This post is all about 40 nightmare-inducing Horror Audiobooks that are completely free. All you need is a device and a library card!
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This post is all about 40 nightmare-inducing Horror Audiobooks that are completely free. All you need is a device and a library card!
Hello, hello! Welcome to my creepy corner of the internet where we talk about all things horror and mystery related! With the unofficial start of summer kicking off I thought it was the perfect time to talk about Horror Audiobooks!
If you’ve never had the pleasure of reading the Horror genre, I’ll give you a little info to get you started. This genre is normally meant to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader/ listener. It tends to overlap with science fiction and fantasy. You can get to experience everything from ghosts, werewolves, monsters, haunted houses, ghost ships, aliens, gore, guts, and so much more.
So let us kick off the hottest time of the year with some blood-chilling horror audiobooks! If you’re looking for some more horror fun, check out 20 Diehard Splatterpunk Horror Books That’ll Rip Your Heart Out
40 Terrifying Horror Audiobooks
1. International Bestseller horror audiobooks 2022
Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery.
Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country.
As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out.
The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– So, this horror sci-fi & fantasy audiobook is guaranteed to give you the heebie-jeebies. The Hatching is hands down one of the creepiest horror audiobooks I’ve listened to in a long while.
2. Must-Read Horror Romance Audiobook
by Karina Halle
Take all the suspense and sexual tension of The X-Files, combine it with the charm and antics of Supernatural, and you get Darkhouse. Well, not quite. Dex and Perry might have the chemistry of Mulder and Scully and the scares of the Winchester Brothers, but I promise you this duo is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
When twenty-three-year-old Perry Palomino explores a supposedly haunted lighthouse, she runs into Youtuber Dex Foray, a sexy, snarky, and opportunistic ghost hunter who doesn’t quite believe in ghosts.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- I don’t know about you, but we need more horror romance audiobooks like Darkhouse. This one mixes just the right amount of sexual tension with horror!
3. Nonstop thrill ride horror thriller audiobooks
by Camilla Sten
The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness—the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you.
When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, her anxiety mounts. The dark feelings of having been brushed by a killer, yet not knowing who could do this—or if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.
Then a lawyer calls. Vivianne has left her a house—a looming estate tucked away in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died, suddenly. A place that has housed a dark past for over fifty years.
Eleanor. Her steadfast boyfriend, Sebastian. Her reckless aunt, Veronika. The lawyer. All will go to this house of secrets, looking for answers. But as they get closer to bringing the truth to light, they’ll wish they had never come to disturb what rests there.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- Something about this makes my blood run cold. The Resting Place is a horror thriller audiobook that will have you questioning just how well you know those around you.
4. Must-Have YA Horror Audiobook
As construction begins on the Golden Apple Amusement Park, Aaron Peterson is becoming increasingly worried about his father. Working late nights in his study, Aaron’s dad seems to be fraying at the edges – pushing, and sometimes breaking, the laws of engineering with his new schematics. And with the added pressure he’s under to complete the park by this summer, Aaron can’t help but feel his father’s inventions are doomed to end in tragedy once again.
But his fears over his father’s work are complicated by a dark discovery: a network of tunnels running underneath the town of Raven Brooks. Where do they lead? And what dark secrets about his family’s past will he uncover there?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- If you love the Hello Neighbor games, you need to listen to this YA Horror Audiobook. Grave Mistakes is a great listen, no matter what your age.
5. Terrifying fun teen horror audiobook
It’s the summer of 1932 in New York City, and word on the street is that Joey Drew Studios is planning something BIG: A new cartoon character to star alongside the world-famous Bendy!
The new addition, Alice Angel, has the halo and sweet disposition to match her name, but the twisted tale of her creation can’t be told from just one perspective. From the animators to the voice actresses to the guy who sweeps the floors, everyone has something to say about the birth of the little angel who almost brought the most powerful cartoon studio in the big city to its doom.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- If you love Bendy from your gaming experience, or you’ve never played the game and are looking for a fun yet creepy-as-hell teen horror audiobook, Bendy: The Lost Ones is a great listen. It makes cartoons not so cute and fun anymore.
