Horror audiobooks

Graven Images

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more

Count Karlstein

By: Philip Pullman

Narrated by: Jo Thurley & Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you hear the distant howling of hounds and the thunder of ghostly hooves? It's All Souls' Eve and Zamiel the Demon Huntsman has come to claim his prey! He's headed straight for Castle Karlstein, where the evil count has hatched an evil plan; he'll sacrifice his two young nieces to save himself. Can Lucy and Charlotte outwit their uncle and... Read more

Cell

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King!

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make... Read more

Ghost Ship

By: Dietlof Reiche

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki plans to spend her summer vacation waitressing at her father’s seaside restaurant, Ye Olde Seashell Room: a must-see tourist destination with seashell-covered walls and a 230-year-old figurehead from a lost ship, the Storm Goddess. But when the bay mysteriously goes dry and the Storm Goddess suddenly appears, Vicki and her small community... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 10: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Claus Wilcke, Joachim Tennstedt, Friedrich Scho...

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Bestie in Menschengestalt, die sich Edward Hyde nennt, verbreitet im Elendsviertel Whitechapel Angst und Schrecken. Niemals hätte der angesehene Anwalt Gabriel J. Utterson daran zu glauben gewagt, dass einer seiner besten Freunde, der Mediziner Dr. Henry Jekyll, in irgendeiner Beziehung zu den von Hyde verübten Untaten steht. Als er einem... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 11: Der Untergang des Hauses Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Oliver Feld, Tobias Kluckert, Claudia Urbschat-...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Philipp Belfield reist, durch einen Brief seines Jugendfreundes Roderick alarmiert, auf den abgelegenen, inmitten von Sumpfland errichteten Stammsitz der Familie Usher. Ein drohendes Unheil scheint über dem alten Gemäuer zu schweben, denn Roderick Usher, der letzte Spross der alten Familie, ist von einer seltsamen Krankheit gezeichnet ... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 12: Frankenstein (Folge 1 von 2)

By: Mary W. Shelley

Narrated by: Peter Flechtner, Norman Matt & Melanie Pukaß

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Dem jungen Studenten Victor Frankenstein genügen die Erkenntnisse der herkömmlichen Wissenschaft nicht mehr. Er wagt sich an vermessene Forschungen über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung. Aus Leichenteilen flickt er in seinem Laboratorium ein Geschöpf von beträchtlicher Größe und abstoßender Hässlichkeit zusammen. In einer düsteren Novembernacht... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 13: Frankenstein (Folge 2 von 2)

By: Mary W. Shelley

Narrated by: Peter Flechtner, Norman Matt & Melanie Pukaß

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Suche nach Vergeltung für das Leid, das über seine Familie kam, treibt Victor Frankenstein ins Hochgebirge. Schöpfer und Geschöpf treffen erstmals wieder aufeinander. Frankenstein wird sich allmählich der erdrückenden Verantwortung bewusst, die er durch seinen unüberlegten Schöpfungsakt auf sich genommen hat. Sein Geschöpf verspricht, ihn... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 14: Die Blutbaronin

By: E.B.S. Raupach

Narrated by: Viola Sauer, Hartmut Neugebauer & Uwe Büschken

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Baron Ferenc Nádasdy trauert, obwohl er mittlerweile ein zweites Mal verheiratet ist, noch immer seiner toten ersten Frau Elisabeth Báthory nach. Nacht für Nacht sucht er ihr Mausoleum auf und hadert mit seinem Schicksal. Ein Zauber könnte ihm die Geliebte ins Leben zurück bringen. Die weise Magierin warnt jedoch inständig vor diesem unheiligen... Read more

Gruselkabinett, Folge 15: Der Freischütz

By: Johann August Apel

Narrated by: Marius Clarén, Luise Helm & Jochen Schröder

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Der junge Amtschreiber Wilhelm liebt des Försters Tochter Käthchen. Die einzige Möglichkeit, den Vater dazu zu bewegen, ihm die Hand der Geliebten zu gewähren, besteht für Wilhelm darin, sich als sein würdiger Nachfolger in der Erbförsterei zu erweisen. Leider ist er alles andere als ein sicherer Schütze. Wilhelm ist jedoch jedes Mittel recht,... Read more

Tales for a Stormy Night

By: various authors, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ro...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.These fourteen tales, plays, and... Read more

King Kong

By: Delos W. Lovelace

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

SPECIAL COLLECTORS’ EDITION with commentary by eight science-fiction writersKING KONG: His very name inspires awe, horror, and, for some of the greatest masters of contemporary science fiction, a strong affection. Find out why in this special collector’s edition of the original 1932 novelization of Wallace and Cooper’s movie, which includes... Read more

The Shrinking Man

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants,... Read more

Candles Burning

By: Tabitha King & Michael McDowell

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Michael McDowell, known for his chilling Blackwater series, left behind the unfinished manuscript of Candles Burning upon his death in 1999. His close friend, Tabitha King, has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and survival, in the voices of the living and the... 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

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

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Abridged

By: Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inspired by the classic silent film of 1919, this original audio play won the Independent Publishers Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John de Lancie stars as a young poet who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari’s tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a kind of zombie, who is neither... Read more

Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls - Abridged

By: Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: a full cast, Robertson Dean, Martin Jarvis, Moi...

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice.... Read more

A Grown-Up’s Halloween - Abridged

By: various authors

Narrated by: a full cast, Tom Towles, Mark Bramhall, Ira Bur...

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of... Read more

Tales of Terror - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bruce Blau

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense... Read more

Shadows

By: John Saul

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

They call it the Academy. A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted -- or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than their own -- and unspeakably evil.For within this mind a dark plan is taking form. A plan so... Read more

Chronologie der letzten Tage 4

By: Raoul Barocco

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Das letzte Kapitel ist aufgeschlagen. Ein Kind ward geboren. Doch wer wird es besitzen? Zu Entscheiden den jahrhunderte andauernden Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Der Austragungsort ist bestimmt worden. In den schroffen, menschenfeindlichen Höhen, wo der Gehörnte die Wege weist — die alle in den Tod münden. Read more

The Historian: Part One of Two

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Paul Michael

Length: 26 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history. . . .”

Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of–a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s... Read more

Open the Door

By: Marco Göllner

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bo zieht in eine neue Wohnung. Der Rest des Hauses steht noch leer und soll erst später umgebaut werden. So wundert er sich nicht weiter über die verschlossene Tür zum Treppenhaus, die er nicht öffnen kann. Doch das soll sich bald ändern. Er begegnet Fee und sie gehen miteinander aus. Fee verbringt eine Nacht bei Bo. Im Morgengrauen wacht Bo auf... Read more