I've a new Collection for you this week—Super-short Series. It contains—currently, as I add new shows to collections as they come in—129 finished audio fiction shows that will take you less than 2 hours to binge. Because sometimes you just need a quick listen. Or maybe you don't want to invest hours upon hours. Browse this collection and find your next fix.
There's a lot going on in the world, so I'm electing to keep this preamble short. That, and I have some serious thinking to do regarding this newsletter, the site, and the companion podcast. My quandary isn't existential (yet) but some things need to change. You can assuage some of my angst by supporting The End and becoming an Individual Supporter today. That'd be nice.
Let's get into it, shall we?
- Evo
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A quarterly Radio Play of dark fiction.
Inspired by the radio of the past, but built for modern ears, LampLight Radio Plays are audio adaptations of stories from LampLight Magazine. The hallmark of LampLight is stories that are chilling, rich, and that work on multiple levels, and the Radio Play is bringing that to the world of audio. Expect great performances, naturalistic sound design, and immersive stories to unsettle and entertain.
Can you feel loss for something you’ve never known?
Welcome to BBC Radio 4’s innovative new podcast – Forest 404. Set in the 24th Century in a world where forests have been erased from history, Forest 404 is an immersive sci-fi thriller starring Pearl Mackie, Tanya Moodie and Pippa Haywood – with original music by Bonobo
Meet and greet your favorite audio fiction creators at Phoenix Fan Fusion 2025, the local fan and geek driven, large scale, multi-genre, pop-culture convention.
Experience three days of superheroes, sci-fi, comics, anime, gaming, and now audio fiction at Fan Fusion, Phoenix's largest convention.
June 6–8, 2025 — Phoenix Convention Center
Completed or finale'd shows we've recently added to our audio fiction directory.
A stick-in-the-mud cruise ship guest would be happier continuing the monotonous 9-5 he cherishes. Instead, Ron Ahmanson ends up in a revelatory existential crisis kicked off by the discovery of an unlikely superpower - he always rolls “snake eyes” at the craps table.
Rooted in New England folklore, ROCKING CHAIR is a horror musical podcast that tells the tale of characters lured into a haunted forest over the course of three centuries, the ghosts that haunted them there, and the mysterious rocking chair at the heart of it all.
As the owner of the gothic mansion, Zariya Hollow, Reinhardt invites you to explore its haunted halls and uncover the secrets that lurk within. Each episode, you’ll be taken on a journey into the macabre as you hear stories of terror and tragedy.
Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave them all questioning if they’ve made the right choice to abandon their home.
When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him, they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn’t come without consequences. As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she has to fight to survive.
England. 1947. Former Land Girls Joyce and Kay and their two recent acquaintances, pilot turned pulp author Peter West and Flight Sergeant Byron Bayley, stumble onto a sinister plot to plunge the world back into war…