Best Richard Matheson Audiobooks
Where to Start with Richard Matheson
- Best entry point → I Am Legend
- Best standalone → What Dreams May Come
- What fans keep coming back to → I Am Legend and Other Stories
- Best narrator for Richard Matheson → Echos (Rivages noir)
- Highest rated by listeners → Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
Best Richard Matheson Audiobooks
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I Am Legend
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 4.23 ABR Score (170.3K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (154.9K) ★ 4.21 Audible (15.3K)5h 20m listening time • Released 2006Robertson Dean's narration transforms this claustrophobic isolation into something unbearably intimate—his performance captures both Neville's methodical survival and psychological unraveling with devastating precision.
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What Dreams May Come
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 4.01 ABR Score (16.7K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 4.45 Audible (1.5K)8h 32m listening time • Released 2009Robertson Dean's performance elevates this metaphysical love story beyond its film adaptation, bringing unbearable tenderness and philosophical weight to Matheson's exploration of devotion beyond death.
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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 - 4
The Best of Richard Matheson
by Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle
Narrated by Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot, Richard Powers, Hillary Huber, Traber Burns, Scott Brick, Devon Sorvari, Kevin Kenerly
★ 3.98 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.47 Audible (341)15h 7m listening time • Released 2017 - 5
I Am Legend and Other Stories
Narrated by Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky
★ 3.94 ABR Score (137.8K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (136.8K) ★ 4.02 Audible (1.0K)10h 52m listening time • Released 2015Robertson 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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Hell House
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 2008Ray 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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Echos (Rivages noir)
by Richard Matheson, François Guérif, Jean-Paul Gratias
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 3.74 ABR Score (15.4K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (15.4K) ★ 3.83 Audible (59)12h 46m listening time • Released 2011Robertson Dean's measured intensity carries you through this French noir mystery with just the right amount of dread—a supernatural revenge tale that works because it trusts the unsettling premise rather than overselling it.
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Somewhere in Time
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.71 ABR Score (9.7K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (8.8K) ★ 4.12 Audible (880)10h 52m listening time • Released 2010Scott Brick's hushed, yearning narration transforms Matheson's time-crossing love story into something genuinely haunting. It's the rare romance where the audio performance makes you believe in impossible devotion.
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Steel: And Other Stories
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.55 ABR Score (843 ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (775) ★ 3.57 Audible (68)6h 51m listening time • Released 2011Scott Brick's controlled intensity brings Matheson's speculative stories to life with surgical precision, making these sharp-edged tales feel urgent and immediate rather than dated.
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The Box: Uncanny Stories
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 2009Grover 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.