If you need help now, call a crisis hotline to get immediate emergency counseling. Hotlines are staffed by trained volunteers with text and chat often available. There are mental health provider directories and substance use treatment locators available. You can access resources for basic needs such as housing and food.
🎵 It's the most wonderful time... 🎵 OK, enough of that. You get too much of that in your daily lives. And my preferred Xmas songs are probably not your preferred Xmas songs, so we'll have no more singing, thank you very much.
But it is the start of the Christmas season, along with all the other end-of-year celebrations that we collectively refer to as "Happy Holidays." As such, I'll feature at least one winter holiday-focused show with each newsletter this month, and I'll keep the Christmas Is Coming collection in the Featured Collection sections. Tis the season, yo.
And speaking of gift giving, I need to thank both Philip S and Bill G for becoming Individual Supporters last week! A huge thanks to you both for getting us that much closer to sustainability. I plan on doing a financial report after the first of the year. I'm not trying to get rich off of The End, but it would be hecka nice to cover the hard costs and some of the time expense. You can help just like Philip, Bill, and the other ~40 Individual Supporters and Supporting Creatives, by supporting The End.
It's a packed issue this week thanks in part to a few fans who've been great at submitting their favorite shows to our directory. You can do that too! We're up to 1,060 shows in the directory as of this send. Neat!
Let's get into it, shall we?
- Evo
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Jess and Corey’s dad was not exactly the adventurous type. At least that’s what they thought until his past caught up with him.
Turns out, Dan, the anxious and overprotective middle school science teacher used to be a daring archaeologist and adventurer. Now this fractured, but loving family will have to work together to escape the bad guys, find a hidden treasure and overcome a family curse.
Starring Broadway and TV stars, Adam Godley, Christopher Sieber, Alexa Nisenson, and Banks Pierce.
Candy Claus, Private Eye is a half-hour audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole.
Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas.
A sendup of toxic positivity and prodigal homecomings, the show introduces characters like SANTA BLOB (a deformed snowman built as a surrogate Santa Claus), MOPPET (a gingerbread man baker conscripted as a pathologist) and GUMDROP THE WINTER SQUID (a Krampus-esque calamari committing unspeakable acts on the seafloor).
If you need help now, call a crisis hotline to get immediate emergency counseling.
Hotlines are staffed by trained volunteers with text and chat often available.
There are mental health provider directories and substance use treatment locators available.
You can access resources for basic needs such as housing and food.
Completed or finale'd shows we've recently added to our audio fiction directory.
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.
The inside story of the CIA from the perspective of Eloise Page who joined on the Agency’s first day in 1947 and, in a 40-year career, became one of its most powerful women.
An FDA and FBI agent team up to solve a string of murders occurring around the country, targeting victims seemingly at random through poisoned water… only to discover the connection that unveils the killer.
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.
Erika’s life is stuck – but when her brilliant 12-year-old daughter recognizes her bakery gifts, they risk everything to build a dessert empire. “Self-Rising Flower” charts her years of entrepreneurial struggles, strained family bonds, and persevering against the odds through their innovative rise.
Deep in the heart of Texas is a cruel cabal of occult sorcerers that seek the Gloom’s dark power. An organization dedicated to unfathomable ambition. An organization ready to declare a shadow war against the Madhouse. An organization attempting to bend reality to its will.
An audio movie about legendary films and TV series and the crazy and talented dreamers who made them. The risks and stakes, the battles, the behind-the-scenes stories nobody knows. Against all odds and usually teetering on failure, these filmmakers and show-runners made something great and lasting
Inspired by the classic monster stories. If monster lore, action and adventure is your taste? This six episode series will make you wish Halloween was every night of the year.
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.
Award-winning miniseries about the filmmakers who revolutionized the movies. Season 1: George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and the 1970s Movie Revolution. Season 2: The Story of James Cameron. It’s a movie for your ears.
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.
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.
Full cast science fiction murder mystery mini-series. It’s the 22nd century after genetic experimentation has shattered humanity. It was the first QuietPlease.org Production, so it’s a little rough with subpar acting.