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'''Horror''' is a genre of podcasts covering fiction, non-fiction, and reviews of the horror genre generally.
Horror podcasts are typically created and run by volunteers in their free time.<ref name=insomnia>{{Citenews|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/02/geeks-guide-horror-podcasting/|title=Inside the Insomnia-Inducing World of Horror Podcasting|last=Galaxy|first=Geek's Guide to the|newspaper=WIRED|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref> As some podcasts such as ''[[Archive 81]]'' and ''[[The Deep Vault]]'' have grown they have been able to attract advertisers.<ref name=found>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/08/found-footage-fiction-podcasts|title=Fiction Podcasts Are Finally a Thing! Thank You, Sci-Fi and Horror|last=Locke|first=Charley|newspaper=WIRED|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref>
Notable podcasts include ''[[Alice Isn't Dead]]'', ''Archive 81'', ''[[Ars Paradoxica]]'', ''[[The Black Tapes]]'', ''[[The Bright Sessions]]'', ''The Deep Vault'', ''[[Knifepoint Horror]]'', ''[[Last Podcast on the Left]]'', ''[[Lore (podcast)|Lore]]'', ''[[The NoSleep Podcast]]'', ''[[Pseudopod (podcast)|Pseudopod]]'', ''[[Small Town Horror]]'', ''[[Tales to Terrify]]'', ''[[Tanis (podcast)|Tanis]]'', ''[[Uncanny County]]'', ''[[Welcome to Night Vale]]'', and ''[[We're Alive]]'', and ''[[The White Vault]]''.<ref name=insomnia/><ref name=found/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Collins|first1=Michael J.|title=Pod People: Brave New Worlds of Digital Audio Drama|journal=Alluvium|date=2016-10-30|volume=5|issue=4|doi=10.7766/alluvium.v5.4.01|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thepodcasthost.com/horror/halloween-horror-podcasts-2016/|title=Halloween Horror Podcasts of 2016|date=2016-10-25|newspaper=The Podcast Host|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bottomley|first=Andrew J.|date=2015-07-03|title=Podcasting, ''Welcome to Night Vale'', and the Revival of Radio Drama|url=httphttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2015.1083370|journal=Journal of Radio & Audio Media|volume=22|issue=2|pages=179–189|doi=10.1080/19376529.2015.1083370}}</ref> Horror podcasts have featured in the [[Parsec Awards]], and in 2013 ''The NoSleep Podcast'' won the award for "Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team" while in 2014 a story from ''Pseudopod'' won the award for "Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form)" and ''We're Alive'' won "Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form)".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parsecawards.com/past-awards/2013-parsec-awards-finalists/|title=2013 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists – Parsec Awards|website=www.parsecawards.com|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parsecawards.com/past-awards/2014-parsec-awards-winners-finalists/|title=2014 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists – Parsec Awards|website=www.parsecawards.com|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref>
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