Best Possession Audiobooks

The highest-rated audiobooks featuring the Possession trope, ranked by listeners and readers. Browse 32 titles across Horror, Fantasy, Mystery.

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Possession strips away the illusion that we're in control of ourselves. It's the ultimate horror: your body becomes a weapon against everyone you love, your thoughts aren't your own, and you're trapped watching from inside. The dread is relentless because there's no hiding from the enemy—it lives in your skin. You'll find possession stories across horror, dark fantasy, and literary fiction. Expect escalating body horror, psychological warfare, and the grim question of whether the person you knew can come back at all.

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    Pet Sematary

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Michael C. Hall

    4.82 ABR Score (738.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (708.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (29.8K)
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    Dr. Louis Creed discovers that the pet cemetery behind his new home can bring the dead back to life—but they return fundamentally wrong. Hall's chilling performance amplifies King's most disturbing novel.

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    Doctor Sleep

    The Shining • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Will Patton

    4.74 ABR Score (340.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (300.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (40.0K)
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    Adult Danny Torrance battles his alcoholism while protecting a psychic girl from soul-eating nomads called the True Knot. Will Patton's weathered narration perfectly suits this darker, more grounded sequel to The Shining.

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    The Exorcist

    The Exorcist • Book 1

    by William Peter Blatty

    Narrated by William Peter Blatty, Eliana Shaskan

    4.73 ABR Score (284.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (274.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (9.5K)
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    Young Regan's demonic possession grows more disturbing as the author himself narrates his own tale of spiritual warfare in Georgetown.

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    Christine

    by Stephen King, Marie Milpois

    Narrated by Holter Graham

    4.58 ABR Score (271.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (265.6K) ★ 4.74 Audible (5.6K)
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    King's tale of a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury destroying a teenager's life gets Holter Graham's pitch-perfect narration, capturing both Arnie's transformation and the car's malevolent personality.

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    The Raven

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Dominic West

    4.55 ABR Score (173.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (172.0K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.6K)
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    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.

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    A Hat Full of Sky

    Discworld • Book 32

    by Terry Pratchett

    Narrated by Stephen Briggs

    4.53 ABR Score (84.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (80.7K) ★ 4.83 Audible (3.6K)
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    When young witch Tiffany carelessly steps out of her body, something ancient and evil steps in—Briggs captures both Pratchett's humor and the story's surprising darkness.

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    Blackwood Farm

    The Vampire Chronicles • Book 9

    by Anne Rice

    Narrated by David Pittu

    4.36 ABR Score (37.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (35.0K) ★ 4.6 Audible (2.6K)
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    Quinn Blackwood's blood-soaked family saga unfolds in a Louisiana mansion where vampires meet Southern Gothic horror. David Pittu's rich narration captures both Lestat's seductive menace and the haunted atmosphere of the cypress swamps.

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    Song of Susannah

    The Dark Tower • Book 6

    by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.32 ABR Score (192.7K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (177.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (15.5K)
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    Susannah's body hosts the demon Mia as she travels to 1999 New York to birth Roland's nemesis, while the ka-tet faces their most personal catastrophe yet.

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    The Naked God

    Night's Dawn • Book 3

    by Peter F. Hamilton

    Narrated by John Lee

    4.30 ABR Score (23.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (20.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (2.1K)
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    Quinn Dexter terrorizes Earth's arcologies while Louise Kavanagh hunts him with mysterious allies whose motives don't align with hers.

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    The Dark Half

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.28 ABR Score (157.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (153.5K) ★ 4.48 Audible (3.7K)
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    When writer Thad Beaumont tries to kill off his violent pseudonym, the alter ego literally comes to life and starts murdering people. Grover Gardner's performance captures both Thad's vulnerability and his dark double's menace perfectly.

