Yoda says, "Audio fiction, in your life, you need!" Ghost Tape & Dark Woods + 4 series completions, 2 season finales, and 3 new seasons coming soon! 🎧🤩


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Issue #35 | 4 May 2023

May the Fourth be with you, fabulous fans of audio fiction!

Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate! And just May 4th for everyone else.

But it's also strike time, and we at The End stand with the WGA community. ✊ Strikes are supposed to cause inconveniences, and it's possible that your favorite audio fiction show may be impacted. Did I mention ✊?

Thanks to the 61 of you—or 5% of you—who've taken our reader survey. This will be the last week I beg for the rest of you to take 5 minutes and fill it out. After that, the analysis begins, so get your info in so I have the most complete picture possible!

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- Evo

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Evo's Picks

Featured Audio Fiction

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

Dramatized horror from QCODE

Ghost Tape

We follow Tessa Dixon at a remote army base in Texas as she deals with the psychological and physical trauma of basic training. When she finds a tape of her grandfather’s labeled ‘Ghost Tape’ and plays the haunting audio, she unknowingly unleashes a deadly manifestation of her own family’s horrible misdeeds.

Co-created by Nia DaCosta and Aron Eli Coleite. Starring and executive produced by Kiersey Clemons. Written by Alexandra E Hartman and directed by Malakai.

Series complete as of 14 Dec 2020
8 episodes
Listening time: 3h 11m
👻🔈😱

Dramatized mystery thriller from Endeavor Content

Dark Woods

From Legendary Producer Dick Wolf and Wolf Entertainment comes a new fiction series starring Corey Stoll (House of Cards, Ant-Man), Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire), and Reid Scott (Veep).

When the body of a young volunteer is discovered in the middle of the California redwoods, two estranged ex-spouses, game warden Mark Ellis (Stoll) and city councilwoman (Raymund), must put their differences aside to learn the terrifying truth about what is happening in their state park.

Executive Produced by Elliot Wolf (Hunted), directed by Takashi Doscher (Only), and written by David Pergolini.

Season 1 finale released 13 Dec 2021
8 episodes
Listening time: 4h 06m
🏞️👮‍♀️🫢

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Season Finales & Finished Series

The fact that most of the titles in this section this week are FULLY COMPLETE should make many of you happy.

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.

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

Narrated horror from In The Works x Tin Can Audio

Folxlore

Folxlore tells the stories of queer people living literally and figuratively between two worlds and is rooted in everyday Glasgow, where monsters are always on the edge of your periphery.

Series complete as of 30 Apr 2023
3 seasons, 29 episodes
Listening time: 7h 31m
🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😱

Dramatized horror thriller from Heart Starts Pounding

The Timekeeper

Follow 17-year-old Charlie and his best friends, Gama and Zoe, as they’re pulled into a life-and-death version of a video game called 13 Keys.

Series complete as of 27 Apr 2023
4 episodes
Listening time: 2h 03m
👁⏱🏃🏼

Dramatized satire from Christian Espinal & Poopy Rubin

The Schweekly

Hosted by Michael Marlboro, The Schweekly brings you the news every day on a schweekly basis.

Season 1 finale released 24 Apr 2023
10 episodes
Listening time: 3h 07m
Season 2 starts Jul 2025
🤪🤭🤣

Dramatized fiction from J Hazen Productions

Queen of Battle

This veteran-created series follows six women who take on Army basic infantry training, then face a combat deployment as the first all-female grunt squad in U.S. history.

Series complete as of 20 Apr 2023
2 seasons, 11 episodes
Listening time: 3h 44m
🪖♀️👁️‍🗨️

Dramatized mystery comedy from Rambling Absurdities Productions

Fawx & Stallion

London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper’s name of a crime she didn’t commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B…

Season 1 finale released 17 Mar 2023
10 episodes
Listening time: 5h 33m
Season 2 starts in late 2023
🔎🥂🎩

New Seasons Coming Soon

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