Best Robert Fass Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Robert Fass — 11 titles spanning Mystery, Sci-Fi, Horror, Historical Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Fantasy, averaging 3.70 ABR stars.

Robert Fass has carved out a niche in the darker, stranger corners of speculative fiction, and it suits him well. His voice carries a cool, measured authority — the kind that makes weird fiction feel grounded rather than campy — which is probably why he keeps turning up in anthologies where the material demands tonal precision across wildly different authors. On Greatest Hits, he navigates Harlan Ellison's confrontational fury and Neil Gaiman's quiet dread without missing a beat, and his work on The Shivers Collection shows a similar range across Joe Hill, Grady Hendrix, and others. He's not a big character-voice performer — his strength is atmosphere and control, pulling listeners into the prose rather than putting on a show. If you love short fiction anthologies, pulp science fiction, or horror with literary ambitions, Fass is exactly the kind of narrator who stays out of his own way and lets the writing breathe.

Where to Start with Robert Fass

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    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder cover

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Book 1

    by Holly Jackson

    Narrated by Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny, Various

    4.60 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.2K)
    10h 53m listening time • Released 2020
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    Greatest Hits

    by Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Khaw, J. Michael Straczynski

    Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, Tim Lounibos, Scott Brick, Steven Jay Cohen, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Dion Graham, Edoardo Ballerini, Stefan Rudnicki, Angelo Di Loreto, Luis Moreno

    3.82 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (29)
    17h 35m listening time • Released 2024

    A masterclass in short-form sci-fi storytelling where Ellison's unhinged brilliance gets the ensemble treatment it deserves. Multiple narrators make each twisted tale land harder.

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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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    Butcher

    by Joyce Carol Oates

    Narrated by Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass, Tavia Gilbert, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Danny Campbell, Max Meyers

    3.75 ABR Score (7.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (7.0K) ★ 4.08 Audible (95)
    13h 11m listening time • Released 2024

    A chilling historical horror anchored by eight narrators who inhabit a cast of victims and villains with such precision you feel the asylum closing in around you.

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    All-Star Superman

    DC Comics

    by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Meghan Fitzmartin

    Narrated by Marc Thompson, Kristen Sieh, Christopher Smith, Matthew Amendt, Scott Brick, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Robert Fass, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Brandon McInnis, Ray Porter, Full Cast

    3.74 ABR Score (144 ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (38) ★ 4.52 Audible (106)
    5h 4m listening time • Released 2025

    A full-cast audio production that transforms Morrison's abstract Superman opus into something visceral and immediate, with sound design that finally gives visual spectacle the sonic weight it deserves.

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    Great Classic Science Fiction

    Great Classic Stories (BBC Audio)

    by H.G. Wells, James H. Schmitz, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton

    Narrated by Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Stephen Thorne, Greg Itzin

    3.65 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.42 Goodreads (522) ★ 4.23 Audible (566)
    7h 45m listening time • Released 2010
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    Analytic review of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By: Jon Meacham

    by Andrew McKenzie

    Narrated by Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham, Steve Hendrickson, Mike Chamberlain, Robert Petkoff, January LaVoy, Kimberly Farr, Robert Fass, Jim Seybert, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, Tavia Gilbert, Keith Szarabajka, Full Cast

    3.56 ABR Score (24 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4 Audible (23)
    20h 22m listening time • Released 2026
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 367 cover

    Weird Tales Magazine No. 367

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Scott Brick, Robert Fass, James Anderson Foster, Heath Miller, Neil Hellegers, Roger Clark, Joe Hempel, Edoardo Ballerini, Eunice Wong, Simon Vance, Holly Adams, Chris Henry Coffey, Ralph Lister, Natalie Naudus

    3.53 ABR Score (59 ratings)
    ★ 3.79 Goodreads (47) ★ 3.75 Audible (12)
    5h 56m listening time • Released 2023
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 368: Occult Detective Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Eric G. Dove, Kevin Kenerly, Andrea Emmes, Robin Miles, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Tim Campbell, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Fass, Joel Froomkin, Frankie Corzo, Scott Aiello, Simon Vance, Hillary Huber

    3.51 ABR Score (69 ratings)
    ★ 3.4 Goodreads (43) ★ 3.65 Audible (26)
    8h 6m listening time • Released 2024

    A stellar ensemble cast elevates these occult detective stories from pulp to genuinely unsettling—each narrator inhabits their tale so completely you'll forget you're listening to an anthology.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 372: Cryptids & Urban Legends

    by Jonathan Maberry, Full Cast, Various

    Narrated by Hillary Huber, Joe Hempel, Nancy Wu, Matt Godfrey, Patricia Santomasso, Robert Fass, James Anderson Foster, James Fouhey, Derek Austin, Liam Gerrard, Ramiz Monsef, Justin Price, Ray Porter, Christopher Tester, full cast

    3.40 ABR Score (3 ratings)
    ★ 4 Audible (3)
    7h 36m listening time • Released 2026

    A full-cast production that treats cryptid lore with genuine respect—the rotating narrators nail the eerie atmosphere while essays ground the mythology in real investigation and wonder.

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    Swordspoint

    The World of Riverside • Book 1

    by Ellen Kushner

    Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones

    3.35 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.66 Audible (1.4K)
    10h 51m listening time • Released 2011

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