Best Scott Aiello Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Scott Aiello — 9 titles spanning Sci-Fi, Non-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, averaging 3.84 ABR stars.

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Scott Aiello has quietly built a reputation as one of the go-to voices for genre fiction's darker, stranger corners — the kind of work that demands flexibility over star power. His catalog leans heavily on anthologies and collections: he narrates Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison's landmark speculative fiction anthology, and multiple issues of Weird Tales Magazine, which requires him to shift tone and register story by story without losing momentum. Aiello's voice has a lean, controlled quality — not showy, but precise — which makes him well-suited to ensemble work where dozens of characters need to feel distinct without caricature. His run on Iron Kingdoms Excursions and the Yesterday's Gone serial shows he can sustain tension across longer, pulpier material too. Listeners who love weird fiction, RPG tie-in novels, and genre anthologies will find him a reliable guide through the weird and the dark.

Where to Start with Scott Aiello

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    Yesterday's Gone: Season Six cover

    Yesterday's Gone: Season Six

    Yesterday's Gone • Book 16

    by Sean Platt, David W. Wright

    Narrated by Scott Aiello, Cassandra Campbell, Tamara Marston, Brian Holsopple, Em Eldridge, Ray Chase, James Patrick Cronin, Christopher Gebauer, Chris Patton, Adam Verner, Tara Sands, John Wray, R.C. Bray

    4.15 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (488) ★ 4.78 Audible (688)
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    The horror sci-fi series concludes as scattered survivors return home to face something worse than the Darkness that consumed humanity. Thirteen narrators including R.C. Bray and Scott Aiello guide listeners through this apocalyptic finale.

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    Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK cover

    Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

    by Gerald Posner

    Narrated by Scott Aiello

    4.12 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.7 Audible (331)
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    Scott Aiello delivers Posner's methodical demolition of JFK conspiracy theories, examining every piece of available evidence.

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    The Forever Life

    The Forever • Book 1

    by Craig Robertson

    Narrated by Scott Aiello

    3.95 ABR Score (6.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.32 Audible (5.1K)
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    To save humanity from Jupiter's destructive orbit, astronaut Jon Ryan volunteers for immortality and a solo mission to find a new home for our species.

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    Dangerous Visions

    Dangerous Visions • Book 1

    by Harlan Ellison, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon

    Narrated by Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, Johnny Heller, Edoardo Ballerini, Ramiz Monsef, Neil Hellegers, Jim Meskimen, JD Jackson, P. J. Ochlan, Dion Graham, Natalie Naudus, Vikas Adam, Scott Aiello

    3.88 ABR Score (10.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 3.94 Audible (48)
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    Ellison's groundbreaking 1967 anthology challenged science fiction's boundaries with taboo-breaking stories from Asimov, Dick, and Zelazny. Fourteen different narrators tackle the varied styles and provocative themes.

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    Departure

    The Origin Mystery

    by A.G. Riddle

    Narrated by Nicola Barber, Scott Aiello

    3.87 ABR Score (31.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (21.7K) ★ 4.16 Audible (9.3K)
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    Flight 305 crashes in the English countryside, stranding five strangers in a mystery spanning past and future. Nicola Barber and Scott Aiello alternate perspectives in this twisty adventure about power, memory, and fate.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Various

    Narrated by Scott Aiello, John Pirhalla, Simon Vance, Paul Woodson, Hillary Huber, Roger Clark, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Dion Graham, Joe Hempel, Steve West, James Langton, Neil Hellegers, Natalie Naudus, Peter Berkrot

    3.72 ABR Score (53 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (37) ★ 4.13 Audible (16)
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    Classic sword and sorcery stories from masters like Neil Gaiman and Jane Yolen get full voice treatment from fifteen different narrators. Blood, magic, and steel dominate this fantasy anthology's diverse tales.

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    Iron Kingdoms Excursions: Season One Collection

    Iron Kingdoms Excursions #1-6

    by Larry Correia, Erik Scott de Bie, Orrin Grey, Darla Kennerud, Michael G. Ryan, Aeryn Rudel, Douglas Seacat, William Shick, Howard Tayler

    Narrated by Ray Porter, Bronson Pinchot, Scott Aiello

    3.71 ABR Score (178 ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (43) ★ 4.14 Audible (135)
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    Eighteen micro-tales explore the steampunk world of Immoren through citizens, creatures, and war machines in bite-sized 1,500-word adventures.

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    Knaves: A Blackguards Anthology (3)

    Tales of the Otori #4.9 - Wine, Knife, Sword

    by Melanie R. Meadors, Alana Joli Abbott, Maurice Broaddus, Cullen Bunn, Toiya Kristen Finley, Shanna Germain, Lian Hearn, Walidah Imarisha, Mercedes Lackey, Dennis Lee, Cat Rambo, Linda Robertson, Clay Sanger, Anna Smith Spark, Kenny Soward, Anton Strout, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Howard Tayler, Linda Robertson Reinhardt

    Narrated by Scott Aiello, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Raphael Corkhill, Jonathan Davis, Victor Bevine, Lauren Fortgang, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kyla Garcia, Barrie Kreinik

    3.66 ABR Score (32 ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (30) ★ 3.5 Audible (2)
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    Nine narrators tackle tales of medieval swindlers, AI heists gone wrong, and legendary bodyguards whose protection comes with deadly strings attached.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 368: Occult Detective Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Eric G. Dove, Kevin Kenerly, Andrea Emmes, Robin Miles, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Tim Campbell, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Fass, Joel Froomkin, Frankie Corzo, Scott Aiello, Simon Vance, Hillary Huber

    3.50 ABR Score (69 ratings)
    ★ 3.4 Goodreads (43) ★ 3.65 Audible (26)
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    Multiple narrators bring occult investigators to life across dimensions, with each voice capturing different supernatural sleuths who peer into shadowy mysteries.

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