Weird Fiction

Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town’s boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house’s strange assortment of residents.

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.

Welcome to the Nesting Zone: a surreal rim of jungle around Mt. Tahoma prowled by transdimensional reptiles. The Amanuensis catalogues his expedition up the volcano slope and records stories of explorers caught in the evolving dreamscape. Staying sane is not an option.

When an isolated woman starts recording her dreams of strange women, things get weird. Over nine nights, reality becomes fantasy, past and future meld, and fate binds and beckons. What happens when these women come together, connecting across time and space as worlds die?

A bevy of continually strange and occasionally macabre stories from the creative minds behind Wolf Mountain Workshop - Monte D. Monteleagre and Alexander Wolfe. It is our home for short-run audio fiction. Join us around the fire.

Welcome to the color soaked psychedelic cosmic nightmare you’ve been waiting for (whether you knew it or not.) Where every tragedy is a ritual and every sacrifice is a joke. Welcome to WIRELAND RANCH.

They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure.

Three mischievous narrators spin a surreal, reality-bending, sci-fantasy space western about a crotchety outlaw, a struggling cultist, and a diabolical bastard making awful decisions in a world on the edge of disaster.

Pizza chef Ella doesn’t like dealing with people, but with a short staffed pizzeria it’s on her to do some deliveries. Though not always the most charismatic, she does try her best, even if some of her routes are more spooky than expected.

A weird west sci-fi adventure story available ad-free via serialized episodes.

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.

When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic, before they fall asleep.

Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos with it’s staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built it, but when it appears there’s always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee.

What happened at the Observatory? Who is Dr. Bruknenko? What is in those core samples? And, most importantly… here is Jimmy Curtains?

In this time travel romance, Syd is at once seduced by and suspicious of the shape shifting Tobias, as he launches his new product. Hot and Smoking drama about why we still use tobacco.

Arkham P.I. Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired.

Raul’s life in Hong Kong is thrown upside down when he discovers he can exchange letters with his favorite author, a woman in Paris who died thirty years ago. A nine part limited series, written and directed by Alex Kemp (The Imperfection, Modes of Thought) and produced by Wolf at the Door Studios.

You don’t have to change the world, you just have to live in it | An existentialist flashfiction anthology | Created by Rhys Lawton and James Curtis

In which the sun hatches in holy matrimony of the end, and a grifter wakes up in a Vegas casino.

In this satire that remixes horror and thriller tropes, an influential entrepreneur develops an irrational OCD, making him easily manipulated to absurd and terrifying policy extremes by a fearmongering lobbying organization. Will he wake up before it’s too late?

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.

After experiencing a traumatic loss, Betsy gains a remote viewing ability. As she raises her consciousness further, she uses her skill to find missing people, propelling her into a mysterious underworld.

A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.

What dark deeds unfold on the streets of Arkham? Which unwitting souls will succumb to the maddening call… OF CTHULHU?Unlikely heroes from all walks of life risk their sanity to keep the world spinning as they face down eldritch nightmares, unholy rituals, kindly creatures, and monstrous humans.

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”.

A story of ghosts, violent delights, and the horrors of humanity. Carnivea follows a young couple Eris and Kiera who invite a young woman into their life- the lynchpin for years of pain to be unleashed.

Phil, 54 and deeply sad, is preparing for the annual hunt. For hundreds of years, the men of his family have led a march in to the woods in search of a mystical pig-like creature. But for Phil it is a time for reopening old wounds and coming face to face with the reason for all his sadness.

A goddess, a cowboy, and a conman. Far from friends. This fantasy-western follows an unexpected adventure across the American West.

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.

Bunker 8 is one of the most classified military outposts on Earth. A hardened Australian ex-soldier is sent to the desolate Antarctic facility for a six-month assignment. His mission? To oversee “assets” locked away in impenetrable cells, follow strict protocols, and, above all, never ask questions.

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

One day, Wren wakes up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult ritual. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way. Listen to the complete series now.

