Best Edgar Allan Poe Audiobooks

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Dominic West

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.

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

Fry's theatrical background shines as he inhabits each classic tale, from Irving's Headless Horseman to M.R. James's scholarly terrors.

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by B. J. Harrison

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.

The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by B.J. Harrison

B.J. Harrison's dramatic reading captures all the sinister charm of Montresor luring Fortunato into the catacombs for wine—and revenge.

The Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe's Haunting Tale of Family Secrets and Tragic Decay

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by William Roberts

Poe's Gothic masterpiece follows a narrator visiting the crumbling Usher mansion, where family madness and supernatural dread culminate in inevitable destruction.

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

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.

The Gold Bug

by Edgar Allan Poe, Tobias Hill

Narrated by Chris Lutkin

Believing his friend has gone mad after an insect bite, a skeptical companion joins a bizarre treasure hunt guided by cryptic codes and strange prophecy.

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

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.

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble

Every Poe tale from "The Raven" to "The Fall of the House of Usher" gets the full gothic treatment. Narrators Jonathan Keeble and Peter Noble understand that Poe's horror lives in atmosphere, not jump scares.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume II (Edgar Allan Poe Classics Collection)

The Edgar Allan Poe Collection • Book 2

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by David Ian Davies

Classic Poe tales get atmospheric treatment as David Ian Davies tackles the detective brilliance of Auguste Dupin and the psychological terrors that made Poe legendary.

Annabel Lee

The dark Artifices

by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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.

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

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.

William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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.

The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura

Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books

by Edgar Allan Poe, Elisabetta Querci

Narrated by William Roberts

Poe's psychological horror masterpieces explore the terror of guilt and the nightmare of being buried alive, with the narrator's obsessive guilt in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' contrasting the phobic dread in 'The Premature Burial.'

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by William Roberts

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.

Metzengerstein

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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.

The Masque of the Red Death : Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Stuart Summers

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.

The oval portrait (Edgar Allan Poe Collection nº 3)

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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.

The Haunted Palace

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Lissa Lia, K. Anderson Yancy

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.