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The City That Never Was: A Call of Cthulhu Actual Play Podcast
One cold morning in Hamilton, Ontario, the Busy Bee convenience store is gone—no warning, no demolition, just a condo sign in its place. When a group of investigators starts asking questions, they discover something even stranger: no one remembers the store ever existing. As they dig deeper, reality begins to warp—streetlights flicker, records disappear, and a man endlessly flips a water bottle. Is it a conspiracy, a cover-up, or something far worse? A surreal, satirical Call of Cthulhu actual-play podcast.
Paranormal Passion
Welcome to "Paranormal Passion," the podcast that intertwines the eerie with the erotic! Join your hosts, Sarah and Jay, as they take you on a thrilling journey through spooky short stories that will give you chills and tantalize your senses. Each episode delves into the world of the supernatural, through tales that explore the passion lurking just beyond the veil of the ordinary. Whether it's seductive specters, or cryptid caresses, "Paranormal Passion" promises a delightful mix of spine-tingling suspense and sultry storytelling.
Unfuck Your Life: An Audio Drama
Have you ever wondered what your life could be like, after you’ve hit your rock bottom? Would you try to dig your way out, and get back to the surface? In Unfuck Your Life with Tog Chesterfield, Tog shares what happened on the way down to their own rock bottom. Unfuck your Life with Tog Chesterfield is a fictional radio show on 101.7 FM The Grack, in Grackleton. Tog is a recently unemployed, single, and sober 42 year old trying to pick up the pieces and unfuck their life. Tog will take you along as they try new things and attempt to embrace life, no matter what happens along the way.
The Agatha Crispy Detective Agency
Agatha and her best friend Wheels start a detective agency so they can solve mysteries on Marple Street. In this first case, they search for Vinnie the cat, who has mysteriously disappeared. Great for young listeners ages 4 -9ish.
The Nameless Chronicles
Tucked away in the Eternal Archive, a mysterious figure, known only as "The Scribe," carefully curates boundless untold stories to their audience. These original tales have ventured from the spaces between frequencies, traveling from the unknown limits of time, space, and reality. This anthology is not for the faint of heart—capable of evoking fear, joy, and heartbreak alike. If you've been chosen, step inside. Welcome to the astounding experience that is The Nameless Chronicles.
A Cold and Heartless Lullaby -Full Cast Immersive Audiobook-
After the world collapses a lone robot is tasked with the care of a little girl but both he and the world that remains are woefully unsuited.
Justice: A Holocaust Zombie Story
A young woman finds herself in the middle of a burgeoning global crisis when zombified Holocaust victims begin rising from the mass graves of former concentration camps. An original seven-part fiction miniseries produced in association with the Ashkenaz Foundation.
The Beat of Baleful Wings
An anthology podcast covering Fantasy and Horror and everything between. What terror lies in your heart? What anxiety holds you down or pushes you back? It is something unique for each of us, but we all feel it. For the most common emotion on this planet is fear. But, beneath it all is the rhythmic beat. Not of the heart, as many mistake, but of wings. Wings that subtly get closer each day. Will you be prepared for when they arrive?
Sorry About The Murder
In the nice little Canadian town of Beavermount, Ontario, the frozen body of Scott 'Scotty' McDonald is found inside the town's Zamboni. Gaétan "Frenchie" Arsenault, the town's Zamboni driver, is the town's only Francophone. And so is instantly arrested for murder. Can Frenchie solve the murder and clear his good Québecois name? More importantly, can he solve it in time to prepare the ice for tonight's big hockey game??
Swords Against Madness
A Weird Fantasy Old-School Solo Role-Playing Game.
Actual Play Entertainment
Actual Play Entertainment (APE) is an independent RPG network that is dedicated to bringing you quality, well produced, actual play podcasts. Our games have a combination of being fun, tense, and exciting, with a dash of improvised humor that will make you laugh-out-loud. You might even cry! Who knows? Games in the works: Alien the RPG, Traveler 2nd Edition, Dungeons and Dragons 5E, and more Call of Cthulhu (Pulp and 7th edition).
Asunder
20 years after the American civil war, former slave Marcus Riggs is trapped in a British Harbor after the Invaders came to enslave all mankind. Now the invaders are gone, and new Orders clash as humanity rises from the ashes...but are the aliens gone for good? (Science Fiction/Alternate History Adventure).
