Audiobooks Like The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

10 audiobooks for fans of The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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   The Raven

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by Dominic West

   ★ 4.55 ABR Score (173.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (172.0K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.6K)

   A grieving scholar receives a midnight visitor whose only word drives him deeper into despair over lost Lenore. Dominic West's rich voice captures both the poem's musical rhythm and its descent into madness with haunting effect.

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   A grieving scholar receives a midnight visitor whose only word drives him deeper into despair over lost Lenore. Dominic West's rich voice captures both the poem's musical rhythm and its descent into madness with haunting effect.

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   The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

   Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by B. J. Harrison

   ★ 4.28 ABR Score (245.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.59 Audible (484)

   Sixteen tales of madness and murder from Poe's darkest imagination, including "The Black Cat" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." B.J. Harrison captures every whisper of paranoia.

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   Sixteen tales of madness and murder from Poe's darkest imagination, including "The Black Cat" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." B.J. Harrison captures every whisper of paranoia.

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   Annabel Lee

   The dark Artifices

   by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo

   Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

   ★ 3.98 ABR Score (12.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (22)

   Poe's final complete poem mourns a love so powerful that angels grew envious, enduring even beyond the beloved's death. Patrick Lawlor's reading honors the musical melancholy of this classic verse.

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   Poe's final complete poem mourns a love so powerful that angels grew envious, enduring even beyond the beloved's death. Patrick Lawlor's reading honors the musical melancholy of this classic verse.

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   William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection)

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by Cathy Dobson

   ★ 3.73 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.78 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (10)

   Poe's tale of a man haunted by his exact double—same name, same face, same voice—who appears at every crucial moment to thwart his darkest impulses. Dobson's performance emphasizes the mounting psychological terror of this doppelganger nightmare.

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   Poe's tale of a man haunted by his exact double—same name, same face, same voice—who appears at every crucial moment to thwart his darkest impulses. Dobson's performance emphasizes the mounting psychological terror of this doppelganger nightmare.

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   The Haunted Palace

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by Lissa Lia, K. Anderson Yancy

   ★ 3.52 ABR Score (385 ratings)

   ★ 3.54 Goodreads (383) ★ 2.5 Audible (2)

   Poe's haunting poem about a mind's descent into madness, originally embedded in 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' The dual narration captures both the stately grandeur and creeping decay of the titular palace.

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   Poe's haunting poem about a mind's descent into madness, originally embedded in 'The Fall of the House of Usher.' The dual narration captures both the stately grandeur and creeping decay of the titular palace.

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   The Covenant of Water

   by Abraham Verghese

   Narrated by Abraham Verghese

   ★ 4.62 ABR Score (337.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (11.3K)

   31h 16m listening time • Released 2023

   Three generations of a Kerala family are haunted by a strange condition where family members drown despite being skilled swimmers. Verghese narrates his own sweeping epic, bringing intimate knowledge to this multigenerational saga of love, medicine, and mysterious tragedy spanning eight decades.

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   Three generations of a Kerala family are haunted by a strange condition where family members drown despite being skilled swimmers. Verghese narrates his own sweeping epic, bringing intimate knowledge to this multigenerational saga of love, medicine, and mysterious tragedy spanning eight decades.

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   Shantaram

   Shantaram • Book 1

   by Gregory David Roberts

   Narrated by Humphrey Bower

   ★ 4.60 ABR Score (253.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (242.1K) ★ 4.7 Audible (11.3K)

   42h 59m listening time • Released 2013

   An escaped convict's epic journey through Bombay's underworld spans slums, prisons, and war zones in this sprawling autobiographical novel. At 43 hours, Humphrey Bower's narration becomes your constant companion.

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   An escaped convict's epic journey through Bombay's underworld spans slums, prisons, and war zones in this sprawling autobiographical novel. At 43 hours, Humphrey Bower's narration becomes your constant companion.

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   Anna Karenina

   by Leo Tolstoy

   Narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (958.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (944.0K) ★ 4.46 Audible (14.4K)

   35h 35m listening time • Released 2016

   Maggie Gyllenhaal narrates Anna with such intelligence and vulnerability that Tolstoy's century-old tragedy feels like a story unfolding in real time.

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   Maggie Gyllenhaal narrates Anna with such intelligence and vulnerability that Tolstoy's century-old tragedy feels like a story unfolding in real time.

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   DON QUIXOTE. Translated

   Don Quijote de la Mancha #1-2

   by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (314.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (308.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.5K)

   39h 42m listening time • Released 2012

   An aging gentleman reads so many chivalric romances that he decides to become a knight-errant himself, accompanied by his practical squire Sancho Panza. Guidall's narration spans the epic adventures of literature's most famous delusional hero and his increasingly wise fool companion across their quixotic journeys.

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   An aging gentleman reads so many chivalric romances that he decides to become a knight-errant himself, accompanied by his practical squire Sancho Panza. Guidall's narration spans the epic adventures of literature's most famous delusional hero and his increasingly wise fool companion across their quixotic journeys.

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    The Goldfinch

    by Donna Tartt

    Narrated by David Pittu

    ★ 4.28 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.33 Audible (42.4K)

    32h 24m listening time • Released 2013

    A terrorist attack at an art museum kills Theo's mother and leaves him clutching a stolen Dutch masterpiece that will haunt his entire life.

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    A terrorist attack at an art museum kills Theo's mother and leaves him clutching a stolen Dutch masterpiece that will haunt his entire life.

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