Reads To Get You In The Halloween Spirit

All the Sinners Bleed

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

“What appears at the start to be a story about a Black boy being killed by police turns into a layered tale of sustained abuse, systemic neglect, and deranged evangelical serial killers set in a small Appalachian town. At no point reading this powerful and suspenseful mystery did I have any guess where it was going and it was such a wonderful... Read more

The Spite House

A Novel

By: Johnny Compton
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“What happens when righteous anger putrefies, and becomes malignant? Sometimes you get a spite house. Sometimes you get a spirit so hell-bent on living, they come back, bringing a piece of hell back with them. What happens when others tell themselves the same little lies you tell yourself? In the shadows of Johnny Compton's Spite House, you will... Read more

The Inmate

By: Freida McFadden
Narrated by: Leslie Howard
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“Quick read! Kept you on your toes. Read more

The Stranger Upstairs

A Novel

By: Lisa M. Matlin
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Most people wouldn’t buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people.
 
“This debut novel deftly explores our shadows—the dark parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. I couldn’t stop reading.”—Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat

A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Locust Lane

A Novel

By: Stephen Amidon
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

“Locust Lane is a twisty and suspenseful thriller made even better by absolutely stellar narrating! A little Girl On The Train mixed with some Little Fires Everywhere when a young woman turns up dead, three high school students were there, and everyone has a secret, but no one is talking. This book had me looking for household chores to do, just... 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

Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

“No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath... Read more

The Trap

By: Catherine Ryan Howard
Narrated by: John Keating & Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

“I can’t believe that The Trap is the first Catherine Ryan Howard book I have listened to, but I guarantee you it won’t be my last. The cast of characters - missing women, an unreliable police task force, the grief-stricken sister of one of the missing girls, the boyfriend of one of the women, the husband of another, and a civilian in the missing... Read more

Finch House

By: Ciera Burch
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Encanto meets Coraline in this “supremely successful, atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade story that deals with family ties, fear of change, and generational trauma as it follows a girl who must convince an old, haunted house to release its hold on her and her family.

Eleven-year-old Micah has no interest in moving out of her grandfather’s... Read more

Vampires of El Norte

By: Isabel Cañas
Narrated by: Jose Nateras & Krysta Gonzales
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

“Vampires of El Norte is a thrilling supernatural gothic Western set during the Mexican-American War that is a perfect follow-up to The Hacienda. It is just the perfect blend of adventure, horror, and romance to keep you turning the pages well after lights-out. Read more

Rouge

A Novel

By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

“The 'perfect' cover for this wicked tale that cunningly snarks the insanity of the cosmetic industry and mother/daughter relationships while detailing the creepy horror of losing your mind. An old song Spill The Wine kept playing in my head. A ruby red juicy gem! Read more

The Vet's Daughter

By: Barbara Comyns
Narrated by: Katherine Press
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

'A small Gothic masterpiece… I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life... Read more

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

By: Barbara Comyns
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. Unnatural floods usher in dead peacocks and ducks, soon followed by an ominous wave of self-inflicted deaths and a peculiar illness. From their humble Willoweed cottage, sisters Emma and Hattie are helpless spectators to this unfolding chaos, their childhood idyll... Read more

The Pale Ones

By: Bartholomew Bennett
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Pulp fiction just got a whole lot scarier... Few books ever become loved. Most linger on undead, their sallow pages labyrinths of old, brittle stories and screeds of forgotten knowledge… And other things, besides: Paper-pale forms rustle softly through their leaves. Ink-dark shapes swarming in shadow beneath faded type. And an... Read more

The Shadows of Rutherford House

By: C E Rose
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family… In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply... Read more

The Ted Dreams

By: Fay Weldon
Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

'She's a queen of words' - Caitlin Moran 'It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept...' Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why... Read more

The Horror of Haglin House

The Violet Thorn Mysteries: Book #1

By: M.R.C. Kasasian
Narrated by: Emma Gregory
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Home is where the horror is… Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet's peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor... Read more

The Monsters We Deserve

By: Marcus Sedgwick
Narrated by: Alan Irving
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world?' The Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new... Read more

Kult

By: Stefan Malmström
Narrated by: Luke R. Francis
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

The past will never let you go... When a four-year-old girl and her father are found dead in the Swedish city of Karlskrona, the police quickly rule it as a suicide. Believing it's a mistake, reformed criminal Luke Bergman is determined to uncover the truth. As the body count rises, Luke embarks on an investigation into his friend's former... Read more

The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter & Andrew F. Sullivan
Narrated by: Corey Brill
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror.

When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house.... Read more