6. Dark, disorienting world horror audiobook
Struggling with the effects of early-onset dementia, Dennie Keeling now leads a quiet life. Her husband is dead, her children are grown, and her best friend, Sarah, was convicted of murdering her abusive husband. After Sarah’s tragic death in prison, Dennie has found solace in her allotment, and all she wants is to be left to tend it in peace.
Life remains quiet for twelve years until three strangers take on a nearby plot and Dennie starts to notice unnatural things. Shadowy figures prowl at night; plants flower well before their time. And then Sarah appears, bringing dire warnings and vanishing after daubing symbols on the walls in Dennie’s blood. Dennie soon realizes that she is face to face with an ancient evil, but with her dementia steadily growing worse, who is going to believe her?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- This one brings to the forefront of everyone’s mind, the fear, of what happens when you and others can’t trust your mind. Bone Harvest is an amazing thriller and horror audiobook.
7. Halloween Monster horror audiobook
by Jeff Strand, James A. Moore
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature’s most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes, and hunger levels, and you’ll get to observe these wonders in complete safety.
Howl with a werewolf! Gaze into the glowing eyes of a giant spider! Look right through a spooky ghost! See horrific monsters you couldn’t even imagine, only inches away from you! Things with fangs, things with claws, things with dripping red jaws-you’ll see them all!
Not thrilling enough? Well, it’s Halloween, and so we’re offering a very special tour through the Haunted Forest. The new route goes deeper into the woods than any civilians have ventured before, and you’re guaranteed to get a good scare! Rest assured that every possible security precaution has been taken. The Haunted Forest Tour has a 100% safety record and technical difficulties are unheard of. You will be in no danger whatsoever.
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Booked & Bewitched Babbles- I can’t wait to listen to this one. Haunted Forest Tour is the Jurissca Park of monsters. This horror audiobook is a great listen and I can’t recommend it enough.
8. Awesome gothic horror audiobook
It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta ”Bert” Monte receives a letter addressed to “Countess Alberta Montebianco” at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she’s inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. While Bert is more than a little skeptical, the mystery of her aristocratic family’s past, and the chance to escape her stressful life for a luxury holiday in Italy, is too good to pass up.
At first, her inheritance seems like a dream come true: a champagne-drenched trip on a private jet to Turin, Italy; lawyers with lists of artwork and jewels bequeathed to Bert; a helicopter ride to an ancestral castle nestled in the Italian Alps below Mont Blanc; a portrait gallery of ancestors Bert never knew existed; and a cellar of expensive vintage wine for Bert to drink.
But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of ancestral treasures, but in her very genes.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- If you love an audiobook that jet-sets you around the world, to a too-good-to-be-true inheritance. The Ancestor is your next listen, full of gothic suspense, family secrets, and mystery.
9. Bone-chilling supernatural horror audiobook
by Boris Bacic
Jeremy takes a job as keeper of a lighthouse reputed to be haunted. In the aftermath of trauma, he’s seeking solitude and an escape, and the six-month stint at the lighthouse seems like an answer to prayers. After all, ghosts aren’t real.
But his beliefs are put to the test when he begins to suspect he’s not alone. The lighthouse loses power. Doors open and slam shut on their own. Objects disappear, only to reappear in different locations. Most eerie are the handprints staining the windows – windows fifty feet up in the air.
Isolated and trapped, he’s on his own to survive attacks growing aggressive by the hour. Is Jeremy losing his mind, dealing with a stalker, or was he wrong to dismiss the rumors of a ghost on the premises? And whoever or whatever it is, will it let him live to tell about it?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- So if you have an unusual fascination with haunted lighthouses, ghost ships, and or deep ocean horror, The Keeper is a great horror audiobook choice.
