Best Steven Crossley Audiobooks
Steven Crossley has a voice built for atmosphere — deep, measured, and slightly ominous even when nothing sinister is happening yet. He's probably best known in audiobook circles for narrating In the Woods, Tana French's slow-burn Dublin Murder Squad opener, where his controlled pacing matches French's dense, literary tension perfectly. But Crossley's real sweet spot is classic and gothic horror — his work on Dracula and H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural leans into his natural gravitas without tipping into camp. There's an old-world formality to his delivery that suits Victorian and Edwardian prose beautifully, which also makes him a strong fit for something as ornate as The Canterbury Tales retelling. If you're someone who listens to horror late at night and wants a narrator who actually sounds like he believes in what he's reading, Crossley is your guy.
Where to Start with Steven Crossley
- New to Steven Crossley? Start here → Dracula
- What fans keep coming back to → Me Before You
- Highest rated by listeners → A Fine Summer's Day
Best Steven Crossley Audiobooks
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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 - 2
Me Before You
Me Before You • Book 1
by Jojo Moyes
Narrated by Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, Alex Tregear, Andrew Wincott, Owen Lindsay
★ 4.62 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.62 Audible (37.3K)14h 40m listening time • Released 2012The full-cast narration pulls you deep into every perspective, so when Moyes rips your heart out, there's nowhere to hide.
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A Fine Summer's Day
Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 17
by Charles Todd
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.09 ABR Score (6.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (6.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (700)13h 8m listening time • Released 2015 - 4
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Oxford Time Travel • Book 2
by Connie Willis
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.02 ABR Score (49.3K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (44.6K) ★ 4.24 Audible (4.7K)20h 58m listening time • Released 2008 - 5
The Book of Lost Things
The Book of Lost Things • Book 1
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 4.02 ABR Score (90.8K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (86.2K) ★ 4.37 Audible (4.7K)10h 56m listening time • Released 2008 - 6
In the Woods
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 1
by Tana French
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.88 ABR Score (460.6K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (442.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (18.3K)20h 24m listening time • Released 2007French's Dublin Murder Squad debut is as literary as crime fiction gets — an evocative, unreliable narrator investigating a case eerily connected to his own buried past.
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Beau Death
Peter Diamond • Book 17
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.78 ABR Score (2.0K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.24 Audible (274)13h 31m listening time • Released 2017 - 8
The Canterbury Tales
by Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nick Bantock
Narrated by Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley
★ 3.71 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 3.57 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (98)16h 55m listening time • Released 2011Multiple narrators bring Ackroyd's modernized Canterbury Tales to vivid life, each voice perfectly matched to their pilgrim, making this sprawling medieval classic feel urgent and intimate.
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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural
by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
Narrated by Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.62 ABR Score (477 ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (339) ★ 3.99 Audible (138)16h 45m listening time • Released 2012Three stellar narrators bring genuine personality to a curated horror collection that traces the genre's DNA through its finest practitioners, making this far more than just an anthology.
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The Vault
Inspector Wexford • Book 23
by Ruth Rendell
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.51 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 3.87 Audible (169)8h 37m listening time • Released 2011 - 11
Cruel is the Night
by Karo Hämäläinen, Owen F. Witesman
Narrated by Gideon Emery, Steven Crossley, Elizabeth Jasicki, Liz Pearce, Julian Elfer
★ 3.38 ABR Score (463 ratings)★ 2.83 Goodreads (458) ★ 2.8 Audible (5)8h 31m listening time • Released 2017