Horror audiobooks

Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

By: Lemony Snicket

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESLike a car alarm, bagpipe music, or a doorbell ringing in the middle of the night, hearing this audio edition of The Bad Beginning will only upset you. This unique multi-voice recording brings the first book in Lemony Snicket's alarming A Series of Unfortunate Events to such terrible life that no one should really... Read more

Hannibal

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall.

In one of the most eagerly... Read more

A House With Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"...splendidly performed by Mary Robinette Kowal." - AudioFile Magazine

"Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a distinct voice, Kowal deftly and consistently moves between them and superbly renders Sam’s voice."- Library Journal

A haunting Southern... Read more

Frankenstein in Baghdad

By: Ahmed Saadawi

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

*International Booker Prize finalist*

“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times

“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds

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Johannes Cabal The Necromancer

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly... Read more

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

Narrated by: Garth Marenghi

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mind of horror master Garth Marenghi: a masterful multi-volume horror masterpiece thirty years in the making...

Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine)

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for... Read more

Little Heaven

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Corey Brill

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep!

A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman”—is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who... Read more

Slewfoot

By: Brom

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.

Connecticut, 1666.

An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector.

The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil.

To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and... Read more

A Lush and Seething Hell

By: John Hornor Jacobs

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—both never-before-published in print or audio—that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs... Read more

Pet Sematary

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Michael C. Hall

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among King’s most iconic and frightening novels.

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this... Read more

Theme Music

By: T. Marie Vandelly

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you've been looking for your newest horror obsession after The Haunting of Hill House, read this one next.”—BuzzFeed

She didn't run from her dark past. She moved in.
 
For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her... Read more

Abarat - Abridged

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.When the answer comes, it’s... Read more

Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who... Read more

The Shining

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel's dark secrets begin to unravel.

“An undisputed... Read more

Last to Leave the Room

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"With her deep and husky timbre, Xe Sands is the perfect reader for this horror/sf blend." —Booklist

Last to Leave the Room is a new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from Caitlin Starling, the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawrence.

The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of... Read more

Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat

By: Garth Marenghi

Narrated by: Garth Marenghi

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . .

Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he is observed, tested and 'interfered with'... Read more

The Fear Institute

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The third novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes CabalJohannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by the Fear Institute as they hunt for the phobic animus—the embodiment of fear. The three institute members, led by Cabal and his silver key,... Read more

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There

By: Eric LaRocca

Narrated by: Todd Menesses

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"The stories collected here are by turns confident, brutal, and breathtaking . . . must-read horror" —the New York Times



A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards® finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck... Read more

Dead End Girl

By: L.T. Vargus & Tim McBain

Narrated by: Kate Marcin

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There will be more.The serial killer thriller that "refuses to let go until you've read the last sentence."The most recent body was discovered in the grease dumpster behind a Burger King. Dismembered. Shoved into two garbage bags and lowered into the murky... Read more

They Threw Us Away

By: Daniel Kraus

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"A deliciously macabre fairy tale, full of snuggles.” —Holly Black, award-winning author of Doll Bones and co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles

Welcome to The Teddies Saga, a gripping new middle grade trilogy from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus.

Buddy wakes up in the middle of a garbage dump, filled with a certain awareness:... Read more

The Brothers Cabal

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes CabalHorst Cabal has risen from the dead—again.Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan is to create a country of horrors, a supernatural... Read more

The Fall of the House of Cabal

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring Johannes Cabal, necromancer. Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that,... Read more

They Call Me the Night Howler! (Goosebumps SlappyWorld #11)

By: R. L. Stine

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Slappy's world -- You only scream in it!Slappy does his scariest thing yet! Read more

Frightmares

By: Eva V. Gibson

Narrated by: Barrett Leddy

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2023 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel!

In a Florida tourist trap, a summer acting job turns into a real-life horror show when a cast member turns up dead—then disappears. This nail-biting story is perfect for fans of Fear Street and the Scream franchise.

Dave is spending his final summer before college working at Frightmares House... Read more