15 Best Magical Realism Book Podcasts

1. LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE

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Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning, critically-acclaimed digital magazine. Each month, LIGHTSPEED brings you a mix of original short stories and flash fiction featuring a variety of authors, from the bestsellers and award-winners you already know to the best new voices you haven't heard yet. The LIGHTSPEED podcast, produced by Grammy Award-winning narrator and producer Stefan Rudnicki of Skyboat Media, is presented two times a month, featuring original audio fiction.MORE Host John Joseph Adams
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 7.9KTwitter 35.9K Avg Length 58 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. PodCastle

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PodCastle is the world's first audio fantasy magazine. Weekly, we broadcast the best in fantasy short stories, running the gammut from heart-pounding sword and sorcery, to strange surrealist tales, to gritty urban fantasy, to the psychological depth of magical realism. Our podcast features authors including N.K. Jemisin, Peter S. Beagle, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Jim C. Hines, and Cat Rambo, among others. Terry Pratchett once wrote, 'Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can...MORE Host Matt Dovey
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 1.7KTwitter 6.6K Avg Length 40 min Since Jul 2007 Get Email Contact

3. Better Men Elsewhere

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Better Men Elsewhere is an American thriller with elements of the supernatural, magical realism, and gothic fiction. Follow Jason Miranda, a prisoner sentenced to the mysterious mountain town of Coventry for 10 years for his crimes. Coventry is not your usual town and it is not your usual prison. While the townsfolk must cope with a convicted criminal in their midst as part of this unconventional arrangement, Jason must also have his wits about him as he traverses this even stranger, upside down and mysterious corner of the world.MORE Producer/Network Chiral Studios
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4. Short Tales

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This podcast features a new story on the first of every month, written and read by me, Damian Robb. I mostly write genre stories -- supernatural, magical realism, sci-fi, mystery, and all that good stuff -- so that's what you can expect. And for season two I'll be changing things up a bit by adding in some reviews I've written that will be on literally anything at all! I'll also likely throw up a few other things on those topics that I'm excited by or think are interesting.MORE Host Damian Robb
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5. Makeshift Stories

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Explore, space-time, alternate realities, the near future, and the unexplained, in a unique genre-crossing blend of original stories for all ages ranging from sci-fi and fantasy to magic realism.MORE Hosts Alan V Hare, Steve Peterson, Kathleen Connolly
Producer/Network Alan V Hare
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 487Twitter 166 Avg Length 27 min Since Sep 2008 Video Podcast YouTube
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6. Colored Pages Book Club

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Join longtime friends Marci and Ako for their bi-weekly podcast where they discuss fiction, fantasy, and magical realism written by writers from colorful and diverse backgrounds! Come for the honest discussions, stay for the complete and utter tomfoolery. Also, no worries if you haven't read the books, we've got you covered!MORE Producer/Network Colored Pages Book Club
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7. FANTASY MAGAZINE

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Edited by Christie Yant and Arley Sorg, FANTASY is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high fantasy, folktales, and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think and tell us what it is to be human. Every month FANTASY will bring you a mix of original short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.MORE Producer/Network Adamant Press
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8. The Rat King

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The Shrill Collective presents: 'The Rat King' by L.R. Wild. 'The Rat King' is a serialized, thriller, fiction podcast that weaves magical realism with urban mythology.
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9. The Octopus Wars

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Humorous, magical realism tales from the wine-making province of Mendoza, Argentina.
Producer/Network Ezequiel Morsella
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10. The Masters

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It's 1950. Tissue samples, managed by the Los Alamos research group, have been stolen out of a lab in San Juan, arousing the interest of FBI station chief John Spillers, a 500 year old werewolf. The theft was orchestrated by Jesus Santiago, a Taino man who's been itching for revenge since 1518. Complicating things is Captain Sepulveda, who runs the detention facility holding Santiago. Sepulveda's men were killed in a classified Los Alamos bio weapons exposure trial, and he wants answers. The Masters is a violent sci-fi romp through history, folklore, and science with a dash of magical realism.MORE Host Benjamin Willenbring
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11. Bird Woman, Sacajawea

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Subscribe and join our mailing list for new episodesBird Woman, a magical realism, multi-episode audio drama series, is set in the early West. Bird Woman, Sacajawea, discovers her shape-shifting powers as; part Woman & part Eagle. She fights alongside the Expeditioners making heart-wrenching choices between the Native world & Clark's world, discovering her full powers & true destiny on our Expedition, as Bird Woman.MORE Producer/Network Lynn Rogoff
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12. Arna and the Pirates

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Arna was just a humble pearl diver living in a straw hut with her father, Her life turned upside down one day when she discovered an enormous pearl. But it led to more trouble than she imagined and she took up a life of piracy on the tropical seas.Arna and the Pirates is a saga for children aged 6 and above.MORE Producer/Network Tom Thumb
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13. Serial Tales

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'Serial Tales' are set in Littleburg, the Hudson Valley hamlet that time forgot, until time remembered it.In Littleburg, the veil is so thin that the other world is in your face, and half the population are shamans. The psychic old guard must incorporate the post-Covid newbies , which leads to some powerful collective hallucinations, including, perhaps, the Second Coming. As a result , local hotel owner Vince and millionaire pop star renter Cobbler Martin think they have been given the mission to fight the darkness with light.MORE Producer/Network Radio Free Rhinecliff
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