Horror audiobooks

Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?"



Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?



When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta... Read more

So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.

Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her... Read more

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

By: Kylie Lee Baker

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"A compelling, gory, ghostly romp."
—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie

"This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts."
—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

In this explosive horror... Read more

The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

Narrated by: Sarah Scott

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.

Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s... Read more

The Traitors

By: C. A. Lynch

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow & Christopher Ragland

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Wickedly fun and highly addictive… a delicious read with all the elements of a perfect whodunit’ Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage ‘House on Haunted Hill mixed with Agatha Christie’ NetGalley Reviewer The brand new locked-room thriller for fans of Ruth Ware and Freida... Read more

Lockwood & Co., Book 2: The Whispering Skull

By: Jonathan Stroud

Narrated by: Katie Lyons

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies... Read more

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: a full cast, Neil Hellegers, Marni Penning, P. ...

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Vulture’s “master of horror” Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and Where Evil LurksNoah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for... Read more

The Living Blood

By: Tananarive Due

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 25 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost and The Reformatory comes a riveting novel of supernatural suspense—a gripping tale that showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.

Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband... Read more

Straight

By: Chuck Tingle

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"With his enthusiasm for spoken-word poetry, improv, and nonbinary politics, up-and-coming voice talent André Santana brings a personable feel to this satirical sci-fi romp...This audiobook is a fast-paced cocktail of social commentary, humor, and horror. "- AudioFile

Straight, two-time Hugo Award nominee Chuck Tingle’s first horror novella, is... Read more

Abandon

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Jennifer Jill Araya, Timothy J...

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A century-old mystery—and a desperate battle to survive—unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.
 
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
 
... 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

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

By: Thomas Ligotti

Narrated by: Jon Padgett & Linda Jones

Length: 21 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
 
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.  Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of... Read more

House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

Narrated by: Jean-Marc Berne & Daya Mendez

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of five teenage boys in Puerto Rico seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered; a Latinx STAND BY ME with a haunted, obsidianly dark heart. 

For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been... Read more

John Dies at the End

By: Jason Pargin

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

John Dies at the End is a genre-bending, humorous account of two college drop-outs inadvertently charged with saving their small town—and the world—from a host of supernatural and paranormal invasions.Stop.You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands.No, don’t put it down. It’s too late. They’re watching you.My name is David. My... Read more

Forgotten Sisters

By: Cynthia Pelayo

Narrated by: Natalie Duke & B.J. Harrison

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psychological suspense by a multiple Bram Stoker Award–nominated author.Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them from their... Read more

Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING... Read more

Bag Of Bones

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls... Read more

Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by David Aaron Baker, who brings the nightmare to life with his sinister narration. He has earned several AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been a three-time finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Male Narrator.

The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant... Read more

Stolen Tongues

By: Felix Blackwell

Narrated by: J.S. Arquin

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A romantic cabin getaway doesn't go exactly as planned.



High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows... Read more

The Little Stranger

By: Sarah Waters

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.

"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a... Read more

Joyland

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Michael Kelly

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book....Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime).

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as... 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

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

Hide

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this “marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end” (Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying) 

“The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of... Read more