides of March and got stabbed to death by a band of well-wishers. The assassins have been rounded up and slaughtered in battle, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. But who’s in charge now?

Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later

Dramatized political historical comedy series

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Unknown

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A debt-ridden journalist exploit the public appetite and ghost-write a sensational history of pirates. But as the balladeers and gossips on the streets of London build myths around the blood-thirsty, perverse lady pirates, he is forced to reckon with the real Bonny & Read.

The Ballad Of Anne & Mary

Dramatized historical musical series

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Welcome to Antumbra Academy of Arcane art, where nothing is as it seems. Follow along with this journey of mystery, magic and madness as Corveil and friends he makes along the way, navigate this strange and fascinating world, and uncover the dark dangers that lie just beneath the surface.

The Corveil Cases

Narrated historical fantasy mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Sep 2025

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The true story of Black women empowerment; of two African American women who refused to be ignored and silenced by a society too comfortable with the status quo.

1972 - The Chisholm Campaign Trail and the Davis Trial

Dramatitized historical series

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A PhD History student in Edinburgh finds a collection of letters and pamphlets from the Jacobean era detailing a strange and disturbing event. As he explores the circumstances under which they were collated, he begins to piece together a history of dark magic and worlds beyond our own.

Cicatrix: Scars of Parchment

Narrated historical horror/dark fantasy series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Nov 2024

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Barely clinging to life, a flayed man lies in a copper basement beneath a cornfield of a forgotten country in the 1850s. Why? From this weird and disturbing mystery begins the story of The Sulphuric Secrets, which spans the globe, and hundreds of years.

The Sulphuric Secrets

Narated occult horror historical fiction series

Season Finale Fully Released

Season 2 slated for 2025

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A young woman finds herself in the middle of a burgeoning global crisis when zombified Holocaust victims begin rising from the mass graves of former concentration camps.

Justice: A Holocaust Zombie Story

Dramatized dark comedy thriller series

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The Roman Empire is falling apart. As the tyrannical reign of Tiberius Caesar comes to an end, his adopted nephew, Gaius, steps into the breach. Guided by his beloved sister, Drusilla, Gaius seems poised to get Rome back on track… until his mind begins to break.

Little Boots

Dramatized historical thriller series

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When the ship is attacked by a German warship thousands of miles from land, a raw young officer and a handful of desperate men are faced with impossible choices that will mean the difference between life or death.

Unsinkable

Dramatized history series

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20 years after the American civil war, former slave Marcus Riggs is trapped in a British Harbor after the Invaders came to enslave all mankind. Now the invaders are gone, and new Orders clash as humanity rises from the ashes…but are the aliens gone for good?

Asunder

Narrated scifi alt history series

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Based on the Ancient Aliens theories with a clear unique vision and take by the author, you will learn an alternate history from the protagonists themselves. Voices and sound effects created using AI or AI assisted tools.

ENKI: Tales from the Past

Narrated/Dramatized scifi history of the world series

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 4—the final season—is now releasing

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New Season Begins Sep 22, 2024

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What would you do if you only had 20 minutes left to live? Based loosely on the false alarm missile alert that terrified Hawaii in 2018, INCOMING imagines stories of all kinds – from terrifying to absurd, from heartwarming to heartbreaking.

Incoming

Dramatized comedy thriller series

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