Scary Stories To Listen To in the Dark

How to Sell a Haunted House

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

“Have you ever wished the Chucky movies were scarier? Do you love reading about family trauma and family drama? Are you a fan of Haunted Dolls? Wow, do I have a book for you. I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say this: Pupkin is one of the most unsettling characters I’ve had the pleasure of reading, and Grady Hendrix got a full-body... Read more

The Book of Accidents

A Novel

By: Chuck Wendig
Narrated by: Xe Sands & George Newbern
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

“Tense, upsetting, twisty and fun. Wendig's newest novel moves with brutal efficiency while still managing to delve into the way trauma shapes our lives. There's a bleakness to the stain abuse can leave on generations, but Chuck manages to show how that same bleakness makes the choice not to succumb all the more brilliant. One of my favorite... Read more

Ghost Eaters

A Novel

By: Clay McLeod Chapman
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

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 Return

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Sarah Scott
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.

Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s... Read more

The Nightmare Man

By: J. H. Markert
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 12 hours

Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to... Read more

Horrorstör

A Novel

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Tai Sammons & Bronson Pinchot
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A traditional haunted house story in a contemporary setting, and full of current fears, Horrorstör delivers a high-concept premise in a unique style.Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjërring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip... Read more

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Mexican Gothic is a fairytale turned nightmare, perhaps with a nod to Jordan Peele’s Get Out. In 1950’s Mexico, glamorous debutante Noemí receives a mysterious letter from her newlywed cousin Catalina. In frantic prose, she pleads for Noemí to visit her at High Place, the family residence of her husband, an English expat whom she has grown to... Read more

The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Lee Osorio
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...

During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo... Read more

Devolution

A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks
Narrated by: Judy Greer, Max Brooks, Jeff Daniels, Nathan Fillion, Mira Furlan, Terry Gross, Kimberly Guerrero, Kate Mulgrew, Kai Ryssdal & Steven Weber
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

“Incredible. Every Max Brook book is everything you could ever want it to be and then some and Devolution is no exception. His most traditionally structured work yet, Devolution is an epistolary account of the town of Greenloop, a small, isolated, high- tech community situated in the middle of the Cascades and what befalls it after the fictional... Read more

Plain Bad Heroines

A Novel

By: Emily M. Danforth
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

“I have never read a book that was this much fun. This was a roller coaster of a read, hitting all the notes from beginning to end. Gothic elements intermingled with the current time period will keep the reader so engrossed that they won’t realize they’ve stayed up all night reading this book, one that’s the kind of book you don’t want to read in... Read more

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Cara Gee
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

“This frequently amusing and ultimately satisfying meta-horror novel follows Jade, a Native high-schooler with no friends, no extant future outside her janitorial job, and a deep love for slasher flicks, which are her coping mechanism in the face of an alcoholic father and absentee mom. Film trivia pervade the narration at every turn, but slasher... Read more

Cherish Farrah

A Novel

By: Bethany C. Morrow
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by PopSugar,Ms. magazine, Medium, Book Riot, BookPage, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, Bookshop, Book Talk, BiblioLifestyle, and more! 

AN APRIL 2022 BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK

“Morrow uses her heroine’s warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and class in America, but this isn’t a book intended to... Read more

Jackal

A Novel

By: Erin E. Adams
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo & William DeMeritt
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

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

Ring Shout

By: P. Djeli Clark
Narrated by: Channie Waites
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

“Great for fans of Lovecraft Country, Ring Shout takes very real terrors and mixes them with demonic horrors that feed off hatred and racism in a fast paced novella you won't want to put down. Read more

Nightmare Fuel

The Science of Horror Films

By: Nina Nesseth
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why?

In Nightmare Fuel, Nina Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? And why do we keep coming back for more?

Horror films promise an experience: fear. But how exactly do filmmakers... Read more

Alice Isn't Dead

A Novel

By: Joseph Fink
Narrated by: Jasika Nicole
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

“If you’ve ever driven Highway 5 late at night, you know there is something ethereal about the long stretch of road when it is blanketed with stars. Joseph Fink evokes the same feeling in his newest novel, Alice Isn’t Dead. After the supposed death of her wife, Keisha—certain Alice is still alive—abandons her life to become a trucker and search... Read more

Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“I call this ‘horror light.’ A well narrated story of sisters in a small town with a werewolf situation! A little romance, a little horror, a little family drama! *chef’s kiss!* Read more

Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.

A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company.

It’s the perfect venue for a... Read more

Pearl

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

From Josh Malerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, comes the legend of Pearl, a strange new monster unlike any other in horror (previously published as On This, the Day of the Pig).

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic... Read more

Sundial

By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

“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