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    Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

    The Vampire Chronicles • Book 12

    by Anne Rice

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    4.25 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (10.0K) ★ 4.56 Audible (2.5K)
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    Rice expands her vampire mythology with ancient aliens and Atlantean technology possessing Lestat's consciousness. Simon Vance captures both the gothic elegance and science fiction weirdness as the series takes its strangest turn yet.

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    My Best Friend's Exorcism

    by Grady Hendrix

    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

    4.17 ABR Score (163.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (154.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (9.4K)
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    Emily Woo Zeller perfectly captures 1980s teenage friendship turned horror as Abby fights to save demon-possessed Gretchen in this nostalgic nightmare.

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    Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Joe Morton, Joe Mantegna

    4.16 ABR Score (2.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.2K)
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    King teams with Sinese, Morton, and Mantegna to continue his virtuoso performance of horror tales mixing supernatural terror with psychological insight.

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    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 2

    by Aoibh Wood

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    4.12 ABR Score (569 ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (394) ★ 4.86 Audible (175)
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    Detective Cait's post-vampire recovery faces new supernatural threats as Abby Craden navigates family trauma and underground terrors.

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    The Unholy

    Krewe of Hunters • Book 6

    by Heather Graham

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4.09 ABR Score (5.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.5 Audible (565)
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    Hollywood's Golden Age meets supernatural horror when a film noir museum's Egyptian priest mannequin starts killing people. Luke Daniels balances the camp and genuine scares effectively.

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    Dead Men's Boots

    Felix Castor • Book 3

    by Mike Carey

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    4.06 ABR Score (8.2K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (8.0K) ★ 4.66 Audible (222)
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    Helping a widow protect her husband's corpse from a greedy lawyer should be simple, but Castor stumbles into a copycat serial killer case. The supernatural investigation gets increasingly complex and personally dangerous.

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    Vicious Circle

    Felix Castor • Book 2

    by Mike Carey

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    4.05 ABR Score (9.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (9.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (239)
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    Castor's reluctant return to exorcism gets complicated when someone starts systematically murdering his fellow practitioners. Michael Kramer captures the sardonic wit and supernatural dread perfectly.

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    Unholy Magic

    Downside Ghosts • Book 2

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    4.04 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.0K)
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    Chess Putnam battles both poisoning and murderous ghosts while exposing fake psychics in a world where the dead won't stay buried. Bahni Turpin captures Chess's gritty determination perfectly.

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    Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

    by Stephen King, Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Curry, Yeardley Smith, Rob Lowe, Tabitha King, Robert B. Parker, Stephen Jay Gould

    Narrated by Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Lowe, Gary Sinese

    4.00 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.28 Audible (2.3K)
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    King joins an all-star cast including Kathy Bates and Gary Sinese to perform his tales of vampires, lurking spirits, and ordinary people driven to extremes.

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    A Head Full of Ghosts

    by Paul Tremblay

    Narrated by Joy Osmanski

    4.00 ABR Score (114.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (107.6K) ★ 4.17 Audible (6.6K)
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    When fourteen-year-old Marjorie shows signs of possession or mental illness, her desperate family agrees to film an exorcism for reality TV. Joy Osmanski switches between the adult narrator and disturbing childhood scenes with unsettling skill.

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    The Creeps

    Samuel Johnson • Book 3

    by John Connolly

    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

    3.98 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (240)
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    Samuel Johnson's life is a mess: wrong girlfriend, demons in his spare room, and a cursed town. Tim Gerard Reynolds guides this supernatural comedy as the grand reopening of a toy shop promises either salvation or fresh horror.

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    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

    3.97 ABR Score (244.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.14 Audible (7)
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    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.'

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    The Only Good Indians

    The Only Good Indians • Book 1

    by Stephen Graham Jones

    Narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

    3.97 ABR Score (123.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.68 Goodreads (118.4K) ★ 4.2 Audible (4.8K)
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    Four Blackfeet men face supernatural revenge for a decade-old elk hunt in this visceral horror that burrows under your skin. Taylor-Corbett's grounded performance anchors the mounting dread without overselling the terror.

