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 18 Sep 2026

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09/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:35:43

Top 5 authors

1. Voyage Media (8 shows)

2. Mark R. Healy (4 shows)

3. QCODE (3 shows)

4. The Midnight Mystery (2 shows)

5. The Sonar Podcast Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (38 shows)

2. Acast (22 shows)

3. Libsyn (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (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	561	Megaphone	59
7	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
8	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	106	Spotify for Podcasters	48
9	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	68	Megaphone	69
10	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
11	Bloodrock Springs	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	23	Megaphone	58
12	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
13	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
14	INSOMNIO	Fepo	Fiction	167	Simplecast	58
15	DUST	Gunpowder & Sky	Fiction	47	Acast	74
16	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
17	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
18	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	259	Megaphone	38
19	La Mano Peluda	Radio Fórmula	Fiction	1251	RSS.com	32
20	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	534	Simplecast	58
21	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
22	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
23	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
24	The Silt Verses	Eskew Productions Ltd	Fiction	56	Acast	84
25	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
26	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
27	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
28	Mission To Zyxx	Mission To Zyxx	Fiction	163	Simplecast	73
29	The Penumbra Podcast	Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert	Fiction	222	Acast	79
30	Clarkesworld Magazine	Clarkesworld Magazine	Fiction	1196	Libsyn	43
31	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
32	Station 151	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	78
33	Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality Audiobook	Jack Voraces	Fiction	137	Podbean	58
34	Redwood Bureau	Eeriecast Network	Fiction	120	Megaphone	53
35	Rabbits	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	25	Libsyn	58
36	Relatos De Horror (Historias De Terror)	Relatos De Horror	Fiction	2188	Acast	43
37	Ghost Wax	Far and Tall Tales	Fiction	76	Spreaker	69
38	Relatos por Santiago Segovia	Campus Originals	Fiction	375	Spotify for Podcasters	22
39	Biome	Alex Zoubine	Fiction	20	RSS.com	52
40	End of All Hope	Bloody FM	Fiction	99	Simplecast	68
41	Midst	Critical Role	Fiction	141	Megaphone	68
42	The Program audio series	IMS \| Writing an audio drama sci-fi anthology about history of the future \| Not at AI	Fiction	44	Acast	74
43	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	391	Megaphone	63
44	Expediente No Humano	Fepo	Fiction	42	Spotify for Podcasters	32
45	Spyology Squad	Mr. Jim and Storybutton	Fiction	709	ART19	69
46	I Am In Eskew	David Ward	Fiction	32	Acast	69
47	Fever Dreams: A Pulp Collection	Voyage Media	Fiction	27	Megaphone	42
48	WOE.BEGONE	WOE.BEGONE Industries LLC	Fiction	360	Acast	58
49	Caso 63	Spotify Studios	Fiction	63	Megaphone	59
50	Weird Tales Reborn	Scott Miller	Fiction	1	Simplecast	63
51	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
52	The Liberty Podcast	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	90	Megaphone	73
53	Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper	Nathan Lowell \| Scribl	Fiction	124	Megaphone	58
54	Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League (GFL) Series	Scott Sigler	Fiction	307	Megaphone	68
55	I Am Echo	Voyage Media	Fiction	22	Megaphone	73
56	The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality	Dominic Guilfoyle	Fiction	74	Acast	89
57	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	69	Acast	63
58	Within the Wires	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	120	Megaphone	63
59	VAST Horizon	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	38	Megaphone	69
60	Escape Pod	Escape Artists Foundation	Fiction	300	Libsyn	43
61	Entombed	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
62	Three Eyed Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	83	Acast	79
63	The 21CD Podcast	The 21CD Podcast	Fiction	181	Audioboom	32
64	Dead America - Zombie Audiobook Series	DerekSlatonAuthor	Fiction	250	RedCircle	48
65	Our Wars Have Ended	Eskew Productions	Fiction	9	Acast	84
66	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
67	Consumed	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	73
68	Darth Theorist	The Sonar Podcast Network	Fiction	83	Acast	79
69	Saate Sefr Podcast \| پادکست ساعت صفر	Amin Matin	Fiction	93	Acast	73
70	SCP: Find Us Alive	Hodgepodge Audio	Fiction	76	RedCircle	48
71	Hello From The Hallowoods	William A. Wellman	Fiction	233	Buzzsprout	57
72	Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series	Don McDonald	Fiction	3	Acast	69
73	The Natureverse: Becoming Mother Nature	GZM Shows	Fiction	22	ART19	78
74	Beyond the Dark	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	19	Megaphone	59
75	Dirt - An Audio Drama	STUDIO5705	Fiction	50	Megaphone	63
76	Birds of Empire	QCODE	Fiction	33	Megaphone	63
77	Deviser	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	8	Acast	69
78	EOS 10	Justin McLachlan and PlanetM	Fiction	40	Podbean	58
79	The Call of the Void	Acorn Arts and Entertainment	Fiction	33	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	SADISTIC	Be Afraid	Fiction	168	Acast	48
81	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
82	Dead Space: Deep Cover	Bloody FM, EA, Motive Studios	Fiction	14	Simplecast	83
83	Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? with Dylan & Dalton	Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth	Fiction	81	Unknown	83
84	LifeAfter/The Message	GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message	Fiction	22	Megaphone	79
85	Nightingale	GZM Shows	Fiction	19	ART19	73
86	ars PARADOXICA	ars PARADOXICA	Fiction	49	Libsyn	N/A
87	Havoc Town	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	13	Omny Studio	79
88	Galactic Horrors	Galactic Horrors	Fiction	754	Acast	53
89	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
90	Conversations with Ghosts	Dead Signals	Fiction	18	Libsyn	62
91	Rule of Nines	Ryan Weiler	Fiction	24	RSS.com	58
92	Sanctuary	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	RedCircle	78
93	The Mystery Frequency \| Audio Drama Radio	The Mystery Frequency	Fiction	1030	RedCircle	53
94	The Phenomenon	Luciola Creative	Fiction	33	Libsyn	63
95	Red Valley	Kontinue Productions	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
96	The Oyster	The Paragon Collective	Fiction	8	Libsyn	59
97	The Third Threat	Voyage Media	Fiction	16	Megaphone	63
98	Yuki: Space Assassin	Sadistic Dreamer	Fiction	59	Libsyn	63
99	From Now	QCODE	Fiction	7	Megaphone	73
100	The Deca Tapes	Lex Noteboom	Fiction	25	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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