Audiobooks Like I Am Legend

10 audiobooks for fans of I Am Legend

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   I Am Legend and Other Stories

   by Richard Matheson

   Narrated by Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky

   This collection expands on the haunting existential dread and isolation that defines the original novel, delivering more of Matheson's masterful explorations of humanity pushed to its breaking point. The dual narration adds dynamic variety to the listening experience while maintaining the psychological intensity that makes the first book so compelling.

   ★ 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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   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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   Hell House

   by Richard Matheson

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 3.87 ABR Score (70.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.69 Goodreads (64.1K) ★ 4.05 Audible (6.2K)

   9h 11m listening time • Released 2008

   Ray Porter transforms this haunted house masterpiece into something genuinely unnerving—his voice work isolates each character's descent into psychological terror so effectively that you'll feel trapped in Belasco House alongside them.

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   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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   The Mist

   Skeleton Crew • Book 1

   by Stephen King

   Narrated by Will Patton

   ★ 4.44 ABR Score (187.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.93 Goodreads (183.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (3.8K)

   5h 19m listening time • Released 2017

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   The Thief of Always

   by Clive Barker

   Narrated by Adam Verner

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (38.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.21 Goodreads (37.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (976)

   4h 20m listening time • Released 2013

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   The Woman in Black

   by Susan Hill, John Lawrence

   Narrated by Paapa Essiedu

   ★ 4.23 ABR Score (84.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.76 Goodreads (83.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.7K)

   5h 25m listening time • Released 2022

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   We Have Always Lived in the Castle

   by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem

   Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

   ★ 4.06 ABR Score (307.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (301.7K) ★ 4.12 Audible (5.8K)

   5h 32m listening time • Released 2010

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   Blithecraft: an anthology of weird tales

   by C.R. Tyroak

   Narrated by Gareth Richards

   ★ 3.46 ABR Score (17 ratings)

   ★ 5 Goodreads (3) ★ 3.93 Audible (14)

   6h 8m listening time • Released 2019

   Gareth Richards brings genuine menace to Tyroak's weird tales, each story landing harder because his narration knows exactly when to whisper and when to unsettle.

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    The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

    by Robert E. Howard, Greg Staples, Rusty Burke

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.31 Audible (825)

    23h 39m listening time • Released 2010

    Robertson Dean's narration transforms Howard's pulp horror into genuinely unsettling atmosphere—his voice work across the collection's rogues gallery and nightmarish settings makes these tales feel far more literary than their adventure-magazine origins suggest.

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