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Tales of What

Tales of What!? - is a collection of bizarre and wonderful audio fiction, and Sci-Fi stories created by Luke Condor from the Hawk and Cleaver team.

Fiction from the weird side. The Twilight Zone meets Adult Swim. The Outer Limits directed by David Lynch.Franz Kafka doing Creepshow. Welcome… to the Tales of What!?

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Miscreation

Each episode of Miscreation brings a scary new tale, performed by a talented team of actors at Acast’s studio.

So sit back and witness Hawk and Cleavers Miscreation.

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Horror Hangout

Join horror movie fanatics Ben Errington and Andy Conduit-Turner every Wednesday as they cover new releases, cult classics, flops and underrated gems. With horror news, discussions about what they’ve been watching and trivia / games to go on top of thorough reviews (with spoilers) before grading each film from A – F.

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After the Gloaming

After the Gloaming is a anthology audio drama podcast with gothic and supernatural tales. Produced by Dissonance media and The Other Stories featuring talented writers around the world.

In the soft glow of dusk, in the moment before night falls, stories exist. Gothic tales of the macabre, where the supernatural calls home, and the shadows dance. Hold tight and don’t let go, for lost you …

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Plant Murder

Plant Murder is a podcast that unearths the deadly intersection of plants and true crime and is made by the same brilliant creator behind the Selene podcast.     Did a Roman Emperor really die from a tiny mushroom? Why did the Victorians invent a deadly pear?  Who in the Borgias brandished Belladonna and which man-eating plants are only a myth? 

Each episode delves into the dark history behind …

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Soul Operator

Soul Operator is Actual Play blended with Narrative Story telling where solo TTRPGs are adapted into brilliant Audio Dramas covering multiple genres across multiple seasons.

Each bite-sized episode is perfect to keep you company on your commute and are created with a diverse cast and crew at the helm with an equally diverse cast of characters.

Follow Tessa Whitlock as she navigates these new and …

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The Gentleman from Hell

An entire town… gone. Without a trace. No signs, no warnings. Just silence. This is the story of Cold Sparrow.

Twenty-four years ago, the peaceful town of Cold Sparrow became the center of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in modern history. Every resident vanished. Among them, the enigmatic billionaire Benjamin Veers, whose strange ways made him an icon of intrigue. The town, once …

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Remnants

Remnants is a weekly, thrilling, dark fantasy, audio drama filled with mystery from Eira Major the same brilliant creator behind the Spirit Box Radio and Not Quite Dead

When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place. Our fate is decided by Sir and his new Apprentice, who read our remnants to determine whether they should be re-shelved or discarded. But what are the criteria? …

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The Grotto

The Grotto is a liminal horror podcast with original music and a full cast that explores the thin line between grief, pain, mourning, and loss. 

Follow Matt who turns to spelunking for solace. As Matt battles grief, he questions if the caves are playing tricks or if something else lurks within

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We're Alive: Scout's Honor

We’re Alive: Scout’s Honor is the latest stand-alone instalment of zombie-filled horror, from the multi-award winning team behind We’re Alive that so far covers over 15 Years and 7 seasons of terrifying content. Scout’s Honor is Lord of the Flies meets zombies.

Follow a small group of Venture Scouts stranded on Catalina Island as they confront the “Infected”, testing their mettle and the strength …

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Neon Inkwell

This innovative compilation series features short-form podcasts from a variety of creators. This project aims to highlight new and underrepresented creators and showcase a few from recognised Rusty Quill favourites.

Whether it’s a post-apocalyptic space thriller or a quirky monster road trip, Neon Inkwell listeners will always have something new to discover.

Neon Inkwell launches with Of That …

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Hi Nay

Hi Nay is a supernatural horror fiction podcast with a Filipina protagonist and Filipino supernatural elements. It has multiple BIPOC LGBTQ+ characters, and primarily takes place in Toronto     Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, follows Mari, a Filipina immigrant who lives in Toronto. 

Mari first gets roped into Toronto’s supernatural crises after saving Laura from being killed. From then …

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Planet Arcana

Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction, presented by two game runners, and built through a D&D 5e framework. The show will appeal to fans of actual play and audio drama alike.

The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue and crime and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotheque casino? Who’s been stealing Android organs? And why?

4000 years …

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Clockwork Bird

Clockwork Bird is a sci-fi, horror audio drama about humans, hubris, and humanity. 