10. Goosebump-inducing horror YA Audiobook
by Daka Hermon
One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world. I went up the hill, the hill was muddy, stomped my toe and made it bloody, should I wash it? Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.
Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was… different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide and Seek. But it goes wrong. Very wrong. One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares that comes to life. Justin and his friends realize this horrible place is where Zee had been trapped. All they can do now is hide from the Seeker.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- I think this one will hit everyone in the feels. That childhood terror of the unknown. Hide and Seeker brings all those YA horror audiobooks fears to life.
11. Terrifying supernatural horror audiobook
by Ania Ahlborn
Maggie Olsen had a pretty ordinary childhood-swimming and sleepovers, movie nights, and dad jokes. But then there were the other things…the darker things…the shadow that followed her home from the cemetery and settled into the corners of her home, refusing to let her grow up in peace.
Now, after three years of being away from the place she’s convinced she inadvertently haunted, and after yet another family tragedy strikes, Maggie is forced to return to the sweltering heat of a Savannah summer to come to terms with her past. All along, she’s been telling herself it was just in your head, and she’d nearly convinced herself that she’d imagined it all.
But the moment Maggie steps into the foyer of her family home, she knows. The darkness is still there. And it’s been waiting for Maggie’s return…
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- I Call Upon Thee is one of those horror audiobooks that crawl under your skin and sink its teeth in.
12. Amazing Science Fiction Horror Audiobook
When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the xenomorphs, it’s what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt-kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such “close encounters,” written by many of today’s most extraordinary authors.
Set during the events of all four Alien films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing-one way or another.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- If you love a good horror science fiction anthology audiobook, Bug Hunt is a great choice. Aliens is one of my favorite movies so it was a no-brainer when it came to this audiobook.
13. Modern-day horror and supernatural fiction audiobook
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- If you love X-files I would highly recommend The Krewe Of Hunters series by Heather Graham. Dying Breath is one of my favorites in the horror suspense series, and if you like your horror on the light side, this is a great option.
14. Unputdownable horror audiobooks free
by Scott Smith
The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group — the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, the site of a fabled archeological dig. This is what happens from the moment the searchers — moving into the wild interior — begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific “other” among them…
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- If you’ve been looking for a vacation horror audiobook, The Ruins won’t do you wrong. Full of twists, turns, and downright terrifying horror.
15. Best YA horror audiobooks of all time
by Adam Cesare
resh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half.
On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quickly as they can.
Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- So if you are a fan of Children Of The Corn, mixed with creepy ass clowns. Clown In A Cornfield is a great listen, that brings rural and small-town horror audiobooks to life.
16. The 80s Love Horror Audiobooks
The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act … differently. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby.
Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries-and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- While I missed most of the 80s, My Best Friend’s Exorcism does a great job of bringing it back to life in the present day. Full of demonic possession, teenager problems, and supernatural horror, it’s a great horror comedy audiobook.
17. Weaver of Nightmares best horror audiobook
On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks-a famous, but struggling, horror writer-receives an ornate antiquarian desk in the hopes it will rekindle his creative juices. Perhaps inspire him to write another best-selling book and prove his best years aren’t behind him…
As Tyson begins to use the new desk, he finds himself writing copy at an unfathomable speed and becomes so focused on writing that he binges on all-night, all-day sessions that take a serious physical and psychological toll.
Soon, Tyson begins acting strange. Violent.
Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Diana Montresor, is making inquiries with her sources around the globe for the whereabouts of a certain artifact she, and her family, have been hunting for centuries.
As forces converge on Tyson’s world, he faces the hardest choice of his life: Does he let go of his new muse, and allow it to be taken back to the void of history where it belongs? Or does he continue to live as the desk’s mouthpiece, not only regaining his glory days as a famous writer but achieving levels of success he’s only dreamed of?
