Audiobooks Like Carrie

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Sissy Spacek narrates this early King with an intimacy that makes the horror feel small and close rather than operatic — her voice stays near the teenage register, which gives the humiliation and rage a specificity that a broader narrator would flatten. All ten recommendations are also Stephen King, so if King's particular brand of dread is what you came for, every pick on this list lives in the same universe.

10 audiobooks for fans of Carrie

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    Joyland

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Michael Kelly

    ★ 4.43 ABR Score (192.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (181.4K) ★ 4.52 Audible (10.7K)
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    College student Devin takes a summer job at a North Carolina amusement park haunted by an unsolved murder, with Michael Kelly's narration capturing both nostalgia and creeping dread.

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    The Stand

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 4.91 ABR Score (922.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (841.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (81.1K)
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    After a plague wipes out most of humanity, survivors choose between Mother Abagail's godly Boulder and Randall Flagg's sinister Las Vegas. Grover Gardner's narration spans this epic battle between good and evil.

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    Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Joe Morton, Joe Mantegna

    ★ 4.16 ABR Score (2.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.2K)
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    King teams with Sinese, Morton, and Mantegna to continue his virtuoso performance of horror tales mixing supernatural terror with psychological insight.

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    The Shining

    The Shining • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Campbell Scott

    ★ 4.92 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.7M) ★ 4.75 Audible (41.5K)
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    Jack Torrance's winter isolation at the Overlook Hotel awakens both the building's malevolent spirits and his own capacity for violence, with Campbell Scott's chilling performance.

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    It

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Steven Weber

    ★ 4.89 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.72 Audible (64.9K)
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    Steven Weber's performance across 45 hours makes Derry feel like a real place you'd never want to visit, switching effortlessly between the Losers as kids and adults.

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    Pet Sematary

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Michael C. Hall

    ★ 4.82 ABR Score (738.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (708.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (29.8K)
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    Dr. Louis Creed discovers that the pet cemetery behind his new home can bring the dead back to life—but they return fundamentally wrong. Hall's chilling performance amplifies King's most disturbing novel.

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    Doctor Sleep

    The Shining • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Will Patton

    ★ 4.74 ABR Score (340.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (300.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (40.0K)
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    Adult Danny Torrance battles his alcoholism while protecting a psychic girl from soul-eating nomads called the True Knot. Will Patton's weathered narration perfectly suits this darker, more grounded sequel to The Shining.

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    Salem's Lot

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Joe Hill

    ★ 4.64 ABR Score (695.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.58 Audible (28.4K)
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    When vampires invade a small Maine town, King's slow-burn horror unfolds through everyday people fighting an ancient evil spreading house by house.

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    Christine

    by Stephen King, Marie Milpois

    Narrated by Holter Graham

    ★ 4.58 ABR Score (271.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (265.6K) ★ 4.74 Audible (5.6K)
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    King's tale of a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury destroying a teenager's life gets Holter Graham's pitch-perfect narration, capturing both Arnie's transformation and the car's malevolent personality.

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    Needful Things

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King

    ★ 4.50 ABR Score (293.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (281.4K) ★ 4.56 Audible (12.1K)
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    King himself narrates this tale of a mysterious shop owner who sells people their deepest desires in exchange for seemingly harmless pranks that escalate into town-destroying chaos. Hearing the author's own voice adds intimate authority to this exploration of how easily communities can turn vicious.

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