Audiobooks Like Hell House

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Ray Porter narrates Hell House at a sustained pitch of controlled dread — 9 hours of mounting paranormal horror where his ability to shift between clinical detachment and visceral fear keeps Matheson's haunted house from becoming campy. Seven of the recommendations also feature Porter, and four pull from Matheson's catalog, so the list stays tightly bound by both voice and that particular mid-century horror sensibility where the terror is as psychological as supernatural.

10 audiobooks for fans of Hell House

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    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories cover

    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

    by Richard Matheson, Stephen King

    Narrated by Julia Campbell, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hillgartner, Arte Johnson, Jay Karnes, Ray Porter, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver

    3.96 ABR Score (9.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.17 Audible (1.1K)
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    Eight narrators elevate Matheson's paranoia masterpieces. The psychological horror that defined the Twilight Zone still beats modern scares.

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    I Am Legend and Other Stories

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky

    3.90 ABR Score (137.8K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (136.8K) ★ 4.02 Audible (1.0K)
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    The last man on Earth hunts vampires by day and hides by night in this collection of Matheson's influential horror stories. Dean and Rasovsky capture both the claustrophobic terror and philosophical weight of humanity's end.

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    I Am Legend

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    4.20 ABR Score (170.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (154.9K) ★ 4.21 Audible (15.3K)
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    Robertson Dean captures the isolation and desperation of humanity's last survivor hunting vampires by day and hiding by night.

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    The Night Boat

    by Robert McCammon, Colin Sullivan, Rowena Morrill

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    3.62 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 3.99 Audible (270)
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    A sunken Nazi U-boat rises from a Caribbean lagoon with its crew still aboard and very much undead. Ray Porter captures McCammon's vintage horror atmosphere in this underwater nightmare.

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    Bethany's Sin.

    by Robert McCammon

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    3.61 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.62 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 3.97 Audible (224)
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    Ray Porter explores how a picture-perfect village's unnatural silence masks ancient evil, as Evan Reid discovers his bargain home comes with mythological horror.

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    The Box: Uncanny Stories

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.44 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.54 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 3.36 Audible (88)
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    Matheson's twisted moral puzzles get their due with Grover Gardner's measured delivery, especially in the title story about a button that kills strangers for money.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 372: Cryptids & Urban Legends

    by Jonathan Maberry, Full Cast, Various

    Narrated by Hillary Huber, Joe Hempel, Nancy Wu, Matt Godfrey, Patricia Santomasso, Robert Fass, James Anderson Foster, James Fouhey, Derek Austin, Liam Gerrard, Ramiz Monsef, Justin Price, Ray Porter, Christopher Tester, full cast

    3.38 ABR Score (3 ratings)
    ★ 4 Audible (3)
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    A full-cast production that treats cryptid lore with genuine respect—the rotating narrators nail the eerie atmosphere while essays ground the mythology in real investigation and wonder.

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    Still of Night

    Dead of Night • Book 3

    by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.42 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (612) ★ 4.8 Audible (1.3K)
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    Ray Porter chronicles multiple heroes rising during the zombie apocalypse, from bullied teenager Dahlia to cosplayer-turned-warrior Rachael Elle, in this action-packed survival anthology.

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    The Amityville Horror

    by Jay Anson

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.24 ABR Score (147.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (138.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (8.7K)
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    Ray Porter's deadpan delivery transforms this into pure psychological dread—he sells the slow-burn terror without ever overselling it, making the escalating haunting feel disturbingly plausible.

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    They Thirst

    They Thirst!

    by Robert McCammon

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.04 ABR Score (15.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (13.8K) ★ 4.28 Audible (1.7K)
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    Prince Vulcan leads a vampire army's invasion of Los Angeles as the first step toward world domination in McCammon's sprawling horror epic. Ray Porter's dynamic performance captures both the B-movie fun and genuine scares across this massive vampire saga.

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