Audiobooks Like A Head Full of Ghosts

Joy Osmanski narrates Paul Tremblay's horror novel with a carefully calibrated unease — her voice gives the retrospective framing a sense of someone who survived something they still don't fully understand, and the 9-hour runtime builds dread through accumulation rather than incident. Four picks share Tremblay's authorship, and all of them stay in that territory where the horror is psychological first, with the supernatural kept ambiguous long enough to do real damage.

10 audiobooks for fans of A Head Full of Ghosts

  1. 1
    Survivor Song cover

    Survivor Song

    by Paul Tremblay

    Narrated by Erin Bennett

    3.67 ABR Score (21.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (20.9K) ★ 3.94 Audible (847)
    8h 54m listening time • Released 2020
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    Disappearance at Devil's Rock cover

    Disappearance at Devil's Rock

    by Paul Tremblay

    Narrated by Erin Bennett

    3.65 ABR Score (18.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.59 Goodreads (17.5K) ★ 3.93 Audible (1.0K)
    12h 45m listening time • Released 2016
  3. 3
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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)
    11h 20m listening time • Released 2023
  4. 4
    Mountain Man: Prequel cover

    Mountain Man: Prequel

    Mountain Man #0.4

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.61 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.75 Audible (7.7K)
    8h 19m listening time • Released 2018

    R.C. Bray's gravel-voiced delivery transforms this zombie siege into something claustrophobic and relentless—he makes you feel trapped inside that megastore as hard as the characters are.

  5. 5
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    Carrie

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Sissy Spacek, Margaret Atwood

    4.54 ABR Score (864.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (856.4K) ★ 4.57 Audible (8.4K)
    7h 46m listening time • Released 2012
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    FantasticLand

    by Mike Bockoven

    Narrated by Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels

    4.35 ABR Score (70.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (53.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (16.6K)
    10h 1m listening time • Released 2017

    Dawe and Daniels' dual narration transforms this disaster-into-horror investigation into something genuinely unsettling—their competing testimonies make you question every account of what actually happened at the park.

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    The Omen cover

    The Omen

    The Omen • Book 1

    by David Seltzer

    Narrated by Holly Palance, Mark Owen

    4.32 ABR Score (70.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (70.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (671)
    7h 8m listening time • Released 2019
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    Bird Box

    Bird Box • Book 1

    by Josh Malerman

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

    4.27 ABR Score (221.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (212.4K) ★ 4.27 Audible (9.2K)
    9h 8m listening time • Released 2014
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    Clive Barker's The Books of Blood: Volume Three cover

    Clive Barker's The Books of Blood: Volume Three

    Books of Blood • Book 3

    by Clive Barker

    Narrated by Scott Brick, Xe Sands, Jeffrey Kafer, Peter Bishop, Chris Patton

    4.23 ABR Score (12.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (12.5K) ★ 4.54 Audible (368)
    7h 31m listening time • Released 2013
  10. 10
    My Best Friend's Exorcism cover

    My Best Friend's Exorcism

    by Grady Hendrix

    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

    4.20 ABR Score (163.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (154.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (9.4K)
    10h 11m listening time • Released 2016

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