Spooky Stories

A Grown-Up’s Halloween - Abridged

Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish

By: various authors
Narrated by: a full cast, Tom Towles, Mark Bramhall, Ira Burton, Robertson Dean, Bo Foxworth, Jane Jacobs, James Otis, Lorna Raver, Stefan Rudnicki, Tom Alderman, Annabel Armour, Carolyn Brenner, Viola Berwick, Hamilton Camp, David Chadderdon, James Deuter, John Doremus, Michelle M. Faith, Gary Gears, Joe Greco, Melissa Greenspan, Richard Kind, Glenn Kovacevich, Sonja Lanzener, Stephen Markle, David Mink, Roger Mueller, William Munchow, Brian Murray, Phil Proctor, David Rasche, Avery Schreiber & Pat Terry
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of... Read more

The Raven and Selected Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Bronson Pinchot
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

The title work in this collection of twelve short stories and poems is widely regarded as the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe's writings. This unsettling tale in verse tells of a man's slow descent into madness as he mourns the loss of his lover. The mysterious visit of a talking raven that utters only one word sparks the man's steady decline.Now... Read more

Fragile Things

By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“A prodigiously imaginative collection.”—New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.”
—Washington Post Book World Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New... Read more

Broken Monsters

By: Lauren Beukes
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Christine Lakin, Robert Morgan Fisher, Terra Deva & Sunil Mohatra
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can... Read more

Bird Box

A Novel

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“Imagine something so terrifying, one glimpse and a person is impulsively driven to commit deadly violence, to oneself and others? Suddenly forced into a world of darkness, covered windows and blindfolds, Malorie must survive for the sake of her unborn child. Finding herself amongst a group of survivors, led by the knowledgeable Tom, Malorie soon... 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

The Lesser Dead

By: Christopher Buehlman
Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

"As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his genre-bending novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet.The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The... Read more

The Girl With All the Gifts

By: M. R. Carey
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity -- or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller Joss Whedon calls "heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human."

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be... Read more