Horror audiobooks

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FRANKENSTEIN, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil. Read by Kenneth Branagh,... Read more

Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow

By: James Howe

Narrated by: Patrick Mulvihill

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Monroe house is going mad with excitement. Pete has just won a contest, and the prize is a school visit from none other than M. T. Graves, Pete’s idol and the bestselling author of the FleshCrawlers series. He’s even going to stay with the Monroes while he’s visiting!

Harold and Howie are thrilled, but Chester the cat is suspicious. Why... Read more

Johnny and the Dead - Abridged

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sell the cemetery?

Over their dead bodies . . .

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 16: Draculas Gast

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Jäger, Melanie Pukaß & Joachmin Höppner

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Harker, ein junger Rechtsanwalt aus England, ist unterwegs zum Grafen Dracula, um diesen bezüglich des Erwerbs eines Anwesens in London zu beraten. Auf der Reise gerät er in die Nähe eines von der Bevölkerung plötzlich verlassenen Dorfes. Die Neugier des jungen, verwegenen Mannes ist geweckt und alle Mahnungen des verängstigten... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 23: Die Bilder der Ahnen

By: Johann August Apel

Narrated by: Dennis Schmidt-Foß, Melanie Hinze & Dagmar Biener

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Graf Ferdinand von Panner weilt zu Besuch auf dem Schloss der Familie seines Schulfreundes. Eine düstere Legende verdunkelt zeitweise das Gemüt der dort Wohnenden. Was hat es auf sich mit der gefürchteten Geistererscheinung eines unheimlichen Ritters, die nachts an das Lager der männlichen Nachkommen tritt? Ferdinands Neugier ist geweckt, denn... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 22: Der fliegende Holländer

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Wolfgang Condrus, Dascha Lehmann & Nicolas Artajo

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bis in alle Ewigkeit verflucht, muss das Geisterschiff des fliegenden Holländers die Weltmeere auf der Suche nach der ersehnten Erlösung der Mannschaft durchstreifen. Unheil droht demjenigen, der dem rotglühenden Dreimaster in stürmischer Nacht begegnet. Verderben hingegen wird dem zuteil, der sich mit dem verfluchten Kapitän des Seglers einlässt Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 21: Der Hexenfluch

By: Per McGraup

Narrated by: Marianne Wischman, Edith Schneider, Cathlen Gaw...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Der Rachedurst des Geistes der auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannten Hexe Katrina van Kampen ist auch nahezu dreihundert Jahre später noch nicht gestillt. In einer schaurigen Halloween-Nacht sehen sich die beiden letzten Nachkommen des damaligen Hexenjägers, zwei pensionierte Lehrerinnen, im beschaulichen Städtchen Newport einer tödlichen Gefahr... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 20: Der Werwolf

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Thomas Nero Wolff, Uschi Hugo, Marco Kröger & L...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Holzschuhmacher Thibaut wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als ein reicher Edelmann zu sein. In einer stürmischen Winternacht rettet er einem großen Wolf, der vom Wolfsjägermeister Baron Jean de Vez und seinen Schergen gehetzt wurde, das Leben. Thibaut staunt nicht schlecht, als das gewaltige Tier sich in seiner Hütte urplötzlich in einen... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 19: Dracula (Folge 3 von 3)

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Kaspar Eichel, Tobias Kluckert & Marius Clarén

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Unter der Führung von Professor Abraham Van Helsing formiert sich der Widerstand gegen Dracula. Gemeinsam begibt sich die Gruppe auf die Suche nach den übrigen Kisten, die der Schoner Demeter geladen hatte. Durch deren Vernichtung würde dem Vampir der Verbleib in England unmöglich werden. Noch ahnen die Freunde nicht, dass Dracula bereits einen... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 18: Dracula (Folge 2 von 3)

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Petra Barthel, Tanja Geke & Lutz Mackensy

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Harkers Verlobte Mina Murray beabsichtigt mit ihrer Freundin Lucy Westenra im Badeort Whitby ein paar unbeschwerte Tage in der Sommerfrische zu verleben. Ein heftiger Sturm spült ein von der Mannschaft verlassenes Schiff an Land, das eine unheilvolle Ladung enthält. Lucy beginnt daraufhin unruhig zu schlafen. Etwas ergreift Besitz von... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 17: Dracula (Folge 1 von 3)

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Joachim Höppner, Simon Jäger & K. Dieter Klebsch

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Bereits während Jonathan Harkers Reise zur Festung des Grafen Dracula in den Karpaten häuften sich unheilvolle Vorzeichen. Wer ist dieser Graf, zu dem der junge englische Anwalt unterwegs ist? Warum fürchten ihn alle und wagen kaum seinen Namen zu nennen? Jonathan beschließt, trotz allem seinen Auftrag auszuführen und steigt in die Kutsche, die... Read more

The Unloved - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The House: Lush and deceptively tranquil, with its pristine beaches and blossoming vegetation, the island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast. Here, where sudden storms unleash the murderous rage of wind and sea, stands the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amid ancient oaks dripping with Spanish... Read more

Hannibal Rising

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. 

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him... Read more

Brother Odd

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear–his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost his soul mate, the irreplaceable Stormy Llewellyn.... Read more

The Unwanted - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her suddenly in the dead of night are merely the beginning. Very soon,... Read more

The Right Hand of Evil

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In a career spanning more than twenty years, New York Times bestselling author John Saul has terrified us with his chilling, psychologically charged novels. Now, in The Right Hand of Evil, Saul plumbs the icy depths of darkness—and gives us his most frightening, compelling novel yet. Don't turn out the light. . . .Just as their troubled marriage... Read more

Nathaniel - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the blood of the past, evil rises to seek undying vengeance... Prairie Bend.Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold. A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is Nathaniel? For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply... Read more

Ghosthunters and the Gruesome Invincible Lightning Ghost

By: Cornelia Funke

Narrated by: John Beach

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Can Tom and the team “dampen the spirit”–permanently!–of a fiery phantom, or are they about to get burned?
Boy hero Tom, Hugo the Averagely Spooky Ghost, and famed ghoul hunter Hetty Hyssop have formed an agency dedicated to dealing with difficult apparitions. No spook can defeat them–until their too close encounter with a Gruesome Invincible... Read more

Lisey's Story

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

*Now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*

The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.

Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a... Read more

The Black Tattoo

By: Sam Enthoven

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack’s best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil ends—which, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe.

Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend with floating sharks, intelligent jelly, oversized... Read more

The God Project - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts.... Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest fears. Something unexplained that is taking the children, one by one.Sally Montgomery has just lost her beautiful little baby girl. Lucy and Jim... Read more

World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide - Abridged

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Various

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

World War Z
“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated ... Read more

World War Z - Abridged

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting... Read more

The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane (Book 2)

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts. But now there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat; a force so evil... Read more