Midnight Transmissions: 100 Horror Audio Drama Podcasts to Dial Into

The Ultimate List of Horror Audio Drama Podcasts

If you are looking for the absolute best horror audio drama podcasts to listen to in the dark, you have tuned into the right frequency. This curated directory of 100 immersive scripted horror, audio fiction, and audio drama podcasts skips the standard audiobooks and true crime recreations to deliver pure, cinematic terror.

Whether you want to explore cursed small towns, analog mysteries, or deep-space isolation, these are the midnight transmissions you need. While you are dialing into these dark frequencies, feel free to check out the list of my favorite top 20 audio dramas of all-time.

1. The Magnus Archives: A weekly horror fiction anthology examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird.
2. Campfire Radio Theater: Thrilling audio drama that ventures into the dark territories of horror and the macabre, featuring full casts and cinematic soundscapes. Recommended episode: Night Delivery
3. Old Gods of Appalachia: An eldritch horror anthology podcast set in the darkest mountains in the world. Our world is old, and things sleep in it that should not be woken.
4. Earbud Theater: Audio drama for the digital age featuring original science fiction, fantasy, and horror productions. Recommended episode: After the Haunting (5 parts)
5. Archive 81: A fiction podcast about horror, cities, and the subconscious, presented as a found-footage nightmare where archivist Dan Turner restores the terrifying audio tapes of filmmaker Melody Pendras.
6. Alice Isn’t Dead: A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead, encountering not-quite-human serial killers and towns lost in time.
7. The Black Tapes: A serialized docudrama about one journalist’s search for truth, her enigmatic subject, and the mysteries of the paranormal.
8. Limetown: Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women, and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again.
9. The Lovecraft Investigations: A BBC Sounds investigation into witchcraft, the occult, and secret government operations, updating classic H.P. Lovecraft tales like The Case of Charles Dexter Ward for the modern investigative podcast era.
10. Nightfall: A classic Canadian radio drama series of supernatural and horror stories originally broadcast on CBC Radio from 1980 to 1983. Recommended episode: The Debt

11. Video Palace: When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn’t exist.
12. Tapes from Beyond: Two women review bizarre cassette tapes sent to them by a mysterious stranger documenting a horrific alternate reality.
13. Forbidden Cassettes: Consummation: A grim, apocalyptic narrative centered on a recovered audio cassette detailing the terrifying end of the world.
14. Ghost Tape: A soldier discovers a terrifying audio tape that unleashes a supernatural presence at her isolated military base.
15. Observable Radio: An analog horror and retro sci-fi found footage podcast mapping out alternate universes in crisis through a series of intercepted broadcasts.
16. Out of Place: An archival horror following a museum cataloger discovering strange historical artifacts from alternate, horrifying timelines.
17. Mask of Inanna: A blend of modern horror and old-time radio featuring a 1950s horror host who is inexplicably resurrected to face new terrors.
18. The Theater In Your Mind: An independent audio anthology series created by Jon Holland, heavily inspired by the chilling, vintage radio drama formats of shows like Nightfall and Suspense. Recommended episode: The Cure
19. Lamp Light Radio Play: An audio adaptation of LampLight Magazine featuring dark fiction and quiet horror in the style of classic radio plays. Recommended episode: The Mime
20. Alexandria Archives: A late-night university radio show broadcasting weird, terrifying stories and dark campus drama from the mysterious Alexandria University.

