A mix of new and old finished fiction podcasts: Deviser & Rabbits + 1 complete series, 4 season finales, and 2 new seasons coming soon! 🎧🥰 — The End Issue #36

Before I get to the goods, I’d love your feedback on a couple of things I’m considering changing.

I’m considering an additional newsletter that is a monthly rundown of my recommendations. I’ve heard from more than one person that their listening cup overfloweth. This newsletter would stay weekly to keep up with the recently completed stuff (which is, for me at least, a great discovery tool!).

I’m also considering adding all of the trailers (or episode snippets) to the end (heh) of The End Last Week, This Week, and Next Week, the companion podcast to this newsletter. Currently, I only play the trailers/snippets of my recommendations to keep it short. Adding all trailers would make it longer, but I’d move them to the end as to keep the [checks numbers] 28 of you who regularly download the episodes from having to listen to everything if you didn’t want to.

Hit reply and tell me what you think of those two things, would you? And let’s get started.

-Evo

Featured Audio Fiction

These are my personal recommendations for great-sounding audio fiction. As with all things in life, YMMV.

Dramatized horror from Harlan Guthrie — Deviser

Son wakes up aboard a spaceship bound for earth in an effort to recolonize. What he discovers, however, will change everything he knows about his world and himself.

(Evo’s note: Yes, I highlighted this show in last week’s issue. But I think it’s one of the best shows I’ve listened to this year, so I’m choosing to feature it sooner than normal!)

• Series complete as of 1 May 2023
• 7 episodes
• Listening time: 2h 42m
• 🏃‍♂️🚀👹

Dramatized thriller from Terry Miles — Rabbits

When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into an ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more than just a game and that the key to understanding Rabbits might be the key to the survival of our species and the Universe as we know it.

• Season 2 finale released 15 Mar 2022
• 20 episodes
• Listening time: 14h 11m
• 🎲🐰🤯

Season Finales & Finished Series

Only two recently-wrapped shows were submitted this week, so I’m pulling in a few older titles from Fable & Folly and QCODE, two excellent fiction podcast networks/publishers you should know. Which you probably do!

Dramatized crime dark comedy from Voyage Media — Love, Murder, Florida

Jane Lynch stars in this crime and dark comedy podcast, reminiscent of Better Call Saul or How Stella Got Her Groove Back… with murder.

• Season 1 finale released 5 May 2023
• 4 episodes
• Listening time: 1h 23m
• 😆🚔😜

Dramatized horror thriller from Ransom Media Productions — Afflicted

Lovecraft Country meets True Blood in this new series from award-winning producers Tonia Ransom and Jen Zink.

• Season 1 finale released 1 May 2023
• 10 episodes
• Listening time: 5h 40m
• Season 2 starts Jun 2024
• 📕🪦🕳️

Dramatized improvised multigenre from Dumb Dragons Productions — Facing Fate

An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.

• Season 6 finale released Dec 20 2022
• 41 episodes
• Listening time: 23h 40m
• Season 7 starts this summer
• 🌕🦑⚔️

Dramatized scifi story from QCODE — From Now

A famed lost spaceship, the USS HOPE, returns to Earth after vanishing thirty-five years prior. But what starts as a joyful reconciliation soon leads to dark revelations that threaten their relationship — and the future of humanity.

• Series complete as of Jan 25 2021
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 3h 32m
• 🚀👶👴

Dramatized rom com/true crime satire from Wheyface Radio — Arden

On December 25th, 2007, movie star and heiress Julie Capsom crashed her car into a tree in Northern California, walked into a nearby clearing, and vanished, leaving behind a male torso in her trunk. 10 years later, reporter Bea Casely and private detective Brenda Bentley are going to reopen the case.

• Season 2 finale released Jan 1 2021
• 25 episodes
• Listening time: 22h 38m
• Season 3 starts this fall
• 🕵️‍♀️🎙️🏳️‍🌈

New Seasons Coming Soon

Presented by Radio Drama Revival, one of the internet’s longest-running anthology audio drama shows, with the goal of showcasing the diversity and vitality of modern audio fiction.

Returning on 15 May 2023

Residents of Proserpina Park, a dramatized urban fantasy comedy from Angela Yih, returns for Season 3.

• 20 current episodes
• Listening time: 4h 23m
• 🏞️🧚🐶

Returning on 22 May 2023

Morland P.I., a dramatized romantic comedy from Knoves Storytelling Collective, returns for Season 2.

• 14 current episodes
  • Listening time: 1h 36m
  • 🔎🌹📖

And that’s it for the audio fiction shows in the most recent issue of The End, the newsletter that shines a light back on audio fiction shows after they’ve reached the finale of a season or the conclusion of the series.

More information, including how you can get your audiobook, audiodrama or fiction podcast highlighted in a future issue, visit TheEnd.fyi.