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    The Damnation Game

    by Clive Barker

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    3.87 ABR Score (22.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (21.4K) ★ 4.15 Audible (762)
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    Millionaire Joseph Whitehead made a deal with a supernatural gambler during WWII, and now the debt is coming due in the most horrific ways imaginable. Simon Vance's narration captures both the psychological terror and visceral horror as past sins manifest in flesh.

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    Desecrate (Knights of Eternity Book 2)

    Knights of Eternity • Book 2

    by Rachel Ní Chuirc

    Narrated by Andrea Parsneau

    3.86 ABR Score (153 ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (118) ★ 4.71 Audible (35)
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    Trapped in murderer Zara's body, our nameless hero discovers the god Calamity treats their world like a chess board with devastating consequences.

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    Brainchild

    by John Saul

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

    3.81 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (6.9K) ★ 4.14 Audible (110)
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    Alex survives a horrific accident but returns changed, with something cold and blank behind his eyes. Nick Podehl builds the creeping horror as loved ones realize their miracle of medical science brought back something else entirely.

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    The Fervor

    by Alma Katsu

    Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Louis Ozawa

    3.67 ABR Score (5.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.05 Audible (64)
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    Japanese internment camps meet supernatural horror when deadly spores arrive via balloon bombs. Dual narrators Kato-Kiriyama and Ozawa create an immersive wartime nightmare.

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    The Entity

    by Frank De Felitta

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    3.67 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 3.96 Audible (56)
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    Carlotta Moran is attacked nightly by an invisible rapist that no one believes exists—not even her psychiatrist. Tanya Eby's narration carries the mounting terror as this spectral predator threatens Carlotta's children and sanity.

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    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

    3.56 ABR Score (111 ratings)
    ★ 3.6 Goodreads (83) ★ 4.04 Audible (28)
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    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.

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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Gothic Horror Collection

    by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Don McCamphill, Alan Drury, Neil Brand, Anne-Marie Duff, Brana Bajic, David Warner, Celia Imrie, Jacqueline Pearce, Nigel Anthony, Roger May, Kenneth Cranham, Ian McDiarmid, Teresa Gallagher, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Tutin, Joan Sims, Kathleen Byron, Tessa Worsley, John Hartley, Jonathan Keeble, Geoffrey Whitehead, Stephen Critchlow, George Cole, Jane Wittenshaw, George A. Cooper, Becky Hindley, Pauline Letts, David Collings, John Evitts, Linda Regan, Joan Littlewood, Paul Chahidi, Haydn Gwynne, Jonathan Forbes, Ruth Everett, Matthew Durkan, Alexandra Hannant, Rebecca Crankshaw, Chris Jack, Michael Begley, Neil McCaul, Seán Barrett

    Narrated by full cast, Anne-Marie Duff, Roger May, David Warner, Celia Imrie, Haydn Gwynne, Teresa Gallagher, Paul Chahidi, Joan Sims

    3.44 ABR Score (11 ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (6) ★ 4.2 Audible (5)
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    BBC's full-cast productions of Le Fanu's Victorian ghost stories include the lesbian vampire classic 'Carmilla,' featuring Anne-Marie Duff in atmospheric radio drama adaptations.

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    A Touch of Evil

    by G.H. White

    Narrated by Virtual Voice

    3.41 ABR Score (15 ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (14) ★ 3 Audible (1)
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    G.H. White crafts a genuinely unsettling supernatural thriller where a boy's psychometric gift becomes a conduit for ancient evil—Virtual Voice's measured delivery heightens the creeping dread.

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    The Accursed

    The Gothic Saga • Book 5

    by Joyce Carol Oates

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.29 ABR Score (6.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.24 Goodreads (6.4K) ★ 3.48 Audible (164)
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    Turn-of-century Princeton falls under supernatural influence as historical figures like Woodrow Wilson encounter Gothic horror. Grover Gardner tackles Oates' ambitious blend of real history and psychological terror across this lengthy narrative.

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