Thora Silentblade - An audiobook
Fantasy audiobook of the adventures of Thora Silentblade. Original written content available at: https://jasonstcyr.com/tag/thora/
Starbusters
The adventures of Captain Zeppelin Caffrey & his crew as they travel across the galaxy aboard the Charlotte.
Comedians In Dungeons Getting Dragons
A D&D actual play podcast where a group of diverse comedians try to have fun and not die in a world that’s trying to kill them. It’s like real life but with potions and stuff.
Forgive Me Father
Forgive Me Father is a techo-surreal horror that takes place both in the virtual reality world of Bright City as well as the real world.
Finding Naborhi
One missing child. Two siblings. Three days. You're following John Adams - a devoted single father from a small town. No one has answers for John when Naborhi disappears, so it's up to him (and his sister Jess) to find out what happened to his daughter before it's too late. Finding Naborhi is an intimate, but surprisingly hilarious journey that’s full of heart; it’s a ride you don't want to miss.
Arcane Ninja RPG
Follow the adventures of three graduating Ninja from Claybelt Ninjitsu Academy, the largest in Canada, as the dice dictate just how successfully they face the challenges that are threatening the world. Actual Play Storytelling
Randy Darling
A dark audio dramedy. Join young Randy on his wild and comical adventures as an agoraphobic young musician. Multi-character voices, over multi-genre musical scores. Based on a true story. SYNOPSIS: Each episode starts with old Randy stepping into a coffee shop and being greeted by young June, the empathetic barista, who encourages him to dictate his stories in the back room. Randy introduces each story, then takes listeners on another dark and a comical journey back to his chaotic youth. June's family then edits Randy's dictation into a podcast episode. NSFW or kids.
Human-B-Gon
Excited about the AI Takeover? Lol at a future where emotionally unstable robots capture stray humans and ethically relocate them to Garbage Island.
Adam & The Alchemist
"Oh, dear!" Join Adam Callahan on a magical journey of family, hope, danger, self-discovery, friendship, and a magic book that starts it all.
ORSEIS AUDIO PRODUCTIONS
ORSEÏS AUDIO PRODUCTIONS - Theater of the Mind. Join actor/narrator Sam Rosenthal and author/podcaster Maverick Vardøger on a mind-bending journey through short-story audio dramas designed to tantalize the mind. Immerse yourself in original stories voiced by actors from around the world in the ORSEÏS experience.
ICE-CREAM
ICE-CREAM is a psychological thriller that follows 14 year old, Elgin Foster, who spends the summer of 1988 with his younger brother, Dustin at his newly divorced father's house in Arizona. Not long after arriving, he begins to witness children being abducted by the local ice-cream truck man. Nobody believes Elgin, not even the local police, which leads him to question if what he saw was real. The listener will follow along as Elgin and neighbor Olivia, do their own investigation to try and uncover who the ice-cream truck man really is and what he is doing to these missing children...
Firefly - All Better Worlds
Come and explore the 'Verse through the eyes of an entirely new crew, in a post-Signal/Miranda Revelation world... This is a real-play RPG podcast in the Firefly world, using Margaret Weiss' Cortex Plus System, following the events of the Serenity Movie.
Prompt To Life
A storytelling podcast prompted by you and written by 2x Audioverse winner Victoria Rogers.
Don't Scare The Kids
Don't Scare The Kids' is an audio drama show that takes place in Edmonton, Alberta: Where the diesel-pick up drivers are in love with the femmebois, and their wives. It's the secrets of the parents that need to be protected at all costs in order to protect themselves - and their children - from their own shame.
Lover's Moon
He's an alpha wolf and a beta boyfriend. She's dated every monster in New York City. It's time for their Meat-Cute. Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in New York, is learning to live with the side effects of lycanthropy. Other than waking up naked and bloody in Central Park once a month, he's managing just fine. If only he could finish the book he's supposed to be writing. If only he could find someone he trusted enough to tell the truth to. Gail Sommers may not have her love life in order, but at least she's smart about things that really matter. She runs the coolest occult shop in the city, and is a pre-eminent scholar of the occult. She's made a vow of celibacy so that she can spend this year focusing on her work and her self-care. She's even been hired to help out a very famous and very sexy horror author. As a new era in the Canadian Werewolf saga begins, Lover's Moon flashes back to the romantic and comedic story of how Michael and Gail met and fell in love back in the summer of 2011. Told through both Michael and Gail's unique perspectives, it also explores Gail's past, introduces new characters, and reveals some of the deeper secrets of both of their lives. A special Canadian Werewolf tale co-authored and read by Mark Leslie and Julie Strauss.
