Podcasts are a huge, multibillion-dollar global industry these days, effectively making a mockery of The Bugles’ prediction that “video would kill the radio star”. For many of us, they are part of our daily routine, helping us get through the workday, relax, or fall asleep at night. There are podcasts out there to suit every interest, from dieting and lifestyle to technology to basketball betting picks, and that certainly includes a lot of interesting, well-produced pods on every aspect of Gothic horror and lifestyle.

Below, we pick out ten of those across a broad spectrum of topics and styles. All are available on major podcast platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music:

Cemetery Confessions

Cemetery Confessions is one of the best options if you want to explore goth culture warts and all. It touches on music, fashion, literature, community, identity, and the social side of being goth, as well as a bit of history. It is especially useful for those who want to understand the lifestyle beyond the stereotype.

Dublin Gothic

Dublin Gothic, as the name suggests, looks at Gothic ideas through Irish writing, architecture, folklore, psychology, art, and urban history. That gives it a slightly academic flavor, but it really does deal with some fascinating histories and dark tales.

Fabulous Folklore with Icy

Hosted by folklore writer Icy Sedgwick, Fabulous Folklore is ideal for readers who like the occult. Episodes are usually digestible and accessible, looking at strange urban myths and old folklore tales. Sedgwick is a fantastic host who knows her craft inside out.

Bone and Sickle

Hosted by Al Ridenour, Bone and Sickle deals with cultural oddities, including dark rituals and grotesque traditions. It sometimes veers into academia, but it has a brilliant production style that sometimes feels like you are listening to a drama.

Lore

Aaron Mahnke’s Lore is one of the best-known podcasts in the dark history and folklore space. It is not “Goth” in the subcultural sense, but it deals with a lot of interesting horror-related subjects based on old stories and legends. A top-tier podcast that deserves its success.

Unobscured

Also from Aaron Mahnke, Unobscured takes a more focused, long-form approach to misunderstood dark history. The idea is that it takes dark subjects that we think we know, such as Jack the Ripper or the Salem Witch Trials, and explains what really happened, not what we believe that happened due to their appropriation by modern culture, such as movies.

The Evolution of Horror

For horror fans, The Evolution of Horror is a hugely useful guide to the genre’s history. Host Mike Muncer works through horror cinema one subgenre at a time, covering all the areas such as vampires, ghosts, slashers, folk horror, the occult, zombies, and more. It is a must-listen if you are a fan of horror movies, especially the classics.

Faculty of Horror

Hosted by Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West, this one looks at horror films through the lenses of culture, politics, gender, psychology, and social history. So it basically asks: what is this movie trying to say about society at large? Great stuff.

Talking Scared

Talking Scared features conversations with horror writers about where their stories come from, what frightens them, and how the genre works on the page. It is particularly useful if you want to know the mechanics of writing horror, and it can help you if you are dabbling in writing yourself.

Old Gods of Appalachia

A bit of a leftfield choice to finish: Old Gods of Appalachia offers gothic horror in audio drama form. Set in an alternate version of Appalachia, it draws on folk horror and the feeling that the land itself is alive with something ancient and hungry. Few shows capture that sense of dark mythic place quite so effectively. It is highly addictive if you get into it.