More finished audio fiction for you in The End Issue #23: Out of Place & The Dragoning +5 recently completed fiction shows & 1 audio fiction show coming back for a new season soon! 🎧☺️

Greetings, fabulous fan of audio fiction!

What’s this? Changes? Yeah, you know me. Always mixing things up. I condensed and simplified a few things, which gave me room to put some extra context for the titles in the Recently Completed section. They now have a single sentence from the show’s description that gives you a feel for the story. You’ll also notice that I’m changing how I group and talk about shows in the Coming Soon section.

Also, you should be able to find The End Last Week, This Week, & Next Week in your preferred listening app. It’s official. We have a podcast! I’ll make a podcast page on the site later this week, but here’s a pretty player:

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Enough gibber-gabber. Let’s get to it.

Featured Complete Audio Fiction

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

Out of Place: Narrated scifi from Midnight Disease Productions

Andrew Moss loved his anthropology job, until mysterious artifacts from a Mr. Havisham started arriving in brown paper bags. The artifacts are… Wrong.

• Series complete as of 14 Sep 2021
• 2 seasons, 26 episodes
• Listening time: 9h 08m
• 🔍🏛️⚗️

The Dragoning: Narrated urban fantasy from Messenger Theatre Company

In this audio dramedy, the world is shaken by the transformations of women into dragons who consume and immolate men.

In Season 1: A tourist from afar tries to understand what, when any woman could literally eat you for lunch, is a guy supposed to do? Who can you trust?

In Season 2: The tourist creates an international incident by bringing home a dragon.

• Series complete as of 5 Sep 2022
• 2 seasons, 20 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 14m
• 🔥🐉💋

Recently Complete Audio Fiction

I really like this new layout. Not gonna lie. But if you don’t (or want to tell me how much you love it too), hit reply. Here’s what’s new:

SEANCE : High Falls: Dramatized magical realism from Soundbooth Theater

Famous spirit medium Lina Fox uses her “powers” to profit off of the rich and famous.

• Series complete as of 9 Feb 2023
• 8 episodes
• Listening time: 5h 18m
• 👻🧟‍♂️😂

McCobb Mortality Services: Dramatized musical comedy from McCobb Radio Team

The stakes extend beyond life and death when Amber McCobb’s mother introduces feckless profiteering to their family’s agency of spiritual guides.

• Series complete as of 6 Feb 2023
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 3h 42m
• 🎵💀🎭

The Book at the End of the Shelf: Narrated multigenre from Christopher Sainton-Clark

This dark anthology of bedtime stories for grown-ups are sure to keep you up at night!

• Season 1 finale released 23 Jan 2023
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 1h 37m
• Season 2 starts Apr 2023
• 🛏️🌃🙀

Author Joe Field Presents: The LEGENDS UNIVERSE: Narrated thriller from Joe Field

Season 1 is the story of The Slug, the mysterious Luchador of Finnska Nation; sure to thrill fans of Lucha Libre.

• Season 1 finale released 15 Dec 2022
• 6 episodes
• Listening time: 1h 49m
• Season 2 starts May 2023
• 🤼🪑🐌

Echo Park: Narrated scifi thriller from Realm

First designed as biotech property and then raised in foster care, Echoes live on the outskirts of society; genetic clones of their sources, but rarely accepted into their lives.

• Series complete as of 13 Oct 2022
• 9 episodes
• Listening time: 6h 29m
• 🧬 🌇🔪

Coming Soon with Seasons

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 14 Feb 2023

Season 2 of Liminal Criminals: A Fake Crime Podcast, a narrated comedy thriller from SCWR Productions

• 14 current episodes
• Listening time: 5h 00m
• 😆🗡️👮

And that’s it this week from The End!