Audiobooks Like The Vampire Armand

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Jonathan Marosz narrates with a measured, unhurried gravity that suits Rice's prose — the long sentences and layered introspection need a voice that can hold the weight without tipping into melodrama, and at sixteen hours, there's genuine room for the melancholy to accumulate. This is gothic fiction that moves like candlelight rather than a chase, and Marosz keeps the tone consistently dark and sensual across centuries of remembered loss. Most of the picks here run a similar length — long enough to let a mood actually settle — and there's another Rice title in the mix for those who want to stay in her particular strain of atmospheric, ache-filled darkness.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Vampire Armand

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    Fangs

    Vampire Archives • Book 2

    by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Davies

    Narrated by Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Susan Denaker, Susan Duerden, Stephen Hoye, Carrington MacDuffie, Robin Sachs, Simon Vance, Bob Walter, Steve West

    ★ 3.62 ABR Score (228 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (160) ★ 4.09 Audible (68)
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    Vampire anthology featuring Clive Barker, Anne Rice, and Arthur Conan Doyle gets atmospheric treatment from a full cast including Robin Sachs and Simon Vance.

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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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    Well Fed

    Mountain Man • Book 4

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.82 Audible (10.0K)
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    Four years after the outbreak, Gus enjoys peaceful farm life until road savages shatter his routine. Bray's gruff portrayal shows how quickly domestic tranquility can collapse into highway warfare.

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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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    The Exorcist

    The Exorcist • Book 1

    by William Peter Blatty

    Narrated by William Peter Blatty, Eliana Shaskan

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (284.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (274.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (9.5K)
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    Young Regan's demonic possession grows more disturbing as the author himself narrates his own tale of spiritual warfare in Georgetown.

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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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    This Book Is Full of Spiders

    John Dies at the End • Book 2

    by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (42.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (34.6K) ★ 4.59 Audible (7.3K)
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    David and John battle an invasion of mind-controlling spiders while their town gets quarantined by the government. Nick Podehl balances cosmic horror with comedy gold, perfectly capturing Wong's blend of existential dread and ridiculous humor.

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    Full Dark, No Stars

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (127.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (118.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (9.3K)
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    Four novellas explore the stranger lurking inside ordinary people—a farmer who murders his wife, a writer stalked by her biggest fan, a man seeking supernatural revenge. Wasson and Hecht capture the slow-burn dread as decent folks discover their capacity for evil.

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    Everything's Eventual

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, Peter Gerety, Josh Hamilton, Arliss Howard, Judith Ivey, Stephen King, Justin Long, Oliver Platt, Jay O. Sanders

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (114.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (109.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (4.5K)
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    Fourteen King short stories ranging from Castle Rock to completely new territory, performed by an ensemble cast including Oliver Platt, Josh Hamilton, and King himself reading select pieces.

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    Fevre Dream by George R

    by George R.R. Martin

    Narrated by Ron Donachie

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (36.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (32.9K) ★ 4.56 Audible (3.5K)
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    Ron Donachie's atmospheric narration perfectly captures the gothic mood as riverboat captain Abner Marsh partners with the mysterious Joshua York on the fever-dream Mississippi of 1857.

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