Audiobooks Like The Mist

Will Patton narrates Stephen King's supermarket siege novella with a laconic realism — his voice has an American everyman quality that keeps the cosmic horror from feeling operatic, which is exactly how the material needs to work. The 5-hour runtime is compact by King standards, and Patton's stripped-back delivery makes the human evil inside the building land as hard as the creatures outside it. Two picks return to Patton narrating King directly, and the bulk of the list draws from King's broader catalog with various narrators who've shaped their own relationships to his horror.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Mist

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    Doctor Sleep

    The Shining • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Will Patton

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (340.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (300.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (40.0K)
    18h 34m listening time • Released 2013
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    If It Bleeds cover

    If It Bleeds

    Holly Gibney • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Will Patton, Danny Burstein, Steven Weber

    ★ 4.53 ABR Score (147.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (129.6K) ★ 4.58 Audible (17.4K)
    15h 12m listening time • Released 2020
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  3. 3
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    The Stand

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 4.91 ABR 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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    The Shining

    The Shining • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Campbell Scott

    ★ 4.93 ABR 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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    It

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Steven Weber

    ★ 4.90 ABR 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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    Pet Sematary

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Michael C. Hall

    ★ 4.82 ABR Score (738.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (708.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (29.8K)
    15h 41m listening time • Released 2018
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    Salem's Lot

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Joe Hill

    ★ 4.65 ABR Score (695.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.58 Audible (28.4K)
    17h 37m listening time • Released 2012
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    Christine

    by Stephen King, Marie Milpois

    Narrated by Holter Graham

    ★ 4.58 ABR Score (271.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (265.6K) ★ 4.74 Audible (5.6K)
    19h 35m listening time • Released 2016
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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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    Needful Things

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (293.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (281.4K) ★ 4.56 Audible (12.1K)
    25h 11m listening time • Released 2016
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