I had just subscribed to the NeoGAF thread on this to check out at a later date heh, was that yours?
I dropped off of Nightvale as it quickly became overbearingly wacky and since then generally rely on audiobooks for some audio-drama horror but this sounds great.
I’m really getting into this. I’m listened up to Squirm (episode 6) so far. Glad there is a place to keep talking about it!
Someone else started that thread, but I’d been singing the praises of Magnus Archives there on various podcast recommendations threads.
Night Vale started off intriguing but then it leaned more and more into “throw everything at the wall” wackiness. There was potential for creepiness but it got way too campy for me
Audiodramas can be hit and miss for me, usually it’s the acting rather than the writing or premise that turn me off. My favorites are Magnus, Sayer, Fairy Tales For Unwanted Children, The Bright Sessions, Levar Burton Reads, Tumanbay, and Twilight Histories
I listened to Night Vale for a while, but I got sick of the stream-of-consciousness style of writing. It just seemed to go nowhere.
I do want to give another recommendation for Levar Burton reads. I’m not going to lie, The Paper Menagerie made me tear up a bit. I think I liked every story actually. It’s amazing what adding a little bit of music to help set a mood can do.
So I listened to The Piper this morning. Very solid, but Thrown Away remains my favorite of the few that I’ve heard so far.
Yeah, Thrown Away works so well because you’re only seeing the outskirts of some unimaginably horrible and disturbing thing but just enough to make your imagination run wild with possibilities.
Listened to the first three episodes last night. Genuinely creepy and very well delivered. Thanks for introducing me to it.
I will recommend this channel for some older stuff radio stuff https://www.youtube.com/user/ChillySunshine
Not always the greatest recordings but I really love those older mystery/horror radio dramas.
Magnus is so gooood. My favorites are still the Man Upstairs and Arachnophobia, but the overall level of quality in this series is staggering and the meta-narrative is actually really interesting and moves right along. So hyped for season 3.
Thanks for this, I just ran through Lore in like two weeks while working and I needed more stuff in that direction.
If you like old timey mystery radio drama, I’m a huge fan of Decoder Ring Theatre, particularly the Black Jack Justice series
The Magnus Archives is AWESOME!
I have one more for fans of horror. It is a Dark Fantasy podcast set in a dungeon RPG style.
The Iron Realm Podcast
It is an audio drama with a twist. Listeners can PLAY as well.
Lots of free extras to download and dozens of adventures.
Try it for yourself.
Thank you so much for this recommendation! I’ve actually been looking for good recent horror fiction for a while now and struggling with most of what I discovered, but I’m on episode four of this podcast now and I adore it. I’ve made a note to check out some of the others mentioned here as well.
Can’t wait to dive into the next episode!
Hey all, I just went online with my new horror fiction podcast. It’s called Horror Tales. The production is of high quality, as I am an audio professional, podcast and horror lover and wanted to create a new experience! 
If you listen, let me know how you liked it! https://itunes.apple.com/fr/podcast/horror-tales/id1428843394?l=en
Nice recommendation. I was worried the strong vocal affectation was going to wear thin but I gave myself to it and so far it’s fine.
I’ve listened to lots of the other stuff mentioned so far to various degrees of completion and enjoyed them variably. One thing I adore which hasn’t been mentioned yet is “Coyote Tales” by Jim Biyeh. I first heard it on the Pseudopod horror podcast, which is principally dramatic readings of original horror stories.
“Coyote Tales”, however, is only available in audio, read by “Cayenne” Chris Conway. Conway masterfully narrates the stories, which comprise an anthology set on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and features a delicious blend of pragmatism and myth. Conway knows his way around the Navajo language and maintains consistent voices for characters.
Biyeh wanted to honor the tradition of oral history and so only released these stories as an audiobook. It’s available on US libraries at least through Hoopla and Overdrive. I highly recommend it.
Also I’m a pretty big fan of We’re Alive, warts and all. I’ve been through it seven times now I think.
Thanks for the recommendations y’all!
Hey for real, the Magnus Archives is incredible and should have a listener base orders of magnitude larger than it does, given the quality of the writing and production. I don’t really have anything new to add to the discussion, but this really needs to get more attention.
I started listening to this recently upon another recommendation from here, and have not been disappointed. The archival set-up grounds the spooky tales nicely, and while I was disappointed at first that there’s no VA outside the archivist character, I’ve gotten used to his slightly melodramatic intonation.
Give it a little bit. More voice actors drop in as it goes on, many getting their own episodes. At the current point in the story, you get multiple characters interacting nearly every episode.
OK cool! Is there any kind of serial-type throughline with the story that comes into play, or does it continue with the episodic format throughout?
I’m on S01E39. I think the acting is second only to Limetown and Coyote Tails and the writing is on par. The Magnus Archives has a heavier challenge in one regard, that it’s on-going and those other two are (as yet) closed productions. There’s something really special going on here with this crew.
Honestly, it’s kind of a fusion of both.
