Horror audiobooks

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why does he disguise himself in this manner and keep himself hidden away in his room?Aroused by trepidation and curiosity, the... Read more

Lifeblood

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the critically acclaimed saga of blood and passion as only vampire Jack Fleming could tell it.Jack Fleming was an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago until he got shot by an unknown assassin, bitten by his vampire girlfriend—who has since disappeared—and then became one of the undead. Now, this nice-guy Nosferatu has a... Read more

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Stark and skillfully woven, this fascinating novel is a brilliantly original study of man’s dual nature as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror.Dr. Jekyll, a generous and philanthropic physician, is preoccupied with the problem of good and evil, and how to separate them. He develops a drug that will transform him into the demonic Mr.... Read more

The Haunted Hotel

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Countess Narona meets Agnes Lockwood, the woman jilted by her fiancé, she feels a great sense of foreboding. After Countess Narona’s marriage, she moves with her husband, Lord Montbarry, to Venice. There, disowned by his family, the lord apparently becomes a recluse and falls fatally ill. As much as Agnes tries to forget the episode of... Read more

Frostbite

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s one sound a woman doesn’t want to hear when she’s lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a strange wolf’s teeth slash Cheyenne’s ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man—or... Read more

Vampire$

By: John Steakley

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Suppose there really were vampires. Dark. Stalking. Destroying. They'd have to be killed, wouldn't they? Of course they would. But what kind of fools would try to make a living at it?You don't just kill vampires for the money—you do it for the satisfaction. You do it because somebody has to. You do it no matter what it does to you. And you... Read more

13 Bullets

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Arkeley nailed the last vampire, in a fight that nearly killed him. But the evidence proves otherwise.When a state trooper named Laura Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment. Who else? He’s been expecting such a call to come eventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an... Read more

99 Coffins

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor.... Read more

The Girls with Games of Blood

By: Alex Bledsoe

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Old World vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski, staked in 1915 Wales, rises anew in 1975 Memphis. Through a group of modern vampires, including the beautiful perpetual teenager Fauvette, he has learned to navigate this new era and prepares to reclaim his former wealth and power. But fresh dangers lurk in this society of funk, fast cars, and racial... Read more

Vampire Zero

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

US Marshal Jameson Arkeley, the country’s foremost authority on vampires, taught police investigator and vampire fighter Laura Caxton everything she knows about monsters. After a bloody war visited upon Gettysburg by an army of vampires, Arkeley gave up his own life to save others—except he didn’t exactly die.Arkeley accepted the curse and is... Read more

Shadow on the Sun

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Southwest Arizona, a century ago. An uneasy truce exists between the remote frontier community of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is shredded when the bodies of two white men are found hideously mutilated. The angry townspeople are certain the “savages” have broken the treaty, but Billjohn Finley, the local Indian... Read more

23 Hours

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose and plenty of time to kill.Caxton’s always been able to watch her own back—even when it’s against a cellblock wall. But soon she learns that an even greater... Read more

Overwinter

By: David Wellington

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stand-alone continuation of the tale begun in Frostbite, horror star David Wellington delivers another gripping werewolf tale in which heroine Chey is once again forced to fight for her own humanity.Overwinter opens as protagonist Chey, bitten by a werewolf and cursed to live out eternity as a monster, prowls the Arctic Circle on the... Read more

Earthbound

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An erotic ghost story by the author ofI Am Legend,Hell House, andA Stir of EchoesDavid and Ellen Cooper came to the lonely beachside cottage in hopes of rekindling their troubled marriage. Yet they are not alone on their second honeymoon. Marianna, a beautiful and enigmatic stranger, comes to visit David whenever Ellen is away.Who is Marianna,... Read more

The Haunted

By: Jessica Verday

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and mystery mix in the second installment of this spine-tingling, hauntingly gorgeous trilogy.After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with—the boy who must not exist, cannot exist, because she knows that he is dead—Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow, ready to leave the ghosts of her past behind.... Read more

The Hollow

By: Jessica Verday

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Mourning your best friend is no time to fall in love with a stranger.When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead, and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she... Read more

The Silent Land

By: Graham Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports listeners to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with this hypnotically dark story…a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth.In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way... Read more

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the children of the region. This lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut fancies the idea of marrying the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, but there is a problem with his plan.... Read more

Dracula’s Children

By: Richard Lortz

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of the mist and darkness they come, child-creatures of the night who prey upon the unsuspecting.Late one rainy night, a young school teacher arrives outside her apartment building and spies a mysterious, naked boy at the edge of Central Park. Thinking him injured or lost, she approaches him, despite the chilling fear slowly enveloping her.... Read more

Darker Than You Think

By: Jack Williamson

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Who is the Child of Night? That’s what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding.Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious and seductive April Bell and starts having disturbing,... Read more

Warm Bodies

By: Isaac Marion

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

R is a young man with an existential crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. His ability to connect with the outside world is limited to a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. After experiencing a teenage boy’s memories while consuming his brain, R makes... Read more

Ghost Road Blues

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From a master of horror comes an apocalyptic showdown between the residents of a secluded, rural town and the deadly evil that confronts them wherever they turn.Evil doesn't die.The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a long time ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a... Read more