Horror audiobooks

The Statement of Randolph Carter

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's... Read more

The Lurking Fear

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of "strange horrors" who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen backwoods degenerates in an... Read more

Under the Pyramids

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Under the Pyramids" (in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in collaboration with Harry Houdini in February 1924. Commissioned by Weird Tales founder and owner J. C. Henneberger, the narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective... Read more

The Colour out of Space

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years... Read more

The Strange High House in the Mist

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that the story may have been inspired by Lord Dunsany's Chronicles of Rodriguez, in which strange sights can be seen from a wizard's... Read more

Cool Air

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery.The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. Read more

In the Vault

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the Vault" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout. George Birch, undertaker for the New England town of Peck Valley, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial... Read more

The Hound

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. The story opens with the unnamed narrator preparing to commit suicide. Lamenting his fate, he reflects upon the events which led him to... Read more

The Shunned House

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made... Read more

The Thing on the Doorstep

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933 and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will... Read more

The Unnamable

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The corrected text appears in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, (revised ed, 1986). The story's locale was inspired by the Charter... Read more

Poison Priestess

By: Lana Popovic

Narrated by: Jennifer Mudge

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In seventeenth-century Paris, nineteen-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler’s wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution—until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-bent on avoiding a return to poverty, Catherine must rely... Read more

You Can't Scare Me! (Classic Goosebumps #17)

By: R. L. Stine

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Goosebumps now on Disney+!Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave; and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's come up with the perfect plan to do it.Eddie's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Because he... Read more

Song of the Tyrant Worm

By: Hailey Piper

Narrated by: Allyson Voller

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailey Piper presents Book 3 in the Worm and His Kings series. Read more

The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

Narrated by: Jessie Baek

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

I know this place. The room is too dim to see clearly. It smells like the bones.



Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms—and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape. When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny... Read more

City of the Undead

By: C L Werner

Narrated by: Gareth Richards

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of unlikely heroes are all that stand in the way of humanity's demise as the zombie apocalypse engulfs the kingdom in this high fantasy adventure set in the world of Zombicide: Black Plague.



Witch Hunter Helchen mourns her dear friend, one of many heroes The Black Plague has sent to their grave as it consumes the kingdom. Yet she is... Read more

The Greenwood

By: Nathaniel Baker

Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stillness of the night, Catherine is jolted awake by an unsettling dream, her daughter Ava sharing in this nocturnal unease. The clock chimes 3:33. After tossing and turning she finally falls back to sleep. Morning arrives, revealing a disrupted routine as Ava's father drops the bombshell of an impending move, injecting chaos into their... Read more

The Whisperer in Darkness

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fiction. Although it makes numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos, the story is not a central... Read more

The Shadow out of Time

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Shadow Out of Time" is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The story describes time and space travel by mind transfer. The premise is that a person in a given place and time can switch bodies with... Read more

A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq. The story is a spoof of Lovecraft's antiquarian affectations. Littlewit, the narrator, is born August... Read more

The Moon-Bog

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate... Read more

Polaris

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes. Critic William Fulwiler writes that "'Polaris' is one of Lovecraft's most... Read more

The White Ship

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The White Ship" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19), November 1919, and later appeared in the March 1927 issue of Weird Tales. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which... Read more

Hypnos

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur. "Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is... Read more