Audiobooks Like The Ruins

Patrick Wilson narrates The Ruins across 15 hours at an unrelenting register — there's no relief built into the performance because there's no relief in the material, and Wilson's steady, almost documentary delivery makes the body-horror premise feel depressingly plausible rather than sensationalized. Scott Smith's novel is one of the genre's cruelest, and Wilson commits to that without flinching. The recommendations here match both the runtime and that quality of unadorned survival horror, for listeners who want their fear to come from situation rather than atmosphere.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Ruins

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    All the Stars in the Sky

    Until the End of the World • Book 3

    by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    ★ 4.77 ABR Score (8.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.56 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.81 Audible (3.7K)
    12h 19m listening time • Released 2015

    Julia Whelan's performance captures every fracture in Cassie's determination as Fleming delivers a finale that refuses easy answers—the emotional gut-punch you've been waiting three books for.

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    Well Fed

    Mountain Man • Book 4

    by Keith C. Blackmore

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.82 Audible (10.0K)
    16h 59m listening time • Released 2015

    R.C. Bray's gravel-voiced delivery transforms this post-apocalyptic manhunt into pure survival tension, making the fourth Mountain Man book feel like a high-stakes thriller despite its bloated runtime.

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    The Exorcist

    The Exorcist • Book 1

    by William Peter Blatty

    Narrated by William Peter Blatty, Eliana Shaskan

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (284.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (274.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (9.5K)
    12h 51m listening time • Released 2011
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    Exodus

    Arisen • Book 5

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.61 ABR Score (5.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.78 Audible (3.0K)
    12h 18m listening time • Released 2015

    R.C. Bray transforms this apocalyptic siege into something visceral and unbearable—his performance sells the desperation of exhausted soldiers facing impossible odds with such conviction you'll feel the dread yourself.

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    This Book Is Full of Spiders

    John Dies at the End • Book 2

    by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

    ★ 4.58 ABR Score (42.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (34.6K) ★ 4.59 Audible (7.3K)
    14h 49m listening time • Released 2012

    Nick Podehl nails the deadpan horror-comedy tone that makes Wong's weird, grotesque world feel genuinely terrifying and laugh-out-loud funny in the same breath. If you loved the first one, this sequel gets weirder and darker without losing the heart that makes you actually care about these two idiots saving the world.

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    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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    Interview with the Vampire

    The Vampire Chronicles • Book 1

    by Anne Rice

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    ★ 4.51 ABR Score (667.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (655.2K) ★ 4.5 Audible (12.5K)
    14h 24m listening time • Released 2011

    Simon Vance's performance transforms Rice's gothic confession into something hypnotic—his voice captures both the seductive languor and existential despair of a vampire's immortality with unsettling precision.

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    The Nightmare Stacks

    Laundry Files • Book 7

    by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Gideon Emery

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (7.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.65 Audible (1.1K)
    14h 54m listening time • Released 2016
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    Full Dark, No Stars

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (127.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (118.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (9.3K)
    14h 55m listening time • Released 2010
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    Everything's Eventual

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, Peter Gerety, Josh Hamilton, Arliss Howard, Judith Ivey, Stephen King, Justin Long, Oliver Platt, Jay O. Sanders

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (114.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (109.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (4.5K)
    17h 16m listening time • Released 2014
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