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Horror for People who Hate Horror

Hate jumpscares and needless gore, but still love that creepy feeling you get from a good spook? These podcasts are all "horror," but turn away from jumpscares. Instead, these writers and sound designers create stories and soundscapes that lean into Eldritch, psychological, and isolationist horror. All the tingles, none of the jumps!

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Created September 14, 2020

Updated November 18, 2022

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  1. The Silt Verses

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    In this horror/fantasy serial drama, Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries de
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  2. Wireland Ranch

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    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor
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  3. Old Gods of Appalachia

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    In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath them. These are the darkest mountains in the wo
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  4. Welcome to Night Vale

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    Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on
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  5. Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

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    Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP.Releases every other week during season.Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living i
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  6. LifeAfter/The Message

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    From GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, The Message and its sequel, LifeAfter, take listeners on journeys to the limits of technology. In The Message, an alien transmission from decades ago becomes an urgent puzzle with life or death consequences.
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  7. Palimpsest

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    Palimpsest is a (mostly) single-voiced audio drama about memory, identity, and the things that haunt us. Each ten-episode season is a unique and self-contained story, exploring the spaces between horror, fantasy, and psychological realism. #emb
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  8. Girl In Space

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    Nothing fancy here — just the simple audio diary of a girl in space. Also, there’s this weird and potentially ominous light in the distance that seems to be growing steadily closer. Listen for science, guns, trust, anti-matter, truth, beauty, i
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  9. The White Vault

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    Explore the far reaches of the world’s horrors in the audio drama podcast The White Vault. Follow the collected records of a repair team sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below
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  10. Station Blue

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    Desperate to find meaning in his life, troubled Matthew Leads takes a job as the caretaker of an Antarctic Research Facility. An atmospheric isolation horror following his struggles with mental illness, a broken heart and the suffocating presen
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