10 audiobooks for fans of The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura
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The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 4.07 ABR Score (90.7K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (90.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (297)More about this pick
Poe's Gothic masterpiece follows a narrator visiting the crumbling Usher mansion, where family madness and supernatural dread culminate in inevitable destruction.
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 3.65 ABR Score (5.5K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (5.5K) ★ 4.17 Audible (6)More about this pick
Poe's narrator hypnotizes a dying man at the moment of death with horrifying results. William Roberts captures the clinical tone that made 1845 readers believe it was real.
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe • Book 2
by Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Barefoot
Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark
★ 3.91 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.13 Audible (48)More about this pick
Bernard Setaro Clark's narration captures the psychological horror of Poe's greatest hits, from the Maelström's deadly whirlpool to the Cask of Amontillado's perfect revenge.
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The Masque of the Red Death : Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Stuart Summers
★ 3.83 ABR Score (48.1K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (48.1K) ★ 5 Audible (2)More about this pick
Summers' theatrical reading suits Poe's gothic tale of Prince Prospero's doomed masquerade ball, where plague crashes the party in human form through seven color-coded rooms.
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Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection
by Stephen Fry, Washington Irving, M.R. James, Amelia B. Edwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Riddell, Bram Stoker
Narrated by Stephen Fry
★ 4.11 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (988)More about this pick
Fry's theatrical background shines as he inhabits each classic tale, from Irving's Headless Horseman to M.R. James's scholarly terrors.
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The oval portrait (Edgar Allan Poe Collection nº 3)
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
★ 3.65 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)★ 3.72 Goodreads (7.8K) ★ 5 Audible (2)More about this pick
Wounded and sheltering in an abandoned chateau, a man becomes obsessed with an oval portrait whose beauty seems almost alive. Cathy Dobson's reading emphasizes Poe's gothic atmosphere.
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
Narrated by Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.60 ABR Score (477 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) ★ 3.99 Audible (138)More about this pick
Three skilled narrators present Lovecraft's influential 1927 horror essay alongside the classic stories he championed. The collection traces supernatural literature's evolution from Gothic novels through contemporary masters.
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Coffins
Vampire Archives • Book 3
by Otto Penzler, Harlan Ellison, Robert Bloch, Edgar Allan Poe, F. Paul Wilson, Scott Brick, Robertson Dean, Steve West, Robin Sachs, Mark Bramhall, John H. Mayer, Ryan Gesell, Rob Shapiro
Narrated by Scott Brick, Robertson Dean, Steve West, Robin Sachs, Harlan Ellison, Mark Bramhall, John H. Mayer, Ryan Gesell, Rob Shapiro
★ 3.56 ABR Score (111 ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (83) ★ 4.04 Audible (28)More about this pick
Nine different narrators tackle vampire tales from Poe to Ellison in this chilling anthology. Each story gets its own vocal interpretation, from Robertson Dean's gothic gravitas to Harlan Ellison reading his own work.
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Metzengerstein
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
★ 3.45 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)★ 3.23 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 5 Audible (3)More about this pick
Poe's tale of feuding Hungarian families and an ancient prophecy unfolds through mysterious fires and supernatural horses. Though brief, Cathy Dobson's gothic reading captures the story's ominous atmosphere perfectly.
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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)More about this pick
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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