Horror audiobooks

Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. ​

In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more

Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Midnight on Beacon Street is a lot of things. It’s a taut thriller about a babysitter and two kids surviving one weird night. It’s a celebration of classic horror movies. It’s a creepy narrative that involves a ghost and late night home break-ins. And, most important, it’s a lot of fun. . . Verona plays with home invasion tropes by delivering a... Read more

Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

Narrated by: Wesley French, Lawrence Bayne, Susan Roman, Jan...

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.

Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself... Read more

Mister Lullaby

By: J. H. Markert

Narrated by: David Bendena & Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the... Read more

The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

By: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Narrated by: Tara Koehler

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and... Read more

What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... Read more

Wild Spaces

By: S. L. Coney

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his... Read more

The Militia House

By: John Milas

Narrated by: Davis Brooks

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.

It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing... Read more

Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters... Read more

Maeve Fly

By: CJ Leede

Narrated by: Sosie Bacon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library Journal

A provocative debut... 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

Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From Catriona Ward, the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street comes Little Eve, a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.

“A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off... 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

Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying supernatural page-turner that explores ghosts, grief, and god complexesEver since their on-again, off-again college romance, Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with charismatic but reckless Silas, who has been chasing the next big high since graduation. When he texts her to spring him out of rehab, she knows enough is... 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

Wake 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

From Below

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

No light. No air. No escape.Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more... Read more

The 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

Sundial

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King

A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
STARRED review from Publishers Weekly!
Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!

Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally... 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

This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

Narrated by: Robb Moreira

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —Sarah Lyall, The New... 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