The Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).
“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might... Read more
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
By: Kalynn Bayron
Narrated by: Clifford Samuel
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine
A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more
Jackal
By: Erin E. Adams
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo & William DeMeritt
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first—and she may not be the last. . . .
“I read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night.”—BuzzFeed
“Extraordinary . . . A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by... Read more
The Babysitter Lives
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc & Stephen Graham Jones
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It’s perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride…especially when you’re almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.” —Stephen King
Only on Audio! A... Read more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner... Read more
View audiobookWake the Bones
By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force.” - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew... Read more
Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Justis Bolding, Cindy Kay, Laura...
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and, of course, the salacious... Read more
View audiobookThe Clackity
By: Lora Senf
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.
Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight... Read more
Wretched Waterpark
By: Kiersten White
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who solve mysteries at increasingly bizarre summer vacation destinations in the hopes of being reunited with their parents—or at the very least finally finding a good churro.
“An absolute delight. If I have to die in a... Read more
The Hidden
By: Melanie Golding
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
One dark December night in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children's toys raises more... Read more
View audiobookThe Death of Jane Lawrence
By: Caitlin Starling
Narrated by: Mandy Weston
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.
"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more
White Smoke
By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson!Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California... Read more
View audiobookCertain Dark Things
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on... Read more
Red X
By: David Demchuk
Narrated by: Salvatore Antonio & David Demchuk
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries.
Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS... Read more
Mine
By: Delilah S. Dawson
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.
"A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim
"Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it.”--Katherine Arden, bestselling... Read more
The Lost Village
By: Camilla Sten
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listen to Angela Dawe’s eerie narration of the first seven minutes of Camilla Sten’s 'The Lost Village' - I defy you to stop there."- The Seattle Times
"Narrator Angela Dawe raises the stakes in this atmospheric horror novel...Her varying pacing amps up the suspense, and her flexible voice breathes life into the multitude of characters,... Read more
Later
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Seth Numrich
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
2022 MYSTERY AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING!
SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one... Read more
Coraline
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neus Sendra
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Acompaña a Coraline y déjate transportar al mundo de fantasía y terror creado por el premiado autor Neil Gaiman. «Damas y caballeros, niñas y niños, pónganse en pie y aplaudan: Coraline es una obra maestra.»
Philip Pullman, The GuardianAl día siguiente de mudarse de casa, Coraline explora las catorce puertas de su nuevo hogar. Trece se pueden... Read more
Survivor Song
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen KingIn a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the... Read more
View audiobookWas She Wicked? Was She Good?
By: M. Rickert
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Was She Wicked? Was She Good?" is a short horror story by award-winning author M. Rickert, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.
Not all anniversaries are happy occasions. One family copes with the damage that remains after being victims of a home invasion.
Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an... Read more
A Cosmology of Monsters
By: Shaun Hamill
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King
Noah Turner sees monsters.
His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.
His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too... Read more
The Whisper Man
By: Alex North
Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners looking for creepy will find it in full force in Alex North's dark thriller, narrated by British actor Christopher Eccleston." -- AudioFile Magazine
"Reader Eccleston...adds flavor to the tale. He reads with a fervor that gives the story a strong sense of suspense." -- Booklist
This program is read by acclaimed British actor Christopher... Read more
Inspection
By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other exists—until now. The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and chills in a coming-of-age story like no other.
NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • “Josh Malerman is a master at unsettling you—and keeping you... Read more
Sawkill Girls
By: Claire Legrand
Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
“Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power.” —Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth“An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength.” —Mindy McGinnis, author of The Female of the SpeciesFIVE STARRED REVIEWSNAMED ONE OF YALSA’S 2019 BEST... Read more
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