Horror audiobooks

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear, star of Penny Dreadful. Kinnear is also known for his portrayal of Bill Tanner in Spectre and for his role in The Imitation Game. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert Mighall.


Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis... Read more

Japanese Ghost Stories

By: Lafcadio Hearn

Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray.

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the... Read more

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Catherine Bailey & Tom Ravenscroft

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Tom Ravenscroft, radio presenter known for his work on BBC 6 Music, and Catherine Bailey, known for A Quiet Passion and The Crown, as leading roles in London Theatres. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by David Galloway.

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other... Read more

Brother Wulf

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

When young novice monk Brother Beowulf is sent to spy on Spook Johnson, he has no idea of the trouble he's about to find himself in. Johnson boasts to Wulf of his battles against demonic creatures, and even seems to imprisons local witches, though Wulf is sceptical - not least because the church has taught him that... Read more

Brother Wulf: Wulf's Bane

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The next thrilling and magical adventure set in the multi million copy bestselling world of The Spook's Apprentice.

Wulf has left behind his life in the monastery and is now the Apprentice to Spook Johnson, assisting him in protecting the County from denizens of the dark - which mainly involves Wulf acting as bait.

But... Read more

Spine Chillers

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely acknowledged as the master of the supernatural, M. R. James penned many of his classic ghost stories to be read aloud to friends, by candlelight, in his study on Christmas Eve. These five adaptations, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, perfectly capture the mood of nerve-jangling suspense that would surely have been present during those... Read more

Brother Wulf: Wulf's War

By: Joseph Delaney

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Wulf must face his greatest enemy yet - and this time, he's all alone . . .

Wulf is at war - war against the Dark. As Pan's soldier and champion, it's his responsibility to fight for what is right. An early Winter has come to the County, threatening its people with starvation - but there is an even more dangerous foe to... Read more

Dead Gorgeous

By: Malorie Blackman

Narrated by: Nina Sosanya

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Moving to the country because her parents want to run a dilapidated old hotel is not 11-year-old Nova's idea of fun. Her parents are really busy and her older sister's so grown-up. The hotel guests are a peculiar bunch and life is tough for the whole family. But meeting the hotel's resident ghost makes it a bit more bearable for Nova -... Read more

Vintage BBC Radio Horror: The Slide, Night of the Wolf & Dark

By: Victor Pemberton

Narrated by: Full Cast, Vincent Price, Roger Delgado, Mauric...

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A trio of terrifying radio tales starring Roger Delgado, Vincent Price and Honor Blackman

Author, playwright and TV producer Victor Pemberton was probably best known as a script editor and writer for Doctor Who, and as the inventor of the Doctor's trademark sonic screwdriver. But he also created numerous dramas for radio, among them the three... Read more

The Price of Fear: 20 tales of suspense told by Vincent Price

By: William Ingram, Richard Davies, Maurice Travers...

Narrated by: Vincent Price, Maurice Denham, Annette Crosbie,...

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty tales of terror and suspense, brought to you by sinister storyteller Vincent Price

Horror legend Vincent Price presents an anthology of eerie, unsettling tales with a devilish twist - some purportedly based on his own adventures, others narrated by him in his own inimitable style.

Listen to his horrifying accounts of an unnerving... Read more

J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Gothic Horror Collection

By: Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Full Cast, Anne-Marie Duff, Roger May, David Wa...

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Dramatisations and readings of Sheridan Le Fanu's best-known Gothic masterpieces

One of the leading ghost story writers of the Victorian era, Sheridan Le Fanu is renowned for his chilling tales of mystery and horror. His pioneering lesbian vampire novella Carmilla was a major influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula, and spawned numerous film... Read more

Spine Chillers

By: Colin Haydn Evans, David Campton, Jill Hyem & D...

Narrated by: Pam Ferris, Anna Massey, Rosemary Leach, Sean B...

