The RQ Network
The RQ Network is a podcasting network created by podcasters for podcasters. It hosts the very best in audio drama podcasting and beyond, with a focus on showcasing the highest quality, engaging and ingenious shows to Rusty Quill fans. The RQ Network offers its members distribution and promotion opportunities, taking Rusty Quill’s decade of experience and using it to improve the marketing and monetisation of shows and championing the most exciting independent podcast creators. In 2024, the RQ Network was awarded Best Network or Publisher: Bronze in the prestigious Audio Production Awards 2024.
After the Gloaming
After the Gloaming is an anthology audio drama podcast with gothic and supernatural tales. Produced by Dissonance Media and The Other Stories, it features talented writers from 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 may become, after the gloaming.
Find out more on rustyquill.comAin’t Slayed Nobody
Ain’t Slayed Nobody is a multi-award-winning podcast, that brings immersive tabletop roleplaying games to your feed! Featuring short campaigns and one-shots using Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and other systems. You’ll find something you love amongst their experimental blend of narrative and actual play series with horrifying, humorous, and dramatic stories.
Find out more on rustyquill.comCirce Podcast
Discover Albion
Circè is a science-fiction/fantasy podcast from the team behind Ostium.
Follow Thyrá, a sorceress, from the planet Albion who has lost her ability to do magic.
In an attempt to regain her abilities, she tells the story of her life, and how she became known as one of the Circè.
Clockwork Bird
Or the Modern Icarus
Clockwork Bird is a sci-fi, horror audio drama about humans, hubris, and humanity.
Piece together the mystery around the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs.
Follow Shelly Croft as they organise recordings from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on a synthetic limbs project that uncovers more than just scientific breakthroughs.
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Eyes to the Skies.
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 by their shared beliefs, the pair go in search of the answer to an unanswerable question: what happens after we die?
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Deviser is a dark horror, science fiction audiodrama from the creator of Malevolent, Harlan Guthrie.
In this series, Son wakes up aboard a spaceship destined to recolonize the Earth. What he discovers, however, will change everything he knows about his world and himself.
The completed show is available to listen to now.
Find out more on rustyquill.comDice Shame
“Bad Dice, Pay The Price”
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, twists, turns and moments where you “just had to be there” of your best game of Dungeons & Dragons.
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Hi Nay, which literally translates to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror fiction podcast following Mari, a Filipina immigrant who lives in Toronto. It has multiple BIPOC LGBTQ+ characters and features Filipino supernatural elements. This exciting audio drama is filled with mystery, suspense, and most importantly, horror.
Find out more on rustyquill.comHorror Hangout
A Podcast Where Film Fans Watch The Best & Worst Horror Movies EVER!
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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The architecture is everchanging, the streets are winding, and the rain never stops.
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 series of endless recordings, hoping that someone – anyone – will hear them.
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A New World of Horror Fiction
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. From the same team behind both The Sleep Wake Cycle and The Gentleman From Hell.
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Malevolent is an eldritch horror, mystery, and thriller 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, with only a nameless, eerie, voice guiding him through the darkness.
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An Anthology of Audio-Drama Horror
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.
Not Quite Dead
Live. Laugh. Bite.
Not Quite Dead is a gory, horror, romance podcast from the award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio.
Follow Alfie, an A&E nurse who deals with horror every day, but almost being killed by a walking corpse and being saved by a vampire takes things a bit far, even for him. The vampire is Casper, who is hundreds of years old and hell-bent on discovering what’s causing walking corpses to wander the streets.
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In the shadows of this Alternate Appalachia, digging too deep into the mines was just the first mistake.
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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Some doors should not be opened
Ostium is an adventure, sci-fi, fantasy audio drama podcast set in the mysterious and thrilling town of Ostium.
Follow Jake Fisher as he explores Ostium, a secret town with many doors, and begins a journey that will take him far away from his normal life, through many more doors leading to different places in time and space…
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Planet Arcana is a tightly edited, tarot-flavored, retrofuturistic D&D podcast. A homebrewed cup of 5e, served by two DMs. Dungeon Masters J and B are accompanied by good friends Skye, Peter, and Shaun as they work their way through a seedy world of Androids and Humans. New episodes every other Wednesday.
Find out more on rustyquill.comPlant Murder
A History Podcast About Deadly Plants
Plant Murder is a podcast that unearths the deadly intersection of plants and true crime. 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 fascinating plants, their fatal impact on infamous figures, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding their use. Discover the sinister side of nature’s flora. Hosted by Aaron J. Reardon, dig into the stories of poisonous plants and the fatal roles they’ve played in shaping human history.
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With every week, a new mystery. With every new mystery, a terrible choice.
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? What happens to discarded souls? How are new lives for the re-shelved determined? And why, after untold stretches of existence, has Sir decided that he needs help to do it?
Find out more on rustyquill.comSelene
A Strange City Lying Alone.
Step into Selene, a city cloaked in darkness and teeming with horrors – from evil headmistresses to murderous marionettes, black worm parasites, haunted hotels, and eerie sleepwalkers. Meet the Paranormal Investigators of Needle Street, newly arrived to battle the encroaching malevolence. Immersive audio brings the city to life, blending dark humour with bone-chilling suspense. Join the investigators as they navigate Selene’s shadows, where mystery and intrigue await at every turn.
