Horror audiobooks

This Cursed House

By: Del Sandeen

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2024
One of Crime Reads' Best Gothic Novels of 2024

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.

In the fall of 1962,... Read more

MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious

By: MrBallen

Narrated by: MrBallen

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid, frightening novel collection of nine strange, dark, and mysterious stories, based on true events, from the mind behind the YouTube channel and hit MrBallen Podcast

John Allen, known popularly as “MrBallen,” has been enthralling audiences with his unique brand of storytelling ever since he burst onto the scene, covering strange and... Read more

Don't Eat the Pie

By: Monique Asher

Narrated by: Cady Zuckerman & Stephanie Willing

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In DON'T EAT THE PIE, readers are transported to the hauntingly picturesque Camillia Island, where gothic horror meets family drama, unraveling the sinister secrets behind a mother and daughter's summer that promises to be as unsettling as it is compelling for fans of Shirley Jackson and Daphne du Maurier. Newlywed Sam has always wanted to be a... Read more

Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.



Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their... Read more

The Unfinished

By: Cheryl Isaacs

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten.The black water has... Read more

The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and unravels a dark secret that the women have been keeping for generations.Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband. After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards... Read more

Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

By: Codie Crowley

Narrated by: Justis Bolding

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THEY THINK THEY KILLED A GIRL.THEY ONLY MADE A MONSTER.Annie Lane was murdered, but that won’t slow her down. The mountain her body was dumped on is legendary for raising the dead—so after waking up in the same frigid water that hides her corpse, Annie surges into her backwoods hometown hell-bent on revenge. The problem is, Annie can’t remember... Read more

Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

Narrated by: Breton Lalama, Mich Anger & Arlen Aguayo Stewart

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.

Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt.... Read more

A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his... Read more

Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her... Read more

Clever Creatures of the Night

By: Samantha Mabry

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous world—perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Something bad happened here.

When Case arrives at a run-down, ivy-covered house tucked deep in the West Texas woods, an ashy haze lingers in the air and the... Read more

Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

Narrated by: Sunny Moraine

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.

ONE LOOK CAN KILL.

Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.

But when... Read more

Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

Narrated by: Greta Jung

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from Korean by Anton Hur, this collection shares tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. ​

In “The Center for Immortality Research,” a low-level employee runs herself ragged planning a fancy gala for donors, only to be... Read more

Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Midnight on Beacon Street is a lot of things. It’s a taut thriller about a babysitter and two kids surviving one weird night. It’s a celebration of classic horror movies. It’s a creepy narrative that involves a ghost and late night home break-ins. And, most important, it’s a lot of fun. . . Verona plays with home invasion tropes by delivering a... Read more

Mister Lullaby

By: J. H. Markert

Narrated by: David Bendena & Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the... Read more

The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

By: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Narrated by: Tara Koehler

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and... Read more

What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... Read more

Wild Spaces

By: S. L. Coney

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his... Read more

The Militia House

By: John Milas

Narrated by: Davis Brooks

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel.

It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing... Read more

Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters... Read more

Maeve Fly

By: CJ Leede

Narrated by: Sosie Bacon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library Journal

A provocative debut... Read more

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

By: Kalynn Bayron

Narrated by: Clifford Samuel

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Clifford Samuel's low, melodious voice sounds like it was made for this atmospheric queer retelling of the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story." - AudioFile Magazine

A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My... Read more

Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From Catriona Ward, the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street comes Little Eve, a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.

“A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off... Read more

Jackal

By: Erin E. Adams

Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo & William DeMeritt

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first—and she may not be the last. . . .

“I read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night.”—BuzzFeed

“Extraordinary . . . A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by... Read more