Best Possession Horror Audiobooks

Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

Narrated by Michael C. Hall

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.

Doctor Sleep

The Shining • Book 2

by Stephen King

Narrated by Will Patton

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.

The Exorcist

The Exorcist • Book 1

by William Peter Blatty

Narrated by William Peter Blatty, Eliana Shaskan

Young Regan's demonic possession grows more disturbing as the author himself narrates his own tale of spiritual warfare in Georgetown.

Christine

by Stephen King, Marie Milpois

Narrated by Holter Graham

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.

Blackwood Farm

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 9

by Anne Rice

Narrated by David Pittu

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.

The Omen

The Omen • Book 1

by David Seltzer

Narrated by Holly Palance, Mark Owen

The Dark Half

by Stephen King

Narrated by Grover Gardner

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.

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

The Vampire Chronicles • Book 12

by Anne Rice

Narrated by Simon Vance

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.

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller perfectly captures 1980s teenage friendship turned horror as Abby fights to save demon-possessed Gretchen in this nostalgic nightmare.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

by Stephen King

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

King teams with Sinese, Morton, and Mantegna to continue his virtuoso performance of horror tales mixing supernatural terror with psychological insight.

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

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.

A Head Full of Ghosts

by Paul Tremblay

Narrated by Joy Osmanski

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.

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians • Book 1

by Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

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.

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

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.'

The Book of Accidents

by Chuck Wendig

Narrated by Xe Sands, George Newbern

Night Terror

Lazarus Codex • Book 7

by E.A. Copen

Narrated by Travis Baldree

Travis Baldree's performance transforms this supernatural thriller into something genuinely unsettling—his command of tension and character voices makes the nightmares feel disturbingly real and personal.

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

Narrated by Simon Vance

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.

Brainchild

by John Saul

Narrated by Nick Podehl

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.

Come Closer

by Sara Gran

Narrated by Julie McKay

The Bird's Nest

by Shirley Jackson

Narrated by Linda Jones, Mark Bramhall

The Fervor

by Alma Katsu

Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Louis Ozawa

Japanese internment camps meet supernatural horror when deadly spores arrive via balloon bombs. Dual narrators Kato-Kiriyama and Ozawa create an immersive wartime nightmare.

The Entity

by Frank De Felitta

Narrated by Tanya Eby

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.

Shadows over Hemlock

A Felix Cross Casefile • Book 1

by E.A. Copen

Narrated by Travis Baldree

Travis Baldree's narration transforms this possession thriller into something genuinely unsettling—his voice work makes the interrogation scenes between exorcist and demon feel like psychological warfare rather than jump scares.

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

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.

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

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.

A Touch of Evil

by G.H. White

Narrated by Virtual Voice

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.

The Accursed

The Gothic Saga • Book 5

by Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by Grover Gardner

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.