Tales of Bone and Ice
Tales of Bone and Ice is a Horror Comedy Actual Play DnD 5e podcast with players from LGBTQIA2S+ and neurodivergent backgrounds, as well as Canadian Aboriginal. Set in a world of our collaborative creation, our story takes place atop an ocean that has frozen over long before we rolled our first skill check, as the gods abandoned the world for reasons yet unknown. Enhancing our story is entirely original music composed specifically for this adventure to create a more immersive listening experience for the audience. Come along and enjoy our Tales of Bone and Ice.
SINKHOLE
SINKHOLE is a short-form audio fiction podcast presented as a collection of audio posts from a member of a community of data restoration hobbyists in a sometimes-unfamiliar future.
Kwantum
Inventorpreneur Fenton Kwan revolutionized nuclear energy by combining it with cutting-edge AI in one adorable package: the Kuju. But when Kwan and his company disappear without warning, society is left scrambling to keep the lights on. In Kwantum, Amateur tinkerer Ying and her loyal Puppycat Kuju, Luna, embark on a quest to repair the Kuju that keeps Ying’s ailing grandmother alive, but end up encountering a much bigger problem than a few busted bots.
Wilzerlott
A comedic fantasy series that considers itself a documentary. The magical kingdom of Wilzerlott existed one million years ago and its resident time traveler is here to tell you future cave people all about the dragons and curses of their time.
Welcome, Weary Traveler
Welcome, Weary Traveler is a story-telling podcast covering different stories from all over the world of Ilos and beyond! Our ongoing story right now is the tale of the Adventurers of Legend. The podcast takes a #DnD game and turns it into an #audiobook like adventure.
It Sees You When You're Sleeping!
It Sees You When You're Sleeping is a six-part holiday audio drama, for those who like a little horror in their holidays. It Sees You When You're Sleeping follows a Christmas-loving single dad who gives in to his daughter's request for a certain elf toy - you know the one - and finds himself face to face with an evil he could never have imagined.
Believe Me Now
a fictional podcast about a fictional family divided by fictional satanism
Darkstead
Located in deepest British Columbia, you wouldn't think a town like Darkstead existed. But it does...When a spiteful local woman disappears under mysterious circumstances, it’s up to a jaded vampire detective and his over-eager new recruit to find her.
If She Had Died
A fancast of Welcome To Night Vale that explores an alternate Night Vale where Mayor Dana Cardinal died during the events of the new Old Night Vale Opera House's opening in "70B - Review".
Sonic Cinema Productions
Previously from Electric Vicuna Productions,. collected in this podcast are two decades of audio drama productions and creations from Jack J. Ward including original works, series, fan-fiction, and remakes and reimaginings of audio drama.
Jack J. Ward is one of the stalwarts of the modern audio drama movement as he created and co-hosts The Sonic Society (the longest-running showcase of the medium), and is CEO of the Mutual Audio Network (the world's largest curated collection of modern audio drama and audio fiction in podcast form).
Rapture 518
Rapture 518 is a horror/psychological thriller Audiodrama produced in Canada. Dr. Sarah Penn is a resident physician, but she has not been at work for a few weeks. Part of this is because of an imperative need to move from her rental house. Part of this is not yet known. And part of this is because of the unpredictable outbreak that’s turned mild mannered pedestrians into flesh-eating sociopaths.
Hannahpocalypse
Hannahpocalypse is a comedy/horror audio drama that follows living dead girl Hannah; a zombie ‘living’ her best life long after the zombie apocalypse has come and gone.
October Jones & Fish with Legs
When a misguided teenage girl and a blindly optimistic fish with legs meet by chance, our mismatched besties must fumble their way to heroism to stop an evil two-headed snake trying to end the world. With the power of friendship, they persevere through wacky situations, whimsical new locations, and the oppression of the totalitarian human government. A chaotic good serial audio drama that flouts the forces of racist colonialism and makes critical yet hopeful commentary on the world we live in. Fun for adults, and kids!