Howie, a troubled young man, joins the milkmen on the island of St. Gaff’s, only to discover that the milkmen harbor a dark and dangerous secret.

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.

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.

A long-time dweller of the London sewer system has discovered a unique way to become intimate with his high-rise neighbours: listening to their innermost secrets through plug holes, drainpipes and washing machine fittings. They all have one thing in common - they are desperate for connection.

An audio literary magazine featuring weird fiction and nonfiction by Midwestern writers. From strange styles to unique identities, from written tales to oral tradition, from Iowa to Indiana and everywhere in between, we’re the podcast home for stories that stick with you.

Waking up with no memory was just the beginning of her journey…

In the heart of the city, detectives are thrust into a chilling investigation as a series of seemingly unrelated murders rocks the urban landscape. They learn that a dark, demonic force is at play; a malevolent demon named Moloch, whose influence grows stronger with each new recruit.

A concept album from the creators of Archive 81. It’s about an 800 year journey to a distant planet, and the society that forms during that voyage.

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

Every episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Desperation and calculation, need and desire render each new character in vivid shades. And episode by episode, a miraculous yet tumultuous world is assembled in glimpses.

Thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories written and read by Craig Nybo.

In what seems to be the far future, the crew of a Galactic Confederation spaceship must learn to distinguish fact from fiction before they go insane

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.

Trapped in the horror-filled and impossible city of Eskew, a man makes endless recordings of his day-to-day experiences, hoping to reach the outside world.This show routinely contains body horror and other disturbing scenes.

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.

Follow the story as radio show host Denver Baughman, with the help of a mysterious agency, tries to piece together the puzzle of his horrifying past through his radio show, therapy sessions, and interrogations.

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.

McSweeney's and KCRW present this radio drama in the style of Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds, featuring the music from the Flaming Lips, Bill Callahan, Okkervil River, Eleanor Friedberger, Nico Muhly, and Oneida.

The world-famous audio guide for the Annabelle H. Godfrey Historic Estate and Museum. Please do not touch the art. This is for your own safety.

A surreal podcast rooted in the world of the jam band, Phish. As much a story about loss and love as it is about parking lot grilled cheeses and heady jams, it takes the listener through Phish’s vast history, following a group of friends, a band, and the impossible task of processing loss.

The author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) worked with WNYC producer Marty Goldensohn on a 1998 series known as Reports on the Afterlife. A year earlier, Vonnegut explained these reports would come as a result of "controlled near-death experiences."

Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending, but an occurrence that changes those it happens to? In Kurt Vonnegut: Reporter on the Afterlife, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight.

The world is ending. Again. So many ways for Earth to die as reality begins to fall apart faster and faster. Deadly fungi, an asteroid on an impossible course, cosmic aliens, botanical body horror, killer drones, nuclear war… Everything, everywhere, everywhen is ending.

You never quite know where WireTap will take you. From a scientist who documents the final words of parrots to what it’s like to date Lois Lane after she’s broken up with Superman, the minds of Jonathan Goldstein and his friends and family are truly unique.

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.

An unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is true.

"Secure, Contain, Protect" is a horror fiction podcast about Scott Anderson, a Class C ethics officer at Site 2024. He records Incident Reports on deadly anomalies to improve containment. Though his office job seems safe, danger looms in the world of the SCP Foundation.

In a city that never sleeps, the veil between waking and dreaming can fray at the edges. Enter Lucifer Kane an academic who’s knowledge of the other side is unparalleled, and Brutus Feels, an empathic ex cop with fists of iron.

Meredith Stregland was a midlist humor columnist of the 1980’s. So how come his final year of the “And Lemme Tell Ya’…” column was never collected into a paperback? Is it because it started to get… weird?

We’ll play your dreams back to you, so you can see yourself clearly. Sleep clean.

DEADHOUSE: Immersive audio horror trilogy for a single listener, lying down with eyes closed and headphones. Binaural sound makes you the subject, replacing your reality with unsettling worlds. Each episode explores the mind-body separation for those who enjoy the macabre.