Spooktober

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

A Novel

By: Ashley Winstead
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl... Read more

The Death of Jane Lawrence

A Novel

By: Caitlin Starling
Narrated by: Mandy Weston
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

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

If We Were Villains

A Novel

By: M. L. Rio
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”
--Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a... Read more

Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel
Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Spine-chilling and sharp, Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and “is set to be one of the year's most talked about books” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author).

*A Most Anticipated Title by LitReactor, Bloody Disgusting, Book Riot, The Line Up, CrimeReads, Goodreads, and more!*

The last... Read more

Feral Youth

By: Shaun David Hutchinson, Suzanne Young, Marieke Nijkamp, Robin Talley, Stephanie Kuehn, E. C. Myers, Tim Floreen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Justina Ireland & Brandy Colbert
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton & Jacques Roy
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Ten teens are left alone in the wilderness during a three-day survival test in this multi-authored novel led by award-winning author Shaun David Hutchinson.

At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor-education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard work, cooperation, and compassion, ten teens are left alone in the wild. The teens are a... Read more

Ten

By: Gretchen McNeil
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Ten teens. Three days. One killer.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. But what starts out as fun turns twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. And... Read more

Confessions

By: Kanae Minato
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis & Noah Galvin
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her... Read more

Secret Santa

By: Andrew Shaffer
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times bestselling satirist Andrew Shaffer.Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the... Read more

Kingdom of Needle and Bone

By: Mira Grant
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more.

Or so... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

Leave the World Behind

A Novel

By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

“This fraught and claustrophobic psychological thriller begins innocently enough, with a family leaving New York for a long weekend at a rented house near the beach. They enjoy the luxury and languor of their getaway, until the house's owners, an older Black couple, show up unexpectedly, late at night, fleeing from a wide-spread power outage in... Read more

Come Closer

By: Sara Gran
Narrated by: Julie McKay
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At... Read more

Daisy Darker

A Novel

By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“I queued up Daisy Darker on my Libro.fm app as I was setting out on an 11-hour solo road trip. As I suspected, it was the perfect pick. Alice Feeney's newest is: 1) a page-turner (track-advancer? whatever the audiobook equivalent is); 2) deliciously creepy, but with a scenario so particular that you won't worry about anything in the novel... Read more

The Hollow Places

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

“I do not recommend listening to this audiobook while driving down the Pike in the dark after your shift at the bookstore because this is one of the most creepy, terrifying books I’ve ever listened to. While horror is not my usual genre, the main characters were so relatable and endearing that I had to follow them to the end. Even when I was... Read more