The Best Audio Fiction Shows Curated by The End

An audio-drama anthology based on short stories from the world’s best Sci-fi and Supernatural Horror writers.

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

A Space Horror series in the vein of DEAD SPACE and EVENT HORIZON, THE VESSEL features a large cast of characters aboard a massive spacecraft. The ship begins to experience strange attacks shortly after one inhabitant is woken from cryosleep.

A thrilling and spine-tingling limited audio series showcasing things that go bump in the night.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

On a lonely highway between life and the next life there’s one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station serves travelers as they embark on their journey through the celestial spheres.

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

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.

Weapons manufacturer and President, Nathaniel Dex, works to run his company and steer planet-wide politics. It’s a game of chess on a global scale and his children will be key players. But unleashing three teenage super soldiers on the world comes with more complications than anyone anticipated.

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.

If you want a person dead, you call a hitman. If you want a monster dead, you call Lincoln Franks. But you better be able to pay the price he asks because Lincoln gets that paper — pay to slay, bitches.

The year is 2062 and everyone is gay. It’s a conservative’s worst nightmare: a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda.

Chartrulean was to be the messiah, but he abandoned a life of piety to become what the world needed: a shipbuilder. He helped end a war, but mysterious forces infect his ships, driving him mad. All amidst a delicate game of politics. He is torn between those he trusts and the gods he’s angered.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's like THE TWILIGHT ZONE for an optimist's heart. Every episode starts with the same line, but becomes a totally different story. And yet, they’re all intertwined. Can you find the connections?

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.

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?

David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family’s lord and master, Lord Underwood, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain, he knows his luck has run out. But David’s sister, Lydia, craves this servant role and will do anything to get it.

After a mission to steal a relic from the far ends of Myracula Galaxy doesn’t go as planned… our three sisters, The Trinity Squad, find themselves thrown into their ultimate destiny…To save Myracula.

Meaney and Llewellyn are cadets in Lead Service, an organization established to police and protect the ever-expanding multiverse. They soon learn that things don’t always go by the book. JUMP LEADS is a science fiction comedy audiodrama series based on the webcomic of the same name.

A down-to-Earth sci-fi road trip with the sole survivor of an alien race who's on a quest to save humanity from the same malevolent force that destroyed his own people

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.

Fans of Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo will delight in this hilarious, opioid-fueled dive into the world of latch-key children and the haunted, dangerous places that meddling leads.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions, LIARS & LEECHES delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to the Nesting Zone: a surreal rim of jungle around Mt. Tahoma prowled by transdimensional reptiles. The Amanuensis catalogues his expedition up the volcano slope and records stories of explorers caught in the evolving dreamscape. Staying sane is not an option.

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.

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.

Upon learning his workmate holds a winning ticket for the Global Early Retirement Lottery, a listless factory worker stops at nothing to ensure the reward goes to a more deserving citizen, namely himself, only to discover the prize is not exactly as advertised.

A horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake.

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 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.

An everyday internet support technician can also speak to people in the past and the future! After making a friend from 1999, he encounters a physicist living in the year 2052. How has she made contact? And does she know anything about the mysterious wormhole that appeared in his basement?

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?

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.

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.

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. .

When video collector Mark watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a strange language. Mark and his girlfriend set out to investigate the tape’s origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and a legendary video store with a sinister purpose.

18 years after the Outbreak, the world is starting to re-organize and rebuild, but many different forms of humanity are still struggling to survive in the aftermath. And deep in the places where infected dwell, another descendant lies waiting.

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

1871 Chinatown, Los Angeles. A beautiful young refugee came to LA and fell in love, only to be drawn into a showdown between two of Chinatown’s most notorious gangsters. Before long, the entire city was caught up in a life or death struggle where old-world values clashed with new-world issues.

A serialized thriller fiction podcast that weaves magical realism with urban mythology.

Hannah is a zombie ‘living’ her best life long after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone.

Rediscover a sense of wide-eyed wonder as you encounter unexpected moments of beauty during this 73-minute multi-sensory experience of mindful listening, vivid daydreaming and calming wildlife relaxation. One thing is for sure: it will feel like a world away from everything.

Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.

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?

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.

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

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?

Wallace Conway wakes up to find he’s been implanted with an untraceable earpiece while sleeping. So long as he does everything the voice on the other end tells him, he and his family will live.

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.

One day, Wren wakes up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult ritual. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way. Listen to the complete series now.

A radio drama in the tradition of Golden Age of Radio shows. Take one part space-faring adventure, add one part character drama, and mix in one part absurdist sitcom, and you get Wolf 359.

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

When an oil executive goes missing aboard the deep-sea Atlas Station, the company sends agent Synøve Pan down for answers and she’s just the woman to get them. Welcome to a post–energy-crisis world in which humanity’s thirst for oil is satisfied through a bargain with a mysterious deep-sea species.

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.

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

On election night, two-term president Oliver Pierce watches in disbelief as Charles Dunwalke wins a controversial electoral college victory. With only 73 days before Dunwalke’s inauguration, President Pierce makes a secret decision to act, with historic and possibly catastrophic consequences.

Life is a steaming pile of disappointments for Ted. And then he gets fired. Ted makes a bold decision to cash in everything and blow it all in six magnificent days of living like a rock star. But he manages to f*ck up even that, landing himself in more trouble than he ever imagined possible.

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

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.

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.

Can you feel loss for something you’ve never known? 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.

As Jack’s country descends into violence and authoritarianism, Jack himself plunges into his own parallel decline, a chilling abdication of everything he once valued.

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.

President Lincoln is dead, the country in turmoil. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton takes control, determined to bring the assassin to justice. Consumed by his conviction, Stanton will betray his friends, his honor, and the constitution he swore to protect, all to steer the country towards justice.

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.

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 sci-fi mystery thriller series rating as a #1 science fiction podcast on Apple Podcasts UK in January 2020, and nominated for Best Fiction in the British Podcast Awards 2020. Listener discretion is advised.

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

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

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.

A 30-something Nashville native takes his best friend out on a date…finally. What happens the next day changes his life forever. We follow him as he struggles physically and emotionally over the trauma of what happened and the regression that comes with finding out who’s responsible.

What happens when you lose something you thought you’d always have? What happens when it's one of your senses? Bet Kline is deaf. That wasn’t the case a year ago. Now that her life has been upended, she has to figure out how to carve out a new path for herself and navigate her way down it.

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?

Two lowly tech developers acquire a laptop full of contraband data, witness a murder, and then narrowly escape being assassinated. Suddenly, they find themselves sucked into a world of state-funded disinformation campaigns, bot farms, all-knowing Big Data organisations, and shadowy terror groups.

The story of a young man who is cruelly murdered then brought back from the dead to revenge himself. The kicker is: He’s not really alive. He can be hurt; he just can’t be killed.

A four-episode horror/thriller audio drama that follows 17-year-old Charlie and his best friends, Gama and Zoe, as they’re pulled into a life and death version of a video game called 13 Keys.

Follow seasoned smuggler Kilner and reluctant fugitive Samantha as they travel the galaxy, dodging bullets and meeting strange and wonderful beings as they carry out odd jobs on the fringes of the law.

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

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.