Title Sponsor

The Afros & Audio Podcast Festival is the premier event for Black podcasters, content creators, and audio professionals. Attend and immerse yourself in dynamic panels, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities designed to elevate your podcasting journey. October 18-20, 2024 | Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD

Purchase your ticket today!

Struggling For Sanity

Though we've still a long way to go, the stigma of discussing mental health is waning. Audio fiction creators have long used their work as a way to explore the realities of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health challenges, and this collection of finished audio fiction shows is filled with them.
Struggling For Sanity
Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.
Archive 81
Dramatized horror series
Season Finale Fully Released
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
This course discusses the Anterran Civilization and the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The earliest human society, years older than previously known to exist, will provide opportunities for analysis of ancient writing and thought.
Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature
Dramatized paranormal horror thriller series
Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released
Cliffhanger 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
They call the crashed spaceship “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners trapped inside. The only way to free them is a transfer into humans willing to share their minds with a second consciousness forever. Who would volunteer for that?
Give Me Away
Dramatized scifi series
Season Finale Fully Released
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 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
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 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
Season Finale Fully Released
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 expedition is launched into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of withstanding enormous pressures. The same cannot be said for her crew.
Down
Dramatized sci-fi horror series
Complete Series Fully Released
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 sci-fi comedy podcast about Station Supervisor E.L. Hob’s first year at MarsCorp, a terraforming colony established on the red planet in 2070.
MarsCorp
Dramatized sci-fi comedy series
Season Finale Fully Released
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
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
Complete Series Fully Released
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
Ivan finds himself trapped in the mysterious Ravenholm Institute. While enduring painful procedures and under heavy watch, he formulates a plan of escape. Ivan yearns to get back to his partner, but does she even exist? Is Ivan really a trained killer? What is really going on?
Classified
Dramatized mystery thriller series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live.
Shipworm
Dramatized thriller
Complete Series Fully Released
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 science fiction audio drama following humanity’s first interstellar mission, already underway for 92 years. Features a full cast of ~30 actors, stereo effects, realistic physics, big ideas, ethical dilemmas, and plausible aliens.
253 Mathilde
Dramatized scifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
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 a brooding, sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he tangles with an elusive homme fatale, tracks dangerous artifacts of an ancient alien civilization, and faces his three greatest fears: heights, blood, and relationships.
The Penumbra Podcast
Dramatized queer scif noir horror series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
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
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
Recommended
Peri hadn’t left her lighthouse in years. Until one morning, the lighthouse was somewhere new. Set adrift to wander new and mysterious places, Peri must face her fears and her memories if she wants to use her new situation to find her missing brother.
The Far Meridian
Dramatized self-discovery fantasy series
Season Finale Fully Released
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 Unauthorized Biography of Clark Kent. In an unsure world, it takes courage to hope. One must be daring to dream. It takes strength to believe in Superman.
Superman: Son of El: The Unauthorized Biography of Clark Kent
Narrated superhero series
Season Finale Fully Released
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 Jul 19, 2024
Recommended
Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run a failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find a new competitor. With their dogsbody Georgie and a mouse called Madeleine, they are taking drastic steps to stay in business...
Wooden Overcoats
Dramatized comedy series
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
4 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Dr. Tucker is having a very weird life not being able to die. Lucille is the literary scene’s biggest enigma. When they end up sharing a cabin, they’re prepared for a stay from hell. Welcome to Jerusalem, OR, where what doesn’t kill you is just another mystery.
Where the Stars Fell
Dramatized urban fantasy series
Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released
Cliffhanger 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 Aug 01, 2025
Recommended
On the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity besetting the city.
The Call of the Void
Dramatized horror series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
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
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
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
Complete Series Fully Released
Complete Series Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
4 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins
Recommended
Lydia was perfect, because Soft Voice told her exactly what to do and what to say. But one day, Soft Voice left. SOFT VOICE is an immersive audiodrama about imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and self-loathing.
Soft Voice
Dramatized thriller series
Limited Series Fully Released
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
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
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
Hosted by our protagonist, Ruben, this fictional narrative featuring real interviews with emerging artists will bring voice to young creators who use social media platforms to amplify their own messages.
Here Comes The Break
Dramatized fiction series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
Host Blake Pfeil recreates his experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the US. Along the way, he asks critical questions while encouraging folks to activate their imaginations as a tool for healing.
abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
Narrated multigenre anthology
Season Finale Fully Released
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
Through conversations with climate researchers, parents, mental health experts and childfree families, a woman grapples with grief, hope, and the biggest decision of her life: should she bring a child into this world?
Expectant
Dramatized clifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
When a rash of suicides hits the city, a detective reaches out to a private suicide hotline operator with unnatural powers of persuasion for her help on the investigation, and her insight into why people kill themselves.
The Patron Saint of Suicides
Dramatized crime thriller series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
Hailey Markowitz has only ever wanted one thing: to be Indiana Jones. But as it turns out, dealing with her mental health is scarier than any mummies or booby-trapped temples.
Skulls and Treasure
Dramatized adventure series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
I’ve been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I take the medicine they give me, my brain will be replaced with cotton. So yeah. I’m crazy.
When Everything Cracks
Narrated mental health memoir
Season Finale Fully Released
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
How do you learn to be human if there’s no-one around to teach you? A hopepunk podcast following the journey of a little satellite trying to understand what has happened after Earth stops returning his calls.
Lost Terminal
Dramatized hopepunk scifi series
Season Finale Fully Released
Season Finale Fully Released
First Season Fully Released
16 Seasons Fully Released
First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
16 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!
New Season Begins Oct 07, 2024
Recommended
A Sci-Fi story about a disgruntled information seller, a mysterious space boy, and an android doing her best.
InCo
Dramatized scifi series
Complete Series Fully Released
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
A recently recovered drug addict tries to start her new lease on life, too bad life has it out for her.‍
Small Victories
Dramatized modern fiction series
Season Finale Fully Released
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

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!