Parkdale Haunt
Ever since Judith’s lifelong best friend, Claire Sterback, inherited a house from a biological family she never knew, things have begun to change. Claire has begun to change. It isn’t just that the house is full of cryptic notebooks, ominous scribblings on the wall, and a basement that is colder than it should be. It isn’t just that Claire abruptly up and left her live-in boyfriend and is now being stalked by a psychopathic realtor. Claire is… off. Claire is sleepwalking. Sometimes when Claire begins to speak, it isn’t her voice that comes out at all. Claire begins to obsess over a cult her biological family was a part of, The Family of Fire. As she gets closer to a secret at the heart of the old house in the Toronto neighborhood of Parkdale, she is also getting closer to losing herself. And after Claire goes missing, with the help of co-worker-turned-friend-Owen, Judith vies to track her down, even if it means diving into a history that may have been better left untouched. Even if it means dealing with spirits that really do not like her. Parkdale Haunt is about friendship and identity, trauma, cults, demons, and rituals, and, most frighteningly, the Toronto real estate market.
Retaking Elysium
Mars is good place to reinvent yourself, isn’t it? Jules Morales’s life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation—and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure? The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage by her own memories. On Mars she might finally find financial security, but will she also find something to care about today, and maybe even for the future? Mars is a world in transition, caught in the balance between capitalist exploitation and human exploration. The first people of Mars need to find a way to build a functioning economic zone and liveable habitat on the Red Planet. But could they do more—create a community, a true new home for humanity?
Stealing from Wizards
Living in secret and stealing to eat is a hard life, but it's all Kuro has ever known. Fear and necessity forged him into the finest young thief in the wizard kingdoms. Nobody can hide forever, though, and a run of poor luck lands Kuro in a place where his quick hands and quiet feet count for nothing: Avalon Academy, school of magic.
The Voyage of the White Cloud
Can home be a place you’ve never been, a place no one has ever been? The White Cloud is the most audacious experiment the human species has ever undertaken—to search for a new Earth. The ship and its crew exist for a solitary purpose—to reach a distant planet and establish a colony. However, the vast majority of people undertaking this journey will not live to see its result, nor were they part of the decision-making process to leave. A novel-in-stories, following the many generations who make the journey, The Voyage of the White Cloud asks how you can find meaning as a slave to destiny, a mere stepping-stone in history. These are the stories of the most ordinary people on a most extraordinary journey.
Cybernautica
This serial full cast audio drama takes place on the streets of the cyberpunk-deco 'City on the Sea', Neo-Atlantis and the trials of those who live there.
The Pact Audiobook Project
The Pact Audiobook is a free podcast reading of the web serial, Pact. By Wildbow, author of other works such as Worm and Twig, this story plunges into the depths of urban fantasy and pulls out the horrors hidden inside.
Susan's Wish
Join Susan Doe as she attempts to navigate the challenges of autism, high school, and starting over in a new city. While coping with these difficult issues, Susan's life is forever changed when a new friend introduces her to a secret world of fairies and magical girls. Susan’s Wish is a monthly audio drama produced and published by Bruce J. Belanger.
House of Bob
House of Bob is a pen and paper role playing game podcast featuring a number of different RPG systems and cycling players. We play one-shot adventures, and ongoing campaigns.
Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons: A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast
Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons is a Dumb-Dumbs & Dice podcast where improvisers who’ve never roleplayed before journey into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. The show is hosted by our dungeon master, Tom McGee (@mcgeetd), and our regular players: the sneaky Tyler Hewitt (@Tyler_Hewitt), the brilliant Laura Elizabeth (@elhamstring), and the flatulent Ryan LaPlante (@theryanlaplante). With special guest comedians joining us on our journey, follow our heroes as they begin their adventures!
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace Galaksi
An ongoing sci-fi satire that weaves its way through the annals of time and wormholes of space, with the participation of the editors at the Giant Book of Destiny and intrepid detective Ace Galaksi.
The Little Dragons
Once the People of the Land had an Agreement with the Dragons, negotiated by the Order of Dragon Priestesses through their Familiars, the Little Dragons. Everything changed, however, when the King’s People came. The Kings knew only the way of the sword. They carved the land into warring Realms and tried to kill off the Dragons, including their smaller cousins. They saw the Priestesses dedicated to the Dragons’ care as evil and murdered them as well. Angry and hungry, the Dragons struck back. Now both peoples live their lives at night, by the light of lanterns and torches. In the daytime, they must shut themselves and their livestock into their homes, be it a tiny cabin in the wilderness of the Northlands or a Castle in the midst of one of the King’s capital cities. Both peoples search for a solution in their own way. The Healing Order, which barely survived the Kings’ conquest and the terror of the Dragons, investigates the old rumours claiming that the Healers who sheltered fleeing Dragon Priestesses recorded their secrets. A young generation of Princes, armed with new weapons, wants their turn to make war upon the Dragons. An aging King schemes to consolidate his power while struggling with his secret fear that warring with the Dragons is just a way to give them a feast of dead soldiers. Meanwhile his Queen sends their daughter to an elderly Healer, sure the girl is pregnant despite her insistence that she has never lain with a man. A young woman who desperately wants to apprentice as a Healer is forced to become her Teacher’s servant. A newly dedicated Healer worries about who will care for his beloved elderly Teacher when his Apprenticeship ends, and a pair of young servants in the Women’s Retreat House follow their contrasting dreams. The fates of these very different people entwine in surprising ways as, one after another, they are drawn into the search for the Little Dragons.
