Wrong Station

This is one of the two best horror fiction pods in existence. The quality of these stories transcends any narrow “media modality” or genre boundary; these stories are in many cases first-rate short-form fiction. This is freaking literature, folks. Bravo!

I love this podcast, I’m a huge horror fan and these guys are obviously very talented writers that come out with bangers frequently. Even if the story isn’t something I think I’d be into normally, I get surprised with how easily I become invested with it anyway. Finding this podcast was a bit of an undertaking since it was never in my recommendations via the Apple podcast app, but on reddit. I was pleasantly surprised that they collaborated with the NoSleep podcast last year and I hope they do more collaborations in the future, like they talked about on the Decade of Dread Retrospective.

Consistently high quality and impressively diverse settings and ideas.

Writing & producing 31 days of original fiction is a Herculean undertaking and TWS kills it every October. This year’s season has been terribly terrifying and hauntingly heartfelt. Some standouts thus far have been, House of Shells, The Click of the Lock and Cameron’s Castle. THANK YOU for writing and narrating some of the best stories in the horror and speculative fiction genre.

I’ll keep this brief, since I’m positive plenty of others have dedicated pages to describing the high caliber of this show. Instead, I just wanna say how incredible the voice acting is. It’s just one man, and he’s clearly a professional, but I’m always impressed by his ability to truly capture the essence of the scenes. It’s hard to describe in words, but you’ll understand if you just listen to an episode or two. He’s able to really bring the scene alive in a way that feels genuinely spellbinding. It’s almost magical what he can do, and I hope I’m able to convey the nuance he brings to these stories, because I feel like I’m not doing him justice. There’s one episode, God Will Provide, where he plays an adult who stumbles upon their mother’s diary and begins reading. The narrator/host seamlessly vacillates between the adult and the mother (who’s a child during the events of the story), but also brings the true horror of the events depicted in the diary to life in a way that makes you feel like you’re reading it yourself. It’s not even like he makes it a movie in your minds eye - that would be a disservice to his craft - rather, it’s like he inhabits the characters, making them behave in an almost hyper-realistic manner, using only the subtle inflection of his speech to do so. He truly does bring these stories to life, making it feel like we’re in the presence of greatness - of history being made. I think this will be as fondly remembered someday as the original Twilight Zone is today; that the legacy of The Wrong Station will prove to be as important to the medium of audio storytelling as The Twilight Zone was for television.