Horror & Gothic Literature

The Devourers

A Novel

By: Indra Das
Narrated by: Shishir Kurup & Meera Simhan
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling... Read more

The Cold Is in Her Bones

By: Peternelle van Arsdale
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

“A dark and enchanting tale.” —Bustle
“Fiercely written and beautifully feminist.” —Lisa Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Magician

One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this “dark, angry fairy tale” (BCCB, starred review) filled with love, revenge, and redemption that is... Read more

William

By: Mason Coile
Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis
Length: 5 hours

“This is what I want from an AI horror story: sympathetic characters, plot twists, and an overt sense of unease. William fits the bill! Read more

Diavola

By: Jennifer Thorne
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

“If you think this is a story about a dysfunctional family finding common ground and mutual respect after encountering a murderous spirit in their gorgeous Italian Airbnb, then you better think again. This horror novel, led by the black sheep of the infuriating Pace family, will enrage you, scare you, make you laugh, and make you lust for blood. Read more

Echo

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Narrated by: David Wayman, Greg Lockett & Lauryn Allman
Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered.

“A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure.” — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club

Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead.... Read more

The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“It doesn't get better than this! I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing as I was listening to this book. If you haven't yet had the experience of scrubbing a shower floor and feeling a terror previously unknown, this is the story for you! Read more

Hell Bent

A Novel

Ninth House Series: Book #2

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

“The cover of this book is disturbingly amazing! The three year wait for the sequel? Not so much. Was it worth it? A resounding yes! Ninth House was more world building and a slow burn while Hell Bent is more character building and faster paced. Alex and Dawes are on a time crunch to save Darlington from Hell. I really love the friendship between... Read more

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“Galaxy (Alex) Stern has had a hard life so when she is offered the chance to attend Yale free of charge, she is immediately suspicious. There is only one catch. She must join the mysterious Lethe House, which is tasked with monitoring the occult activities of the eight secret societies that are housed on campus. There is a reason that the... Read more

The October Country

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

“… that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay …”

Explore the outer limits of the imagination with the Grand Master of American Literature, Ray Bradbury, in a dark and disquieting descent into The... Read more

The Luminous Dead

A Novel

By: Caitlin Starling
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

""This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)***A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet... Read more

The Fisherman

By: John Langan
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

“Campbell brings John Langan's melancholic masterpiece to life perfectly. There's a level of vulnerability here that's hard to balance. The perspective of a man who's seen and lost too much and a man for all that he's witnessed is as lost and overwhelmed as the day he was born. I'd draw a comparison to Michael C. Hall's devastating reading of... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“Reading the stories in Her Body and Other Parties has been among the memorable literary pleasures of 2017. Carmen Maria Machado writes with fearless exploration, precision, and tenderness that would prompt envy if gratitude and admiration weren’t first to arrive on the scene. From the lovely, apocalyptic love story Inventory to the dizzying and... Read more

Night Film

A Novel

By: Marisha Pessl
Narrated by: Jake Weber
Length: 23 hours 7 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)

“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights... Read more

The Gargoyle

By: Andrew Davidson
Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
Length: 19 hours 14 minutes

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time

The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to... Read more

Affinity

By: Sarah Waters
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

In the shadows of Victorian London, a tale of obsession and redemption unfolds.  Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret... Read more

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

“Deeply eerie and deeply beautiful! Shirley Jackson sustains a mood and turns a phrase like no other. This book also features one of the best opening lines of all-time...! Read more

The Séance

By: John Harwood
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Simon Vance & Katherine Kellgren
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost WriterSell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother... Read more

Frankenstein

or The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki & Simon Templeman
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Soon to be a major new film adaptation written and directed by Guillermo del ToroThis 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... Read more

The Little Stranger

By: Sarah Waters
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.

"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a... Read more

The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

“The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is THE book to read if you want to feel like you're losing it bit by bit with every page you turn. Eleanor is a fantastically unreliable narrator and I loved how Hill House served as both the villain and the love interest. Read more