Horror audiobooks

The Queen

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill & Pete Sim...

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She... Read more

The Stand

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky... Read more

The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal

"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile

A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more

The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Adrienne King

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today

A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle,... Read more

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to... Read more

The Book of Witching

By: C. J. Cooke

Narrated by: Paula Masterton

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic.

Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a... Read more

The Blacktongue Thief

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman. Along with his firsthand knowledge of the text and how he means it to be conveyed, Buehlman uses nuance, inflection, and a casual way of saying outrageous things to continually tickle the funny bone." -- AudioFile Magazine

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized... Read more

Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.

“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep... Read more

The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . .

Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too... Read more

Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries... 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

Graveyard Shift

By: M. L. Rio

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, M. L. Rio, Max Meyers, Si Chen, ...

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.

Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a... Read more

Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year 

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
 
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked... Read more

Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman & Kiersten White

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this “skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ‘90s nostalgia” (Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Woods) from the author of Hide.

“[A] propulsive, exciting, often genuinely... Read more

I Was A Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Stephen Graham Jones

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY Bestseller

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good... Read more

The Twisted Ones

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the RUSA Award for Best Horror

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead... Read more

Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

Narrated by: Adina Verson

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.

“A quirky, gruesome, utterly original feminist horror experience.” —The New York Times Book Review

When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with... Read more

Krampus

By: Brom

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Terrific. A wild ride….I loved it. It hooked me and I couldn’t put it down.”
—Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy""Brom is that rare breed: a person who is skilled in more than one area of artistic expression. Here's hoping that he will continue to share his dark and often beautiful dreams with us for many years to come."" --Christopher Paolini,... Read more

The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."– Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Kyle Beltran, Matthe...

Length: 22 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King, including “The Monkey” and “The Mist”!

From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonder…unforgettable tales that will take you to the edge of imagination, where your darkest fears... Read more

The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by author and narrator Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.

Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not... Read more

Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.

But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot... Read more

Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.

"A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." —Paul... Read more

Memorials

By: Richard Chizmar

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024
“Scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night.” —STEPHEN KING

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the... Read more