Finished Curated Audio Fiction Collections

It's anime. But for your ears. And you don't have to listen backwards.

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

Stories that feature walking, talking, and otherwise civilized animals.

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

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

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

Scary stories, gory performances, unsettling tales, and other horror shows.

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

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

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

Musicals and other audio fiction shows with heavy use of original music in the production.

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

Tales of scrappy crew running jobs, working together, getting in and out of trouble, dealing with their interpersonal drama—all while navigating the void of space/time/reality.

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

Scifi, sci-fi, and science fiction tales.

Queer-forward stories of any genre, really.

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

High-tech meets the street. Sometimes dystopian, sometimes hopeful. But always tech unleashed not for, but by the people.

Stories featuring ghost hunters, paranormal investigators, or those who's job it is to seek out things that go bump in the night.

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

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

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

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

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

Dramatizations and complete fabrications from history.

All the "to be listened to" stories in our curator's queue.

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

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

Space operas, galactic warfare, and journeys to the farthest reaches of the universe.

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

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

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

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

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

Classic vampire tales, reimaginings with a modern twist, and off-the-wall stories featuring those who vant to suck jor blod.

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

Tales of dragons, wyrms, serpents and other scaly wealth-hoarding bests.

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

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

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

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

Stories about, from, or inspired by Ireland and the Irish.

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

Stories of trees, forests, and what dwells within.

Creature Features

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

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

Single-episode stories. Some long. Some short. But only one episode. That's it.

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

Shows with 20+ hours of previously-completed seasons, but are releasing more seasons or have new seasons coming soon.

Plays from Shakespeare and other classics in audio fiction form.

Tales of cosmic, Eldritch, and Lovecraftian horror.

Tales of rising waters, burning forests, and mass extinction, all due to climate change.

Featured recommendations of fiction podcasts, audio dramas, or audiobooks that posted their final (or finale) episode in 2024 as curated by Evo Terra.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Erotica, steamy stories, and other tales to get your blood pumping. Adults-only, please.

Escapes and Reflections, Worlds Beyond, or Dystopian Escapism