21. Paralysed: A psychological thriller following David, a chronic sufferer of sleep paralysis, whose deeply unsettling support group experiences cause his waking and sleeping nightmares to violently merge.
22. Priced To Sell: A young couple gets far more than they bargain for when they purchase a charming fixer-upper on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, in this thrilling supernatural fiction series.
23. The Mantawauk Caves: A gripping psychological horror series from Blumhouse following a writer who returns to his hometown to investigate the supernatural, decades-old mystery of three boys who entered a terrifying cave system; one survived, and two were found dead.
24. Tower 4: Mike takes a job as a fire watcher in the Wyoming woods to get away from everything, but soon realizes he might not be alone.
25. The Burned Photo: A suspense thriller about two women whose lives are mysteriously connected by a terrifying, cursed photograph.
26. Parkdale Haunt: Ever since Judith’s lifelong best friend, Claire, inherited a house from a biological family she never knew, things have been changing.
27. Hayward Sanitarium: A highly immersive thriller set in a mysterious psychiatric facility where a young psychiatrist studies patients who claim supernatural or paranormal afflictions.
28. The Cellar Letters: A slow-burn, found-footage style horror tracking two friends who move into a deeply haunted house on the East Coast.
29. 12 Ghosts: An atmospheric horror podcast about eleven travelers trapped at an inn on Christmas Eve who realize they have something startling in common.
30. All In My Head: A depiction of sleep paralysis and night terrors following a young woman named Nova, exploring the very real monsters that lurk within our most vulnerable states.

31. Manor House: A cinematic audio horror anthology series presenting a collection of dark, standalone stories. Won’t you stay the night?
32. Midnight: A standalone anthology series styled after classic radio horror with fantastic pacing and deeply atmospheric soundscaping. Recommended episode: Sentimental Journey
33. Ramon Fear’s Terror Tapes: A gruesome British horror comedy anthology hosted by the delightfully sinister Ramon Fear. Recommended episode: The Charlatan
34. The Hidden Frequencies: Anthology series hosted by Mick Wingert that channels the bizarre and other-worldly vibes of classic shows like The Twilight Zone.
35. The Veil: Anthology series exploring dark, philosophical sci-fi and supernatural horror.
36. Tales from Beyond the Pale: An audio play series that captures the essence of classic radio dramas with a macabre modern twist. Recommended episode: The Devil’s Share
37. Petrified: A horror anthology series from a darker Ireland, packed with expertly crafted, standalone scares. Recommended episode: The Unenvied Throne
38. Deadhouse: A trilogy of immersive binaural horror shorts that plunges listeners straight into deeply unsettling and terrifyingly realistic nightmare scenarios.
39. 13 Days of Halloween: An immersive, 360-degree binaural audio anthology following a mysterious protagonist encountering an interconnected web of terrifying horror stories over the Halloween season.
40. Bad Vibes: A bleak and cynical horror anthology hosted by a deeply untrustworthy and sinister narrator who hates you.

41. Impact Winter: After a comet strike blots out the sun, vampires emerge to hunt the remaining human survivors in this apocalyptic thriller.
42. The Harrowing: A supernatural thriller centered around a terrifying, apocalyptic storm striking a remote Scottish island.
43. The Phenomenon: When a mysterious threat descends upon the world, people must survive a simple but deadly rule: do not look outside.
44. Edge of Sleep: When a night watchman finishes his shift, he discovers that everyone in the world who went to sleep the night before has died.
45. Mordeo: A supernatural horror following two brothers who disappear into the woods. When only one returns, he brings a ravenous, sanity-breaking curse back to civilization.
46. Last Resort: A troubled influencer looking for rest and rejuvenation at a private wellness resort gets more than she bargained for when a mysterious sound causes the guests to turn violently insane.
47. The Road of Shadows: A horror series following a motorcyclist desperately fleeing from monsters only he can perceive.
48. Deviser: A dark, highly immersive sci-fi horror series following a man who wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory, only to uncover horrifying truths about his mission and the grotesque entities lurking on board.
49. The Timekeeper: Win or Die: Three teenagers are pulled into a deadly, real-life version of the video game 13 Keys, where a mysterious entity forces them to play for their lives.
50. Carrier: A truck driver slowly realizes her strange, heavily locked cargo is something monstrous in this thriller starring Cynthia Erivo.

