#and the strange case of starship iris (10-episode first season with a self-contained story arc)

[skydaemon]

addressing your tags - tma is pretty good ! my favourite series is the first one bc it's a proper horror anthology with just the slightest hint of some darker shadow. those were the ones i found scariest for that reason, but the whole thing's well-written and acted for the most part.

i love the penumbra podcast for queer genre fiction - starts off as an anthology + one long-form plot, then becomes two long-form plots - one a space noir and the other a fantasy. i think it's great

wooden overcoats might be my fave podcast ever - the story of two rival funeral parlours on a tiny island. it's very surreal (the narrator is a talking mouse) and absolutely and that's why i love it - very bbc radio 4

wolf 359 is very well-known and i love it - sci fi with two parts comedy to one part alien (1979) (later shifts a little closer to the alien end of the spectrum) - the characters are really good in this one

if you like ttrpg actual play then taz, critical role, and rqg (probably the least well-known but still quite popular) are all solid, and there are probably half a dozen other really well-known ones, but my favourite hidden gem is the infinite bad, a cosmic horror actual play set in britain after ww1. the characters really alleviate some of the horror but it's absolutely superb on the oh-my-god-what-the-fuck scale, which is how i like my horror (although there are a couple of scenes in the chicago arc that were upsetting in the bad way) - highly recommend even if you aren't into actual play bc it's mostly just an audio drama with the performers dropping out of character every now and then

what i've heard of malevolent is very fun and a good amount of creepy - it's the story of a private detective who accidentally ends up sharing his brain with a creature from another world, and the creepy stuff they get into - i'm only about halfway through the backlog though so i can't speak for later episodes

the amelia project is super fun - we hear the stories of an organisation who helps people fake their deaths - this one also slowly transitions from anthological to more narrative storytelling, but i feel like it works for me better than tma - fun and a little gory

oh my goodness how did i forget greater boston!! a web-weaving story of the inhabitants of a slightly-au greater boston area (i've heard it described as love actually in massachusetts but also ghosts and cheese robots exist) - characters are so good and the plot is intriguing and funny and complex I LOVE IT

wtnv. nuff said (literally it might be the best-known audio drama podcast of all time i recommend it)

another one i haven't finished but monstrous agonies!! an advice show for supernatural beings, very fun if you like world-building

stellar firma - like rqg and tma, this is a rusty quill original (if that matters to you) - an improvised comedy about people who design planets - it's weird and funny and weirdly heartfelt at times and it's very good

the strange case of starship iris - it's a sci fi crime comedrama but just listen to the first episode bc i'm not spoiling it it's great

death by dying - the obituary writer of a small town solves murders and hangs out with the angel of death. slam dunk.

if you want non-fiction, i like story break, the fairy tellers, off book, off menu, loremen, and telling everybody everything with katherine ryan

hihi does anyone have any podcast recs?