Cast aftershows, season updates and other people's audio fiction.
Around its own audio drama, Curious Matter Anthology runs cast aftershows for 'The Exile' and a New Year check-in called 'State of the Pod 2026'. Its 'Curious Matter Presents' episodes hand the floor to other fiction series, ranging from a coroner who talks to the dead to a colony ship's onboard radio station.
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Curious Matter Anthology's recent episodes gather around its fiction: conversations with the people who make it, and showcases of series made by others. The first strand is the production talking about itself. 'State of the Pod 2026' is a New Year greeting from Tiffany Smith and Jonathan Pezza, who call themselves two parts of the Curious Matter Anthology Universe. They thank everyone who supported the last season and set out to share what is cooking for 2026. Last season's festival record gets an airing: best sci fi podcast at LA web fest, best writing and best ensemble at TO web fest, and a string of nominations. One speaker, twenty years into writing, talks about finally being recognized for the writing after years of being seen as the technical one trusted with editing, shooting and mixing. The Curious Matter Aftershow fills out this side of the feed. In 'Curious Matter Aftershow - The Exile Part 4 (with guest Amy Vorpahl)', Alison Hayslip welcomes the 'CMA Universe' while Jonathan Pezza fills in for Sandeep. The stated aim is to get the cast of 'The Exile' to spill their deepest, darkest secrets, with a wink that the show itself only occasionally gets discussed. The second strand, 'Curious Matter Presents', turns the spotlight on other series, several of them introduced with a Fable and Folly Network greeting. Some bring the creator in. Vincent DiGianni, writer, creator and star of 'How i Died', is in the studio for a series about a coroner who can speak to the dead, set in a remote town with an unusually high mortality rate. Jonathan's introduction pitches it at fans of Dexter and Six Feet Under. In one scene a murder victim insists her husband poisoned her, and the coroner still asks for hard evidence. Chris Soa is in the studio to explain how a darkly comic murder mystery came together. It follows Quinn Reynolds, a reluctant true crime celebrity chasing her sister's killer past the media, the police and a group of conspiracy theorists. Other showcases lean on atmosphere. 'The Void' is framed as the onboard radio station of a colony ship, the STS-45 Cloud Breather, offering interviews, live event coverage and the odd bit of pirated audio. 'Your Horror Show' announces itself with creaking doors, wolf howls and a promise of chills down the spine. The talk stays chatty and aimed at fans, while the fiction it samples runs dark: murder, the dead, and uncharted space. A listener curious about the production can start with 'State of the Pod 2026', and one hunting for a new series to follow can go straight to the 'Curious Matter Presents' episodes.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows 'The Exile' and wants to hear its cast talk about it, or one who wants to try unfamiliar audio dramas, mostly murder mysteries, horror and science fiction, before settling on a series.
What sets it apart: It pairs a production's own behind-the-scenes talk, from cast aftershows to a New Year update with festival news, with 'Curious Matter Presents' episodes that give the spotlight to other creators' audio dramas, sometimes with the creator in the studio.
Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award-winning fiction podcast that adapts stories from the world’s best Sci-fi and Horror writers into fully immersive audio movies. Strap in and let your ears take you on an adventure to the most imaginative places in the literary universe. Season 3 takes a bold leap forward. We've transitioned to a seasonal anthology format, dedicating the entire season to a single epic story titled "The Exile." This audacious adventure will take listeners to the fledgling colony of Mars, where humanity's fate hangs in the balance and includes sounds recorded on the surface of the Red Planet by the NASA Perserverence Rover in its immersive sound design. The Exile stars T…
A guest-show audition takes you from creator chat to a ghost arguing toxicology with a coroner.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid 2026 check-in on Curious Matter's missed Kickstarter, later backing, and recent recognition.
Curious Matter Anthology's 2026 New Year's check-in turns on a hard production reality: a missed Kickstarter goal, and the open question of how Season 4, Karnacki, Blood and Ether, can still happen. Tiffany Smith and Jonathan Pezza do not dress up the disappointment.
A ruined bridge, a river crossing, and a museum errand turn ordinary work quietly ominous.
Curious Matter Presents: The Void makes a newspaper run feel like a crossing into pressure the town has never quite settled. A worker trying to outrun his family's reputation loads a small fishing boat with papers and heads for the Milton City Museum, where he has been told to…
A grisly, darkly comic mystery as Quinn follows one lead into a larger and more dangerous case.
Quinn Reynolds has spent a year chasing answers about her sister's murder when a new lead pulls her toward a wider tangle of media pressure, law enforcement, and conspiracy-minded danger.
A haunted broadcast turns the blank page into the first doorway to horror.
Curious Matter Presents treats Your Horror Show's "Echoes" as a radio-style horror broadcast about the fear of having nothing to say. Mr. Graves sets the tone with warnings of grotesque violence and cosmic horror before the story narrows to an author facing a blank page, still…
A coroner's morgue work turns supernatural when the dead start answering back.
How I Died makes the morgue feel like a detective's office, with John Spacer's ability to speak with the dead turning forensic routine into something stranger and more conversational.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Tiffany Smith and Jonathan Pezza outline Curious Matter Anthology's 2026 plans after the Kickstarter for Season 4, Karnacki, Blood and Ether, missed its goal.
Jonathan Pezza promotes the Curious Matter podcast and its Kickstarter campaign for season 4, then introduces a spooky episode about a cursed entity called The Void in the town of Milton.
A darkly comedic murder mystery audio drama about Quinn Reynolds investigating her sister's murder while battling media, law enforcement, and conspirators.
This episode announces a new season and tabletop RPG expansion for the Curious Matter horror anthology series.
["Jonathan opens Curious Matter Presents: How I Died by describing a remote town, a coroner who can speak to the dead, and a body count that keeps rising.", "Vincent DiGianni says he started with a smaller mortician concept, then rewrote the pilot after pulling from Bones, House, Dexter, news stories, and Baltimore forensic ride-alongs.", "The dramatized pilot begins with Dr.
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The hosts introduce the fourth after show of the season, featuring guest Amy Vorpahl, and promise to discuss the show and cast secrets.
Hosts Allison Hayslip and Sundy Parikh introduce the after show for The Exile Part 3, discussing how they listen to the podcast and teasing a chat with the cast.
The hosts and guests discuss the making of The Exile Part 2, a science fiction project, with cast and crew.
Hosts Alison Hayslip and Alyssa DeVries introduce a behind-the-scenes discussion of the sci-fi podcast Star Hunter with creator Jonathan Pezza and actors Shriswara and Selin Genc, celebrating sci-fi's 300th anniversary.
Host Elisabeth Rees interviews actors Tiffany Smith and Colin Ferguson about their roles in the sci-fi horror audio drama Star Hunter.