Audiobooks Like Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

10 audiobooks for fans of Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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   Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale

   by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Megan Follows

   Narrated by Megan Follows

   ★ 3.93 BLT Score (208.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.87 Goodreads (207.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (847)

   Le Fanu's original vampire tale is leaner and weirder than Dracula, all psychological obsession and Gothic dread. Megan Follows' narration nails the menace.

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   Le Fanu's original vampire tale is leaner and weirder than Dracula, all psychological obsession and Gothic dread. Megan Follows' narration nails the menace.

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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 BLT Score (11 ratings)

   ★ 3.5 Goodreads (6) ★ 4.2 Audible (5)

   5h 43m listening time • Released 2022

   BBC Radio's full-cast approach with David Warner and Ian McDiarmid is how Le Fanu's pioneering gothic deserves to be experienced: immersive, atmospheric, genuinely chilling.

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   BBC Radio's full-cast approach with David Warner and Ian McDiarmid is how Le Fanu's pioneering gothic deserves to be experienced: immersive, atmospheric, genuinely chilling.

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   Nightmare Collector: horror stories

   by Azahara Vega, Sheyla Drymon

   Narrated by Virtual Voice

   ★ 3.39 BLT Score (2 ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (2)

   1h 58m listening time • Released 2025

   If you want horror that cuts straight to primal fears—death, loss, the unknowable—these ten stories hit hard and fast in under two hours. Vega and Drymon nail the psychological dread that lingers long after the final page.

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   If you want horror that cuts straight to primal fears—death, loss, the unknowable—these ten stories hit hard and fast in under two hours. Vega and Drymon nail the psychological dread that lingers long after the final page.

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   The Stand

   by Stephen King

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.91 BLT Score (922.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (841.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (81.1K)

   47h 47m listening time • Released 2012

   King's apocalyptic magnum opus pits good against evil across a ravaged America — sprawling, terrifying, and peopled with characters you'll never forget.

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   King's apocalyptic magnum opus pits good against evil across a ravaged America — sprawling, terrifying, and peopled with characters you'll never forget.

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   The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

   by H.P. Lovecraft, Eric Carl Link

   Narrated by Andrew Leman, Sean Branney

   ★ 4.57 BLT Score (39.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (37.4K) ★ 4.63 Audible (2.6K)

   51h 40m listening time • Released 2019

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   Swan Song

   by Robert McCammon

   Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

   ★ 4.50 BLT Score (90.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (77.0K) ★ 4.45 Audible (13.8K)

   34h 19m listening time • Released 2011

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   Ghostly Terror!: Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook / The Yellow Wallpaper / The Beast with Five Fingers

   by M.R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.F. Harvey, Andrew Sachs, Laurel Lefkow, Stephen Pacey

   Narrated by Andrew Sachs, Larel Lefkow, Steven Pacey

   ★ 3.59 BLT Score (83 ratings)

   ★ 3.38 Goodreads (50) ★ 4.39 Audible (33)

   2h 14m listening time • Released 2011

   Stephen Pacey, Andrew Sachs, and Laurel Lefkow transform three foundational horror stories into a masterclass in atmospheric narration—each voice perfectly matched to its tale's creeping dread.

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   Stephen Pacey, Andrew Sachs, and Laurel Lefkow transform three foundational horror stories into a masterclass in atmospheric narration—each voice perfectly matched to its tale's creeping dread.

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   Real Ghost Stories: Disturbing Paranormal Stories Based On True Events (True Ghost Stories: Real Hauntings)

   True Ghost Stories: Real Hauntings

   by Eve S. Evans

   Narrated by Dana Bruhn

   ★ 3.55 BLT Score (309 ratings)

   ★ 3.84 Goodreads (307) ★ 4 Audible (2)

   1h 59m listening time • Released 2021

   Dana Bruhn's narration transforms these paranormal cases into genuinely unsettling encounters. Her pacing and tone make the two-hour collection feel like a late-night conversation with someone who's seen things.

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   Dana Bruhn's narration transforms these paranormal cases into genuinely unsettling encounters. Her pacing and tone make the two-hour collection feel like a late-night conversation with someone who's seen things.

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   The Shining

   The Shining • Book 1

   by Stephen King

   Narrated by Campbell Scott

   ★ 4.92 BLT Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.7M) ★ 4.75 Audible (41.5K)

   15h 50m listening time • Released 2012

   King's most psychologically terrifying novel — a haunted hotel, a disintegrating father, and a little boy whose gift is his greatest danger.

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   King's most psychologically terrifying novel — a haunted hotel, a disintegrating father, and a little boy whose gift is his greatest danger.

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    It

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Steven Weber

    ★ 4.89 BLT Score (1.3M ratings)

    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.72 Audible (64.9K)

    44h 55m listening time • Released 2016

    Steven Weber's voice work transforms King's sprawling epic into something genuinely hypnotic—he doesn't just narrate the terror, he embodies the friendship that makes you care about it. Nearly 45 hours that feel essential.

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    Steven Weber's voice work transforms King's sprawling epic into something genuinely hypnotic—he doesn't just narrate the terror, he embodies the friendship that makes you care about it. Nearly 45 hours that feel essential.

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