15 Best Magical Realism Book Podcasts

1. LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)

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Edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams, LIGHTSPEED is a Hugo Award-winning, critically-acclaimed digital magazine. In its pages, you'll find science fiction from near-future stories and sociological SF to far-future, star-spanning SF. Plus there's fantasy from epic sword-and-sorcery and contemporary urban tales to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folk tales. 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...MORE Host John Joseph Adams
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 801Facebook 7.9KTwitter 32.7K Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

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
Producer/Network Escape Artists Foundation
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 686Facebook 1.6KTwitter 6.2K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Since Jul 2007 Get Email Contact

3. Better Men Elsewhere

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A convict is sentenced to the strange town of Coventry, where mysterious occurrences and political strife make his sentence more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.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...MORE Producer/Network Chiral Studios
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 23Facebook 212Instagram 306 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. Stray Thoughts

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A place for cobbling together some stray thoughts into unrefined audio essays, all written and read by me, Damian Robb. I expect they'll be messy but meaningful, and ultimately just a way for me to talk to you and myself and share some thoughts, updates, and occasionally a story or two. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Host Damian Robb
Producer/Network Damian Robb
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10Facebook 97Twitter 669 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

5. Original Science Fiction - Makeshift Stories

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Makeshift Stories is a sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction podcast for anyone who craves the thrill of the unknown and unexpected. Once a month, buckle up for an epic journey through possible futures, space, alternate realities, and beyond. Are you ready to explore uncharted territories and discover the unimaginable? Tune in and let your imagination soar!MORE Hosts Alan V Hare, Steve Peterson, Kathleen Connolly
Producer/Network Vern Hume
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 188Facebook 494Twitter 166 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Sep 2008 Get Email Contact

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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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 57Twitter 233Instagram 335 Avg Length 81 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. FANTASY MAGAZINE - Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)

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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 Realm
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9Facebook 2.7KTwitter 9.8K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

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.CW: Contains adult content including descriptions and instances of stalking and violence. For resources: https://www.stalkingawareness.org/ The Shrill Collective is women-led independent nonprofit theater company dedicated to incubating new works, challenging the cis-male-dominated canon, and using art to benefit community organizations. www.TheShrillCollective.com/ IG @TheShrillCollective /https://tinyurl.com/shrilldonateMORE Producer/Network The Shrill Collective
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 77Facebook 408Instagram 777 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. The Octopus Wars

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Humorous, magical realism tales from the wine-making province of Mendoza, Argentina.Visit THE OCTOPUS WARS Website: http://emsfsu.podomatic.net/
Producer/Network Ezequiel Morsella
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

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
Producer/Network Benjamin Willenbring
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9Instagram 93 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. Bird Woman, Sacajawea

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Subscribe and join our mailing list for new episodesBird Woman, a magical realism, multi-episode AI video podcast 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. https://bit.ly/BirdWomanPodcast Bird Woman is rated Best Magical Realism Podcast of 2023 on Feedspot: https://bit.ly/bestmagicalrealismMORE Producer/Network Lynn Rogoff
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Apple Rating 4/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 504Twitter 231 Avg Length 10 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

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. There is magic, there is adventure, there is realism. With strong female characters, these stories were written for my own daughter and now I share them with you, too. Be warned: while most of the endings are happy, it is a mean world the pirates navigate...MORE Producer/Network Tom Thumb
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4Instagram 686 Avg Length 10 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

13. Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg 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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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 12Twitter 2.8KInstagram 9.7K Get Email Contact