Follow Shelly Croft, who’s been drafted in to sort the case notes for bringing U-Co to trail for medical malpractice, only she is certain their crimes run much deeper. Under the watchful, but unseeing, eye of Dectective Inspector Dave Hughes, Shelly decides she must be the one to bring the truth of the horrors …

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Selene

Selene is an immersive supernatural, mystery and horror audiodrama.

Listen in and explore a strange city lying alone. A city filled with supernatural mysteries and horrors, shrouded in a dark emerald haze. Inspired by the art of the early twentieth century, the city of Selene is in transition: between gaslights and lightbulbs, carriages and motor cars.

Selene is a city of great change, where …

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The Lovely Dark

The Lovely Dark is a fiction podcast about how darkness in our lives may reveal a path to love and light.

Each of these short audio plays is written by an award-winning writer and performed by a cast of remarkable actors, including Oscar winners and members of New York City’s Labyrinth Theater Company. Each episode is produced with a full cast, a beautiful immersive soundscape and an original …

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Not Quite Dead

Not Quite Dead is a Gory, Horror, Romance podcast from the Award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio.

Follow Alfie a nurse working overtime on the night shift in A&E when a patient comes in with her throat torn out. The girl on the gurney is the first of many, baffling staff and horrifying the public.

Eventually, Alfie almost becomes another victim of the walking, rotting dead things which …

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Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later

Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later takes place two years after Julius Caesar failed to beware the Ides of March and got stabbed to death by a band of well-wishers. Now the assassins have been rounded up and slaughtered in battle, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. But who’s in charge now?

With things on the verge of absolute collapse, the cool and calculating Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, has …

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Westside Fairytales

The Westside Fairytales is as an award winning, horror and dark-fiction storytelling podcast with stories spanning multiple genres, subjects, and locales that all take place in the same universe.  

Demons, desperate souls, and eldritch horrors. Strange and varied original stories that will linger long after you’ve finished listening.  

The Westside Fairytales is long-running and lore-dense, but …

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Spirit Box Radio

Spirit Box Radio is an award winning, horror audio drama podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane.

Follow Sam Enfield a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, who finds themselves forced to take over running the show, following the disappearance of the previous host.

Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a …

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Deviser

Deviser is a new dark horror, science fiction audiodrama from the creator of Malevolent, Harlan Guthrie. 

In this series 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.

The entire podcast is available to listen to now.

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Problemagicians

Problemagicians is a Patreon-exclusive spin-off of Rusty Quill Gaming featuring the return of fan-favourite characters, Azu and Cel.

The year is 18-*mumblesomething*. After the events at London’s Elizabeth Tower, the world may have been saved but something has changed. In this strange new world, there are a lot of brand-new problems, but ‘Azu and Cel: Problemagicians!’ are here to help. (Well, …

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Compulsory Film Appreciation

Compulsory Film Appreciation is a Patreon-exclusive spin-off of Stellar Firma, featuring the return of fan-favourite characters Hartro Piltz and I.M.O.G.E.N.

After some mysterious boxes are found, it is decided that Hartro needs a hobby and that that hobby should be film appreciation. Hartro may not know what a film is, but she’s ready to find out – and to have facilitated post-film discussions …

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Circe Podcast

Circè is a science-fiction/fantasy podcast from the team behind Ostium.

This adventure story follows Thyrá, a sorceress, from the planet Albion.

Thyrá has lost her ability to do magic. In an attempt to regain her abilities, she tells the story of her life, and how she learned to become known as one of the Circè.

This is the story of the highs and lows of her life, the tragedies and the …

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Maeltopia

Maeltopia: A New World of Horror Fiction is a diverse collection of original horror and dark fiction featuring interconnected long-form serials, spanning subgenres from dark fantasy and dark sci-fi to weird fiction and more, all set within the ever-expanding literary universe of Maeltopia 

Maeltopia explores an alternate modern-day world in the aftermath of the Great Darkness of 1999 —a year-long …

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The Magnus Protocol

The Magnus Archives 2: The Magnus Protocol is the prequel/sequel/”sidequel” to the internationally renowned Magnus Archives podcast.

The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level …

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The Cellar Letters

After a series of traumatic events, including losing his job, Nate and his dog Bella move across country to the East Coast. Nate documents the whole process, as he seeks to try something new and have a fresh start.

The new house appears perfect: huge, loads of room, a yard for Bella to run in… and the rent is unbelievably low. But there’s something not quite right. The house feels… off. Knocking …

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Wake Of Corrosion

Wake Of Corrosion is a UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden, apocalyptic world. Follow the story of two brothers as they try to survive in a world that changed, forever, overnight.