51. LucyD: A ride through the mind as an experimental procedure allows doctors to physically enter their patients’ dreams.
52. Murmurs: A mind-bending BBC series where reality fractures and strange, horrific anomalies bleed into everyday life.
53. End of the Loop: A psychological thriller following a man who escapes a terrifying time loop, only to uncover the deeply buried, dark secrets of his seemingly quiet small town.
54. The Left Right Game: An idealistic journalist tries to make a name for herself by following a group of occult travelers obsessed with an urban ritual: alternating left and right turns on a road that crosses into a terrifying alternate dimension.
55. Liminal: A gripping sci-fi horror mini-series following two brothers who must risk their own sanity and dive into a terrifying, nightmare-filled dreamscape to save their trapped sibling from oblivion.
56. The Midnight Zone: An immersive horror anthology audio drama that explores the darkest and most mysterious parts of our world through suspenseful, standalone tales of terror.
57. National Emergency: When unexplained emergency broadcasts begin targeting individuals with survival instructions, an innocent man must navigate a world where one mistake means disappearing forever.
58. In Another Room: An interconnected horror anthology following an amateur paranormal investigator trapped in a haunted house where each room transports her to a previous inhabitant’s grisly murder.
59. Lusus: What happens when your neuroses come to life? A psychological horror podcast starring Morfydd Clark and Ncuti Gatwa that explores the terrifying shapes our anxieties can take.
60. Welcome to Night Vale: Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true.

61. Quiet Part Loud: A disgraced conservative radio host seeks to regain his platform by investigating an urban legend, only to unleash a terrifying auditory entity.
62. Can’t Relax: A psychological horror series where teenagers download a mindfulness app that secretly implants deadly subliminal messages.
63. The Grotto: A claustrophobic liminal horror series about grief, mourning, and loss, following a grieving caver who discovers something terrible deep underground.
64. Neon Inkwell: A Rusty Quill compilation series featuring short-form audio fiction, including “Of That Colossal Wreck,” a sci-fi horror exploring terrifying anomalies aboard a massive, mysteriously dormant seed vault.
65. Treat: A feature-length audio movie starring Kiernan Shipka as a teenager who discovers her seemingly perfect small town’s idyllic image comes with a terrifying and deadly supernatural price.
66. The Wyrd Side: A folk-horror investigation tracking a pair of podcasters exploring the deeply disturbing myths and legends of the British countryside.
67. The Piper: A dark, supernatural thriller starring a detective investigating a string of abductions that all seem tied to a horrifying, otherworldly melody.
68. Uncanny Valley: An Alaskan mystery about a woman fleeing her past only to encounter an ancient, far deadlier local threat.
69. Ice-Cream: An audio drama set in the late 1980s about a sinister ice cream truck driver and a young boy who uncovers the horrific truth behind his neighborhood’s missing children.
70. Woodbine: An assistant at a small Toronto detective agency is brutally attacked, only to be resurrected by her boss and thrust into a hidden world of shadows, monsters, and new beginnings.

71. Children of the Stones: A modern audio adaptation of the terrifying 1977 television series following a teenager and her father who move to a remote English village controlled by the mind-altering power of an ancient stone circle.
72. The Silt Verses: A folk horror audio drama set in a world where forgotten gods are worshipped through corporate entities and illegal sacrifices.
73. The Gloom: An investigative journalist uncovers clues surrounding a decades-old cold case involving a psychiatric hospital and a terrifying systemic cover-up tied to her own past.
74. Tribulation: A gripping supernatural thriller following a journalist and a sound engineer who investigate a mysterious, frequency-hijacking broadcast that draws them into a dark occult conspiracy.
75. Tanis: An exploration of the myth of Tanis, a mysterious and dark secret hidden in the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest.
76. Primal: A thriller starring Bruce Greenwood as a detective whose hunt for a bizarre serial killer uncovers a thousand-year-old vampire conspiracy.
77. Havoc Town: A dark audio drama set in the Bridgewater universe, following Corinne Abbess as she confronts a terrifying plague and a 200-year-old legacy of violence.
78. The Call of the Void: In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity, only to confront a terrifying cosmic entity that longs to bring the world into perfect stillness.
79. Dead Meat Pete: A horror-comedy following a team of background characters as they leap from one horror movie to the next, battling monsters and dodging the actual heroes.
80. DeGrave Brothers: A horror-comedy audio series drenched in gore, ghosts, and gallows humor as two dimwitted, grave-robbing brothers tackle a cavalcade of gruesome scenarios. Twisted, vulgar, inappropriate, funny, and aimed at those who simply DGAF.

