Where to Start with Brian Troxell
- New to Brian Troxell? Start here → The Third Cry to Legba, and Other Invocations
- What fans keep coming back to → Owls Hoot in the Daytime, and Other Omens
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Devil is Not Mocked, and Other Warnings
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Owls Hoot in the Daytime, and Other Omens
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman #Vol. 5 • Book 5
Narrated by Brian Troxell
★ 3.96 ABR Score (340 ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (183) ★ 4.64 Audible (157)9h 47m listening time • Released 2013Brian Troxell's grainy, deliberate narration is perfect for Wellman's Appalachian folk horror—he makes Silver John's wanderings through haunted backwoods feel genuinely unsettling rather than quaint.
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The Devil is Not Mocked, and Other Warnings
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman #Vol. 2 • Book 2
Narrated by Brian Troxell, Kristin Kalbli
★ 3.86 ABR Score (157 ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (108) ★ 4.63 Audible (49)13h 56m listening time • Released 2013Wellman's Appalachian horror stories crackle with genuine dread, and Troxell and Kalbli's dual narration transforms these regional gothic tales into something that feels unearthed from actual folklore rather than invented.
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The Third Cry to Legba, and Other Invocations
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman #Vol. 1 • Book 1
by Manly Wade Wellman, John Pelan, Kenneth Waters
Narrated by Brian Troxell
★ 3.77 ABR Score (211 ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (140) ★ 4.59 Audible (71)14h 20m listening time • Released 2013Brian Troxell's narration brings Wellman's occult investigators to life with a noir sensibility that feels genuinely ahead of its time—these vintage weird tales hit harder when you hear the paranoia and moral weight in his voice.
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Fearful Rock, and Other Precarious Locales
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman #Vol. 3 • Book 3
Narrated by Brian Troxell
★ 3.71 ABR Score (133 ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (96) ★ 4.65 Audible (37)Brian Troxell's narration captures Wellman's pulp-era Southern Gothic with genuine menace—these eight stories crackle with the kind of atmospheric dread that demands to be heard aloud.
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Sin's Doorway, and Other Ominous Entrances
The Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman #Vol. 4 • Book 4
by Manly Wade Wellman, David Drake
Narrated by Brian Troxell
★ 3.69 ABR Score (122 ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (96) ★ 4.77 Audible (26)12h 21m listening time • Released 2013Brian Troxell's narration transforms Wellman's pulp horror into something genuinely unsettling—each story hits harder when you hear the dread in his voice rather than read it on a page.
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