Audiobooks Like My Best Friend's Exorcism

Emily Woo Zeller narrates Grady Hendrix's 1980s horror with a tonal agility that holds the comedy and the genuine dread in the same breath — she makes the friendship feel real before the possession does, which is what gives the horror somewhere to land, and 10 hours moves at the pace of a story that knows it has to make you laugh before it makes you scared. The recs are drawn from paranormal and supernatural horror that share that same balance of nostalgia and menace.

10 audiobooks for fans of My Best Friend's Exorcism

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    The Final Girl Support Group

    by Grady Hendrix, Full Cast

    Narrated by Full Cast Full Cast, Jessica Schly, Kelly Baskin, Yesenia Iglesias, Alyssa Keegan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Mort Shelby, Su Ling Chan, Jacob Yeh, Holly Adams, Nora Achrati

    3.89 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (190.0K)
    9h 2m listening time • Released 2026
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    The Shivers Collection

    The Shivers Collection #1-5

    by Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, Owen King

    Narrated by Robert Fass, Kyla Garcia, Moniqua Plante, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Grover Gardner

    3.77 ABR Score (718 ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (543) ★ 4.34 Audible (175)
    5h 38m listening time • Released 2025

    Five different narrators bring their own menace to five masters of suspense—each story lands harder because the voice shifts remind you that something's fundamentally wrong in every tale.

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    SNAFU: Contagion

    SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror • Book 15

    by Amanda J. Spedding, Geoff Brown, Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Ray Porter, Emily Woo Zeller, Kevin Kenerly, Tim Campbell, Hillary Huber, Steve West, Heather Firth, Bradford Hastings, Josh Innerst, Andrew Gibson, Todd Menesses

    3.50 ABR Score (32 ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (25) ★ 3.71 Audible (7)
    13h 41m listening time • Released 2025

    A stellar ensemble cast transforms this military horror anthology into something cinematic—Ray Porter's gravitas anchors the collection while a dozen narrators give each story its own distinct voice, making Contagion feel like a prestige horror series rather than a compilation.

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    Make Me King

    Mountain Man • Book 5

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    4.69 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.3K)
    11h 12m listening time • Released 2020

    R.C. Bray transforms this post-apocalyptic power struggle into something genuinely gripping—his vocal range makes every faction feel distinct, and the tension between survival and ambition hits harder through audio than it would on the page.

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    And After

    Until the End of the World • Book 2

    by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.64 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (3.8K)
    10h 48m listening time • Released 2014

    Julia Whelan's narration transforms this zombie sequel into something genuinely gripping—her delivery makes you believe every hard choice Cassie faces, turning post-apocalyptic dread into something you won't want to pause.

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    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.

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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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    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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    Home Before Dark

    by Riley Sager

    Narrated by Cady McClain, Jon Lindstrom

    4.34 ABR Score (327.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (320.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (6.7K)
    11h 4m listening time • Released 2020

    Sager's haunted-house thriller deconstructs the genre in real time — a daughter returns to the house her father wrote about and finds his memoir was fiction.

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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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