Thirteen

So many horror fiction drama podcasts follow a formula of “main character stumbles upon something sinister. Shortly thereafter main character finds themselves unable to escape horrible death. Add lots of squelching sounds, and that’s a wrap.” I’ve only listened to one episode of 13 so far, but it did an incredible job of building suspense, building out conflict within the characters’ personalities (beyond just a “big bad”). And that is what a lot of the horror-drama-fiction podcasts are missing. A hint of character development, take the time to tell your story by building some suspense and motivation. Instead of just generic dude walks into a haunted restaurant, orders the thing the creepy waitress warns him against ordering, then is brutally flayed by the insane asylum escaped chef who then serves random generic dude to his family as the chef’s special the following night. I just made that up, and maybe I should try to sell my story to one of the lesser podcasts!!! Anyway,…rambled on a lot. But well done!

Pulls you right in…the dialogue was believable as was the sad and engrossing story of human nature. I highly recommend you listen for yourself! No spoilers from me!

I was totally hooked by the first story! These folks do a great job. I didn’t even realize that I had spent 2 hours listening to this podcast. I think everyone needs to give this podcast a try. You will really enjoy being creeped out by it. Follow up on this review can’t remember exactly when I made this; I can’t see the date, but I’ve been a day one listener and every time I hear an episode of this I am just more and more in love how these stores are done. These guys do an amazing job you gave a little bit of romance, a little bit of that slow burn creepy and just a little bit of something for everybody.

I have been listening to this show for a couple of years and I absolutely loved the writing. The story lines were well thought of and presented psychological burns with hints of horror. I don’t know what’s up with the writing this past year. This podcast has written more eroticism to its story lines which are unnecessary. I am not against having a sex scene or two once in a while but this podcast wasn’t like that initially nor advertised as such. I don’t like it and I’m not the only listener that has expressed this. I hope the writer’s listen to the feedback and scale back the eroticism and love triangles. I would love to continue to support this podcast.

2025 UPDATE: Finally gave up - this show has fully become NSFW in every episode, and the producers don’t even have the decency to tag it. Even episodes without explicit sex scenes will be themed around sex and sexual relationships, which is equally NSFW for those of us listening at work. So over this show, used to be my favorite but I have unsubscribed and won’t listen again. REVIEW OF 2024 CONTENT: Quality has taken a massive nosedive! Feels much more like a quickly produced horror anothology than the deep, well-produced, thought-provoking content it used to be. The episodes promoting their new horror erotica podcast are also disgusting - not only is mixing horror/gore with sexual content a terrible idea for your brain, but the cutoff in the episode is pretty far into the sex scene. The episode “Tell Me What You Like” is solely about a woman’s issues with her boyfriend during sex, so even though the episode isn’t explicit persay, it is still solely about sex and is therefore NSFW and shouldn’t have been posted here. Pretty close to unsubbing and not listening anymore. PRE-2024 REVIEW: These are some of the best stories! So engaging and well done, beautiful and meloncholy, where the true horror is sadness lol Love love the voice actors (especially Brooke), and can’t get enough! Just keep in mind to have your phone on hand so you can skip the 5-10 min of ads and announcements at the beginning and you’re good! Also some of the earlier eps are very quiet, so if you listen at work like me it’ll be hard to hear the older eps - you’ll need both earbuds in for those ones.