Best Keith C. Blackmore Audiobooks

The best Keith C. Blackmore audiobooks — 7 titles ranked by listening experience across Horror, Fantasy, averaging 4.41 ABR stars.

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Keith C. Blackmore built his reputation on the Mountain Man series, a grimy, propulsive take on the zombie apocalypse that strips away heroic fantasy and replaces it with grim survival arithmetic. His protagonist Gus is less action hero than reluctant scavenger — overweight, alcoholic, terrified — and that stubborn ordinariness is exactly what makes the series work. Blackmore writes horror with a blue-collar sensibility: the prose is lean and unsparing, the threats feel genuinely dangerous, and the dark humor lands because it earns its keep. Safari and Hellifax extend the world without softening it. Readers who want zombie fiction that respects how awful the end of the world would actually be will find Blackmore hits harder than most. If R.C. Bray's gravel-voiced narration is your entry point, it suits this material perfectly.

Keith C. Blackmore's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is Well Fed, narrated by R.C. Bray (4.75 ABR stars). Performed by R.C. Bray, John Lee. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

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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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    The Mountain Man Omnibus Books 1-3

    Mountain Man #1-3 • Book 1

    by Keith C. Blackmore, R.C. Bray

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.44 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (12.2K)
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    Augustus Berry's fortress on the mountain becomes your bunker as zombies close in, with every scavenging run into the dead city dripping with tension. R.C. Bray's gruff narration captures the protagonist's whiskey-soaked paranoia perfectly.

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    Mountain Man: Prequel

    Mountain Man #0.4

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.61 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.75 Audible (7.7K)
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    R.C. Bray's gravel-voiced delivery transforms this zombie siege into something claustrophobic and relentless—he makes you feel trapped inside that megastore as hard as the characters are.

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    Mountain Man

    Mountain Man • Book 1

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.31 ABR Score (10.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (6.3K) ★ 4.5 Audible (4.7K)
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    Gus Berry stumbles through a zombie-infested world armed with only a shotgun, liquor, and dark humor. R.C. Bray captures every drunken moment and desperate survival choice with gruff authenticity.

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    Safari

    Mountain Man • Book 2

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.28 ABR Score (6.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.0K)
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    Gus Berry's post-apocalyptic routine of drinking and zombie-proofing his mountain fortress faces a new threat when even the undead start disappearing. R.C. Bray perfectly captures the dark humor and growing dread of this zombie sequel.

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    Hellifax

    Mountain Man • Book 3

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.46 ABR Score (4.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.73 Audible (1.8K)
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    Serial killers stalk frozen streets while infected vermin rise from sewers and half-frozen deadheads block every avenue of escape. R.C. Bray's narration amplifies the claustrophobic dread as Scott hunts for Tenner through this nightmare cityscape.

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    Savage

    The He-Dog Chronicles • Book 2

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by John Lee

    3.99 ABR Score (179 ratings)
    ★ 4.65 Goodreads (68) ★ 4.91 Audible (111)
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    Warriors He-Dog and Chop, sole survivors of fallen Foust, face pursuing beastmen at the world's bloody edge. Lee's narration captures the raw violence and pain driving these last two fighters across a landscape of vibrant beauty and savage warfare.

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