60 Best Fiction Podcasts

1. The Magnus Archives

A weekly fiction podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join Jonathan Sims as he explores the archive, but be warned, as he looks into its depths something starts to look back.
Podcast rustyquill.com
Host Jonathan Sims
Producer/Network Rusty Quill
Email ****@rustyquill.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 11.9KTwitter Followers 48K Frequency 2 episodes/week Avg Length 33 min Since Mar 2016 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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2. The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice

New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
Podcast newyorker.com
Producer/Network The New Yorker
Email ****@newyorker.com
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 4.4MTwitter Followers 8.8MInstagram Followers 8.5M Frequency 1 episode/day Avg Length 42 min Since Apr 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Mercury | A Broadcast of Hope

From ARTC comes an unprecedented audio drama experience. Updating daily, with episodes available for only 24 hours each, Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope tells the story of a small group of survivors living in or around a college radio station broadcasting during the zombie apocalypse. Each day they will bring 5-7 minute messages of hope, survival skills, coping strategies, personal stories, or whatever they feel their listeners need that day to make it through.
Podcast mercuryradio.libsyn.com
Producer/Network Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
Email ****@artc.org
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 1.8KTwitter Followers 542 Frequency 1 episode/day Avg Length 5 min Since Sep 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Maeltopia

A horror and dark fiction podcast featuring interconnected series and stories set in the ever-expanding literary world of Maeltopia.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network Maeltopia
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 1.6KTwitter Followers 1.2KInstagram Followers 2.7K Frequency 4 episodes/month Avg Length 23 min Since May 2018 Listen on Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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5. The Amelia Project

The Amelia Project is a secret agency that fakes its clients' deaths, then lets them reappear with a brand new identity! A black comedy full of secrets, twists... and cocoa.
Podcast ameliapodcast.com
Hosts Philip Thorne, Oystein Ulsberg Brager
Producer/Network Imploding Fictions
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 874Twitter Followers 6.9KInstagram Followers 3.3K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 39 min Since Nov 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. Galactic Driftwood

Galactic Driftwood is the favorite podcast of sentient beings from all known universes and beyond! Join us each episode for a raft of discussion on a cosmic ocean of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror topics, interviews with local-area genre-devotees, and insightful prognostication by our soothsayers of science fiction, our forecasters of fantasy and any other beings that happen to get caught in our gravity well.
Podcast podcasts.com
Hosts William Danger Newman, Linda Newman, Charles Turpin, Seth Swanson, Jenna Valadez, Chris Cata
Producer/Network Galactic Driftwood
Email ****@galacticdriftwood.space
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 114Twitter Followers 23 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 47 min Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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7. Wolf 359

Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth.
Podcast wolf359.fm
Hosts Zach Valenti, Gabriel Urbina
Producer/Network Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Twitter Followers 11.8K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. Compromised

Compromised, is a cyberpunk based fictional podcast, taking place in a futuristic Philadelphia. Follow Psyl0, and FritX as their world is turned upside down and they learn to find their way through this future version of America.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Host Amanda Roundtree
Producer/Network Amanda Roundtree
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Twitter Followers 114Instagram Followers 218 Frequency 3 episodes/month Avg Length 27 min Since Jul 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

9. The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel

The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel is a high-quality serial mystery story for middle graders, performed by actual kids. Think Goonies, meets Spy Kids, meets Stranger Things for 8-12 year-olds. Listen along as eleven-year-old Mars Patel and his pals JP, Toothpick, and Caddie set out on a audacious adventure in search of two missing friends.
Podcast gzmshows.com
Hosts Benjamin Strouse, Chris Tarry, David Kreizman, Jenny Turner Hall
Producer/Network GZM Shows
Email ****@gzmshows.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Twitter Followers 1.2K Frequency 2 episodes/year Avg Length 28 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

10. Within the Wires

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. Narrated by Mona Grenne. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Original music by Mary Epworth.
Podcast nightvalepresents.com
Producer/Network Night Vale Presents
Email ****@nightvalepresents.com
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 2.9KTwitter Followers 6.5K Frequency 10 episodes/year Avg Length 19 min Since Jun 2016 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

