The Historian
By Elizabeth Kostova
Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Paul Michael
Length: 26 hours 3 minutes
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of--a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an... Read more »
Dracula
By Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
This blood-curdling tale of blood-thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.
Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is... Read more »
The Lottery, and Other Stories
By Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Mazur & Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
A powerfulcollection of short stories by Shirley Jackson
“The Lottery,” one of the mostterrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it wasfirst published in the New Yorker. “Powerful and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typicalreader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson’s lifetime,... Read more »
The Collector’s Apprentice
A Novel
By B. A. Shapiro
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
The Collector’s Apprentice
“B.A. Shapiro’s novels (The Art Forger, The Muralist) make me fall in love with art. In her writing the canvas is only one side of a multilayered story about art, artists, and the events that make history. In The Collector’s Apprentice, her characters are chameleons, shedding identities as they revolve around the magnetic works of post-Impressionist mavericks like Matisse and Picasso. Death, scandal, romance, and mystery drive the twists and turns of this thrilling novel that I absolutely could not put down.”
Clara, Bookshop Santa Cruz
The John Cheever Audio Collection
By John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Here is the preface to twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates -- with unequaled grace and tenderness -- the deepest feelings we have.
As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still... Read more »
I Am Legend
By Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.
In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man,... Read more »
Frankenstein
or The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
This special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of award-winning audio producer Yuri Rasovsky.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young... Read more »
The Mentor
The Dream, the Struggle, the Prize
By Ryan Chamberlin, Frank Viscuso & Made for Success
Narrated by: Jeff Schine
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Michael and Kristen Harper are overwhelmed withfinancial burden. After being introduced to network marketing, Michael believeshe may have found a way out. When his three best friends try to discredit theindustry, Michael is tempted to trust their opinions. Fortunately, he recallsan encounter he had at his father’s funeral with a high school... Read more »
The Exorcist
40th Anniversary Edition
By William Peter Blatty
Narrated by: William Peter Blatty & Eliana Shaskan
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist is now a major television series on FOX. It remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon: It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one. Inspired by a true story of a child’s demonic... Read more »
Broken Monsters
By Lauren Beukes
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson, Christine Lakin, Terra Deva, Sunil Mohatra & Robert Morgan Fisher
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.
Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can... Read more »
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection - Abridged
By Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe’s dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre.
Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe’s most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between... Read more »
Raven (Edgar Allen Poe) Read by Vincent Price
By Edgar Allen Poe
Narrated by: Vincent Price
Length: 9 minutes
Prepare to be frightened! This audiobook is sure to bring chills down your spine. Be careful what you wish for! Read more »
Coraline
By Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only different.
The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want... Read more »
The Shining
By Stephen King
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King.
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on... Read more »
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
By Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance;... Read more »
The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.
Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with... Read more »