In Wake of Corrosion, an unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavours to find …

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The Diary Of Aliza Schultz

The Diary of Aliza Schultz is a mind-bending audio fiction from Dylan Griggs, the creator of WOE.BEGONE.

Aliza Schultz is the perfect reader of Rafael Muslani, famed author of shallow airport paperback novels. Not only has she read all of his work, she is the foremost scholar on the subject. Aliza Schultz travels a surreal landscape, recounting Rafael Muslani novels and experiencing a bizarre …

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Ain’t Slayed Nobody

Ain’t Slayed Nobody is a multi-award-winning actual play podcast set in the American Old West. The production blends tabletop roleplaying and audio drama with fast pacing and immersive sound design. We play a tabletop RPG, but you don’t need to know the rules at all to join the posse, just saddle up and soak it all in. Wander into the haunted deserts of Texas to find femurs that turn to mist and …

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Tiny Terrors

Tiny Terrors is a new, found-footage horror anthology podcast, written and created by Cole Weavers, the award-winning creator that bought you The Town Whispers. Tiny Terrors is a nostalgic, spine-chilling adventure, exploring forgotten message boards, and the pre-internet recordings made by members of “The Tiny Terrors Podcast Exchange”. 

Join Cole and his friends as they aim to terrify you and …

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Dice Shame

Dice Shame is a fantasy and comedy actual play podcast and loose play through of Wizards of The Coast’s Storm King’s Thunder D&D campaign. Dice Shame focuses on intense and heartfelt character moments, player and NPC growth, and a great balance of meta comedy and in-character laughter and love. Expect All the shocks, the twists, the turns and the moments where you just had to be there of your …

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Trice Forgotten

Trice Forgotten is a found-family, pirating adventure. Alestes puts her head down working as a merchant, couriering deliveries and carrying travelers to destinations across the seas. Only, her travelers gradually become permanent crewmates, until she realises her ship has become a floating museum, laboratory, vault of repatriated ‘treasures’ and chef’s kitchen.

After spending most of her life with …

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The Sleep Wake Cycle

The Sleep/Wake Cycle is an audio drama podcast blending supernatural horror with noir and dark Fantasy.

Born during the Night Plague of 1983, the Stroud twins have been reunited after a lifetime apart, their way forward lit by dimmest foxfire.

Forced into the service of secrets older than stone, they do the cold work of their unseen masters, a faceless cabal swelling deep within the guts of the …

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The Program audio series

The Program audio series is a fiction podcast anthology with dark sci-fi, noir and cyberpunk elements. The Program Podcast is set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a self-contained story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is …

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Ostium Podcast

Ostium is an Adventure, sci-fi , fantasy audio drama podcast set in the mysterious and thrilling town of Ostium. Follows Jake Fisher who discovers a secret and abandoned town hidden in the far reaches of Northern California. Jake notices something: while there is no one around, there are many, many doors. When he eventually gets inside Ostium he learns that every door has a specific number. None …

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Malevolent

Malevolent is an eldritch Horror, mystery, thriller, eldritch, Call of Cthulhu podcast with choose your own adventure, Actual Play and Augmented Reality Game “ARG” elements. Malevolent follows Arkham P.I Arthur Lester who wakes up blind, terrified and confused with no memory of who he is and what has happened, only a nameless, eerie, voice guiding him through the darkness.

You can play along with …

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WOE.BEGONE

WOE.BEGONE is mystery/sci-fi/horror audiodrama about Mike Walters, a man who discovers a mysterious and violent online game.

What begins as an investigation into the game and who might be running it quickly spirals into a pursuit of the technology that makes the game possible. As Mike discovers more about the fabric of his reality, he learns how malleable it truly is and how precarious his …

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The Hyacinth Disaster

The Hyacinth Disaster is a Sci-fi found footage podcast which follows the events of the Hyacinth Disaster. The worst and most cataclysmic disaster of 2151 AD. In the future of the Hyacinth Disaster Mars and Jupiter have been colonised and between them lays 150 million resource-rich asteroids populate and many more orbit Jupiters vast Lagrange regions.

A dozen supercorporations compete beyond the …

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Chapter and Multiverse

Chapter and Multiverse is a brand-new actual play podcast, using multiple game systems of different genres to explore the city of Chapter. Every new campaign is set in the same city, but in a different alternate universe. ​

One season, Chapter may be a medieval fantasy town complete with monarchs, magic and monsters, but another season, it may be a gritty futuristic metropolis where corporations …

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Old Gods of Appalachia

In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollers and just as dark. Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath them. These are the darkest mountains in the world. How dare we think we can break the skin of a god and dig out its heart without bringing forth blood and darkness?

