Horror podcast

Horror is a genre of podcasts covering fiction, non-fiction, and reviews of the horror genre generally.

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History

Horror podcasts are typically created and run by volunteers in their free time.[1] As some podcasts such as Archive 81 and The Deep Vault have grown they have been able to attract advertisers.[2] The world's longest running, active horror podcast is WithoutYourHead.com which has been going since August, 2006 as a semi-regular weekly series with celebrity interviews.[3] Horror podcasts have featured in the Parsec Awards, and in 2013 The NoSleep Podcast won the award for "Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team" while in 2014 a story from Pseudopod won the award for "Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form)" and We're Alive won "Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form)".[4][5]

Reception

Horror Fiction is the most popular type of audio drama podcast and drives much of the growth and interest in the medium. Horror Fiction podcasting continues to grow rapidly attracting mainstream success with some shows reaching very large audiences. As of July 2020, popular podcast The Magnus Archives recently achieved 4 million monthly downloads and piqued the interest of major talent agency WME.[6] We're Alive achieved 200 million lifetime downloads as of April 10th 2020.

Notable examples

Notable podcasts include Alice Isn't Dead, Archive 81, The Black Tapes, The Deep Vault, Knifepoint Horror, Last Podcast on the Left, Lore, The Magnus Archives,[7] The NoSleep Podcast, Pseudopod, Rabbits, Small Town Horror, Tales to Terrify, Tanis, Uncanny County, Welcome to Night Vale, We're Alive, and The White Vault.[1][2][8][9][10]

See also

References
  1. "Inside the Insomnia-Inducing World of Horror Podcasting". WIRED. Condé Nast. February 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 29, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  2. Locke, Charley (August 24, 2016). "Fiction Podcasts Are Finally a Thing! Thank You, Sci-Fi and Horror". WIRED. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  3. http://withoutyourhead.com/viewnews.php?viewcat=1&view=grid&page=17
  4. "2013 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. September 3, 2013. Archived from the original on September 18, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. "2014 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. 2014. Archived from the original on April 30, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  6. "Rusty Quill signs with WME". Podcast Radio. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  7. Cagle, Tess (August 30, 2019). "Horror Podcasts That Will Leave You Scared to Turn off the Lights". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  8. Collins, Michael J. (October 30, 2016). "Pod People: Brave New Worlds of Digital Audio Drama". Alluvium. 5 (4). doi:10.7766/alluvium.v5.4.01. eISSN 2050-1560. Archived from the original on June 2, 2018.
  9. McLean, Matthew (October 25, 2016). "Halloween Horror Podcasts of 2016". The Podcast Host. Archived from the original on December 29, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  10. Bottomley, Andrew J. (July 3, 2015). "Podcasting, Welcome to Night Vale, and the Revival of Radio Drama". Journal of Radio & Audio Media. 22 (2): 179–189. doi:10.1080/19376529.2015.1083370. S2CID 146682285. Archived from the original on March 17, 2020 – via Taylor and Francis Online.

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