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- New to Horror? Start here → The Shining
- No series commitment → The Stand
- Shortest on this list → Carrie (7h 46m)
- For a long haul → It (44h 55m)
- Most popular of all time → Dracula
- Hidden gem → The Exorcist
- Prefer something shorter? →
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The Shining
The Shining • Book 1
by Stephen King
Narrated by Campbell Scott
★ 4.93 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.7M) ★ 4.75 Audible (41.5K)15h 50m listening time • Released 2012King's most psychologically terrifying novel — a haunted hotel, a disintegrating father, and a little boy whose gift is his greatest danger.
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Dracula: With original content
Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, Allan Corduner, Pete Bradbury, Raphael Corkhill, Saskia Maarleveld, Vikas Adam
★ 3.96 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)16h 25m listening time • Released 2018 - 3
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Narrated by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley
★ 4.68 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.61 Audible (37.6K)15h 27m listening time • Released 2012 - 4
It
by Stephen King
Narrated by Steven Weber
★ 4.90 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.72 Audible (64.9K)44h 55m listening time • Released 2016Steven Weber's voice work transforms King's sprawling epic into something genuinely hypnotic—he doesn't just narrate the terror, he embodies the friendship that makes you care about it. Nearly 45 hours that feel essential.
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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 - 6
The Stand
by Stephen King
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.91 ABR Score (922.6K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (841.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (81.1K)47h 47m listening time • Released 2012King's apocalyptic magnum opus pits good against evil across a ravaged America — sprawling, terrifying, and peopled with characters you'll never forget.
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Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
Narrated by Michael C. Hall
★ 4.82 ABR Score (738.4K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (708.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (29.8K)15h 41m listening time • Released 2018 - 8
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by Alexander Spencer
★ 4.01 ABR Score (672.6K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (672.5K) ★ 4.31 Audible (108)3h 5m listening time • Released 2008Stevenson's lean novella is the original psychological thriller — a study of repression and duality that gave language itself two new words.
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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Joe Hill
★ 4.65 ABR Score (695.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.58 Audible (28.4K)17h 37m listening time • Released 2012 - 10
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 2011Simon 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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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by Frankie Corzo
★ 4.01 ABR Score (460.7K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (448.7K) ★ 4.13 Audible (12.0K)10h 39m listening time • Released 2020 - 12
"The Haunting of Hill House Novel
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
★ 3.93 ABR Score (413.4K ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (402.1K) ★ 3.98 Audible (11.3K)7h 27m listening time • Released 2010 - 13
Bunny
Bunny • Book 1
by Mona Awad
Narrated by Sophie Amoss
★ 3.52 ABR Score (342.9K ratings)★ 3.45 Goodreads (340.8K) ★ 3.74 Audible (2.2K)11h 44m listening time • Released 2019 - 14
Cujo (1981) Stephen King 1st Print Hardback
Cujo / Rattlesnakes • Book 1
by Stephen King
Narrated by Lorna Raver
★ 4.35 ABR Score (329.1K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (324.9K) ★ 4.51 Audible (4.2K)14h 7m listening time • Released 2016 - 15
Home Before Dark
by Riley Sager
Narrated by Cady McClain, Jon Lindstrom
★ 4.34 ABR Score (327.0K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (320.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (6.7K)11h 4m listening time • Released 2020Sager's haunted-house thriller deconstructs the genre in real time — a daughter returns to the house her father wrote about and finds his memoir was fiction.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
★ 4.06 ABR Score (307.5K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (301.7K) ★ 4.12 Audible (5.8K)5h 32m listening time • Released 2010 - 17
Doctor Sleep
The Shining • Book 2
by Stephen King
Narrated by Will Patton
★ 4.75 ABR Score (340.3K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (300.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (40.0K)18h 34m listening time • Released 2013 - 18
Needful Things
by Stephen King
Narrated by Stephen King
★ 4.52 ABR Score (293.5K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (281.4K) ★ 4.56 Audible (12.1K)25h 11m listening time • Released 2016 - 19
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
Narrated by Ralph Cosham
★ 4.10 ABR Score (283.2K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (281.0K) ★ 4.19 Audible (2.2K)7h 45m listening time • Released 2004 - 20
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 - 21
Christine
by Stephen King, Marie Milpois
Narrated by Holter Graham
★ 4.58 ABR Score (271.2K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (265.6K) ★ 4.74 Audible (5.6K)19h 35m listening time • Released 2016 - 22
The Tell-Tale Heart - Il cuore rivelatore / The Premature Burial - La sepoltura prematura
Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books
by Edgar Allan Poe, Elisabetta Querci
Narrated by William Roberts
★ 3.99 ABR Score (244.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.14 Audible (7) - 23
The Vampire Lestat
The Vampire Chronicles • Book 2
by Anne Rice
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.66 ABR Score (225.7K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (218.3K) ★ 4.7 Audible (7.5K)21h 40m listening time • Released 2011Simon Vance commands this operatic vampire saga with theatrical flair that matches Lestat's own irresistible charisma—his performance transforms what could be grandiose into genuinely seductive.
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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 - 25
Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Megan Follows
Narrated by Megan Follows
★ 3.96 ABR Score (208.2K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (207.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (847)
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