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Top Audio Dramas Poll: Results! 2021
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This list includes all those entries that got at least three votes. Audio dramas that received equal number of votes get the same rank. The links take you to the website for the show.
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You can see the full list on this Google spreadsheet.
The original voting thread is here.
2019 results are here.
| No. | Previous | Audio Drama | Votes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | The Magnus Archives | 23 | A weekly horror fiction anthology podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. |
| 2 | 1 | Wolf 359 | 22 | Set on board the U.S.S. Hephaestus space station, the dysfunctional crew deals with daily life-or-death emergencies, while searching for signs of alien life and discovering there might be more to their mission than they thought. |
| 3 | 9 | Wooden Overcoats | 19 | Sitcom podcast about rival funeral directors in the English Channel. |
| 4 | - | The Lovecraft Investigations | 12 | A "fake" podcast following two skeptics investigating strange events that might, or might not, come from out of space. |
| 4 | 7 | We're Alive | 12 | Follows a large group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse in downtown Los Angeles, California. |
| 6 | 8 | EOS 10 | 11 | The stories of two maladjusted doctors and their medical team aboard an intergalactic travel hub on the edges of deep space—along with a deposed prince who's claimed the foodcourt kitchen as his new throne. |
| 6 | - | Old Gods of Appalachia | 11 | Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror-anthology podcast set in the shadows of an Alternate Appalachia, a place where digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake. |
| 8 | 9 | The White Vault | 10 | 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. |
| 9 | 17 | Limetown | 9 | Ten years ago, over three hundred people disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question, "What happened to the people of Limetown? |
| 9 | - | Unwell | 9 | Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents. |
| 11 | 42 | Alice Isn't Dead | 8 | A podcast presented as a series of audio diaries by a truck driver in her search across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. |
| 11 | 9 | Ars Paradoxica | 8 | A love letter to physics, fiction, and the future. It's a disorienting journey through spacetime and the Cold War. It's a tome of secret history you stumbled across in a library in the dead of night. |
| 11 | 2 | The Bright Sessions | 8 | A science fiction podcast that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a unique supernatural ability. |
| 14 | 24 | Girl In Space | 7 | Abandoned on a dying ship in the farthest reaches of known space, a young scientist fights for survival (and patience with the on-board A.I.). Who is she? No one knows. But a lot of dangerous entities really want to find out. |
| 14 | 5 | LifeAfter/TheMessage | 7 | AI adventure, pondering the question of what happens to our digital identifies after we pass, and what role AI can play in the grieving process & a new podcast following the weekly reports and interviews from Nicky Tomalin, who is covering the decoding of a message from outer space received 70 years ago. |
| 14 | 24 | Mission to Zyxx | 7 | An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the “ass end of space.” |
| 14 | 24 | The Amelia Project | 7 | A comedic audio drama about an underground organization, called Amelia, that helps its clients fake their own deaths but the service doesn't stop there — it helps them reenter society under a brand new identity. |
| 14 | - | The Storage Papers | 7 | The Storage Papers is a bi-weekly horror podcast. I recently acquired a storage bin full of various old files detailing paranormal/unexplained phenomena around the Southern California area. This podcast shares their contents. |
| 14 | - | Video Palace | 7 | When video collector Mark Cambria watches a mysterious VHS tape, he begins talking in his sleep in a language that doesn't exist. Mark and his girlfriend Tamra set out to investigate the tape's origin and find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracy, occult, and dread surrounding a legendary video store with a sinister purpose beyond imagining. |
| 14 | 17 | Welcome to Night Vale | 7 | Presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it. |
| 21 | 5 | Archive 81 | 6 | A found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. |
| 21 | - | Cabin Pressure | 6 | A sitcom about the difficulties of running a (very) small charter airline. |
| 21 | - | Malevolent | 6 | A horror podcast following the troubles of waking up blind, with a voice in your head that tells you what to do. |
| 21 | 31 | Rabbits | 6 | A pseudo-documentary podcast in which narrator Carly Parker searches for her missing friend Yumiko "Miko" Takata and finds herself in the midst of a decades-old alternate reality game known as Rabbits or simply "The Game." |
| 21 | - | The Call of the Void | 6 | Set in modern day New Orleans, the story follows Topher, a young man trying to save his father from a mysterious condition affecting him physically and mentally, and Etsy, a young woman who must confront a dark past and overcome the destructive forces of hatred and evil. |
| 21 | 17 | The Truth | 6 | Short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected places using only sound. |
| 21 | - | Woe.Begone | 6 | Podcaster Mike Walters discovers a mysterious and violent online game named WOE.BEGONE. What starts out as an exploration of an ARG with real-life elements quickly becomes a search for the technology that makes that game possible. |
| 28 | 17 | Homecoming | 5 | Centers on a caseworker at an experimental facility, her ambitious supervisor, and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life — presented in an enigmatic collage of telephone calls, therapy sessions, and overheard conversations. |
| 28 | - | I Am In Eskew | 5 | I Am In Eskew is a single-narrator audio-drama, with one foot in horror and another in weird fiction / fantasy. |
| 28 | 42 | Sayer | 5 | A narrative fiction podcast set on Earth's man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics. |
| 28 | 14 | The Black Tapes | 5 | Paranormal investigator on a mission to debunk all claims of the supernatural, told in an investigative journalism style similar to Serial. |
| 28 | 42 | The Penumbra Podcast | 5 | Stories you recognize told in ways you won’t expect. It’s the parts we think are still fresh about those genres — along with what we find along the tracks. |