GalaxyBillies
When a semi-sentient starship's crew dies, it must find a new one in a hurry. Earth is the closest planet with sentient life and the ship, which is rapidly losing its intelligence, picks five humans as the new crew. Unfortunately, the five humans come from the Appalachian Mountains and while they are sentient, there's no guarantee that they're intelligent. What affect will these humans have on an unsuspecting galaxy?
Andersson Dexter Investigations
In a queer-normative future that isn’t all rainbows and sparkles, the justice you receive depends on your job – assuming you can get it at all. Enter vigilante detective Andersson Dexter, whose beat covers both the physical world and the online universe Marionette City. Helping people who have nowhere else to turn, he’s making the worlds better one client at a time, but is it enough? The Andersson Dexter Investigations is a four-book cyberpunk detective series by Nebula Award finalist M. Darusha Wehm.
Marvellous Hairy - a novel in five fractals -
So hair is sprouting in unspeakable places and you can no longer carry a tune, but if you’re a surrealistic artiste with an addiction to Freudian mythology and guilt-free sex, turning into a monkey has its upsides. Nick Motbot may be evolving as a novelist, but his friends aren’t too sure about his DNA — at least, not since Gargantuan Enterprises started experimenting with it. And once they figure out what’s happening to him, they decide to set things right. MARVELLOUS HAIRY is a satirical novel about a group of friends sticking it to the man the only way they know how, with equal parts grain alcohol and applied Chaos Theory. Part literary fun-ride, part fabulist satire, and part slapstick comedy, MARVELLOUS HAIRY is about the power of friendship and love, the evils of power, and the dangers of letting corrupt CEOs run our world. And most importantly, it’s about how we have to release our fun-loving inner monkeys.
The Onion Files
In this podiobook: Former NATO intelligence chief writes cyberterrorism spy thriller -- Major General Val Pattee's novel lauded as compelling and a "tutorial for homeland security personnel". Suppose al-Qaeda had a second, potentially more devastating attack planned in 2001. How would it be thwarted? "The Onion Files" is a spy thriller differing from all previous novels in one very important aspect: author Val Pattee was one of the Western world's top spy masters. Serving as chief of intelligence for NATO in Europe during periods of Cold War-era terrorism, he worked with the heads of intelligence for sixteen member nations, and conferred with his Soviet and Red Chinese counterparts.Although "The Onion Files" is fiction, Pattee infuses the action with a realism of people and places only an insider could deliver. The title refers to an ingenious and diabolical plot by al‑Qaeda to devastate vast areas of the United States soon after the 9/11 attacks. Pattee introduces readers to protagonists Jim and Mark Buchan, who work with the US Central Intelligence Agency and Russian counter-terrorism units in a fast-paced hunt across three continents to halt a computer virus and its brilliant creator.
Beautiful Red
The future is boring. Technology has solved the world's most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn't. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer's computer system has been invaded.Jack enlists the help of her only friends - her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she's never met - to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude.Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness.
Creative Audioscape Productions
Creative Audioscape present Star Wars: In the Shadows, its first original audio drama production written, directed and produced by Dany Pepin.
The Best Laid Plans
Welcome to the podcast version of The Best Laid Plans, the winner of the 2008 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. It's a satirical novel of Canadian politics, written and podcast by Terry Fallis. It recounts the unlikely and eventful alliance between a 30-something burnt out, jaded political staffer, and an older, cantankerous, engineering professor. Driven by a federal election and the life of the resulting minority conservative government, the novel moves between Ottawa, the national capital, and the small town of Cumberland, Ontario on the shores of the Ottawa River. While the characters and their exploits are often comical, serious ideas on politics and democracy underlie the fun.
Prelude To A Scream Podcast
A podcast by author Mark Leslie featuring samples of his writing along with "behind the writing" notes.