Audiobooks Like The Only Good Indians

Shaun Taylor-Corbett narrates The Only Good Indians with a grounded plainness that refuses to sensationalize the horror — the dread accumulates precisely because he treats the supernatural elements as matter-of-fact rather than theatrical, which over 9 hours makes the violence feel inescapable rather than spectacular. Five of the picks share Jones's authorship, and listeners drawn to the way this book handles cultural grief and the specific texture of contemporary Indigenous life as horror will find that perspective carried through the related titles here.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Only Good Indians

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    My Heart Is a Chainsaw

    The Indian Lake Trilogy • Book 1

    by Stephen Graham Jones

    Narrated by Cara Gee

    3.80 ABR Score (55.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (54.1K) ★ 4.13 Audible (1.5K)
    13h 3m listening time • Released 2021
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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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    Zombies: More Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Kathleen Tierney, Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Carrie Ryan, Matthew Johnson

    Narrated by Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin

    3.64 ABR Score (342 ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (212) ★ 4.08 Audible (130)
    20h 14m listening time • Released 2014
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    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

    Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

    by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

    Narrated by Kristin James, Matt Godfrey

    3.60 ABR Score (436 ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (431) ★ 4 Audible (5)
    11h 20m listening time • Released 2023
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    Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror

    by John F.D. Taff, Caroline Kepnes, Ramsey Campbell, Priya Sharma, Livia Llewellyn, Stephen Graham Jones, Chesya Burke, Alma Katsu, Gemma Files, Josh Malerman, Usman T. Malik, John Langan

    Narrated by Jennifer O'Donnell, John Keating, Jonathan Todd Ross, Neil Shah, Jasmin Walker, Rita Wolf, Fareeda Ahmed

    3.52 ABR Score (898 ratings)
    ★ 3.42 Goodreads (872) ★ 3.46 Audible (26)
    16h 10m listening time • Released 2022
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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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    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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    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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    The Omen

    The Omen • Book 1

    by David Seltzer

    Narrated by Holly Palance, Mark Owen

    4.32 ABR Score (70.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (70.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (671)
    7h 8m listening time • Released 2019
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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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