The Best Audio Fiction Shows Curated by The End

A part-time mall Santa who really hates Christmas shouldn’t be working today, but he is. And he’s about to meet a terrible child who will ruin everything. This is not going to end well. But what’s about to happen, isn’t the worst thing he’s ever done…

Follow a Christmas-loving single dad who gives in to his daughter’s request for a certain elf toy - you know the one - and finds himself face to face with an evil he could never have imagined.

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.

A one-of-a-kind podcast experience that brings the excitement of a live theater, and real behind-the-scenes HOLLYWOOD, all finished with Music and Sound Effects like a feature film for your ears. Featuring some of the most respected writers in the industry.

Weaving science fiction and spirituality, Leylines is an adventure across the globe as the Harbor brothers confront billionaires, the US government, and each other to save their father and Earth as we know it.

Invited to document her genius sister's new invention–-a machine that records dreams–Kay can’t resist. How could she know her sister believes there’s something alive in dreams. Something that holds the key to the tragedy that tore them apart seven years ago. Something that can scare them to death.

An orphan with nothing left to lose braves the treacherous desert in order to become a mystical bullet catcher. But when she uncovers a shocking secret, she is propelled on an unexpected journey of grit, purpose, and searing hot vengeance.

If this place were a country, it’d be the wealthiest on Earth. It’s a place full of disruptors. But that edge cuts both ways. A hacker with a shadowy past has come to teach the most powerful people in the Valley a lesson. In a world full of high risk and high reward, revenge is a feature… not a bug.

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.

Ever since the castle first appeared in the sky above the city of Windfall, its residents have been building upward. Now the city consists of towers where the wealthiest residents live at the top while the poor eke out a living on the ground.

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”.

Heather Haskins went missing two years ago. Discovered aboard a flight without a ticket or identification, she now believes she's a woman named Coral Goran - and that it's 1938.

A frozen body is found inside the Zamboni of the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario. The driver—and town’s only Francophone—is instantly arrested for murder. Can he solve the murder and clear his good Québecois name in time to prepare the ice for tonight’s big hockey game?

You got a monster, and you want it dead, but you ain't got the guts? You better pony up the bucks because the Man in Grey doesn't do freebies. Pay to slay, bitches. SLAY is the first novel in a five-book series featuring monster-hunting anti-hero Lincoln Franks.

June 1949. Heiress Mitzi Ballantyne has gone missing during her “Reno-vation” at the Sidewinder Resort. Detective Francis O’Connell, a Bible-toting bloodhound, would rather be at his Ma’s sickbed. Instead, he steps off the train and into a den of liberated ex-wives who test his every nerve.

Journeys to the limits of technology. An alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle. Digital ressurection bridges the gap between life and death. .

Follow along as Ishmael works his way through the ranks as an interstellar merchant mariner from the lowest quarter share until he finally earns an owner’s share at the helm of his own company. Along the way he finds a new family, a sense of purpose, and - eventually - himself.

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.

Stranded on Catalina Island after the outbreak, a small group of Venture Scouts confront the “Infected", testing their mettle and the strength of their friendships as they navigate the rugged island, discovering the essence of courage and sacrifice in the face of an apocalypse.

On a map redrawn by the rampant sea-level rise of the twenty-second century, survivors war over the ruins of high-ground whilst pirates and slavers plague the vast new seas that surround them.

A young woman stumbles across a map that may hold the secret to humanity’s liberation—a long-lost prototype war machine known as a Gundog. Now she must confront a legacy she never knew she had to face down an overwhelmingly superior enemy in the hope of sparking a new flame of human resistance.

The first test of light speed flight has gone wrong, hurling an astronaut deep into the future where he searches the planets for remnants of the human race. 12 Episodes. Created, written and directed by Alexander Adell.

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...

A human and an A.I on the first ever faster-than-light speed ship find themselves twice as far as they meant to go, with no fuel for a return flight. As they work together to solve the problem, they forge a friendship that could change the course of human history.

School crosswalks are the frontline in an ancient battle where crossing guards are the warriors that stand between the everyday, holding up a stop sign to the end of days… and the end of days is going way over 15 MPH/30 KPH in a school crossing zone.

A present day journalist uncovers the audio tapes of a 1950s private eye who cracked the greatest unsolved murder mystery Hollywood has ever known… and didn’t tell a soul.

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.

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?

