The Cellar Letters - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I jumped into this podcast rather recently after seeing it on the RQ website. I was a little skeptical at the very beginning, but very quickly got hooked on the found-footage style, the dynamic between Nate and Steve, and the sound design. I am always a sucker for plotlines that start very cliche and then go in a completely different direction. Listening and re-listening continues to be a joy, and I am on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the next season. Amazing job!

The Cellar Letters is an impressively unsettling slow-burn horror podcast. You can’t help but feel as helpless as Nate, the main character who is going Through It all the time. I hope he catches a break soon! I love how the plot acts as a kind of framing device for little short horror stories as Nate reads the letters in his basement while the overarching plot is also developing. It’s a very creative set up and I can’t wait for more to come out soon!

And a note about the ads: yeah, there are ads. The amount and placement of ads on Rusty Quill shows are decided by Rusty Quill. Please consider this before paying attention to or giving out one star reviews that have nothing to do with the quality of work an independent creator is putting out. You can skip ads if you really must, or personally I sometimes adjust the playback speed to make them go by faster while hopefully still giving the creator the little bit of ad revenue they get from listeners letting the ads play. Have some patience and stop trying to tank someone’s reviews over something they can’t control.

I love the series. After coming back to this a year later and listening to 40 episodes in 3 days, it has been immensely enjoyable! The episodes feel like a little treat that I just can’t get enough of. There’s thankfully no ads half way through that would ruin the enjoyment and thrill that these bring. Thank you so much for this amazing podcast!

I really enjoy this podcast! However, episodes after the break seem to be so quiet that I can barely hear them at safe volume levels. I’d really appreciate it if the sound levels could be raised a tad.

Thanks for the spooky fun!

I’m really enjoying this podcast. You know what I’m not enjoying? Half of every episode being ads. Literally half of some of these. Each of the eps could be an hour and then the ads would be normal but GOOD LORD. I know there’s a patreon but I can’t subscribe to 10 patreons to listen to podcasts. I would subscribe to a RUSTY QUILL patreon to listen to ALL the shows ad free but this is out of hand. I don’t even mind ads in podcasts normally, but this is literally 3+ minutes of ads up front and a minute of ads after for 10 minute episodes. And they’re SO LOUD compared to the episodes. I feel like I’m doing the podcast version of cable TV.

It also absolutely destroys the ambiance and flow of the podcast. Very sad.

Literally half the episode length is ads. The same annoying ads over and over since the episodes are only 10ish minutes long. The main guy is infuriating. Once Steve is gone, it drags. Giving up at 36. Every episode is him listening to static and not putting anything together. I am not convinced this story even goes anywhere. Disappointed.