Finished Curated Audio Fiction Collections

Think magazines, other periodicals, or collections of short stories—but in audio.

Stories where some sort of recorder—tape, digital, wax cylinder—is the primary vehicle that tells the story.

Found footage, taped confessions, and other "Hey, read this" tales.

Ghost stories, vampires, and tales of other things that go bump in the night!

Stories of isolation, lonlineness, and the way a single person entertains themself.

Stories with one or more characters dealing with mental health issues.

Apocalyptic and post-civilization tales that show life goes on.

Ambies, WebFests, Peabodys, Parsecs, AVAs, and other winners of various awards.

Weird, bizarre, and other trippy tales that defy normalcy.

Political thrillers, epic sagas, and other tales of political intrigue.

Featured recommendations of fiction podcasts, audio dramas, or audiobooks created by people of color.

Wormholes, police boxes, ancient tomes, and other explorations of jumping around in time.

Tales of the grind, making the bacon, office romance, and generally celebrating(?) capitalism, baby!

Queer-forward stories of any genre, really.

Stories of monsters, fey folk, cryptids living with us today.

Radio plays and audio dramas done in the style of radio performances, often with a modern twist.

Stories about vacations, road trips, and travel to exotic lands.

Slice-of-life and other reality-based tales that explore the human condition.

From Skynet to HAL9000, synthetic sentience was supposed to make our lives better. Yeah, right.

Audiobooks and other mostly-narrated stories, often with audio elements that enhance the story.

Musicals and other shows with heavy use of orginal musical numbers.

Fictional investigations, spoof true cime series, crime fiction, and other deep-dives into things that sound very true, but aren't.

Desert-based tales of survival, hope, family, horror, and some trippy stuff that could only happen in a desert.

Sitcoms, soap operas, police procedurals, fake reality shows, and other types of storytelling popularized on the small screen.

Tales of zombies, shamblers, walkers, the undead, and other mindless creatures. 🧟

Slapstick to sketch, improv to irreverent, goofy to guffaws. You know... teh funniez!

Dungeon crawls, underground cities, critters below us, and other tales from underground.

Spy thrillers and other stories featuring espionage, secret agents, and tales of other shadowy figures plotting and scheming.

Stories of the sea, rivers, lakes, and other wet places.

When playing a game—machine, tabletop, puzzlebox 😱—is central to the plot.

Stories of wizards, witches, warlocks and other users of magic.

Westerns, stories from the trails, and other stories of the Old West, New West, and even other worlds that feel like Westerns.

Tales of cosmic, Eldritch, and Lovecraftian horror.

Murder mysteries, who-done-its, and other ways to find out who killed Mr. Body.

Children's tales, YA stories, and other shows designed for kids. Of all ages!

Retrofuturistic technologies, steam-powered machinery, and loads of shiny brass.

Stories of alien abduction, visitors from the stars, ancient aliens, and things that go "pew-pew" in the night.

Romance, romcoms, Hallmark shows, and other tales of love and relationships.

Tales of Kris Kringle, snow men, and other Christmas-inspired tales.

Superheroes, metahumans, and other people who are litereally better than you.

Listening times of less than 2 hours.

Listening times of 18+ hours or more.

Featured recommendations of fiction podcasts, audio dramas, or audiobooks that posted their final (or finale) episodes in 2023 as curated by Evo Terra.

Featured recommendations of fiction podcasts, audio dramas, or audiobooks that posted their final (or finale) episodes in 2022 as curated by Evo Terra.