For Lovers of Completed Audio Fiction — Issue #75 of The End

Featuring MIDNIGHT BURGER & THE LAMB +10 complete series, 7 season finales, and 11 new seasons coming soon!

Evo Terra
7 min readFeb 9, 2024

Valentine’s Day is next week, and diving into romantic fiction podcasts is a great way to celebrate. Check out the 32 shows we’ve collected in Love Is In (on?) The Air. From kissing frogs to unrequited love, relationship-based stories of romance are hugely popular. This collection of 32 love-forward audio fiction shows will make your heart melt. If you’re into that.

A big thanks to Jaz Garewal for becoming our latest Individual Supporter. He and I also got to meet in person last month, as we live only a couple of hours from one another. Thanks for your support, Jaz. It’s a small contribution, but when more and more readers take the option (hint, hint), it starts to add up. It’s greatly appreciated.

Let’s get into it, shall we?

- Evo

Featured Recommendations

I’ve listened to every episode of these shows, and proudly recommend them to you. As with all things in life, YMMV.

🍔🌌⏳ • Midnight Burger — Dramatized scifi comedy series from Joe Fisher & Fable & Folly. Ok, now I know why people get addicted to this show and never want it to end. It *feels* like Dr. Who, though it’s not *like* Dr. Who. The writing and acting are superb. The storylines as goofy as they are poignant, though it takes a while to see the latter. Currently 3 seasons and 44 episodes for a listening time of 41h 58m. Season 4 is slated to start in April.

💸🥳👯‍♀️ • The Lamb — Dramatized comedy from Amazon Presents. Starring David Krumholtz. Sign me up for irreverent comedies that actually make me laugh out loud! This is one, and with an amazing cast. One of my faves! It’s complete with 1 season and 6 episodes for a listening time of 2h 22m.

Recently Completed Series

These shows have recently reached the end of the entire story.

💑☁️❤️‍🩹 • Broken Hearted — Narrated coming-of-age series from Dat Ankle Productions. Completed on 7 Jan 2024 for a listening time of 0h 47m across 6 episodes in 1 season.

Recent Season Finales

These shows reached the end of a season recently, but more seasons are coming.

🐦🔫🏢 • The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio — Dramatized scifi mystery horror series from Rat Grimes. Written and produced by a nonbinary artist, featuring LGBT+ characters and actors. Season 2 finale posted on 7 Feb 2024. Listen to the 24 current episodes in 10h 03m.

🏰🔍📜 • This House Will Devour You — Narrated horror series from Citeog Podcasts. Season 2 finale posted on 6 Feb 2024. Listen to the 25 current episodes in 11h 48m.

🚪🕣🌌 • The Ostium Podcast — Dramatized science fiction thriller from Alex C. Telander. Features a diverse cast. Season 6 finale posted on 4 Feb 2024. Listen to the 69 current episodes in 40h 57m.

👁️⚔️👁️ • Visionaries — Dramatized fantasy series from Richard Seneque & Realm. Richard Seneque [he/him] is a black creator, producer, writer, and director of Visionaries Audio Drama. Richard won the 2020 Best Producer award from the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences. Visionaries was a silver selection in the 2021 HearNow festival. Season 2 finale posted on 31 Jan 2024. Listen to the 12 current episodes in 5h 37m.

New Seasons Coming Soon

Get caught up on the prior seasons of these shows before they return for a new season in a few days or weeks.

Season 2 of Creation, a dramatized scifi horror series from Mikaila Simone Mack, starts on 9 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 10 episodes in 2h 13m.

Season 2 of Love Notes, a narrated romance series from Rachel Rondon, starts on 13 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 37 episodes in 3h 23m.

Season 2 of Among the Stars and Bones, a dramatized sci-fi mystery horror series from Chris Magilton & Ungodly Hour Productions, starts on 14 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 10 episodes in 6h 48m.

Season 3 of Midst, a narrated trippy scifi fantasy series from Third Person & Critical Role, starts on 14 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 38 episodes in 16h 44m.

Season 6 of The Mysteries of Derlin County, a dramatized comedy parody from K&B, starts on 20 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 87 episodes in 37h 30m.

Season 3 of Legacy Door, a narrated cosmic horror mystery series from Bob J. Koester & Dueling Genre Production, starts on 21 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 18 episodes in 9h 03m.

Season 5 of Mission Rejected, a dramatized action spy comedy from The Porch Room, starts on 23 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 48 episodes in 34h 38m.

Season 2 of Tales of the ZugarouX, a narrated/dramatized suspensful scifi series from Nel Zim, starts on 29 Feb 2024. Catch up with the current 14 episodes in 3h 31m.