As the desk and the force that lives inside it-grows stronger, he must choose.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- If you’ve ever gone through a dry spell as a creative type, Gothic nails the desperation when you’re stuck in that desperation. This is one of the best horror audiobooks you can listen to.
18. Classic Must-Read horror audiobooks free
by Ira Levin
She is a housewife – young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor – charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is their dream home – a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare…
Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin – where terror is as near as your new neighbors and where evil wears the most innocent face of all…
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- If you’ve never listened to Rosemary’s Baby, you have to download this horror audiobook classic asap.
19. Great horror book audiobooks
Heavy metal band Durt Wurk were big in the ’90s, but then their lead singer Terry went solo, and now, twenty years later, all the other band members are struggling to scrape by in lousy jobs.
Kris soon discovers that this is because Terry somehow sold their souls in exchange for his fame and fortune. This discovery sends Kris on a cross-country journey to rage against the machine of our bleak society and ultimately reclaim her soul.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- Well if you love horror audiobooks that dive into the darker side of creativity and the arts, We Sold Our Souls is a great choice. Full of 90’s horror trope love, you can’t go wrong with this one.
20. Best horror audiobooks of all time
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- So if you’ve only ever seen the movie version of Jaws, you’re missing out. This horror thriller audiobook is a must-listen classic for all horror lovers out there.
21. Creepy fun horror-thriller audiobooks
by K. J. Young
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- So I’ve just started this one, and it is full-on Skeleton Key vibes from the first paragraph. The Dark Hour is a great choice for all the horror audiobook lovers out there.
22. Home Goods Gone Wicked Audiobook
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- Okay, what would happen if IKEA was haunted? That’s what Horrorstör does for us, taking the haunted house horror audiobook to a whole new level and location. And I love every minute of it.
23. Best horror audiobooks 2023
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- Okay, what would happen if IKEA was haunted? That’s what Horrorstör does for us, taking the haunted house horror audiobook to a whole new level and location. And I love every minute of it.
24. Best horror science fiction audiobooks 2023
by S. A. Barnes
At the edge of the solar system, no one can hear you scream.
The Aurora, a luxury space-liner destined for a cruise of the solar system, has been missing for twenty years. Among the hundreds of presumed dead were passengers from society’s finest — celebrities, tech giants, and influencers. Every last one… vanished.
So when Claire’s crew picks up an emergency signal in deep space, the long-lost Aurora is the last ship they expect to find. The salvage claim could be their best chance at extraordinary wealth, but it might mean missing their transport back home, and nobody can stand another minute out in the darkest corner of the universe — nobody, except Claire.
Once onboard the Aurora, the crew realizes something is wrong. Unspeakable horrors lurk in every shadow of the massive ship, and soon they each start experiencing violent hallucinations.
Claire must fight to keep her sanity and get her crew back to safety — before they all meet the same ghastly fate as the Aurora passengers.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– Okay, if you love Event Horizon, Ghost Ship, or The Shining, you have to listen to Dead Silence. This science fiction horror and deep space horror audiobook is one of my favorite reads and listens of all time.
25. Southern horror free horror audiobooks
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings, they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in twenty years. But there’s something off about him. He doesn’t have a bank account, he doesn’t like going out during the day, and Patricia’s mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl-an impossibility.
When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik-but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– Y’all, if you love supernatural thrillers and horror audiobooks you have to listen to The Southern Book To Vampires. This one makes you want to watch Steele Magnolias, mixed with Dracula and the all-time classic Fried Green Tomatoes.
26. New horror audiobooks on hoopla
Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working in Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit.
There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hour’s tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.
When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D. And now she might never escape.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– If you love a good psychiatric ward horror audiobook, Ward D is a great choice. This one will have you on the edge of your seat the entire time.
27. Amazing Classic Horror Story Audiobook
by Clive Barker
This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, claims to be a never-before-published demonic memoir penned in the year 1438. The sole copy was, so the story goes, created by the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg himself.
