Audiobooks Like Hell House

Ray Porter narrates Hell House at a sustained pitch of controlled dread — 9 hours of mounting paranormal horror where his ability to shift between clinical detachment and visceral fear keeps Matheson's haunted house from becoming campy. Seven of the recommendations also feature Porter, and four pull from Matheson's catalog, so the list stays tightly bound by both voice and that particular mid-century horror sensibility where the terror is as psychological as supernatural.

10 audiobooks for fans of Hell House

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    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories cover

    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

    by Richard Matheson, Stephen King

    Narrated by Julia Campbell, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hillgartner, Arte Johnson, Jay Karnes, Ray Porter, Yuri Rasovsky, Lorna Raver

    4.00 ABR Score (9.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.17 Audible (1.1K)
    10h 17m listening time • Released 2009
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    I Am Legend and Other Stories

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky

    3.94 ABR Score (137.8K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (136.8K) ★ 4.02 Audible (1.0K)
    10h 52m listening time • Released 2015

    Robertson Dean and Yuri Rasovsky transform Matheson's classic into a visceral experience—each narrator captures a different story's dread with surgical precision, making this collection of sci-fi horror feel genuinely haunting rather than dated.

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    I Am Legend

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    4.23 ABR Score (170.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (154.9K) ★ 4.21 Audible (15.3K)
    5h 20m listening time • Released 2006

    Robertson Dean's narration transforms this claustrophobic isolation into something unbearably intimate—his performance captures both Neville's methodical survival and psychological unraveling with devastating precision.

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    The Night Boat

    by Robert McCammon, Colin Sullivan, Rowena Morrill

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    3.66 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 3.99 Audible (270)
    8h 44m listening time • Released 2013

    Ray Porter's gravelly intensity transforms this sunken U-boat horror into something genuinely unsettling—he makes the dread feel personal, like he's warning you from inside the dark water.

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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)
    10h 49m listening time • Released 2013

    Ray Porter transforms this cult-horror classic into pure dread, his measured pacing making each quiet moment feel suffocating and every revelation genuinely unsettling. It's McCammon at his most paranoid and inventive.

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    The Box: Uncanny Stories

    by Richard Matheson

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.47 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.54 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 3.36 Audible (88)
    4h 33m listening time • Released 2009

    Grover Gardner's measured, conversational delivery transforms Matheson's moral dilemmas into psychological quicksand—each story pulls you deeper before the twist lands like a gut punch.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 372: Cryptids & Urban Legends

    by Jonathan Maberry, Full Cast, Various

    Narrated by Hillary Huber, Joe Hempel, Nancy Wu, Matt Godfrey, Patricia Santomasso, Robert Fass, James Anderson Foster, James Fouhey, Derek Austin, Liam Gerrard, Ramiz Monsef, Justin Price, Ray Porter, Christopher Tester, full cast

    3.40 ABR Score (3 ratings)
    ★ 4 Audible (3)
    7h 36m listening time • Released 2026

    A full-cast production that treats cryptid lore with genuine respect—the rotating narrators nail the eerie atmosphere while essays ground the mythology in real investigation and wonder.

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    Still of Night

    Dead of Night • Book 3

    by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.42 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (612) ★ 4.8 Audible (1.3K)
    11h 23m listening time • Released 2018

    Ray Porter transforms this zombie apocalypse into something grittier and more human than the genre typically allows—his voice work on multiple perspectives keeps the tension relentless across 11+ hours.

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    The Amityville Horror

    by Jay Anson

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.26 ABR Score (147.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (138.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (8.7K)
    6h 28m listening time • Released 2009

    Ray Porter's deadpan delivery transforms this into pure psychological dread—he sells the slow-burn terror without ever overselling it, making the escalating haunting feel disturbingly plausible.

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    They Thirst

    They Thirst!

    by Robert McCammon

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.07 ABR Score (15.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (13.8K) ★ 4.28 Audible (1.7K)
    19h 20m listening time • Released 2013

    Ray Porter turns McCammon's vampire invasion into a relentless, darkly comic nightmare—his voice work across dozens of characters makes the chaos feel genuinely alive and terrifying.

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