Horror audiobooks

Merrick

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft.

At the center is the... Read more

Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

Narrated by: Richard Burnip

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England—now a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark.

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of... Read more

Dark Matter

By: Michelle Paver

Narrated by: Jeremy Northam

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight... Read more

Blood Canticle

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off — and tells the story of Lestat’s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches:... Read more

The Vampire Armand

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel.... Read more

The White Guy Dies First

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Kalynn Bayron, Kendare B...

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pe...

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.

The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first.

Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze,... Read more

Some Shall Break

By: Ellie Marney

Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Jake Abel

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This electrifying, chilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller None Shall Sleep focuses on junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for. 

After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis... Read more

The Drowning House

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads. —Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the... Read more

The Nesting

By: C. J. Cooke

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller.

Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway—in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house, and he wants to honor her with it.

Lexi... Read more

The Devil's Playground

By: Craig Russell

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect.

"An excellent, engrossing historical horror novel."—New York Times Book Review
"Rich and riveting...a masterful thriller."... Read more

The Witch In The Well

By: Camilla Bruce

Narrated by: Charlotte Davey, Christina Cole & Emily Barber

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Witch in the Well is a dark Norwegian thriller from Camilla Bruce, author of You Let Me In.

When two former friends reunite after decades apart, their grudges, flawed ambitions, and shared obsession swirl into an all-too-real echo of a terrible town legend.

Centuries ago, beautiful young Ilsbeth Clark was accused of witchcraft after several... Read more

Devil Said Bang

By: Richard Kadrey

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you do after you’ve escaped Hell, gone back, uncovered the true nature of God, and then managed to become the new Lucifer? Well, if you’re James Stark, you have to figure out how to run Hell while also trying to get back out of it . . . again. Plus there’s the small matter of surviving. Because everyone in Heaven, Hell, and in between... Read more

Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City

By: Christian McKay Heidicker

Narrated by: Christian McKay Heidicker

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The heart-stopping companion to the 2020 Newbery Honor recipient Scary Stories for Young Foxes, chronicling the adventures of three fox kits desperate to survive the terrors of a frightening new world.Fox kit O-370 hungers for a life of adventure, like those lived long ago by Mia and Uly. But on the Farm, foxes know only the safety of their wire... Read more

World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide - Abridged

By: Max Brooks

Narrated by: Various

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

World War Z
“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated ... Read more

Hell Divers XI: Renegades

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith pulls the surviving divers into another heart-stopping adventure in Hell Divers XI: Renegades.The secret location of the Vanguard Islands is no longer a secret … Tired from years of fighting, Xavier passes the crown to a younger Hell Diver, Kade Long, and then sets off on... Read more

The Apparition Phase

By: Will Maclean

Narrated by: Theo Solomon

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers. Precociously bright, they spend their evenings in their parents' attic discussing the macabre and unexplained, zealously re-reading books on folklore, hauntings and the supernatural. In particular, they are obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions and the... Read more

Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

Narrated by: Rebecca Quinn Robertson

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning.Tonight, Riverview Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, a shift that quickly takes a dark turn. First a stranger arrives... Read more

HIS BLACK TONGUE

By: MItchell Luthi

Narrated by: Anna Capraro & Scott Miller

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

There is no plague in Enfaire....Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-fearing town north of Reams. Not just dead things, but twisted forms…unholy shapes. And there are rumors, too, of a blasphemous union and of fell creatures that haunt the night. Yet even as plague and witch pyres blacken the sky, the town remains... Read more

The Memory Eater

By: Rebecca Mahoney

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“An eerie tale offering equal measures of fright, angst, and emotional catharsis.” —Kirkus, starred review

A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief, trauma, and memory, from the author of The Valley and the Flood.

For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the... Read more

I Call Upon Thee

By: Ania Ahlborn

Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhood-swimming and sleepovers, movie nights and dad jokes. But then there were the other things...the darker things...the shadow that followed her home from the cemetery and settled into the corners of her home, refusing to let her grow up in peace. Now, after three years of being away from the place she's... Read more

Thin Air

By: Michelle Paver

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Chosen for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club, this is the chilling new ghost story from the bestselling author of Dark Matter.

The Himalayas, 1935.

Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all.

Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far - and the... Read more

The Tyranny of Flies

By: Elaine Vilar Madruga

Narrated by: Morgan Dalla Betta, Max Meyers, Eve Passeltiner...

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative, darkly funny, and unique novel—a mix of Lord of the Flies and The Royal Tenenbaums—a dictator's former right-hand man becomes housebound and a family power struggle erupts. Growing up on a Cuba-esque Caribbean island, Casandra, Calia, and Caleb endure life under two tyrannies: that of their parents, and the Island’s... Read more

The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Lee Osorio

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

Narrated by: Susan Dalian

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.

“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal

“This brilliant novella is not... Read more