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Enthusigasm

Welcome to Enthusigasm, something a bit different from Rusty Quill! Every episode is a new, often nerdy topic, from Lord of the Rights or Hannibal to Pets or Space. Guests from across podcasting and new media share their academic expertise, casual knowledge or half-remembered facts on their favourite topics, bringing varied viewpoints, insightful deep dives, laughter and always enthusiasm. …

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I Am In Eskew

I Am In Eskew is a single narrator horror fantasy audio drama. Eskew is a city of steep and winding streets, where the rain seemingly never stops and the buildings change at will. David, the narrator, is from our world, but has found himself trapped in this living, murderous city, unable to find his way home. With escape impossible, David documents his bizarre, often mind-bending experiences in a …

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We’re Alive

We’re Alive is a pioneering podcast, a decade in the making. This story of survival follows a small group of people trying to survive the end of the world. A day like no other quickly becomes deadly, as people start turning on each other (and turning into something else… something no longer human). Michael, a soldier, has to act quickly, saving as many people as he can and creating a shelter in a …

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The Town Whispers

The Town Whispers is a weekly folk horror anthology podcast. The Town Whispers is a narrative Horror podcast set in a town named forte where eldritch terrors and folk horror meet. Humble, kind, tiny and terrible, Fort sits nestled in the curves and the swirls of fog that climbs through thick woods and jagged, monstrous hills. What stories are hidden there, in the rain and the trees and the fog? …

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The Milkman of St. Gaff’s

The Milkman of St. Gaff’s is a bi-weekly horror fiction podcast. Earnest and naïve Howie arrives on the island of St Gaff’s to escape the war on the mainland (and perhaps something else as well). But, as he settles into the quaint, fantastical fishing community and finds a job in this small town, he soon realises that St Gaff’s has a foreboding secret. Why is the island’s only telephone in the …

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Cryptids

Cryptids is a compelling supernatural mystery and science fiction audio drama podcast.

It follows Eve, a paediatric hospice nurse, and Trevor, a late-night conspiracy radio show host. Eve listens to Trevor’s radio show during the long, late nights she spends working. She’s a true believer, but believing isn’t enough – Eve wants to prove that the conspiracies she believes are real. Drawn together …

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Inexplicables

Inexplicables is a six-part supernatural dark comedy audio drama, exclusive to our Patreon subscribers!

Following their mother’s death, thirty-something disasters Harold and Meredith return to their hometown of Gravesby in the North of England for the funeral. There they must also contend with the ICS, their late mother’s social care business. But the ICS and its clients are a lot stranger than …

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The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join new head archivist Jonathan Sims as he attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of supernatural statements up to date, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work …

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Stellar Firma

Stellar Firma is a weekly Science Fiction, Comedy podcast following the misadventures of Stellar Firma Ltd.’s highest born but lowest achieving planetary designer Trexel Geistman and his bewildered clone assistant David 7. Join them each episode as they attempt to take listener submissions and craft them into the galaxy’s most luxurious, most expensive and most questionably designed bespoke …

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Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast

The Rusty Quill Gaming podcast is an actual play podcast following a mixed ability group of comedians, improvisers, gamers, and writers as they play through the extended, tabletop roleplaying campaign Erasing the Line, an original game world of the GM’s crafting.

Using the Pathfinder gaming system, the party comprising Zolf (dwarf cleric), Cel (half-elf alchemist), Hamid (halfling sorcerer) and …

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Outliers

Historic Royal Palaces, in association with Rusty Quill, presents Outliers – a historic fiction podcast exploring how big events filter down and are viewed and shaped by the people in the shadows. Themes of otherness, change, gender and the meaning of power are explored through the eyes of characters who have not traditionally held the historic limelight. Enjoy a anthology of stories from …

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The Silt Verses

The Silt Verses is a full-cast audio drama that lurks in the grey area between horror and contemporary fantasy. Carpenter and Faulkner, worshippers of an outlawed god, are travelling up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations amongst the reeds and the wetlands. In these forgotten rural territories, new and strange gods of have flourished and Carpenter and …

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NPC: New Player Challenges

NPC: New Player Challenges is our brand-new Let’s Play gaming series on the Rusty Quill Video YouTube channel. Join Mike LeBeau, Rhys Tirado, and Serina Johnston as they compete against each other to complete a challenge set by the producers like “Complete this level within 5 minutes”, “Find the rarest collectable in the game” or “Find the most creative way to murder a Sim”. ​

But challenges are …