Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Science 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 17 Sep 2026

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09/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:36:31

Top 5 authors

1. Voyage Media (6 shows)

2. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

3. QCODE (3 shows)

4. Fool and Scholar Productions (2 shows)

5. The Midnight Mystery (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (39 shows)

2. Acast (21 shows)

3. Simplecast (7 shows)

4. Libsyn (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media Inc.	Fiction	729	Audioboom	48
2	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	380	Megaphone	53
3	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	144	Acast	69
4	EXTRA ANORMAL Details temporarily unavailable	Paco Arias	Fiction	519	Simplecast	53
5	Unobtainium Podcast	Adam Sigel & Dr. Amy Mainzer	Fiction	19	Acast	83
6	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	560	Megaphone	59
7	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
8	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	105	Spotify for Podcasters	48
9	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	68	Megaphone	69
10	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
11	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
12	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	23	Megaphone	58
13	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
14	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
15	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
16	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	167	Simplecast	58
17	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	533	Simplecast	58
18	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
19	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
20	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
21	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
22	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1251	RSS.com	32
23	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	259	Megaphone	38
24	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
25	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
26	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	163	Simplecast	73
27	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
28	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
29	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	78
30	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
31	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	120	Megaphone	53
32	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	222	Acast	79
33	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	390	Megaphone	63
34	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
35	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
36	Biome	Alex Zoubine	Fiction	20	RSS.com	52
37	The Program audio series	IMS \| Writing an audio drama sci-fi anthology about history of the future \| Not at AI	Fiction	44	Acast	74
38	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
39	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	375	Spotify for Podcasters	22
40	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	42	Spotify for Podcasters	32
41	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	141	Megaphone	68
42	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2187	Acast	43
43	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	709	ART19	69
44	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	99	Simplecast	68
45	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
46	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	90	Megaphone	73
47	Weird Tales Reborn	Scott Miller	Fiction	1	Simplecast	63
48	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	360	Acast	58
49	The Other Stories \| Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, WTF Stories	Hawk & Cleaver \| A Digital Story Studio bringing you the best new stories to watch, read, sniff, and absorb.	Fiction	678	Acast	43
50	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
51	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	69	Acast	63
52	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	306	Megaphone	68
53	Ghost Wax	Far and Tall Tales	Fiction	76	Spreaker	69
54	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
55	Darth Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	82	Acast	79
56	Dead America - Zombie Audiobook Series	DerekSlatonAuthor	Fiction	250	RedCircle	48
57	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
58	Hello From The Hallowoods	William A. Wellman	Fiction	233	Buzzsprout	57
59	Entombed	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
60	SADISTIC	Be Afraid	Fiction	168	Acast	48
61	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
62	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
63	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
64	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
65	Our Wars Have Ended	Eskew Productions	Fiction	9	Acast	84
66	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
67	Three Eyed Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	82	Acast	79
68	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	19	ART19	73
69	Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series	Don McDonald	Fiction	3	Acast	69
70	Saate Sefr Podcast \| پادکست ساعت صفر	Amin Matin	Fiction	93	Acast	73
71	Deviser	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	8	Acast	69
72	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	19	Megaphone	59
73	Rule of Nines	Ryan Weiler	Fiction	24	RSS.com	58
74	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
75	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
76	I Am Echo	Voyage Media	Fiction	22	Megaphone	73
77	LifeAfter/The Message	GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message	Fiction	22	Megaphone	79
78	Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection	Voyage Media	Fiction	27	Megaphone	42
79	Dead Space: Deep Cover	Bloody FM, EA, Motive Studios	Fiction	14	Simplecast	83
80	Inverted World Live	Shane Cashman	Fiction	282	Libsyn	68
81	Havoc Town	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	79
82	Your Horror Show	Ryan Joseph Murphy	Fiction	52	Megaphone	63
83	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
84	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
85	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
86	90 Degrees South Details temporarily unavailable	BMB Productions LLC	Fiction	85	Buzzsprout	83
87	ars PARADOXICA	ars PARADOXICA	Fiction	49	Libsyn	N/A
88	Sci Fi x Horror	duane Old Time Radio	Fiction	255	Captivate	73
89	The 21CD Podcast	The 21CD Podcast	Fiction	181	Audioboom	32
90	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	78
91	From Now	QCODE	Fiction	7	Megaphone	73
92	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69
93	Terrores Nocturnos	Terrores Nocturnos	Fiction	394	Megaphone	58
94	Cold Shift	Jaran	Fiction	20	Buzzsprout	58
95	The Mystery Frequency \| Audio Drama Radio	The Mystery Frequency	Fiction	1030	RedCircle	53
96	The Call of the Void	Acorn Arts and Entertainment	Fiction	33	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	Among the Stars and Bones	Ungodly Hour Productions	Fiction	22	Pinecast	63
98	Upvoted / NoSleep: Scary Stories	No Sleep Reddit RSlash Fiction Horror Story	Fiction	79	Megaphone	43
99	Birds of Empire	QCODE	Fiction	33	Megaphone	63
100	SCP: Find Us Alive	Hodgepodge Audio	Fiction	76	RedCircle	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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