On the night of May 10, 2007, three boys entered a cave in Mantawauk County, Tennessee. Only one made it out alive. The other two were found ten days later. They had been attacked by someone - or something.

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.

A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a mysterious cult. A mind-bending mystery/thriller from Cryptic Radio.

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.

In the Appalachians, girls have gone missing for decades. When a young woman journeys there, she uncovers the truth about the mysterious man who wanders the woods and his connection to the missing women and puts herself in danger from those who want to protect the town and keep its secrets.

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.

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.

New Dakota: 15,000 CE, thousands of years after the fall of civilization. Having barely survived, humanity has returned to a way of life more closely resembling civilizations of the ancient past: The Bears, The Rams, The Birds, and The Wolves.

An inexperienced 26 year old attorney and recently minted Justice are both new, untested, and scared out of their minds—and on a collision course to create one of the defining moments of the century. Together, they create one of the defining moments of the century.

Stories told through found audio from an alternate universe. Season four, “The Cradle” is a story about a mother and daughter as they attempt to lead a family-centric commune surviving on the fringes of society.

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.

A story of love, madness, murder, mysteries and dead gods set in the1920's. It is an epistolary audio drama as told by Jon and Elizabeth to each other in their letters, with the action in Season Two focussed on Egypt, as well as Ireland and England.

When multiple residents of an Australian country town report seeing a strange object in the night sky, skeptical local cop Kyle Grinham takes upon himself to investigate. But as he does, Kyle stirs up all kinds of secrets in this sleepy coastal village - some of which are his own.

A British sitcom podcast about four incompetent souls trying to start their own cult. Can you create a new movement with no ideas, no philosophy, and a leader with the charisma of a plastic plant forgotten in a cupboard? They’ll certainly give it a go.

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.

Sitcom superstar, Carson Carson, gets blacklisted from his grotesque sex tape leak. Now, with his tail between his legs, he heads back to his small town in an attempt to reboot his life. Carson is then forced to reprise his job (pre-fame) at the local Supermarket, where things quickly go bananas…

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.

Follow Seth as he steps into the unknown and unravels the mysteries of an underground facility, and AICS the enigmatic AI designed to help him survive. Can she be trusted or is she a hidden adversary?

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.

An 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.

Listen in as four friends share strange tales of terror on Christmas Eve to join the Venerable Order of St Nicholas of Myra. But who are the mysterious Merry Gentlemen? What if their stories were more than made-up tales?

In that magical month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a "department store" Santa, who claims to be the real Santa Claus, disrupts the commercialistic workings of Macy's Department store, and in so doing, touches the hearts of a cynical woman and her daughter.

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

An extinction event left behind a wild new planet, and Elizabeth is in that wilderness alone, searching for her teenage daughter and realizing that, just like the plants and animals she sees evolving in the blink of an eye, she must become someone she never thought possible.

Based on actual events. A drug smuggler finds God, and turns against the cartel, working as an undercover operative to take them down from the inside. Based on Dr. Hal Bradley’s book, “A Fox In The Lion’s Den.”

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.

When fiercely independent Princess Adelaide of Alpinoa discovers she must be married by Christmas in order to be crowned queen, she decides to secretly create the perfect prince out of handsome American commoner, Hayden.

Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it’s up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer.

Evil lived at 18 Hope Street. Then the bulldozers came. Where was evil to go? A Haunted House story without the house.

You know the story of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, but you’ve never heard it like this. Get drawn into the powerful story of forgiveness and redemption in this all-new audio experience starring Hollywood pros like Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, and Juliet Mills.

Something has been found at the bottom of Earth’s ocean. An ancient artifact that can only be described as a giant door, inset into the sea floor. It becomes known as the Vault. A gigantic enigma, buried and forgotten…nineteen thousand feet down.

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you.

In 2057, Earth sends the first manned missions to Mars on a one-way trip to establish a permanent, sustainable human presence on another world. This is the story of what happened.

Aspiring drag queen and Ring Wireless representative Akbar Shahzad has a problem with his ex-boyfriend. Anxious mother Valerie LeVac has a problem with her phone bill. Over a series of calls their lives will be changed by the brief but meaningful relationship that develops between them.

A man walking his dog stumbles upon trees that cause disappearances, death, and mania.

When Peace of Ship opens a new HQ in Brazil, Jemma finds herself in new territory: Interim Head of HR. Her first task? Hire a new CTO. That is, until one candidate ends up dead. Now she must find the killer to save the company. What could go wrong?

