Acorn Arts and Entertainment
34 episodes listed below
Cosmic dread, local clues, sharp ensemble tension.
The Call of the Void follows ordinary conversations as they slide into occult panic, unexplained deaths, strange substances, and memories that refuse to stay buried. Its ensemble scenes move fast, letting jokes, fieldwork, family tenderness, and cosmic dread collide without heavy narration.
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The Call of the Void is an indie serialized audio drama about supernatural disturbance, damaged memory, and people trying to make sense of events that keep breaking ordinary rules. It is built less like a narrated case file and more like overheard life under pressure. Characters joke, interrupt, stall, flirt badly, and ask one more question than the moment can bear. Then something enters the room. In the New Orleans episodes, haunted swamps, tour routes, Lake Pontchartrain, Blind Lagoon, the Sauvage, and crime scenes become part of a growing pattern. The clues are practical before they are cosmic. A map gets made. A sample is carried in a Tupperware container. A tour about old bandage techniques turns into a sideways warning about wounds that should not be reopened. The show can be funny in the same breath that it becomes alarming. A dog is treated like a troubled sibling, a conversation gets sidetracked by noise and jealousy, and then the story is suddenly back inside sensory overload, unexplained deaths, cult language, or a body under investigation. Its horror often arrives through the body. People hear voices, feel burning, collapse, bleed, panic, or remember the edge of a cliff too clearly. That physical immediacy gives the larger mythology weight. Dimensional realities, reverberations, the void, the Darklands, and a prophet with violent followers are not abstract lore dumps; they are forces that leave marks on roads, hospitals, houses, and families. The ensemble format keeps the perspective moving. No single voice owns the truth. Information comes through field trips, arguments, research, interrogation, and the kind of quiet family exchange that can hurt more than a monster reveal. The pacing is brisk, but not empty. Short scenes leave enough space for grief, guilt, curiosity, and dread to register. By the third season, the world has widened beyond local weirdness into bombs, routes being overtaken, and a dangerous race toward Winchester, Ohio. Still, the series keeps returning to intimate stakes: a father trying to help his child name the heaviness of the world, someone trying to prove what happened at 3 a.m., someone realizing a memory is not just a memory. The result is supernatural mystery with a human pulse. It is eerie, dry, and story-forward. It rewards attention.
Made for: For audio drama fans who like serialized supernatural mystery, brisk ensemble scenes, and horror that grows out of ordinary conversation. It especially fits listeners who enjoy clues, recurring mythology, dry humor, and emotionally grounded danger.
What sets it apart: The show turns exposition into lived-in dialogue, so maps, medical history, dimensional theories, and occult leads arrive through character conflict instead of lecture. Its blend of New Orleans fieldwork, body horror, family tenderness, and cosmic escalation gives the mystery a distinctive texture.
In the bustling streets of New Orleans, a tour guide and a palm-reading outcast team up to unravel the mystery behind cases of sudden insanity besetting the city. The Call of the Void is an indie science-fiction podcast produced by Acorn Arts & Entertainment.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A character-led supernatural serial where cosmic danger becomes tangible through investigations, damaged trust, and the practical work of following impossible clues.
The Call of the Void turns investigation into a collision between ordinary work and impossible events. Police examine buried bodies at an abandoned amusement park, researchers track sensory disturbances, and trips through the bayou lead back to an expanding cosmic threat.
New Orleans goes strange while you trace the clues from bayou residue to airborne grave-diggers.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Ferris-wheel crime scene leads to winged-creature footage, deadpan panic, and Dr. Kaminski's warning.
Three local kids are found dead at the old Six Flags in New Orleans, buried by the Ferris wheel after something has left claw marks behind. Mason and Paul move through the scene in clipped, practical exchanges, tracking Andy Picard's apparent suffocation, still-pending…
A tense mystery that pairs sensory horror with methodical investigation and a growing map of the danger.
The piece starts in panic and keeps the pressure up, using Peyton's sensory overload to make the threat feel immediate and physical. It then turns into a search for patterns: a possible link to the void last year, a map of New Orleans, and twelve unexplained deaths in the last…
A flirtation gives way to a strange lecture and an unsettling bayou report.
Carson's dinner banter with Simone, still hanging just offstage, gives the opening a loose, almost teasing feel before the room turns louder and stranger. The piece keeps asking what kind of story it wants to be, and that uncertainty works more often than it stumbles.
Backstage chatter gives way to rain, missing pieces, and a death that will not settle.
The piece starts in backstage chatter and slowly tips into something more uneasy. The banter feels worn-in and human, so when Marley starts to come apart, the shift hits harder than it might otherwise. What follows is less about tidy suspense than about a room losing its balance.
Banter, skulls, and a Yellow King detour let dread creep in sideways.
