Audiobooks Like My Best Friend's Exorcism

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Emily Woo Zeller narrates Grady Hendrix's 1980s horror with a tonal agility that holds the comedy and the genuine dread in the same breath — she makes the friendship feel real before the possession does, which is what gives the horror somewhere to land, and 10 hours moves at the pace of a story that knows it has to make you laugh before it makes you scared. The recs are drawn from paranormal and supernatural horror that share that same balance of nostalgia and menace.

10 audiobooks for fans of My Best Friend's Exorcism

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    The Final Girl Support Group

    by Grady Hendrix, Full Cast

    Narrated by Full Cast Full Cast, Jessica Schly, Kelly Baskin, Yesenia Iglesias, Alyssa Keegan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Mort Shelby, Su Ling Chan, Jacob Yeh, Holly Adams, Nora Achrati

    3.89 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (190.0K)
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    What happens to slasher movie survivors decades later? This full cast production captures the paranoia and trauma of women who lived through horror movie scenarios and now meet for therapy.

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    The Shivers Collection

    The Shivers Collection #1-5

    by Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, Owen King

    Narrated by Robert Fass, Kyla Garcia, Moniqua Plante, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Grover Gardner

    3.77 ABR Score (718 ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (543) ★ 4.34 Audible (175)
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    Five horror masters—including Joe Hill and Stephen Graham Jones—craft tales where supernatural threats lurk in ancient trees, beaches, and friendly letters.

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    SNAFU: Contagion

    SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror • Book 15

    by Amanda J. Spedding, Geoff Brown, Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Ray Porter, Emily Woo Zeller, Kevin Kenerly, Tim Campbell, Hillary Huber, Steve West, Heather Firth, Bradford Hastings, Josh Innerst, Andrew Gibson, Todd Menesses

    3.50 ABR Score (32 ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (25) ★ 3.71 Audible (7)
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    A stellar ensemble cast transforms this military horror anthology into something cinematic—Ray Porter's gravitas anchors the collection while a dozen narrators give each story its own distinct voice, making Contagion feel like a prestige horror series rather than a compilation.

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    Make Me King

    Mountain Man • Book 5

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.69 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.3K)
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    R.C. Bray transforms this post-apocalyptic power struggle into something genuinely gripping—his vocal range makes every faction feel distinct, and the tension between survival and ambition hits harder through audio than it would on the page.

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    And After

    Until the End of the World • Book 2

    by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.64 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (3.8K)
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    Cassie's peaceful life at Kingdom Come Farm shatters when Safe Zones across the country start vanishing and zombie hordes multiply. Julia Whelan captures both the domestic tranquility and creeping dread with equal skill.

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    Mountain Man: Prequel

    Mountain Man #0.4

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.61 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.75 Audible (7.7K)
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    R.C. Bray's gravel-voiced delivery transforms this zombie siege into something claustrophobic and relentless—he makes you feel trapped inside that megastore as hard as the characters are.

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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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    FantasticLand

    by Mike Bockoven

    Narrated by Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels

    4.35 ABR Score (70.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (53.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (16.6K)
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    Dawe and Daniels' dual narration transforms this disaster-into-horror investigation into something genuinely unsettling—their competing testimonies make you question every account of what actually happened at the park.

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    Home Before Dark

    by Riley Sager

    Narrated by Cady McClain, Jon Lindstrom

    4.34 ABR Score (327.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (320.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (6.9K)
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    Sager's haunted-house thriller deconstructs the genre in real time — a daughter returns to the house her father wrote about and finds his memoir was fiction.

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    Bird Box

    Bird Box • Book 1

    by Josh Malerman

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

    4.26 ABR Score (221.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (212.4K) ★ 4.27 Audible (9.2K)
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    Malorie and her children navigate a post-apocalyptic world where looking at mysterious creatures causes instant, violent madness. Cassandra Campbell's tense narration amplifies the claustrophobic horror of a world where sight itself has become deadly.

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