Best Drew Hayes Audiobooks
Drew Hayes has carved out a niche that almost no one else occupies: comedic urban fantasy that works precisely because it plays everything completely straight. Fred, the Vampire Accountant is the pitch-perfect execution of that premise — a mild-mannered CPA who becomes a vampire and remains, stubbornly, a mild-mannered CPA. Starting with The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant and continuing through entries like Undeath and Taxes and Bloody Acquisitions, Hayes mines the collision between supernatural drama and mundane professional life for jokes that never get old. His prose is breezy and confident, his world-building just detailed enough to feel real without slowing down the fun. Readers who want their fantasy laced with dry wit, likable protagonists, and plots that actually go somewhere will find Hayes consistently delivers — book after book, pun-laden title after pun-laden title.
Where to Start with Drew Hayes
- Best entry point → The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Start the Shingles Audio Collections series → Shingles Audio Collection
- Short listen, big payoff → Deadly Assessments : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 5
- What fans keep coming back to → Undeath and Taxes : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
- Best narrator for Drew Hayes → Bloody Acquisitions : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 3 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
- Highest rated by listeners → The Fangs of Freelance (Fred, the Vampire Accountant) (Fred, the Vampire Accountant #4)
Best Drew Hayes Audiobooks
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Deadly Assessments : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 5
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 5
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.52 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (3.3K) - 2
Bloody Acquisitions : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 3 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 3
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.52 ABR Score (10.9K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (4.2K) - 3
The Fangs of Freelance (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 4
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.51 ABR Score (9.5K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.76 Audible (3.6K) - 4
Undeading Bells : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 6
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 6
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.49 ABR Score (7.4K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 4.78 Audible (2.8K) - 5
Undeath and Taxes : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 2
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.47 ABR Score (13.0K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (8.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (4.7K) - 6
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Dramatized Adaptation)
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 1
by Drew Hayes
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
★ 4.33 ABR Score (10.0K ratings)★ 4.29 Audible (10.0K) - 7
Posthumous Education : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 8 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)
Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 8
by Drew Hayes, Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Stinson, Cody Roberts, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Amanda Forstrom, Carolyn Kashner, Eva Wilhelm, Dawn Ursula, Christopher Walker, Alejandro Ruiz
Narrated by Alejandro Ruiz, Amanda Forstrom, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Chris Stinson, Christopher Walker, Dawn Ursula, Eva Wilhelm, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Cody Roberts, full cast
★ 4.25 ABR Score (3.3K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (3.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (77)More about this pick
Vampire accountant Fred owes a favor to fey royalty and expects danger—instead, he's asked to teach at a supernatural university where the real threat is academic politics.
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Shingles Audio Collection
Shingles Audio Collections • Book 1
by Authors and Dragons, Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly, Robert Bevan, Rick Gualtieri, John G. Hartness, Drew Hayes, Steve Wetherell
Narrated by Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly
★ 3.92 ABR Score (119 ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (101) ★ 4.33 Audible (18)More about this pick
Cassandra Myles and Cal Wembly bring distinct energy to six horror comedy stories featuring young protagonists Sarah and Tommy. Their performances capture both the absurd humor and genuine scares.