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Four hair-raising tales of terror, as heard on BBC Radio 4

'Three hours worth of spooky entertainment ... there are some terrific performances to be enjoyed here' Entertainment Focus

In these four supernatural dramas, first broadcast on radio in 1984, a house hides more than meets the eye; a B & B landlady helps her guests forget their... Read more

The Dark Between The Trees

By: Fiona Barnett

Narrated by: Vicky Hall & Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

1647: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood... unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go... Read more

The Little Town of Marrowville

By: John Robertson

Narrated by: John Robertson

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Little Town of Marrowville written and read by John Robertson.

In a town surrounded by deadly mist, and filled with oddities, two young siblings become orphans.

And that's the best thing that's happened to them all day.

Howard Howard was a Wrecker (a brute and bully by profession) who was brutal and... Read more

Appointment With Fear

By: Valentine Dyall & Various

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marius Goring, Marjorie Westbury & V...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping episodes from the famous 1940s BBC Radio horror series. Includes: 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allen Poe (18 September 1943); 'The Speaking Clock' by John Dickson Carr (13 April 1944); 'The Clock Strikes Eight' by John Dickson Carr (18 May 1944); 'And the Deep Shuddered' by Monckton Hoffe (20 November 1945). ... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Bernard Holley, Frederick Jaeger, Full Cast & P...

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederick Jaeger and Phyllis Logan star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel. Summoned to the forbidding heart of the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania, Jonathan Harker journeys to Castle Dracula. There he becomes the unwitting prisoner of a mysterious nobleman whom local legend suggests is... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Full Cast, John Wood & Michael Maloney

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankenstein, first published in 1818, is widely recognised as being one of the first 'science fiction' novels. Starring Michael Maloney as Frankenstein and John Wood as the Creature, this spine-tingling dramatisation perfectly conveys the book's pervasive sense of unease and dread.

Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist and seeker... Read more

Johnny and the Dead

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the next in the popular series featuring Johnny Maxwell. Johnny can see the dead, and the dead are beginning to see just how much fun it is to be alive, in another terrific tale from the master of comic fantasy Terry Pratchett. Read more

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (based on Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Full Cast & Jamie Parker

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Shelley's heart-breaking modern myth of obsession, pride and the need for love, dramatised for BBC Radio, starring Jamie Parker.

Frankenstein was written by a teenager and the story has all the energy and emotional intensity of this time of life. It's a thrilling, horrifying adventure, packed with incident and breath-taking moments. But the... Read more

The Edgar Allan Poe BBC Radio Collection

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Clarke Peters, James Fleet, Andrew Scott, Kerry...

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe's most celebrated stories, as heard on BBC Radio - plus bonus documentaries and two thrilling original dramas

The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe has inspired generations of horror writers with his chilling Gothic tales, and is also credited with inventing the detective fiction genre in The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

This... Read more

The Man in Black: The Complete Series 1-4

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast & Mark Gatiss

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Gatiss stars as sinister raconteur The Man in Black, in these twenty terrifying full-cast radio dramas

The Man in Black is waiting to make your acquaintance. Maybe you’ll meet him on a bus, in the supermarket, or at an airport luggage carousel. Perhaps he’ll peer into your baby’s pram, or approach you in the corridor of a care home. Wherever... Read more

Weird Tales

By: Various

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Derek Riddell, Eddie Marsan, Eliza...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven uncanny stories inspired by the master of uncanny terror, H.P. Lovecraft

One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore. Now, locked away, the hoarder of horror is after new voices, new blood, to add to his collection.

Listen as he shares the tales that come to him,... Read more

BBC Classics: Ultimate Story Collection

By: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle & Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Various, Sam Dale, Joseph Ayre, Carolyn Pickles...

Length: 26 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors

Suspense and horror
1 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - Arthur Conan Doyle
2 The Signalman - Charles Dickens
3 Lost Hearts - MR James
4 The Sealed Room - Arthur Conan Doyle.
5 Mrs Badgery - Wilkie Collins
6 Wailing Well - MR James
7 The Open Window - Saki
8 How it... Read more