81. Borrasca: Sam Walker moves to the town of Drisking, Missouri, where people are mysteriously disappearing, leading him to uncover a devastating local secret.
82. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery: A folk horror series following a woman who moves into her estranged mother’s bizarre boarding house, only to find the town is teeming with supernatural secrets.
83. Blackwood: Three teenagers start a podcast to investigate a local monster legend, uncovering a terrifying and deadly conspiracy in their small town.
84. Shelterwood: A docu-horror series following a podcaster’s quest to find his long-lost sister in an infinite, monster-infested suburb beyond the veil, blending true crime investigation with terrifying suburban gothic elements.
85. Partial Veil: A character-driven, immersive audio drama exploring deeply unsettling, supernatural events in rural North Dakota.
86. Olive Hill: Two friends return to their hometown to investigate the strange disappearances that have plagued the area for decades.
87. Consumed: A struggling journalist stranded in an idyllic New Hampshire town must uncover terrifying, centuries-old secrets as bodies begin to disappear.
88. King Falls AM: A beloved late-night radio broadcast chronicling the often hilarious, frequently terrifying supernatural events of an eccentric mountain town.
89. The Haunted Hour: An indie horror capturing the vibe of an incredibly spooky, small-town North Carolina mystery.
90. Wormwood: A serialized mystery following Dr. Xander Crowe as he seeks the truth behind his colleague’s death in the strange, occult-drenched town of Wormwood.

91. Malevolent: Private investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory, a dark entity residing in his mind, and no sight to guide him through the horrors ahead.
92. Bridgewater: A folklore professor is pulled into the mysterious Bridgewater Triangle when a relic from his father’s past is discovered. Starring Misha Collins and Josh Gad.
93. Azathoth Blues: A gripping cosmic horror noir following three honest but misfit cops assigned to a basement cold case unit, where a bizarre murder leads them into a terrifying journey of paranoia, occult rituals, and madness.
94. The Monster Hunters: A comedy-horror set in the 1970s, featuring fantastic sound design and supernatural beast-slaying.
95. A Voice from Darkness: A radio-style horror featuring a parapsychologist offering genuinely terrifying advice to supernatural callers.
96. Englewood After Dark: College students Finn Nightingale and Eve Pemberly investigate a series of campus murders, uncovering terrifying supernatural secrets buried deep within the foundations of their university.
97. Duggan Hill: On a back country road in Saskatchewan, a woman goes missing without a trace. This immersive docudrama investigates her terrifying disappearance.
98. Ronstadt: A supernatural noir comedy starring Rhett McLaughlin as a 911 dispatcher who handles bizarre and terrifying supernatural calls.
99. The Love Talker: Somewhere in the hollows of the Appalachians, young women are going missing, lured by a folk entity known only as the Love Talker.
100. Barren: A gripping, immersive audio drama following a reporter who returns to his grandparents’ farm after their death, only to uncover a horrifying supernatural mystery that challenges his sanity and reality itself.

I hope you find a dark frequency on this list that gets under your skin and keeps you staring at the ceiling of your dark room. Notice the shadow out of the corner of your eye? It certainly noticed you. Wait… Did you hear something? I’m sure it was nothing to worry about. When the static fades and you finally drift off, may your dreams be filled with dread until our next transmission at the stroke of midnight.