Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Hive Invasion [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seeking refuge in a post-Armageddon America, Ryan Cawdor and his crew of misfits travel together for survival and sanity. Known as Deathlands, this lawless hellscape is defined by destruction, death and despair. Only those who persevere with the belief in a better future stand a chance in this world where each day brings a new, and potentially... Read more

Forbidden Trespass [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the war-torn wasteland known as Deathlands, desperation and destruction have replaced dreams and peace. Each day arrives with a new life-threatening challenge for wanderer Ryan Cawdor and his fellow band of survivors….
Bizarre murders are taking place in a fertile farming community, and the locals are quick to point fingers at Ryan and his... Read more

Devil's Vortex [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An orphaned teen with the ability to transform into a vicious whirlwind latches on to Ryan and the companions as they travel through former North Dakota. Her deadly power seems like a boon at first, until it starts to control her. When threatened, she destroys everything in her path…including those she loves. Then a group of outcast fighters... Read more

Child of Slaughter [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Doc is taken captive by a band of marauders in what was once Nebraska, Ryan and the companions rally to get him back. But they aren't just fighting the local muties. They're also up against the area's terrifying terrain, which shifts and morphs at a moment's notice. With their options dwindling in this mazelike region that doesn't obey the... Read more

End Day [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan Cawdor and his six companions struggle to survive postnuclear America, a grim new world where hope for the future is lost amid the devastation.
In pursuit of a hardened enemy—Magus—Ryan and the companions find themselves in a land more foreign than any they've encountered. After unwittingly slipping through a time hole, the group lands in... Read more

Shaking Earth [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a nuclear blast all but vaporized the Western Hemisphere in the late twenty-first century, America became known as Deathlands, a hellhole that has proved itself a formidable foe in the fight for survival—a place where the will to see another day comes down to raw courage and a good aim. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group roam the vast and... Read more

Rat King [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, homing their survival skills in a wasteland where danger lurks over the next hill.

Emerging into one of the pre-dark... Read more

Gemini Rising [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, N...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After two centuries of nuclear blight, a new America is emerging, forged by those seeking peace and hope for the future. Pocket communities, ruled by local barons, have become the new centers of civilization...and power. But while many desire prosperity, others embrace ideas of ultimate domination.

The son of a powerful baron, Ryan Cawdor has... Read more

Time Nomads [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the blasted heart of the new America, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists search for hidden caches of food, weapons and technology—the legacy of a pre-holocaust society—stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts.

When Ryan ingests bacteria-infested food, he lies near death—his body paralyzed but his mind traveling rapidly back... Read more

Bad Blood [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bad Blood is an original Deathlands story written specifically for GraphicAudio and is available in no other format.
The Cornerstone saga continues as a disgruntled Ryan and troubled Jak return from their harrowing scavenger mission to find that there are two mysterious new arrivals in the ville, presumed initiates to the ways of Gaia, the Earth... Read more

Pilgrimage to Hell [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jack Adrian

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a crisp January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C.
Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival.
In the blasted heart of the new America, a group... Read more

Devil Riders [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A century after the nuclear conflagration almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those who would be killed. But an elite few defy the laws of this new natural selection—playing both sides of the eternal game of life and death. Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior... Read more

Northstar Rising [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A generation after a global nuclear catastrophe, Minnesota is a steamy tropical environment of lush plants and horrifically mutated insects.

Emerging torn and battered after a triple jump through the gateways, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors discover an abandoned cryonics complex—a doomed fantasy begun a century before in a... Read more

Red Equinox [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Three generations after nuclear blasts all but vaporized the Earth, a group of warrior survivalists led by a charismatic man named Ryan Cawdor roam the hostile environment called Deathlands.

Their quest becomes a grim struggle for survival as they search for a better life beyond the nuke-ravaged cities. And it is one such harrowing journey that... Read more

Dark Lands [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Brenton J. Cox

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, A...

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What will it be like when the world really ends? Do you think that your Doomsday television shows and your Survival internet forums have prepared you for what is really coming? Do you think you will be able to keep your sanity with no cellular phone, no automobile, and no electricity? Will you be able to steal to stay warm, eat the family pet so... Read more

Angels Of Our Nature [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deathlands 129: Angels Of Our Nature is an original Deathlands story written specifically for GraphicAudio and is available in no other format.
In the epic conclusion to the Cornerstone saga, the sinister forces at work in the troubled ville grow insidiously stronger, and Ryan Cawdor is the only one with first-hand knowledge of the true enemy.... Read more

Dark End [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Brenton J. Cox

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, A...

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

War has spread throughout the world and the Metti virus consumes every continent. Attackers must now defend their own borders and alliances crumble as greed consumes the strong. A threat is kept, and a weapon known as The Grey Sheet is deployed as a final desperate attempt at victory. Even an unlikely alliance between sworn enemies may not be... Read more

Dark Divide [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Brenton J. Cox

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, A...

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The stage has been set and the hand has been dealt. America as we know it is no more. Those left alive are banding together for safety or hiding to survive the coming storm.

After a brutal fight to the Mississippi River, Jonathan Fisher and the few survivors that follow him have begun their journey south. His task is clear and his reason to... Read more

Vengeance Trail [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As megalomaniac barons and savage anarchy compete to lay claim to post-nuclear America, perseverance and a will to live are what keep Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists roving through the worst and best of a new world. Armed with secrets of pre-Dark tech, they possess what few in Deathlands can imagine: hope for a better tomorrow.
... Read more

Gaia's Promise [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gaia's Promise is an original Deathlands story written specifically for GraphicAudio and is available in no other format.
Cornerstone is a ville like no other that Ryan Cawdor and his companions have ever encountered. Hoping to find medical treatment for wounds sustained combating Magus and his creations, especially Ryan's own debilitating... Read more

Damnation Road Show [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, T...

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn... and the road deep into the hell that is Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his choice long ago, in this barbaric new world that conspires against... Read more

Survival In Doubt [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Survival In Doubt is the first original Deathlands story written specifically for GraphicAudio and is available in no other format.
The companions have returned from their time jump back to the year 2001 on a mission to put an end to the malevolent cyborg known as Magus. Despite having narrowly survived that harrowing adventure, Ryan Cawdor's... Read more

Feeding Frenzy [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the post-apocalyptic world of the Deathlands, the isolated country of New Zealand was a last refuge for some of the intelligentsia, the wealthy and technologically brilliant elite of the late 20th century who had seen the nuclear apocalypse coming. They devised a force shield that created a protective bubble around the twin islands, shielding... Read more

Freak Pharm [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan Cawdor and his companions take the mat-trans gateway to territory that was known as Wisconsin in the days before America became the devastated Deathlands. They quickly find themselves in the middle of a savage battle between warring tribes of muties.
J.B. Dix takes several arrows before his team manages to extricate themselves, and, while... Read more