Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Fiction

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 07 Oct 2026

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10/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 242

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:37:37

Top 5 authors

1. Voyage Media (5 shows)

2. Bloody FM (5 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Mark R. Healy (3 shows)

5. Chilling Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (31 shows)

2. Simplecast (16 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Full Body Chills	Audiochuck	Fiction	151	Simplecast	58
2	Table Read	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	123	Omny Studio	63
3	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media	Fiction	734	Audioboom	48
4	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	113	Megaphone	83
5	The Adventure Zone	The McElroys	Fiction	422	Simplecast	58
6	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1272	Acast	69
7	The Haunted Library	BBC Studios	Fiction	12	Omny Studio	73
8	The Sleepy Bookshelf	Slumber Studios	Fiction	845	Simplecast	73
9	Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	966	Megaphone	53
10	UnderGround Zero: 9/11 & The Mob \| Starring Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	6	Omny Studio	53
11	Relatos de la Noche	Sonoro	Fiction	667	Simplecast	68
12	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	393	ART19	63
13	Midnight Burger	Business Goose Media	Fiction	109	Megaphone	63
14	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	383	Megaphone	53
15	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	148	Acast	69
16	The Death of Edgar Allan Poe	My Victorian Nightmare	Fiction	6	Libsyn	62
17	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
18	Bear Hunt	Goalhanger	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
19	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	38	Acast	89
20	Legends of Avantris	Avantris Entertainment	Fiction	440	Podbean	52
21	Worlds Beyond Number	Worlds Beyond Number	Fiction	99	Simplecast	73
22	Blood Stone	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	78
23	Camp Monsters	REI Co-op	Fiction	87	Simplecast	63
24	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	175	Simplecast	68
25	The Saints	The Merry Beggars	Fiction	741	Omny Studio	84
26	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	163	Megaphone	78
27	The Harbingers	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	32	ART19	63
28	Unobtainium Podcast	Adam Sigel & Dr. Amy Mainzer	Fiction	22	Acast	89
29	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
30	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	122	Spotify for Podcasters	48
31	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
32	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
33	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	65	Acast	63
34	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	571	Megaphone	59
35	Scary Story Podcast	Scary Stories	Fiction	253	Spreaker	63
36	Tales of the Night	Sonoro \| RDLN	Fiction	147	Megaphone	69
37	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	12	Acast	69
38	The Sleepy Bookshelf: Just Jane	Slumber Studios	Fiction	19	ART19	62
39	Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Fiction	376	Megaphone	68
40	THE DOUBLE[S]	Wolf at the Door	Fiction	10	Megaphone	68
41	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
42	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
43	The Dr. John Delony Show’s Podcast	The Dr. John Delony	Fiction	100	Podbean	27
44	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
45	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	89	Acast	69
46	Room 1D343: I'll Stop When They're Dead	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	62
47	Drive Thru Magic	Atypical Artists	Fiction	19	ART19	83
48	Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	378	Audioboom	47
49	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
50	OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween	Jeff Schmidt	Fiction	52	ART19	83
51	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
52	Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	465	Audioboom	52
53	Witchpunk: A Cyberpunk Story	Citeog Podcasts	Fiction	9	Captivate	53
54	Horror Stories	Horror Stories	Fiction	443	Megaphone	53
55	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
56	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	80	Acast	74
57	The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel	GZM Shows	Fiction	35	ART19	48
58	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
59	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	17	Acast	63
60	Stories from the Village of Nothing Much	Wellness Loud	Fiction	140	Megaphone	68
61	The Fog City Mysteries: IN COLOR!	WHAT You Say Productions	Fiction	21	Captivate	58
62	HumorUs Stories — Classic and Original Funny Stories	Don McDonald	Fiction	26	Acast	69
63	Video Palace	Shudder	Fiction	14	ART19	73
64	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
65	Scare You To Sleep	Bloody FM	Fiction	470	Simplecast	68
66	Degenerated: a Horror Fiction Podcast	Erik Peabody, Geoff Sturtevant, Paul J. McSorley, and Drew Blood	Fiction	11	RSS.com	41
67	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	298	BBC	38
68	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	48
69	The Mysteries Of Derlin County	Brandon	Fiction	377	Libsyn	68
70	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
71	13 Days of Halloween	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	57	Omny Studio	68
72	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	173	Simplecast	58
73	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	43	Megaphone	73
74	The Cleaner	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
75	HABLEMOS DE LO QUE NO EXISTE	César González _ EL NARRADOR _	Fiction	595	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
77	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	58
78	Paranormal	Fepo	Fiction	350	Simplecast	58
79	Writing Excuses	Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler	Fiction	1011	RedCircle	63
80	Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons: A D&D Podcast	Dumb-Dumbs & Dice	Fiction	481	Megaphone	78
81	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
82	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	258	BBC	58
83	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	41	Acast	63
84	The Bright Sessions	Atypical Artists	Fiction	125	ART19	73
85	Lighthouse Horror Podcast	Lighthouse Horror	Fiction	428	Spotify for Podcasters	41
86	SCP Archives	Bloody FM	Fiction	332	Simplecast	83
87	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
88	American Hostage	Criminal Content	Fiction	12	Spreaker	59
89	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
90	Send Me To Sleep	Send Me To Sleep	Fiction	1671	Simplecast	83
91	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	600	Simplecast	58
92	FRIGHTLY! Scary Stories and Tales of Terror	Short Storyverses	Fiction	25	Acast	63
93	DC High Volume: Batman	DC \| Realm	Fiction	52	Megaphone	69
94	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	262	Megaphone	38
95	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
96	Edge of the Forgotten	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	24	Megaphone	73
97	Be. Scared	Be. Busta and Studio71	Fiction	454	Megaphone	69
98	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
99	The Dark Somnium	Bloody FM	Fiction	277	Simplecast	53
100	We Fix Space Junk	Battle Bird Productions	Fiction	87	Megaphone	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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