Shadow & Static Productions
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Survival after the world starts to rot.
Wake of Corrosion follows a broken world through broadcasts, fragments, journals, and survivor accounts. Its horror grows from small wrong details into damaged streets, warped bodies, strange forces, and people trying to stay human after the old order has failed.
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Wake of Corrosion is a scripted horror drama about life after the world has gone fundamentally wrong. It is not interested in clean explanations first. The show begins from voices under pressure: people in bunkers, people in cells, people walking through streets that should feel familiar and do not. Its apocalypse has texture. There are radios, notes, narrow walkways, cold rooms, damaged public spaces, strange vessels, and ordinary conversations that keep fraying under the weight of what has happened. The fear often arrives as a slight break in reality before it becomes undeniable. A body moves in a way it should not. A corridor seems to hold more than it can. A comforting broadcast sounds less like safety than surrender. Wake of Corrosion uses those moments to make its horror feel intimate before it becomes cosmic. The series is bleak, but it has a human pulse. Characters argue, comfort, accuse, and bargain with each other while the larger world presses in around them. That emotional friction matters. The show understands that survival is not just a matter of food, shelter, and escape; it is also a question of guilt, loyalty, rage, memory, and what a person can still refuse to become. Its survivor fragments and related stories broaden the setting without making it feel neat. Some accounts play like journals from the edge of collapse. Others feel like testimony from people who have seen too much and are still trying to name it. The writing has a literary patience, lingering over sensation, dread, and moral exhaustion. When violence or body horror appears, it lands because the show has already made the listener feel the room closing in. Wake of Corrosion suits horror listeners who prefer atmosphere, character strain, and apocalyptic mystery over quick shocks. It leaves the sense of a world still echoing after impact, with voices calling from the dark to prove they were there.
Made for: For listeners who like scripted horror that is slow, intimate, and emotionally heavy. It suits fans of apocalyptic fiction, survivor testimony, cosmic dread, and stories where fear is felt in the body before it is explained.
What sets it apart: Wake of Corrosion stands out for the way it treats apocalypse as both landscape and wound. Its fragments, broadcasts, and survivor accounts make the world feel large while keeping the terror close to one frightened person at a time.
A UK based audio drama set in a nightmare ridden, apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavours to find answers in the wreckage. [Explicit content/Discretion advised] For credits and content warnings visit: wakeofcorrosion.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Wake of Corrosion binds cosmic apocalypse to damaged bodies, family loyalties, and the stubborn possibility of moral choice.
Wake of Corrosion moves between reflective narration and close, pressured dialogue as survivors confront a world altered by violence, strange forces, and competing ideas of salvation.
A soothing radio voice says everything is fine; your survival instincts should object.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A job offer pulls Rosa toward a broken corridor and a crew already counting survival's cost.
Rosa is trying to earn her way onto a crew when a cargo run on a station lays bare the predatory math of work in the void. A woman dangles the chance of a job, has cargo strapped in, and makes failure sound like more time trapped on the station.
A cold, intimate horror piece where the cabin feels less sealed than doomed.
The episode builds its bleak mood from a winter cabin, a guarded reunion, and the steady pressure of dread. Cold rooms, strange noises, and old loyalties turning into accusation give the story its harshest edges, and the tension tightens each time the dark closes in.
An update-heavy return that still lets the house and its neighbors do the haunting.
Wake of Corrosion uses this return to point toward where the project is going while settling back into its familiar sickly quiet. The update about Hollow Disciple is clear and useful, and the episode still leans hardest on the house, the identical street outside, and a narrator…
A radio plea, a ruined night walk, and a slow collapse into guilt and refusal.
Wake of Corrosion leans into a world that already feels spent: a tense street encounter, a walk past bars, nightclubs, and castle ruins, and a narrator who keeps treating the ordinary as something rotten.
A brittle homecoming turns survival into a slow, personal horror.
Wake of Corrosion stays close to the damage after violence, following a brittle homecoming where a close friend and her children are brought back to what she calls home, while Harvey wakes to Danny's calm, watchful attention nearby.
A tense, myth-heavy doorway into buried catastrophe, cursed family history, and streets where reality has begun to slip.
The Sleep-Wake Cycle opens on a charged, uneasy handoff into a world where ordinary life no longer quite holds. The Stroud twins, reunited after decades apart and tied to the Night Plague of 1983, stand at the center of a mythology built from blood bonds, old curses, strange…
A bruised, intimate episode where loyalty has to outrun the dark.
The episode keeps survival from turning into clean heroics. Roman, Claire, Ryan, and Gareth move toward a half-doorway, half-verdict, while the trapped nothingness and the demon voice keep the horror close to the ribs.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
Hollow Disciple Episode 2 follows Lars Amerson inside the derelict vessel after falling from a suspended corridor and surviving via impact gel, while Rosa coaches him remotely from the Elpis.
Hollow Disciple Episode 1 introduces Lars Amerson, a new crew member aboard a salvage vessel called the LP, who is sent alone into a derelict spacecraft after radio contact with the extraction team — including Captain Tanvir and a crew member named Murphy — goes silent.
Sean starts with a quick cross-show note and a mention of Hi Nye, then the story settles into a winter cabin where Manfred finds Thompson in better spirits than he expected.
It opens with a creator update from Wake of Corrosion.
Something feels wrong.
Harvey wakes up hurt and rattled.
In this Patreon preview from Wake of Corrosion's Letters to Shadows series, a character named Oscar writes a letter addressed to no one from inside a bunker at what may be the end of the world.
The Sleep-Wake Cycle, dropped as a feed preview on Wake of Corrosion, is the first episode of a dark urban fantasy audio drama set in a world where a year-long event called the Great Darkness in 1999 left some survivors with exopsychosis — the ability to warp reality around them to match their madness.
Season 4 Episode 7 of Wake of Corrosion is the series finale of the show's main story, concluding the arc of brothers Elliot and Roman after their off-grid camping trip led them into a world-altering supernatural conflict.