10 audiobooks for fans of We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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"The Haunting of Hill House Novel
by Shirley Jackson
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
★ 3.89 ABR Score (413.4K ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (402.1K) ★ 3.98 Audible (11.3K)More about this pick
Four paranormal investigators enter America's most malevolent house, where the real terror isn't ghosts but psychological breakdown. Jackson's subtle psychological horror unfolds beautifully in audio format.
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The Mist
Skeleton Crew • Book 1
by Stephen King
Narrated by Will Patton
★ 4.43 ABR Score (187.6K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (183.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (3.8K)More about this pick
Shoppers trapped in a supermarket face otherworldly creatures lurking in a mysterious mist outside. Will Patton's tense narration captures the claustrophobic horror as civilization breaks down inside the store.
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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)More about this pick
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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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill, John Lawrence
Narrated by Paapa Essiedu
★ 4.22 ABR Score (84.9K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (83.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
Arthur Kipps encounters a vengeful spirit while handling a deceased client's estate in the isolated Eel Marsh House. Paapa Essiedu's atmospheric reading heightens Hill's Victorian-style ghost story with elegant restraint.
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I Am Legend
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 4.20 ABR Score (170.3K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (154.9K) ★ 4.21 Audible (15.3K)More about this pick
Robertson Dean captures the isolation and desperation of humanity's last survivor hunting vampires by day and hiding by night.
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Terror in the Shadows Vol. 11: Horror Short Stories Collection with Scary Ghosts, Paranormal & Supernatural Monsters
Terror in the Shadows • Book 11
by Kathryn St. John-Shin, Scare Street, Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Sara Clancy, Anna Sinjin, Johnny Raven, Bronson Carey
Narrated by Johnny Raven
★ 3.68 ABR Score (106 ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (82) ★ 4.83 Audible (24)More about this pick
Thirteen supernatural tales explore vengeful bullies from beyond, medical procedures gone wrong, and nature's violent revenge. The variety spans ghostly tormentors to hungry amphibian swarms in this expertly curated collection.
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Blithecraft: an anthology of weird tales
by C.R. Tyroak
Narrated by Gareth Richards
★ 3.45 ABR Score (17 ratings)★ 5 Goodreads (3) ★ 3.93 Audible (14)More about this pick
C.R. Tyroak's collection spans fishing ports to Cumbrian fells to alien observatories, all rendered in classical weird fiction style. The narrator captures both contemporary elements and old-fashioned atmospheric dread.
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21st Century Dead
Dead of Night #1.1 Jack and Jill
by Christopher Golden, John M. McIlveen, Rio Youers
Narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Bernadette Dunne, Richard Powers, Kirby Heyborne, Malcolm Hillgartner, Chris Patton, John Pruden, Renée Raudman, Stefan Rudnicki
★ 3.49 ABR Score (897 ratings)★ 3.45 Goodreads (790) ★ 3.75 Audible (107)More about this pick
This zombie anthology spans from Robopocalypse tie-ins to unpublished Stephen King, with ten different narrators handling each story's unique voice and terror.
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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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The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
by H.P. Lovecraft, Eric Carl Link
Narrated by Andrew Leman, Sean Branney
★ 4.57 ABR Score (39.9K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (37.4K) ★ 4.63 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
Fifty-one hours of cosmic horror from Cthulhu to Dunwich, with Andrew Leman and Sean Branney channeling Lovecraft's antiquated dread across his complete works.
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