Horror audiobooks

Can Such Things Be?

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to... Read more

Countdown

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"I didn't plan to kill anyone. I wasn't totally against the idea, either. Sometimes things just fall that way, and either you roll with it or it rolls over you. Letting the bad guys win isn't how I roll."Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force … who's about to get a serious promotion. Read more

Deep, Dark

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This chilling short story is the prequel to The Dragon Factory, the second installment in Maberry’s action-packed Joe Ledger novels.Before Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against two competing groups of geneticists looking to continue the master-race program inThe Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his... Read more

Material Witness

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is another highly entertaining short story featuring Jonathan Maberry’s compelling hero, Joe Ledger.This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry’s chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems. Read more

Joe Ledger: The Missing Files

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels.CountdownIn this prequel to Patient Zero, meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.Zero ToleranceZero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of... Read more

Bone Machines

By: John Dodds

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A gritty Scottish crime thriller featuring a very different kind of serial killerThey suffer for his art… When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the specter of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head. Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing.... Read more

Coyote Tales

By: Jim Bihyeh

Narrated by: Cayenne Chris Conroy

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Wide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you won't find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. Coyote... Read more

Kali’s Kiss

By: John Dodds

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Honor killings, witchcraft murders, and the machinations of rival gang lordsKali, Indian goddess of destruction and change, weaves her dark spell in a complex crime novel of fear, deception, brutal killings, and power mongering.When an unidentified young Indian bride is ritualistically murdered, Detective Inspector Tom Kendrick and forensic... Read more

The Magician

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of literature’s finest storytellers comes an enchanting tale of secrets, the supernatural—and fatal attraction.Renowned English surgeon Arthur Burdon is engaged to the beautiful Margaret Dauncey, who is studying art in Paris. The match is met with approval from all sides, and everyone is happy—until the mysterious Oliver Haddo enters... Read more

The Raven and Selected Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Hungry Tales

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead—including one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Calling DeathA nonviolent zombie story set in AppalachiaChokepointA semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to... Read more

The Fate of Mercy Alban

By: Wendy Webb

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning novelist Wendy Webb comes a spine-tingling, modern-day haunted house story set on Lake Superior.Grace Alban has spent twenty years away from her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior—for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage... Read more

Under the Skin

By: Michel Faber

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (Wall Street Journal), this debut novel lingers long after the last page has been turned.A "fascinating psychological thriller" (Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who scouts the Scottish highlands for male hitchhikers with big... Read more

V Wars

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne ...

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

They are hunting us. In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic... Read more

The Séance

By: John Harwood

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Simon Vance & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost WriterSell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother... Read more

Below

By: Ryan Lockwood

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Jaws—from the depths of the sea comes a new kind of terror.In all his years as a professional diver, Will Sturman has never encountered a killing machine more ferocious than the great white shark or as deadly as the piranha. Now, off the coast of California, something is rising from the deep—and multiplying. It is... Read more

At the Mountains of Madness

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of At the Mountains of Madness authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!A master of terror and nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft solidified his place at the top of the horror genre with this macabre supernatural tale.When a geologist leads an expedition to the Antarctic plateau, his aim is to find rock and plant... Read more

Dolly

By: Susan Hill

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling ghost story from the author of The Woman in Black, set in a crumbling English houseThe remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost, and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward, are parked for the summer with their aging spinster aunt and her cruel... Read more

The Influence

By: Bentley Little

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything is about to change…When Ross Lowry moves into his cousin's guest house in the small community of Magdalena, Arizona, he expects nothing more than breathing room and a brief respite from his economic woes. But something is not right in the desert. After a raucous party on New Year's Eve, the luck of the attendees undergoes an immediate... Read more

Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with redefining the ghost story form. By abandoning many of the formal gothic clich├®s of his predecessors and using more contemporary settings, James set the stage for future generations of writers. Originally published in 1904, "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" is... Read more

The Monkey’s Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1902, "The Monkey's Paw" is a classic horror short story written by author W. W. Jacobs. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy... Read more

Pickman’s Model

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as one of the one of the greatest horror writers of the twentieth century, H. P. Lovecraft's stories are known for their profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Here is "Pickman's Model," one of his more terrifying stories. Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His... Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest practitioners of gothic and detective fiction that ever lived, and popular culture is replete with references to him. In "The Pit and the Pendulum," one of his most famous short works, a condemned man is judged guilty by the Spanish Inquisition and sentenced to die. Locked away in a... Read more

Cirque du Freak

By: Darren Shan

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Stephen King's Salem's Lot, New York Times bestseller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan.Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human /... Read more