11. Chronosphere Fiction

Chronosphere Fiction is a story telling anthology podcast where writers' creations come to life with sound effects and music.
Podcast chronosphere.podbean.com
Host Patricia Keiller
Producer/Network Daniel French: Fishbonius Sound Design
Email ****@cox.net
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 638Twitter Followers 3.7K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 33 min Since Oct 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

12. The New Yorker: Fiction

A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
Podcast newyorker.com
Host Deborah Treisman
Producer/Network The New Yorker
Email ****@newyorker.com
Facebook Followers 4.4MTwitter Followers 8.8MInstagram Followers 8.5M Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 67 min Since May 2007 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

13. From Now

A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. The lone survivor (Richard Madden) disembarks mysteriously looking the exact same age as when he left. Following the ensuing media chaos, he finally reunites with his formerly identical twin brother (now an old man) for a one-on-one meeting. But what starts as a joyful reconciliation soon leads to dark revelations that threaten their relationship and the future of humanity.
Podcast cms.megaphone.fm
Host Rhys Wakefield
Producer/Network QCODE
Email ****@qcodemedia.com
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 1.7KTwitter Followers 8.2KInstagram Followers 24.8K Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 15 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

14. Academy Days

Academy Days is a fiction serial podcast for teenage girls. The Christian high school story follows four girls as they navigate school, family, friends, and the choices that each day brings. Carmen, London, Nora, and Lacey differ in personality, but life in a small Christian school brings them together as each one grows closer to God.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Host Judith DeStefano
Producer/Network Judith DeStefano
Email ****@example.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Twitter Followers 153 Frequency 1 episode/day Avg Length 21 min Since Apr 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

15. Archive 81

Archive 81 is a fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious.New episodes will be released every other Wednesday.Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound.It is in its third season.New episodes will be released every other Wednesday.Start from '01 - A Body In A New Place'
Podcast archive81.libsyn.com
Producer/Network Dead Signals
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 42 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

16. Death by Dying

The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths when he is supposed to simply be writing obituaries. Along the way, he encounters murderous farmers, man-eating cats, haunted bicycles, and a healthy dose of ominous shadows.
Podcast deathbydyingpod.com
Hosts Evan Gulock, Niko Gerentes
Producer/Network Evening Post Productions
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 608Twitter Followers 2.6K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 26 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

17. Makeshift Stories

Explore, space-time, alternate realities, the near future, and the unexplained, in a unique genre-crossing blend of original stories for all ages ranging from sci-fi and fantasy to magic realism.
Podcast makeshiftstories.com
Host Alan V Hare
Producer/Network Alan V Hare
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 444Twitter Followers 174 Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 27 min Since Sep 2008 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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18. The Cleansed

Equal parts 'Mad Max' and 'The Stand,' this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after the collapse of the world as we know it. A brother and sister grow up in rural Maine and unwittingly embark on a adventure to save the City from the religious zealots and ruthless military fight for control over the fallen world. An epic serialized audio drama adventure with 30 actors, cinematic sound design and original music. Winner of Mark Time Award for sci-fi audio and finalist in Romania's Grand Prix Nova award.For more shows like this, visit Realm.fm.
Podcast thecleansed.com
Host Fred Greenhalgh
Producer/Network Realm
Email ****@realm.fm
Apple Rating 3.2 / 5 Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 39 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

19. Imaginary Advice

Imaginary Advice is a collection of audio-fiction experiments. Each month Ross Sutherland presents a brand-new piece of writing, created specifically for the podcast. Some episodes are short-stories, some are monologues, some are essays on storytelling, some are unholy combinations of all three.
Podcast imaginaryadvice.com
Host Ross Sutherland
Producer/Network Imaginary Advice
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 330Twitter Followers 6KInstagram Followers 1.2K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 47 min Since Oct 2014 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

