Hold My Tape Recorder! | Completed Audio Fiction

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

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A collection of shows that follow—some loosely, some tightly—a common storytelling device in audio fiction: a recording device of some type, where the protagonist(s) have or are recording their experiences to said recording device, and we get to listen in.

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

Andrew Moss loved his anthropology job, until mysterious artifacts from a Mr. Havisham started arriving in brown paper bags. The artifacts are… Wrong.

Out of Place

Narrated scifi series

Complete Series Fully Released

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

Season Finale Fully Released

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3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

First Season Fully Released

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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See what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Jonathan, the new head archivist, and his dedicated team attempt to bring their collection up to date. But as they look into the archives, something starts to look back…

The Magnus Archives

Dramatized horror series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

5 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

5 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Five years ago, Molly, Bryan, and Nathan started a podcast on the local legend of The Blackwood Bugman. The legends are true, people are turning up dead, and someone is watching them. Their recordings have finally been released.

Blackwood

Dramatized horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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A horror fiction podcast following the work of the last “reclaimer”, investigating a series of unnatural killings by raising the dead and committing their final statements to wax cylinder.‍

Ghost Wax

Dramatized fantasy horror anthology

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Tessa Dixon is at a remote army base in Texas as she deals with the psychological and physical trauma of basic training. When she finds a tape of her grandfather’s labeled ‘Ghost Tape,' she unknowingly unleashes a deadly manifestation of her family’s horrible misdeeds.

Ghost Tape

Dramatized horror

Limited Series Fully Released

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Three years after the Great Ice Sheet Collapse, a former bigwig must defend his climate legacy to his long-lost niece before she will grant him his final wish. Now they must fight against an AI-dominated world to find redemption.

Court of the Grandchildren

Dramatized sci-fi courtroom audio drama

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Deirdre Gardner finds a lost cassette tape from 1992 in an attic and embarks on a quest to revive the sound of a generation. A serial fiction musical podcast about what we remember, and what we forget.

It Makes A Sound

Dramatized fiction series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Back in the 90s two police officers were promoted from bicycle cops to real ones. With the help of their trusty tape recorder they started chronicling their time protecting and serving America and the world from a Mad Scientist, a Squid-Pig, a Talking Campari Bottle, and Jewish Space Lasers.

Squad Car 22

Dramatized scifi buddy cop comedy series

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200 years in the future, large-scale crises are fully normalized. 5 friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars.

What Will Be Here?

Narrated scifi comedy series

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1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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It's 2373. The Space Race that began in 1955 never ended. Humanity has colonized the planets with the help of extraterrestrial refugees, and with them they took the omnipresent artificial intelligence Kestrel, a personal assistant A. I. meant to ease the day to day of every creature.

The Kestrel Files

Narrated scifi series

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Follow Dr. Jared Hel’s journey as he works to re-discover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure’.

Jar of Rebuke

Dramatized queer horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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While minding her friend George’s apartment in London, artist/designer Ava’s imagination is captured by an item in his collection of vintage TVs and radios: a mysterious 1930s Dieselpunk device known as the Ravenstocke Transopticator - and the tragic early death of its young inventor.

Rescuing Ravenstocke

Dramatized romantic time-travel comedy thriller

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Piece together the mystery of the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs. Shelly Croft organises recordings taken from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on the synthetic limbs project, and uncovers more than just scientific breakthroughs.

Clockwork Bird

Dramatized philosophical sci-fi horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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A cosy horror fiction podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane.

Spirit Box Radio

Dramatized horror series

Complete Series Fully Released

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3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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One hundred years after a cataclysmic event, three friends decide to host a radio programme from their underground bunker, complete with guests, interviews, short stories and music. And the possibility of starvation, madness, monsters – both metaphorical and literal – and, worst of all, each other.

The Bunker

Dramatized post-apocalyptic comedy radio series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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After getting divorced, a midlist author with secrets buys a run-down house to restore in the Warwick Court neighborhood as a way of both preserving his own secret and finding a distraction from his personal problems. But the residents also have their fair share of secrets.

The Warwick Recordings

Narrated horror mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Dec 01, 2024

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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

Season Finale Fully Released

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3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Oct 21, 2024

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New Mexico’s 3rd-best romantic advice call-in show, where listeners eavesdrop as Josie squares off against top improvisers and her engineer Frank. What results is an often hilarious and surprisingly human show exploring the risks we idiots take every time we fall in or out of love.

Josie's Lonely Hearts Club

Dramatized semi-improvised romcom series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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A psychiatrist takes over an out-patient therapy program from an old colleague and discovers that not all nightmares are the result of mental illness, and he soon finds himself out of his depth.

The Patient Files

Dramatized horror anthology

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1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Oneiric, or The Hatch Pilgrim, is a dream quest, a grail quest, a fever dream… quest.

Oneiric

Dramatized scifi journal

Complete Series Fully Released

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The action-packed reports of the Hunters of Fenblith’s Hunts on the immortal Beasts terrorising humanity. The first part of the transmedia project Hunting Darkness, it introduces many of the themes and story elements that will be expanded upon in the coming months and years.

From the Bay of Fangs

Narrated sword & sorcery flintlock fantasy anthology

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Join the absurd world of Tom Bobbajobski with his phone-in guests, top tips. weather from the bottom of the lake, what’s on in Huron City and the Grey Water Area plus music and drama and much much more.

The Midnite Hour with Tom Bobbajobski

Dramatized comedy series

Complete Series Fully Released

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1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.

Archive 81

Dramatized horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.

