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A horror podcast is a podcast that covers fiction, non-fiction, or reviews of the horror genre generally.
History
[edit]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
[edit]Horror fiction is the most popular type of audio drama podcast and drives much of the growth and interest in the medium.[citation needed] 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 signed with major talent agency WME.[6] We're Alive achieved 200 million lifetime downloads as of 10 April 2020.
Amongst responses to the 2020 Audio Verse Awards, horror was the second-favourite genre of fiction podcast. With notable podcasts The White Vault receiving 14 awards, The Magnus Archives receiving 9 awards, and Old Gods of Appalachia receiving 6.[7]
Notable examples
[edit]- Alice Isn't Dead
- The Black Tapes
- The Call of the Void
- Lore
- The Lovecraft Investigations
- The Magnus Archives
- The NoSleep Podcast
- Old Gods of Appalachia
- Pseudopod
- Rabbits
- Tanis
- Welcome to Night Vale
- We're Alive
- The White Vault
- Malevolent
See also
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- Horror fiction
- Horror film
- Psychological horror
- List of horror fiction writers
- List of horror podcasts
References
[edit]- ^ "Inside the Insomnia-Inducing World of Horror Podcasting". WIRED. Condé Nast. 20 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ Locke, Charley (24 August 2016). "Fiction Podcasts Are Finally a Thing! Thank You, Sci-Fi and Horror". WIRED. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Without Your Head".
- ^ "2013 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "2014 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. 2014. Archived from the original on 30 April 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Rusty Quill signs with WME". Podcast Radio. 23 July 2020. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "2020 Winners". The Audio Verse Awards. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Hancock, Danielle (1 October 2016). "Welcome to Welcome to Night Vale: First steps in exploring the horror podcast". Horror Studies. 7 (2): 219–234. doi:10.1386/host.7.2.219_1.
- Hancock, Danielle; McMurtry, Leslie (1 August 2017). "'Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories': contemporary audio media and podcast horror's new frights". Palgrave Communications. 3: 17075. doi:10.1057/palcomms.2017.75.
External links
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- Discussion panel on horror podcasting, recorded at PodUK 2020
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