20. The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland!

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is a serial fiction podcast for kids and their families written by a mother and 7-year-old son team that follows the fantastical adventures of sweet dogs on a planet called Dogland.
Podcast anchor.fm
Producer/Network Power Dog and Mom Slice
Facebook Followers 153Twitter Followers 328 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 20 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

21. Flash Pulp

Brought to you by http://skinner.fm, Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age - five to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays. A recurring cast of characters appear in both one-off and serial tales, - classically styled weird, fantasy, and adventure stories, for your eyes or podcast feed.
Podcast skinner.libsyn.com
Host J.R.D. Skinner
Email ****@skinner.fm
Frequency 3 episodes/month Avg Length 4 min Since Jan 2011 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

22. The Edge of Sleep

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. New Episodes Every Tuesday, created by Jake Emanuel & Willie Block.
Podcast qcodemedia.com
Hosts Jake Emanuel, Willie Block
Producer/Network QCODE
Email ****@qcodemedia.com
Facebook Followers 2.3KTwitter Followers 3KInstagram Followers 24.8K Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 11 min Since Sep 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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23. Girls Night Out

Girls Night Out, is a sci-fi romance and proud winner of the award for Best Fiction Podcast in 2022.  In 1979, Grace and her friends witnessed something strange in the night sky. Forty years later, Grace is a successful research scientist at global biotech giant, Feelrite. When Grace questions the safety of Feelrite's new anti-ageing treatment, she is suspended and disgraced. As the carefully woven threads of her life unravel, she begins to manifest powers and discovers her true purpose - to save humankind.
Podcast girlsnightoutuniverse.com
Host Mary Labrie
Producer/Network Time Warp Studios
Email ****@womenofacertainage.com.au
Facebook Followers 27Instagram Followers 61 Frequency 5 episodes/quarter Avg Length 25 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

24. TANIS

Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the Public Radio Alliance, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur...
Podcast tanispodcast.com
Host Nic Silver
Producer/Network Public Radio Alliance
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 15.1KTwitter Followers 14.3KInstagram Followers 4K Frequency 1 episode/year Avg Length 33 min Since Oct 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

25. The Black Tapes

The Black Tapes is a weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Alex Reagan. The Black Tapes Podcast is a serialized docudrama about one journalist's search for truth, her subject's mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. Do you believe?
Podcast theblacktapespodcast.com
Host Alex Reagan
Producer/Network Pacific Northwest Stories
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 30KTwitter Followers 25.6K Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

26. Marvel's Wolverine: The Lost Trail

Following the events of Marvel's 'Wolverine: The Long Night,' Logan (Richard Armitage) returns to New Orleans in search of redemption, only to discover that dozens of humans and mutants have gone missing. Thanks for listening on Apple Podcasts!
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network Marvel & SiriusXM
Email ****@siriusxm.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5 Listen on Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

27. We're Alive

A classic style radio drama, updated for today with a full sound design and a large cast. This audio drama focuses on a group of survivors in a world on the brink of collapse.
Podcast werealive.com
Producer/Network Wayland Productions Inc
Email ****@waylandproductions.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 41.4KTwitter Followers 12.1KInstagram Followers 5.5K Frequency 4 episodes/year Avg Length 27 min Since May 2009 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

28. Limetown

Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, 'What happened to the people of Limetown?' Limetown is produced by Two-Up, the producers of 36 Questions, The Wilderness and Shipworm.
Podcast twoupproductions.com
Host Lia Haddock
Producer/Network Two-Up
Email ****@twoupproductions.com
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 516Twitter Followers 1.5K Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

29. Filtered Thru Fiction

We take a look at life through the lens of our favorite fiction.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Host Nicole Naki Whittaker
Producer/Network filteredthrufiction
Apple Rating 5 / 5 Since Feb 2021 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

30. King Falls AM

King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.New shows available the 1st and 15th of every month! Be sure to start from Sammy's first show (May 1st, 2015) to stay up to date with all your King Falls favorites.
Podcast audioboom.com
Hosts Noah, Eric, Kyle, Trent
Producer/Network King Falls AM
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact