Horror audiobooks

White Horse

By: Erika T. Wurth

Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook narrated by Tonantzin Carmelo is enthralling." - Buzzfeed

"Narrator Tonantzin Carmelo’s portrayal of Kari imbues her with a rebellious and tenacious attitude that makes her immediately likable." - Library Journal

Erika T. Wurth's White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she... Read more

Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

Narrated by: Carolyn Kang

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... Read more

Welcome to Night Vale

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Therese Plu...

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

?New York Times Bestseller""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian“A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.orgFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an... Read more

The Butcher Game

By: Alaina Urquhart

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Joe Knezevich

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.   Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher,... Read more

Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli

Narrated by: Danielle Verayo

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the... Read more

One by One

By: Freida McFadden

Narrated by: Alyson Krawchuk

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire’s minivan breaks... Read more

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead

By: Kristen Simmons

Narrated by: Cia Court & Paul Dateh

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

AT DAWN HE’LL BE GONE AND YOU’LL BE HERE FOREVER.

Kristen Simmons's masterful breakout horror novel that's "Jumanji but Japanese-inspired" (Kendare Blake) about estranged friends playing a deadly game in a nightmarish folkloric underworld.

“Twists, turns, and genuine palpable emotion.” —David Levithan • “Haunting and unforgettable.” —Melissa de la... Read more

The Halloween Tree

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man, the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, can help the boys find him. "If you want to know what Halloween is, or if you simply want an eerie adventure, take this... Read more

Meddling Kids

By: Edgar Cantero

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Freaky pleasure...it scratches a nostalgic itch for those who grew up on Saturday morning Scooby-Doo cartoons and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal"
--USA Today

"Deliriously wild, funny and imaginative. Cantero is an original voice."
--Charles Yu, author of How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe

With raucous humor and... Read more

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a new novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond. In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now.... Read more

Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

Narrated by: Wesley French, Lawrence Bayne, Susan Roman, Jan...

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.

Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

The Sun Down Motel

By: Simone St. James

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help... Read more

Don't Let the Forest In

By: C.G. Drews

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairy tales that he writes for the only person who can ground him to reality—Thomas Rye, the boy with perpetually ink-stained hands and hair like autumn leaves. And with his twin sister, Dove, inexplicably keeping him at a cold distance upon their return to Wickwood Academy, Andrew... Read more

Growing Things and Other Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Graham Halstead, Cassandra Campbe...

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s... Read more

The Vampire Lestat

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 21 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying... Read more

youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... Read more

The White Guy Dies First

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, ...

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pe...

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"This Young Adult book is a scream to listen to."—The Berkshire Eagle

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.

The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this... Read more

The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more

William

By: Mason Coile

Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read—a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.

Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.

No... Read more

The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

Narrated by: Susan Dalian

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.

“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal

“This brilliant novella is not... Read more

I'll Be Waiting

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood...

Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her... Read more

The Children on the Hill

By: Jennifer McMahon

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.

1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist,... Read more

Within These Wicked Walls

By: Lauren Blackwood

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE'S BOOK CLUB FALL 2021 YA PICK

"Lauren Blackwood’s can’t-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix of Jane Eyre." - Harper's Bazaar

What the heart desires, the house destroys...

Andromeda is a debtera—an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn’t thrown her out before she... Read more