Where to Start with Horror Audiobooks Over 30 Hours
- Best place to start → The Stand
- Closest to 40 hours → It (44h 55m)
- Most popular → Swan Song
- Hidden gem → The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
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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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It
by Stephen King
Narrated by Steven Weber
★ 4.89 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.72 Audible (64.9K)More about this pick
Steven Weber's performance across 45 hours makes Derry feel like a real place you'd never want to visit, switching effortlessly between the Losers as kids and adults.
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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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Swan Song
Narrated by Tom Stechschulte
★ 4.50 ABR Score (90.8K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (77.0K) ★ 4.45 Audible (13.8K)More about this pick
Post-nuclear America faces an ancient evil hunting a special child named Swan across 34+ hours of Tom Stechschulte's immersive storytelling.
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The Essential Lovecraft
The Essential Lovecraft Stories
by H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger, Fred Burman, Kevin Pariseau, Matt Godfrey, Peter Berkrot, Robert Fass, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Paul Woodson, Avi Roque, Raphael Corkhill
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marc Vietor, Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Jonathan Davis, Jay Snyder, Mirron Willis, Kevin Kenerly, Dan Bittner, Chris Ciulla, Vikas Adam, Gregory Connors, Jason Culp, Timothy Andrés Pabon, full cast
★ 3.72 ABR Score (216 ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (58) ★ 4.4 Audible (158)More about this pick
Forty-eight stories performed by an exceptional full cast reveal why the obscure early 20th-century writer became horror and sci-fi's foundational genius.
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Fangs: The Vampire Archives, Vol 2
by Clive Barker
Narrated by Scott Brick, Jonathan Cowley, Erik Davies
★ 3.51 ABR Score (625 ratings)★ 4 Audible (625)More about this pick
Massive collection spanning vampire literature from Clive Barker to Arthur Conan Doyle across nearly 62 hours. Multiple narrators including Scott Brick handle the diverse styles and centuries of bloodsucking tales.
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