Evening Post Productions
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Small-town obituaries with terrible follow-up questions.
Death by Dying follows Crestfall, Idaho's Obituary Writer as routine memorials collapse into suspicious deaths, supernatural errands, and increasingly personal losses. It is gothic small-town fiction with a crooked grin, equally interested in shadows, strange jokes, and the ache under both.
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Death by Dying makes obituary writing feel like the least stable job in Crestfall, Idaho. Its central figure, the Obituary Writer, begins with death notices and ends up chasing the kinds of mysteries that really should have been handled by someone with a badge, a lantern, or a firmer grasp on self-preservation. The town is the show’s great engine. Every shop, church, wood, quarry, apartment, and childhood house seems to have a tragic history tucked behind it, usually wrapped in one elegant sentence and one deeply foolish detail. The tone is macabre, but not numb. Death is everywhere, and the show keeps asking what it feels like when loss stops being abstract. Charlotte’s story brings real grief into the machinery, from Aunt Lillian’s death to the eerie return of a house that looks exactly like memory and may be something worse. Then the series swerves. Resurrection becomes a possibility. A missing soul becomes an errand. The cosmic spud requires a new sacrifice. That is the basic rhythm of Death by Dying: sincere emotion, gothic stakes, and absurdity delivered with total confidence. Its trailers and excerpts point to a world of suspicious bell frames, missing spirits, ominous woods, potato symbols, corpse-adjacent cats, and whispers that make pain feel dangerously compelling. The Obituary Writer is not a clean hero. He is curious, theatrical, wounded, and frequently in over his head. The Angel of Death gives the show another recurring pressure point, turning mortality into both companion and warning. Even bonus material, like The Lonely Astronaut, keeps the Crestfall universe feeling handmade and strange rather than merely spooky. The writing loves formality because formality gives it something to ruin. A scene may begin like a funeral program and end like a cracked fairy tale. That contrast is the pleasure. Death by Dying is best for listeners who want scripted audio fiction with elaborate narration, dark comedy, supernatural mystery, and emotional consequences that are allowed to sit in the room. It is grim. It is silly. It knows that a town built on death still needs gossip, bad decisions, and someone brave or foolish enough to keep taking notes.
Made for: For fans of scripted audio drama who like gothic mystery, dry comedy, and small-town lore with sharp teeth. It especially suits listeners who want grief, murder, and supernatural weirdness handled with both feeling and comic nerve.
What sets it apart: Death by Dying stands out by making its obituary format part of the storytelling engine, not just a framing device. Its best moments pair ornate, almost ceremonial narration with blunt absurdity, so the horror and the joke arrive in the same coffin-sized package.
The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths… when he is supposed to simply be writing obituaries. Along the way he encounters murderous farmers, man-eating cats, haunted bicycles, and a healthy dose of ominous shadows. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deathbydyingpod
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Death by Dying pairs macabre mysteries with an earnest narrator whose solemnity makes Crestfall's grotesque absurdities land even harder.
Death by Dying turns an obituary writer into a reluctant investigator, then surrounds him with a town where death is both macabre business and comic inconvenience.
Walrus balloons at a funeral: this is where your taste for macabre nonsense gets lovingly buried.
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Death by Dying takes a looser, more self-aware turn here, with the conversation circling around how the show began, the jokes that helped define it, and the promise of episodes still ahead.
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This teaser announces the Indiegogo campaign for season two of Death by Dying, a narrative podcast set in Crestfall, and includes a brief atmospheric description of Charlotte Dawson's funeral.
An obituary writer in Crestfall, Idaho, reflects on his solitary life and work while introducing the mysterious death of Lillian Parker and an intriguing encounter with Charlotte.
The obituary writer describes an unfinished neo-futurist church ceiling painting of the Great Flood by an Albanian artist who left town, serving as a metaphor for life's struggles, alongside a pastor's personal troubles.
The Angel of Death narrates a surreal and darkly humorous account of collecting a soul while reflecting on the mundane nature of ordinary deaths in the town of Crestfall.
The obituary writer and Charlotte encounter her childhood home in the forest, sparking nostalgic memories and a sense of unease about its reality.
An obituary writer from Crestfall, Idaho, reflects nostalgically on when funerals were popular social events in town, expressing disappointment that they've lost their appeal and criticizing the audience's casual attire at this live funeral performance.
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This episode is a dark comedy fiction story set in Crestfall, narrated by the town coroner, following an introduction with thanks, promotions, and sponsor messages.
A young girl named Violet grapples with grief and trauma after her mother's bizarre death in a squirrel attack, while hinting at deeper mysteries in the town of Crestfall.
A quirky obituary writer in Crestfall, Idaho, reflects on his lonely life and peculiar relationship with his three cats in his apartment.
This episode presents the full audio narration of the children's book 'The Lonely Astronaut' by Robert Jameson, originally featured in the podcast's second episode, with background on its creation and recording.
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This episode presents a humorous and exaggerated obituary for Wyatt Hudson, a beloved farmer in Crestfall, Idaho, detailing his quirky life and mysterious death.
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A fictional obituary writer in Crestfall, Idaho investigates a series of mysterious deaths, blending humor and suspense.