I’m really into horror audio dramas and/or anthology podcasts. Because of this I’ve burned through so many over the past year or two I feel like I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel, which sucks

Ones i like (kind of ordered by how much i like them):

  • Knifepoint Horror
  • Acephale
  • The Silt Verses (and I Am in Eskew)
  • We’re Not Meant To Know
  • Magnus Archives
  • Malevolent
  • Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature
  • Archive 81 season 3
  • Sleep Wake cycle (haven’t tried all of their pods yet, they’re kind of a lot)
  • Ghost Wax (kinda kid but more good than bad)

Ones I DIDN’T like:

  • Tower 4
  • Welcome to Nightvale
  • Road of Shadows
  • Hello from the Hallowoods
  • Wrong Station (occasionally good)
  • The White Vault (not horrible but idk a bit corny somehow)
  • Alice is Dead
  • Lovecraft Investigations (it was fine but idk turned too thriller)
  • The Black Tapes (not a fan of the overproduction)

Basically I like shows that

  • Have enough faith in their writing to not rely on a thick coat of quippy self-aware sarcasm marvel slop
  • Are heavy on atmosphere, focus on the fiction, not on the host and their haunted podcast studio or whatever
  • Do not devolve into action hollywood thrillers UNLESS the writing is good enough to support it after a couple of seasons of more horror leaning stuff

Oh and if you want recs from me just ask and you shall receive I’m dying to talk about these shows kitty-cri-screm

  • IvarK [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    I absolutely IMPLORE you to check out The Silt Verses, David Ward is a great author and both the verses and eskew are excellent pieces of fiction