Best Steven Crossley Audiobooks
Steven Crossley has a voice built for atmosphere — deep, measured, and slightly ominous even when nothing sinister is happening yet. He's probably best known in audiobook circles for narrating In the Woods, Tana French's slow-burn Dublin Murder Squad opener, where his controlled pacing matches French's dense, literary tension perfectly. But Crossley's real sweet spot is classic and gothic horror — his work on Dracula and H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural leans into his natural gravitas without tipping into camp. There's an old-world formality to his delivery that suits Victorian and Edwardian prose beautifully, which also makes him a strong fit for something as ornate as The Canterbury Tales retelling. If you're someone who listens to horror late at night and wants a narrator who actually sounds like he believes in what he's reading, Crossley is your guy.
Where to Start with Steven Crossley
- New to Steven Crossley? Start here → Dracula
- What fans keep coming back to → Me Before You
- Highest rated by listeners → South - Sir Ernest Shackleton C.V.O.
Best Steven Crossley Audiobooks
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Narrated by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley
★ 4.67 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.61 Audible (37.6K)More about this pick
Stoker's epistolary vampire classic comes alive through a full cast including Tim Curry and Alan Cumming, each voice adding texture to the unfolding Gothic horror.
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Me Before You
Me Before You • Book 1
by Jojo Moyes
Narrated by Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, Alex Tregear, Andrew Wincott, Owen Lindsay
★ 4.62 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.62 Audible (37.3K)More about this pick
The full-cast narration pulls you deep into every perspective, so when Moyes rips your heart out, there's nowhere to hide.
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South - Sir Ernest Shackleton C.V.O.
by Ernest Shackleton
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.11 ABR Score (11.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (11.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (245)More about this pick
Shackleton's own account of Antarctic survival reads like adventure fiction, but every ice-trapped detail happened. Steven Crossley's narration captures the explorer's matter-of-fact tone facing impossible odds.
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A Fine Summer's Day
Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 17
by Charles Todd
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.09 ABR Score (6.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (6.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (700)More about this pick
Inspector Rutledge's pre-war romance unfolds against the gathering storm of 1914, while in Scotland, Hamish MacLeod courts his own sweetheart. This prequel reveals the tragic origins of Rutledge's haunted psyche.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog
Oxford Time Travel • Book 2
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.02 ABR Score (49.3K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (44.6K) ★ 4.24 Audible (4.7K)More about this pick
Time-traveling historian Ned Henry's search for a Victorian vase becomes a comedic romp through temporal paradoxes and romantic entanglements.
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The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things • Book 1
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.02 ABR Score (90.8K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (86.2K) ★ 4.37 Audible (4.7K)More about this pick
Twelve-year-old David's grief over his mother's death pulls him into a world where fairy tales turn violent and personal. Steven Crossley navigates the shifts between mundane sorrow and fantastical horror with remarkable sensitivity.
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In the Woods
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 1
by Tana French
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.89 ABR Score (460.6K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (442.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (18.3K)More about this pick
French weaves atmospheric horror with police procedural as detective Rob Ryan investigates a child murder eerily similar to his own childhood trauma.
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Beau Death
Peter Diamond • Book 17
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.78 ABR Score (2.0K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.24 Audible (274)More about this pick
Detective Peter Diamond investigates a centuries-old murder when builders uncover a skeleton in period costume in Bath's historic district. Steven Crossley handles the blend of contemporary investigation and Georgian-era mystery.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nick Bantock
Narrated by Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley
★ 3.71 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 3.57 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (98)More about this pick
Multiple narrators bring Ackroyd's modernized Canterbury Tales to vivid life, each voice perfectly matched to their pilgrim, making this sprawling medieval classic feel urgent and intimate.
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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
★ 3.60 ABR Score (477 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) ★ 3.99 Audible (138)More about this pick
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.
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The Vault
Inspector Wexford • Book 23
by Ruth Rendell
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.52 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 3.87 Audible (169)More about this pick
Retirement doesn't suit Chief Inspector Wexford in this 23rd series entry, proving that some detectives can't resist the pull of unsolved mysteries even in their golden years.
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Cruel is the Night
by Karo Hämäläinen, Owen F. Witesman
Narrated by Gideon Emery, Steven Crossley, Elizabeth Jasicki, Liz Pearce, Julian Elfer
★ 3.39 ABR Score (463 ratings)★ 2.83 Goodreads (458) ★ 2.8 Audible (5)More about this pick
Four Finnish friends gather for dinner in an opulent London apartment where three cell phones ring unanswered—because their owners are dead—in this Christie-inspired locked-room mystery delivered by a stellar cast.