Someone is trying to keep a nervous little brother steady, first with talk of bugs and exoskeletons, then with a promise meant to hold him together when words are running out.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
A narrator in the woods encounters a mysterious entity, swears allegiance to it, and then transitions to a tense scene where characters Topher and others are involved in a car accident with injuries and confusion.
A mysterious conversation unfolds on a delayed bus trip, revealing that Abigail's father was found in the woods near Crofton surrounded by unexplained symbols.
This episode introduces the new fiction podcast Silver Tongues, a tropical thriller sci-fi audio drama with immersive sound design, and shares its official trailer.
A father and child reconnect in a tree fort while discussing family, nostalgia, their dog's sobriety, and the emotional weight of personal feelings.
A woman named Tara Grace Reinhardt enters a prison facility, reveals she has explosives, takes a guard hostage, and demands access to room 601 with her accomplices.
The creators of the audio drama 'The Call of the Void' answer fan questions about the show's development and reveal their current work on a Victorian mystery feature film.
Fargo Kaminsky explores the mysterious connection between Schrodinger's cat and the Bee Gees while witnessing a dimensional threshold forming in his backyard.
A tense meeting reveals a scientist's controversial decision to use her own daughter as a test subject in a reality-communication experiment, sparking ethical conflict with her colleague.
A mysterious epidemic of spontaneous blindness and deprivation spreads in New Orleans, with authorities warning residents to stay indoors as symptoms escalate and a character named Etsy faces imminent danger.
Two characters, Baker and Simone, search for mysterious clues in the woods while debating their urgency and purpose.
A group explores a haunted swamp in New Orleans where paranormal activity and a serial killer's burial site are rumored, leading to eerie encounters.
A research director confronts a scientist about her daughter's disturbing experiences during an isolation experiment involving dimensional exploration.
This episode introduces Liminal, a new VoidVerse fiction podcast that is a cerebral horror crime thriller about three brothers caught in a hidden world of nightmares.
Two characters on a cliffside during a storm discuss their surroundings, a distant lighthouse, and the unsettling possibility of jumping into the abyss.
The creators introduce the Voidverse, a shared universe for their audio dramas including The Call of the Void and Silver Tongues, featuring independent shows with potential crossovers.
This epilogue features a tense police interrogation where Officer Mason questions Chet Price about his possible involvement in a triple murder in Tumulene Park.
A family visits an abandoned lighthouse where the narrator recalls a childhood memory of climbing the cliff and contemplating the height.
A character confronts a dark apparition claiming to have reformed Etsy into perfection, leading to a desperate search and ominous warnings.
A tense scene unfolds as characters deal with a bomb explosion, injuries, and a frantic chase to reach Winchester, Ohio before the Darklands take over.
The Call of the Void presents Chapter Two of Season Two of its serialized horror fiction, featuring characters named Topher and Denny navigating what appears to be an uncanny museum setting during Mardi Gras week in a city that has experienced strange events including a tremor.
A customer at a store buys materials to make a bomb for a class demonstration while interacting with a cashier about sale prices and a donation.
Two individuals visit Zola's to find their friend Etsy, interrogate employee Lottie about her whereabouts, and escalate to physical threats when she refuses to cooperate.
Lunch is already overheating.
In this Chapter 3 of The Call of the Void's third season, New Orleans police detective Mason investigates three bodies found buried alive at an abandoned Six Flags, with claw marks suggesting the same creature behind an earlier cemetery attack.
A character declares their transformation into a dark, vengeful force after being chosen to explore a dimensional plane, addressing their brother with ominous warnings.
Season 1, Chapter 5 of The Call of the Void is an independent horror audio drama in which protagonist Etsy and her companion Topher survive an assault by a cult follower named Walt Rogers who claims The Void will reign, then discover that Etsy has the power to read people's timelines through touch.
The Call of the Void episode “S3, Chapter 2: Molotov on the Rocks” follows investigations into a cemetery creature, an anomaly site, and Etsy Delman’s connection to a group seeking a “priestess.” Simone reports being pulled into a memory during a frequency drop, where a familiar Brooklyn room overlapped with a forest and a smiling figure with nonhuman teeth.
The Call of the Void follows Topher and Simone Summers as they investigate why their father, New Orleans physics professor Victor Summers, has been missing for 41 hours.
The Call of the Void's “S2, Chapter 5: Broken Life Lines” follows Simone, Topher, and Etsy as deaths spread from the French Quarter to a bayou near Sauvage.
The Call of the Void Season Two opens with Chapter One, introducing or reintroducing the central characters against a New Orleans backdrop as Mardi Gras approaches.
The Call of the Void is an audio drama set in New Orleans following characters investigating supernatural disturbances connected to a spreading void phenomenon.
The Call of the Void reaches its Season 1 climax in Chapter 9, Exorcism.