The Deca Tapes

Dramatized scifi mystery series

Season Finale Fully Released

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1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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Stories told through found audio from an alternate universe. Season four, “The Cradle” is a story about a mother and daughter as they attempt to lead a family-centric commune surviving on the fringes of society.

Within the Wires

Narrated immersive fiction series

Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

8 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

8 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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Since she was a child Jac has been receiving mysterious and disturbing cassette tapes in the mail from an unknown sender. This podcast listens to and discusses each tape while trying to discover who is sending these tapes and why they are sending them to Jac.

Tapes From Beyond

Dramatized horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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Dr. Bright provides therapy for the strange and unusual; their sessions have been recorded for research purposes.

The Bright Sessions

Dramatized metahuman series

Complete Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

7 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

7 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Dr. Sarah Penn is a resident physician, but she has not been at work for a few weeks. Part of this is because of the unpredictable outbreak that’s turned mild mannered pedestrians into flesh-eating sociopaths. People are much less predictable than the undead.

Rapture 518

Dramatized psychological horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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A present day journalist uncovers the audio tapes of a 1950s private eye who cracked the greatest unsolved murder mystery Hollywood has ever known… and didn’t tell a soul.

The Angel of Vine

Dramatized mystery series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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A serialized docudrama about one journalist’s search for truth, her subject’s mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. Do you believe?

The Black Tapes

Dramatized horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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In 2018, famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes. Detective Sam Bailey is tasked with piecing together what happened to Anna Sheridan from the seemingly impossible encounters she recorded.

The Sheridan Tapes

Dramatized horror/mystery series

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4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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School crosswalks are the frontline in an ancient battle where crossing guards are the warriors that stand between the everyday, holding up a stop sign to the end of days… and the end of days is going way over 15 MPH/30 KPH in a school crossing zone.

The Crossing Guard Tapes

Narrated & dramatized 80s adventure series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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When a 23 year old gets a survival job at a struggling low level NYC talent agency, his rage-aholic boss has a heart attack on the first day, leaving him alone, clueless and in charge. His shady ex-boyfriend conveniently resurfaces, coming on strong and making the job suddenly much more attractive.

Rolling Calls

Radio play comedy series

Limited Series Fully Released

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1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Dov Kandel has spent the better part of two decades exposing vast government conspiracies and exploring unsettling paranormal phenomena on his popular talk radio program. After interviewing thousands of callers and guests, he’s certain he’s heard it all. His next guest will prove him wrong.

Forbidden Cassettes: Consummation

Dramatized analog cosmic horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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An original, terrifying journey through one very long day in a small town as heard through the viewpoint of the woman running the dispatch radio at the Sheriff’s office as she tries to hold everything together when her entire world is falling apart.

The Occurrence in River Oaks

Dramatized scifi horror series

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1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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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

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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When a mysterious caller exposes the host of The Late Shift with Dr. Goodvibes' darkest secrets live on air, Hal is entangled in an ever-expanding web of intrigue and deceit. Is it mere déjà vu, a sinister echo from his past, or the reckoning he’s long feared?

Dr Goodvibes

Dramatised mystery thriller series

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1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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London, 2029. Detective Inspector Neil Nowak is investigating the case of three missing people. He discovers that each person in question had an identical, strange digital recorder, locked in a black box and hidden in their homes, each with over an hour of recording.

How Copy

Dramatized detective series

Limited Series Fully Released

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1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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After a rough year, I thought I would move to the East Coast to get some fresh air and try something new… I can’t explain it, but something about the new house and this whole state feels…off.

The Cellar Letters

Dramatized found audio horror

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Two people from different backgrounds and their unlikely friendship formed through a magical journal that links them. Unbeknownst to them, they become a part of an ancient mystery, and see the world from new angles.

Wanderer's Journal

Dramatized fantasy adventure series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

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1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Three women. Three centuries. One haunting.

Mirrors

Dramatized scifi ghost story

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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New Season Begins

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Daniel Jones’ perfect life just took a sharp turn for the worse. His parents separated, he has to move to the city, and his mom up and left the country. Daniel is working up a plan to make his life more acceptable, when he discovers a strange door that takes him to a parallel life.

My Parallel Life

Dramatized scifi series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Visit Slumberland, a small island town in the US. Come along with Thomas Edward M, the freelance soundman. He’s been hired to meet the locals and record their oral histories for the town’s time capsule. The unfolding history of the town mixes folklore, paranormal, mystery and humor.

Slumberland

Dramatized humorous supernatural mystery series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

8 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

8 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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In July of 2019, Jeremy made the fortuitous decision to make the only bid on an abandoned storage unit. At first disappointed by no apparent treasure, what he discovered instead is a trove of the most extensive documentation of seemingly unexplainable events he’s ever seen.

The Storage Papers

Dramatized horror series

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4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Oct 01, 2024

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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

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Frightening tales of suspense and terror told by the anonymous “Caller” - a creepy storyteller who calls into a help line in the middle of the night. These stories will leave you breathless and begging for more!

Midnight Caller

Dramatized horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Mar 15, 2025

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When he discovers something beneath the static of the worlds’s communication network, an unnamed Observer begins to catalog and record the strange signals that should not exist…

Observable Radio

Dramatized scifi horror series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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As an escape from her carefully curated life and dying marriage, Diana (Demi Moore) secretly runs an erotic website where women reveal their intimate sexual fantasies.

Dirty Diana

Dramatized sexy thiller series

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First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

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Centered on a lonely little mountain town’s late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.

King Falls AM

Dramatized paranormal comedy series

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