Best The Monster Within Horror Audiobooks

The highest-rated horror audiobooks featuring the monster within, ranked by listeners. Browse 11 titles.

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The best horror audiobooks featuring the the monster within trope, ranked by listener and reader ratings from Audible and Goodreads.

The Monster Within shows up across many genres, but it plays out differently in horror — these are the highest-rated examples.

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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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    Full Dark, No Stars

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht

    4.38 ABR Score (127.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (118.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (9.3K)
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    Four novellas explore the stranger lurking inside ordinary people—a farmer who murders his wife, a writer stalked by her biggest fan, a man seeking supernatural revenge. Wasson and Hecht capture the slow-burn dread as decent folks discover their capacity for evil.

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    The Dark Half

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.29 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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    The Troop

    by Nick Cutter

    Narrated by Corey Brill

    4.12 ABR Score (138.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (129.7K) ★ 4.23 Audible (8.3K)
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    Five Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster face biological horror on a remote island when a infected stranger stumbles into their weekend camping trip.

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Narrated by Alexander Spencer

    4.00 ABR Score (672.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (672.5K) ★ 4.31 Audible (108)
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    Respectable Dr. Jekyll's experiments with human nature unleash his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, onto Victorian London's fog-shrouded streets.

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    Bethany's Sin.

    by Robert McCammon

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    3.64 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.62 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 3.97 Audible (224)
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    Ray Porter explores how a picture-perfect village's unnatural silence masks ancient evil, as Evan Reid discovers his bargain home comes with mythological horror.

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    Whispers in the Walls

    A Felix Cross Casefile • Book 2

    by E.A. Copen

    Narrated by Travis Baldree

    3.64 ABR Score (79 ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (52) ★ 4.59 Audible (27)
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    Travis Baldree's narration transforms this psychological horror into something genuinely unsettling—his voice work makes the asylum feel claustrophobic and the unreliable reality genuinely disorienting.

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    The Nonesuch and Others

    by Brian Lumley

    Narrated by Joshua Saxon

    3.64 ABR Score (107 ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (83) ★ 4.58 Audible (24)
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    Brian Lumley ventures beyond his famous Necroscope series with these unsettling horror tales. Joshua Saxon's narration finds the perfect balance between Lumley's cosmic dread and his more intimate character moments.

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    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

    Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

    by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

    Narrated by Kristin James, Matt Godfrey

    3.60 ABR Score (436 ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (431) ★ 4 Audible (5)
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    From haunted houses to mysterious green stones, this collection explores darkness in everyday places through stories by Peter Straub, Kelly Link, and other masters of the genre.

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    The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

    by Joyce Carol Oates

    Narrated by Adam Verner, Christine Williams

    3.56 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.41 Goodreads (2.8K) ★ 3.86 Audible (66)
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    Six psychological horror tales explore human cruelty through Oates' unflinching lens, from kidnapped children to family secrets that destroy lives. The dual narration approach suits the varied perspectives across stories.

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    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume Two

    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror • Book 2

    by Paula Guran

    Narrated by James Fouhey, Julienne Irons

    3.53 ABR Score (93 ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (89) ★ 3.75 Audible (4)
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    Paula Guran curates another collection of supernatural and surreal tales that carry on horror's disquieting traditions with modern twists.

How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

Rankings update periodically as new ratings come in and new titles are added to the collection.

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