Hello, and welcome to the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. The Audio Tour Guide will be your window into the history of the museum and its exhibits today. If you notice your Guide behaving oddly, kindly ensure that you dispose of your Device in the nearest incinerator.

PETRIFIED tells the chilling tales of ordinary people encountering the supernatural, and their terrifying fates.

In the future, mind readers are outlawed in Los Angeles. Sid’s true identity risks exposure when she becomes entangled in a romance with a mysterious woman named Andie. But after spending her whole life in the shadows, Sid is willing to do anything to love and be loved.

When a supernatural threat drives mankind to the point of extinction, survivors around the globe struggle to endure in a world with just three rules: Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.

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.

Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody business.

Cleo's been redacted. She finds herself in a weird, empty London full of 9 million ghosts. There's no Abby to make plans, no Shawna to kick ass. Just Cleo and half an AS level in drama. Oh, and also this weird blue box, with a woman stepping out of it.

Meet Alice – a burnt-out barista who turns to the Dark Web to pay off her student debt. But when cybercrime pulls her deeper than she could have ever imagined, only one question remains: can Alice get out before it’s too late?

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

A recently recovered drug addict tries to start her new lease on life, too bad life has it out for her.‍

Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.

Recordings have surfaced of ten people that are locked into the same space together. We don’t know where they are, or if they'll get out. But the answers must be somewhere on these tapes.

DUST is the premier destination for immersive science fiction audio stories.

What happens when a truck driver picks up a loaded trailer, but has no idea what's really inside? Follow a journey down a dark and lonely highway, use caution, wear headphones if possible, and listen…carefully.

A man is marooned in space and one woman on Earth struggles to keep him alive.

The Earth is almost uninhabitable. Some will be protected underground while the rest must stay above ground. The Ministry of Experience must find a way to conserve resources until they're able to relocate to “Eden." Its existence is the last hope for the human race.

When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she’s recruited to track down a serial killer… who might not be from this world.

After a tragedy in the national forest, Peregrine seeks out survivalist skills from an old recluse. In this fictional documentary, producer Brett Ryback explores grief, adolescence, and our precarious relationship to the wilderness - all set against a sleepy Minnesota town.

A traumatized woman reluctantly returns to her dying hometown to find the stoner friends she abandoned are hooked on a strange new drug — with bizarre, seemingly supernatural qualities.

Socio-political thriller about the ethical dilemmas that surface when the pursuit of human connection blurs the lines between technology and reality.

A stirring dramedy in which an aging real estate mogul must use his diminishing skills to grab one last deal to help his family avoid financial ruin. Starring Donald, Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka Trump, along with Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.

13-year-old Chloe prematurely inherited the mantle of Mother Nature from her Grandmother. In season one, Chloe struggles to balance middle school with, you know, saving the world. With Cupid and the Reaper, Volume II of THE NATUREVERSE, Chloe soon learns she’s not the only super-powered teenager.

Messages from a fledgling, human colony on a mysterious alien world can be heard between bursts of interstellar radio static…

Two slackers, Ben and Grant, attempt to catch an escaped convicted murderer, Shelly O’Keith, who is allegedly hiding in their town to cash in on the million-dollar reward the police are offering.

14-year-old Elgin spends the summer of '88 with his younger brother at his father’s house in Arizona. Not long after arriving, he witnesses a series of child abductions by the local ice cream truck man. When nobody believes him, Elgin and his neighbor Olivia do their own investigation.

In this audio dramedy, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men.

Conman Jack infiltrates NextCorp, a body-hacking startup run by enigmatic CEO Max Fuller. When their new app program is shut down, Max tests it on himself, unleashing a dormant, dangerous alter ego. Jack now has to stop a dark plot to advance humankind to its next stage of evolution.

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.

People only find the antique shop when they need to. Just at the right time.

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.

Sam moves to Drisking, Missouri one summer then his sister disappears a few months later. Years later, when more people start disappearing, Sam and his friends decide to find out what's happening and how it's connected to the mountain outside of town.

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

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.

Tumanbay: the most magnificent city on earth. The beating heart of a vast empire. A city of dreams – where those who once arrived as slaves now reside in the seat of power.

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.

San Francisco homicide inspector Bryan Clauser is losing his mind. How else to explain his dreams, dreams that mirror — with impossible accuracy — gruesome murders drenching the city in blood? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him? Not disgust, not horror, but excitement.