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Soul Operator is an actual play blended with narrative storytelling 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 interesting worlds, for better or for worse.
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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 themself forced to take over running the show. Sam is soon amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself.
Find out more on rustyquill.comTales of What
A Bizarro Fiction Thing
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!?
The Cellar Letters
The Cellar Letters is a bi-weekly, found footage, horror audio drama series. Follow Nate and his dog Bella as they move into their new house which 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 noises in the nighttime, and a locked room in the basement, filled with letters about strange occurrences and ghostly figures.
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Explore the bizarre catalogue of Rafael Muslani
The Diary of Aliza Schultz is a mind-bending audio fiction from Dylan Griggs, the creator of WOE.BEGONE.
Follow Aliza Schultz as she travels a surreal landscape, recounting Rafael Muslani novels and experiencing a bizarre relationship to the world around her along the way, often accompanied by Muslani’s cat Lucy, the largest cat in the world. Her travels bring her to strange locations, cause her to have symbolic dreams, and lead her to discovering even more of Rafael Muslani’s increasingly bizarre catalogue.
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This is the story of Cold Sparrow
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. For over two decades, investigators have been left baffled—cults, kidnappings, disappearances—none have led them closer to the truth
Some mysteries, once uncovered, may be better left untouched. Cold Sparrow: A town that disappeared… but something still lingers in the shadows.
The investigation begins… now.
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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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Out here, life is harsh and lives are cheap. If one or two vessels fall victim to relentless corporate rivalry, what is that to the company?
The Hyacinth Disaster is a science fiction 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 lies 150 million resource-rich asteroids, with more orbiting Jupiter’s vast Lagrange regions. All of this sets the scene which leads to The Hyacinth Disaster.
Find out more on rustyquill.comThe Lovely Dark
Welcome, Friends, to 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 score.
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Being a Milkman on St Gaff’s is more than just a job: it’s a vocation steeped in dark secrets.
The Milkman of St. Gaff’s is a bi-weekly horror fiction podcast.
Follow Howie as he arrives on the island of St Gaff’s to escape the war on the mainland and start his new job. But being a Milkman on St Gaff’s is more than just a job: it’s a vocation, one that goes beyond the delivery of dairy. They’re investigating the things that lurk underground: the things that have haunted Howie since he was a child living on the mainland.
Find out more on rustyquill.comThe Other Stories
Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories
The Other Stories is an award-winning weekly Audio Fiction podcast featuring incredible stories across multiple genres including Horror, Thrillers and Sci-Fi.
Created by the talented team at Hawk and Cleaver, The Other Stories has more than 600 episodes, spread across a range of mini-series and individual episodes meaning they have stories for everyone.
The Program audio series
It is not the Program they find terrifying it is our present
The Program Audio Series is a fiction podcast anthology with dark sci-fi, noir and cyberpunk elements. The Program 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 our present.
Find out more on rustyquill.comThe Proof Is In The Podcast: A WOE.BEGONE Recap Show
The Proof Is In The Podcast: A WOE.BEGONE Recap Show is a show for anyone that feels lost or confused listening to WOE.BEGONE and is looking for a quick way to recap what is going on and how it all fits together. Every episode Dylan Griggs, the creator, will be joined by two guests whose voices you will recognize to talk about an entire season of the original show.
Find out more on rustyquill.comThe Silt Verses
A dark road trip into the depths of unusual faith, ritual and sacrifice.
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 Faulker must navigate this world of ritual, hidden language, and sacrifice. As they find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, the question remains: just how deep does their faith run?
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Waking is no cure for dreaming.
The Sleep/Wake Cycle is an audio drama podcast blending supernatural horror with noir and dark Fantasy from the creators of The Gentleman From Hell and Maeltopia..
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 risen government.
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What stories are hidden, in the rain and the trees and the fog of a quaint little town called Fort.
The Town Whispers is a weekly folk horror, narrative 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? Each week, chapter by chapter, something unravels, revealing the sinister workings of a mysterious cohort of entities called the Long Shadows, and their grip over the town.
Find out more on rustyquill.comTiny Terrors
Tiny Terrors is a 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 delight you.
Find out more on rustyquill.comWake Of Corrosion
Welcome Survivors
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 answers in the wreckage. The only lead he has? The journal entries and personal recordings left behind by brothers, Elliot and Roman, who were there when it all began…
Find out more on rustyquill.comWe'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. Scout’s Honor is Lord of the Flies meets the zombie apocalypse.
Follow a small group of Venture Scouts stranded on Catalina Island as they confront the “Infected”, testing their mettle and the strength of their friendships.
Bonds are tested, innocence is lost, and the scout motto “Stay Alert, Stay Alive” takes on a whole new, dark significance…
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A Story of Survival.
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 tower block. As zombies start to overrun the city, those who remain must do anything they can to survive.
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Horror and Dark Fiction Stories
The Westside Fairytales is 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 every story is written as an entry-point for new listeners and can be enjoyed independently of the greater universe.
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A mysterious and violent online game.
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 position within it can be. WOE.BEGONE is an exploration of the nature of power, the limitations of linear time, and what it means to be an individual person.
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