| 28 | 42 | The Strange Case of Starship Iris | 5 | Two years after Earth won a war against extraterrestrials, a mysterious explosion kills nearly the entire crew of science vessel Starship Iris. The only survivor is a sarcastic biologist determined to untangle the truth behind the disaster. |
| 28 | 42 | Victoriocity | 5 | An detective comedy about an unsolvable murder in the unending city of Even Greater London. Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions. |
| 35 | - | A Voice From Darkness | 4 | A Voice From Darkness is a horror & dark fantasy audiodrama podcast in the form of a call-in radio show. Dr. Malcolm Ryder, parapsychologist and host, takes calls from those who experience the supernatural and strange - to let them tell their stories and to give his advice on how best to handle their terrifying encounters. |
| 35 | - | Dark Ages | 4 | High fantasy. High culture. Low attendance. For the staff of the Rivercliffe Museum of Mostly Natural Histories, the only thing harder than attracting patrons is suffering each other. |
| 35 | - | Dust | 4 | DUST is an anthology of immersive science fiction audio stories ranging from genre groundbreakers such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury to the electrifying emerging voices of today. Open your mind. Listen carefully. The future awaits. |
| 35 | 31 | Edict Zero FIS | 4 | In the water world of New Earth, the Federal Investigative Services—a small team of special agents following an amalgam of Old Earth law enforcement models—finds themselves at odds with the highest authority of humankind: Edict One. |
| 35 | 2 | King Falls AM | 4 | Centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants. |
| 35 | - | Mirrors | 4 | Meet Helen, Sierra, and Z. They have never met. They live in three different cities, in three different centuries. So why are they being haunted by the same creatures? |
| 35 | 42 | Palimpsest | 4 | A bi-weekly audio drama about memory, identity, and the things that haunt us. |
| 35 | - | Passenger List | 4 | Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. |
| 35 | 42 | Tanis | 4 | Tanis is a mystery horror fiction podcast executive produced by Terry Miles who also voices the podcast's narrator, Nic Silver. In the show, Silver undertakes a search to discover what and where the mysterious entity Tanis is. |
| 35 | - | The Cipher | 4 | When 16-year-old Sabrina cracks the cryptic Parallax, she's recruited to track down a serial killer…who might not be from this world. Starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo. |
| 35 | - | The Silt Verses | 4 | Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god, travel up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations. |
| 46 | - | Blackout | 3 | Academy Award winner Rami Malek stars in this apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization. |
| 46 | 42 | Decoder Ring Theatre | 3 | All-new audio adventures in the tradition of the classic programs of Radio's Golden Age. Here you will find full-length, full-cast tales of mystery and adventure to fire your imagination, and audioibook adventures and mysteries inspired by noir and hero pulps. |
| 46 | - | Janus Descending | 3 | A limited series, science fiction/horror audio drama podcast, follows the arrival of two xenoarcheologists on a small world orbiting a binary star. |
| 46 | - | Love and Luck | 3 | Love and Luck is a queer slice of life romance story, with a touch of magic. An audio drama told mostly via voicemails, we publish short episodes once a week on Tuesday evenings (AEST). |
| 46 | 42 | MarsCorp | 3 | A 12-part scripted comedy podcast about Station Supervisor E.L. Hob’s first year at MarsCorp, a terraforming colony established on the red planet in 2070. |
| 46 | - | Midst | 3 | When you're starting a new life for yourself on an otherworldly frontier, the last thing you need is for the moon to fall out of the sky, reality to eat itself alive, and heavily-armed interplanetary bureaucrats to decide to murder you. Unfortunately, it's just one of those days. |
| 46 | 42 | Our Fair City | 3 | Welcome, Loyal Polices…to Our Fair City. The following audio record comprises Season One of the glorious True Histories of the HartLife Corporation in its entirety. Our Fair City is a post-apocalpytic sci-fi radio epic. |
| 46 | - | Relativity | 3 | RELATIVITY is a science-fiction serial about a man marooned in space and the woman on Earth who struggles to keep him alive. |
| 46 | - | Rude Alchemy | 3 | Rude Alchemy is a podcast that presents comedic audio dramas that mix different genres. Each season features a new serialized story. |
| 46 | 42 | Spines | 3 | Two months ago, Wren woke up covered in blood, suffering from memory loss, and surrounded by the remnants of some strange cult ritual. SPINES is the story of her search for answers, and the deadly, powerful people she encounters along the way. |
| 46 | 9 | Steal The Stars | 3 | The story of two government employees guarding the biggest secret in the world: a crashed UFO. |
| 46 | 24 | The Hyacinth Disaster | 3 | A science fiction podcast following the slow failure of a space-mining mission. |
| 46 | - | The Left Right Games | 3 | Tessa Thompson stars as an idealistic young journalist tries to make a name for herself by following a group of paranormal explorers, obsessed with a seemingly harmless pastime known as the Left/Right Game. The journey takes her into a supernatural world that she and the other members of the expedition cannot handle or survive. |
| 46 | 42 | The Leviathan Chronicles | 3 | A full production audio drama about a clandestine war between two powerful groups of immortals that live in secret among mankind. |
| 46 | - | The Sheridan Tapes | 3 | In 2018, famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes. Detective Sam Bailey is tasked with piecing together what happened to Anna Sheridan from the seemingly impossible encounters she recorded, but as the scattered pieces of the puzzle come together, Bailey discovers that the picture is even stranger – and more dangerous – than it seemed. |
| 46 | - | Vast Horizon | 3 | Nolira is an agronomist tasked with establishing agriculture in a new solar system, but when she wakes up on a now- empty colony ship, the whole of her plan disappears. The ship has been set adrift, with numerous mission-critical problems requiring immediate attendance outside of her area of expertise. |
| 46 | 31 | Within the Wires | 3 | A series of audio guides. In the first season, the listener, a medical inmate at a place called the Institute, receives guidance from the mysterious narrator of instructional relaxation cassettes. |
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