Struggling For Sanity | Completed Audio Fiction

This collection is curated by Evo Terra

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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.

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

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

Archive 81

Dramatized horror series

Season Finale Fully Released

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

In post-production

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

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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

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

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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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

Unknown

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

Narrated superhero series

Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Jan 2026

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

First Season Fully Released

4 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

4 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

Slated for Aug 2025

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Aug 01, 2025

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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

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

Slated for Dec 2024

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

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

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

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

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

New Season Coming Soon Fully Released

Season 3 starts 2 Jan 2025

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins Jan 03, 2025

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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

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

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

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

Now Releasing Fully Released

Season 17 now releasing

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

First Season Fully Released

3 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

3 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

Thirteen years after the fall of modern civilization, five survivors live in relative harmony on an isolated farm, where they rarely discuss their lives Before. The delicate balance of this household is upturned when a sixth survivor arrives with an empty stomach and a world of possibilities.

Still Lives

Dramatized pastoral post-apocalyptic 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

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Desperate and facing extinction, humanity’s only hope is a strange nebula that has suddenly appeared beyond the edge of the cluster. Its shifting clouds may hide a source of salvation for the people of Tantalus, but time is running out.

The Sojourn

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

A dystopian future, in which the birth rate has plummeted and the United States has become a theocracy called Gilead. Women capable of childbirth are pulled out of society and trained as handmaids, then assigned to men for the sole purpose of procreation.

The Handmaid's Tale

Dramatized dystopian 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

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Follow an ongoing experiment and its largely willing participants. As they grapple with their involvement, they must piece together who they are, what they’re doing, and what the experiment truly entails: all while struggling with the mysteries of their past and the uncertainty of their present.

Error 313

Dramatized scifi series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Oct 2025

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

Recommended

A wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, stage-struck janitor drawn into the larger-than-life universe of the Orbiting Human Circus, a fantastical, wildly popular radio show broadcast from the Eiffel Tower.

The Orbiting Human Circus

Dramatized surreal comedy series

Limited Series Fully Released

First Season Fully Released

2 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

2 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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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

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

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A cis man obsessed with the past and a trans woman trying to find her future fall in love at the end of the world.

The Transient Bliss of Death by Fallout

Dramatized post-apocalyptic queer love 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

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An atmospheric, unsettling folk horror audio drama that explores the true nature of humanity and the deep, dark secrets we all try to hide. The Woods Are Watching.

Partial Veil

Dramatised atmospheric psychological horror thriller series

Cliffhanger Season Finale Fully Released

Slated for Q1 2026

First Season Fully Released

1 Seasons Fully Released

First Season Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

1 Seasons Fully Released - Cliffhanger!

New Season Begins

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After a night of drinking, canceled comedian Dean Blackshaw is found dead in a comedy club green room. Now his friend and fellow comic, Anne-Marie, has to put together the pieces of a blacked-out night, solve the crime, and wonder if it was all her fault.

Dean’s Killer Joke

Dramatized murder mystery 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

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Kai Cooper has the power to teleport wherever he wants… but it comes at a cost. The villains of his past won’t let him go. Meanwhile, Kai battles the city’s most dangerous criminal all while evading a police detective hot on Kai’s trail.

The Light Jumper: A Kai Cooper Adventure

Narrated superhero 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

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