Recommendations from the Green Hand for Spooky Listening!

Goblin

A Novel in Six Novellas

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a chilling story that revolves around a mysterious small town, revealing its sinister secrets one by one.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Must-read horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Goblin seems like any other ordinary small... Read more

Later

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Seth Numrich
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

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

Joyland

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Michael Kelly
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book....Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime).

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as... Read more

How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

“The best haunted house story is entrenched in family regrets, trauma, memories, and gleefully corrupted childhood monoliths. Hendrix does all of this with heart-stopping fear, love and loss, and so, so many puppets. Think Annabeth meets Chucky with a sprinkle of every campy 80s horror movie you loved as a kid. Whimsical horror, dark comedy and... Read more

'Salem's Lot (Movie Tie-in)

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

#1 BESTSELLER • Soon to be a new major motion picture • Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.    

Writer Ben... Read more

A House With Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“I was pleasantly surprised at how quick and almost light this was despite the book discussing intergenerational trauma and abuse. This is really a credit to the wonderful narrator, Sam, and the comedic tone Kingfisher maintains even in the most perilous of moments. A love letter to mother/daughter relationships AND vultures. Read more

What Moves the Dead

Sworn Soldier: Book #1

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“A wonderfully creepy, atmospheric horror that seeps into your bones for the short 5 hours. Filled with gruesome and unsettling fungal descriptions, Kingfisher masterfully creates a setting that you can't take your mental eye off of, yet makes you desperately want to take a shower. Also a surprisingly refreshing take on gender (the main... Read more

Night Music

Nocturnes Volume Two

Nocturnes: Book #2

By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Jeff Harding, Penelope Rawlins & Luke Thompson
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mysteries—"the finest crime series currently in existence" (The Independent)—comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction.

A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie... Read more

Nocturnes

By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

From #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly comes Nocturnes, a dark, daring, utterly haunting shot story anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts.

Connolly’s collection of supernatural novellas and stories echoes the work of some of the masters of the genre while never losing his own... Read more

The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Adrienne King
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

“Lynnette has been going to the same support group for years — only this isn't a normal support group. It’s a secret group for final girls. This is a fast-paced and shocking thriller that I couldn't put down! Read more

In the Woods

A Novel

Dublin Murder Squad: Book #1

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 20 hours 26 minutes

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). 

“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times

Now... Read more

Generation Loss

The Cass Neary Crime Novels: Book #1

By: Elizabeth Hand
Narrated by: Carol Monda
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame.Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on... Read more

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Anne Heche
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of her beloved Red Sox relief pitcher to sustain her and help her survive—maybe.

During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha... Read more

Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub
Narrated by: Buck Schirner
Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past...

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?

In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves... Read more

A Winter Haunting

The Seasons of Horror Series: Book #4

By: Dan Simmons
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage—and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts... Read more

Summer of Night

By: Dan Simmons
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 22 hours 1 minute

It’s the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys’ days are marked by all of the secrets and silences of an idyllic childhood. But amid the sun-drenched... Read more

Small Spaces

Small Spaces Quartet: Book #1

By: Katherine Arden
Narrated by: Renee Dorian
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic.

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the... Read more

The Figure in the Shadows

Lewis Barnavelt: Book #2

By: John Bellairs
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 3 hours 1 minute

A classic fantasy/mystery from critically acclaimed novelist John Bellairs Lewis thought the amulet would bring him good luck--instead, it brought nothing but evil. Lewis is sure that Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin is really a magic talisman in disguise. With its power, he could do anything he wante--like get back at bully Woody Mingo. But... Read more

The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Lewis Barnavelt: Book #1

By: John Bellairs
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black! "The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary... Read more

The Face in the Frost

By: John Bellairs
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls—basis for the Jack Black movie—and "a writer who knows what wizardry is all about" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel with the inventiveness of fairy... Read more