Audio dramas? Don’t you mean audiobooks? Hold that thought.

Several members of the Fantasy Inn team love audiobooks. They’re convenient to listen to on the go, and the right narrator can elevate a good book to new heights. The only downside for those of us who enjoy listening to our books is that the audio format tends to be expensive.

Fortunately, there’s audio drama! These fictional podcasts are all free to listen to, with the option to support your favorite shows through sites like Patreon.

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Some housekeeping:

This flowchart is by no means comprehensive, nor do we claim that these are “objectively” the best that audio drama has to offer. The audio dramas listed are limited to speculative fiction, with a few exceptions. We tried to provide enough variety that seasoned and novice audio drama fans alike can discover new stories to love. When possible, we tried to highlight indie audio dramas.

The final flowchart has 109 entries, and we could’ve included many more if we had room. Feel strongly about an audio drama we left out? Let us know in a comment!

Here’s the chart:

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If any of these audio dramas strike your fancy, here they are in list form with links to the show websites. Enjoy!

Classic

Radio Dramas

A Canticle for Leibowitz | Website

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Website

The War of the Worlds | Website

Star Wars | Website

Relic Radio: Classic Radio Drama | Website

Fantasy

Actual Play

Join the Party | Website

Crit Faced | Website

20 Sided Stories | Website

The Adventure Zone: Amnesty | Website

Adventure

Here Be Dragons | Website

Famous Characters Reimagined

Mount Olympus University | Website

Public Domain Universe | Website

Folktales

Flyest Fables | Website

Interviews

The Details | Website

Everything is Alive | Website

Left of Reality

Greater Boston | Website

Magical Realism

Point Mystic | Website

The Far Meridian | Website

Political Epic

Tumanbay | Website

Romance

Interference | Website

Kaleidotrope | Website

Love and Luck | Website

Tolkien Fantasy

The Once and Future Nerd | Website

Inn Between | Website

Urban Fantasy

Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magickal Services | Website

The Magical History of Knox County | Website

Young Adult

Violet Beach | Website

Science Fiction / Fantasy

Science Fantasy

Mythos | Website

Superpowers

Redwing | Website

Super Ordinary | Website

The Beacon | Website

The Bright Sessions | Website

Science Fiction

Alien Planet

Marsfall | Website

The Orphans | Website

Tides | Website

Artificial Intelligence

Sayer | Website

Cyber Punk

Edict Zero: FIS | Website

Splintered Caravan | Website

Drama

Steal the Stars | Website

Dystopian

Joseph | Website

Space Horror

Janus Descending | Website

The Hyacinth Disaster | Website

Space Opera

Girl in Space | Website

The Strange Case of the Starship Iris | Website

We Fix Space Junk | Website

Wolf 359 | Website

Steampunk

Sage and Savant | Website

Time Travel

ars Paradoxica | Website

Time Trip! | Website

Mystery

Investigative Reporting

Limetown | Website

The Black Tapes | Website

Wolverine: The Long Night | Website

Isolation Mystery

Gone | Website

Unplaced | Website

Murder Mystery

Lesser Gods | Website

Noir

Congeria | Website

Kane and Feels: Paranormal Investigators | Website

The Penumbra Podcast | Website

What’s the Frequency? | Website

Horror

Archive Horror

Archive 81 | Website

The Magnus Archives | Website

Arctic Isolation

Station Blue | Website

The White Vault | Website

Horror

Lake Clarity | Website

Small Town Horror | Website

Spines | Website

Slow Build Creepy

Mabel | Website

Palimpsest | Website

Station to Station | Website

Southern Gothic

Judgement Night Radio Hour | Website

The Ghost Radio Project | Website

Spooky

Alice Isn’t Dead | Website

The Bridge | Website

Zombies

Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope | Website

We’re Alive | Website

Comedy

Comedic Fantasy

1994 | Website

Alba Salix | Website

Hello from the Magic Tavern | Website

Crime Comedy

Arden | Website

The Amelia Project | Website

Victoriocity | Website

Monster Comedy

A Scottish Podcast | Website

Attention HellMart Shoppers! | Website

Bubble | Website

Space Comedy

EOS10 | Website

MarsCorp | Website

Mission to Zyxx | Website

Solutions to Problems | Website

StarTripper! | Website

Weird

Musical

Fall of the House of Sunshine | Website

Radio Broadcast

Kings Fall AM | Website

Welcome to Night Vale | Website

Trippy

Death by Dying | Website

The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air) | Website

Within the Wires | Website

Weird and Folksy

The Cryptonaturalist | Website

Anthologies

Anthology

Cocotazo Audio Theatre | Website

The Big Loop | Website

The Theatre of Tomorrow | Website

The Thrilling Adventure Hour | Website

The Truth | Website

Horror Anthology

Darkest Night | Website

Knifepoint Horror | Website

Liberty: Tales from the Tower | Website

The No Sleep Podcast | Website

Short Stories

Escape Pod | Website

LeVar Burton Reads | Website

PodCastle | Website

Pseudopod | Website

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