Season 2 of The Cara Files, a narrated scifi adventure and love story from Tony Warner, starts on 1 Mar 2024. Catch up with the current 10 episodes in 2h 40m.

Season 3 of Samite, a narrated horror series from j.w.g. wise & from J.W.G. Wise & , starts on 4 Mar 2024. Catch up with the current 8 episodes in 3h 10m.

Season 2 of Oneiric, a dramatized scifi journal from Vincent Lauzon & PodCavern, starts on 4 Mar 2024. Catch up with the current 10 episodes in 2h 54m.

ICYMI

Some not-so-recently completed or finale’d shows we’ve just added to our database.

😆🎲🧙🏽‍♂️ • The Adventure Zone — Dramatized actual play comedy from Justin, Travis, Griffin, and Clint McElroy & Maximum Fun. Queer themes and queer-friendly. The hosts are three brothers and their dad. This is an actual play podcast — a show where the hosts play tabletop role-playing games live for the audience, determining the story as they go along. A Daughterpick fave! Season 6 finale posted on 21 Dec 2023. Listen to the 241 current episodes in 287h 23m.

❔🔍🩸 • The Riddler: Secrets in the Dark — Dramatized action murder mystery from Phantom Four Productions, Wolf at the Door Studios & DC for Spotify. It is part of a connected DC comics audio universe. It stars Hasan Minhaj as The Riddler. Completed on 10 Oct 2023 for a listening time of 2h 58m across 8 episodes in 1 season.

📲👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻🍻 • Kerri Starring Pauline Chalamet — Dramatized rom-com from Meet Cute. Completed on 22 Sep 2023 for a listening time of 1h 30m across 6 episodes in 1 season.

😒🌹🇮🇹 • Imperfect Match Starring Arden Cho — Dramatized rom-com from Meet Cute. Completed on 19 May 2023 for a listening time of 1h 30m across 6 episodes in 1 season.

💔🎙️👤 • Dump Him! Starring Minnie Mills — Dramatized rom-com from Meet Cute. Completed on 3 Mar 2023 for a listening time of 1h 30m across 6 episodes in 1 season.

🐮🧬🩸 • ANCESTOR — Narrated horror scifi story from Scott Sigler & Empty Set Entertainment. Completed on 1 Feb 2023 for a listening time of 18h 18m across 39 episodes in 1 season.

🩺🃏🚑 • Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind — Dramatized action thriller from Eli Horowitz & Realm, Blue Ribbon Content, Spotify Studios. This awesome production stars Christina Ricci as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, Billy Magnussen as Patient J, and Justin Hartley as Bruce Wayne. Completed on 31 Jan 2023 for a listening time of 2h 27m across 7 episodes in 1 season.

🔷💉📈 • The Infected Trilogy — Narrated scifi horror story from Scott Sigler & Empty Set Entertainment. Completed on 13 Jan 2023 for a listening time of 53h 16m across 88 episodes in 3 seasons.

🏳️‍🌈🎄🕎 • Christmasuzannukkah Starring Amy Sedaris & Noah Galvin — Dramatized rom-com from Meet Cute. Completed on 23 Dec 2022 for a listening time of 1h 30m across 6 episodes in 1 season.

🦇🔍🏥 • Batman Unburied — Dramatized murder mystery from David S. Goyer, Phantom Four Productions and Wolf at the Door Studios & DC for Spotify, Spotify Studios. It is part of a connected DC comics audio universe. This diverse, star-studded cast is lead by Winston Duke (Black Panther) as Bruce Wayne and Lance Reddick as Thomas Wayne. Completed on 31 May 2022 for a listening time of 4h 48m across 10 episodes in 1 season.

🚀👩‍🚀👽 • Space Ranger 421 — Dramatized scifi action series from Jonathan James & Black Castle Productions LLC. Season 1 finale posted on 7 Aug 2021. Listen to the 8 current episodes in 1h 42m.

🗺️🔎📖 • Tanis — Documentary-style thriller fiction from Nic Silver & Public Radio Alliance. Season 5 finale posted on 18 Nov 2020. Listen to the 60 current episodes in 39h 46m.

Check out the 75th issue for links to listen, descriptions, artwork, and more at https://www.theend.fyi/newsletter/for-lovers-of-completed-audio-fiction

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That’s it from The End for this week. See you next Friday!

Originally published at https://www.theend.fyi.

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Evo Terra

Professional contrarian. On a mission to make fiction podcasting better. he/him. คุณ | https://theend.fyi | https://home.social/@evoterra