But this historic piece of writing immediately vanished without a trace. Until now… A demon known as Jakabok has embedded his very self inside each word of this meticulously printed tale of autobiographical terror. The reader is taunted and teased by his pleas for release from the confines of the very ink and paper that provide the vehicle for his life story. Little do they know, the depths of horror they hold in their hands. Reader beware, indeed, as Jakabok (aka Mister B.) escorts you on an unforgettable journey.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– It’s no secret that Clive Barker is one of my favorite authors, so when this demonic horror audiobook, landed on my suggested listen list, it went straight to the top. Mister B. Gone is another masterpiece in the twisted ways of Clive Barker.
28. Haunting horror stories audiobooks
Fleeing from a traumatic break-in, Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers.
No plague sufferer was permitted to pass them and enter the village. The plague diminished, and the village survived unscathed, but since then each year the village trustees have insisted on an ancient ceremony to renew the village boundaries, until a misguided act by the Feenans’ son then reminds the village that there is a reason traditions have been rigidly stuck to, and that all acts of betrayal, even those committed centuries ago, have consequences…
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– So this is one of the best horror stories audiobooks if you love a good creepy village listen. Plague Stones is an amazing listen full of dark and twisty storytelling.
29. Best horror audiobooks of all time
by R. L. Stine
Evan visits an eerie old toy store and buys a dusty can of Monster Blood. But then he notices something weird about the slimy green ooze. It keeps growing. And all that growing has given the Monster Blood a monstrous appetite.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– Don’t look at me like you didn’t devour these YA Horror Books as a kid. I love that you can listen to almost all the Goosebumps on Hoopla for free! Hands down some of the best horror audiobooks of all time.
30. Best horror audiobooks free
Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.
Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in this one-horse town. He’s willing to risk everything, including his life, to be a winner for once. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror–and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy…
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- If you love a good Halloween horror audiobook, Dark Harvest is a great listen. This is one of the best horror audiobooks free you can find!
31. Bone-chilling scares horror audiobooks free
by Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley
It’s been exactly ten years since the murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, and Charlotte (Charlie for short) has spent those ten years trying to forget. Her father was the owner of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and the creator of its four adult-sized animatronic animals, and now Charlie is returning to her hometown to reunite with her childhood friends on the anniversary of the tragedy that ripped their town apart.
Curiosity leads Charlie and her friends back to the old pizza place, and they find it hidden and sealed, but still standing. They discover a way inside, but things are not as they once were: the four mascots that delighted and entertained them as children have changed. The animatronic animals have a dark secret and a murderous agenda.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– This goodie is for all the gamer nerds and horror audiobook lovers out there like myself. 5 Nights At Freedy’s is a cult classic in the gaming community and the YA Horror Audiobooks. It’s a great listen if you want something fun and quick!
32. Best horror audiobooks Goodreads
by Nick Cutter
A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget-small things at first, like where they left their keys…then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily…and there is no cure.
But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered-a universal healer, from initial reports. It may just be the key to a universal cure.
To study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it’s up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps encountering an evil blacker than anything one could imagine.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– All right, not gonna lie, I placed this audiobook on my listen list because it’s been compared to a mixture of Stephen King and Clive Barker. The Deep is for all us end of days horror, deep sea horror, and monster horror.
33. Best horror audiobooks on Hoopla
Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow.
Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life. Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman’s latest novel. When another family is killed similarly, Mills and his daughter, rookie detective Samantha Blue, are determined to find the link to the book and the killer before the story reaches its chilling climax.
As the series of “Scarecrow crimes” continue to mirror the book, Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect. He can’t remember much from the night he finished writing the novel, but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium, his grandfather’s forbidden room full of numbered books, thousands of books without words. As Ben digs deep into Blackwood’s history, he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long ago-and it won’t stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– Well if you loved Goosebumps as a kid. This horror mixed with true crime, Nightmare Man is your next audiobook listen.
34. Terrifying horror audiobook
Ever since their on-again, off-again college romance, Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with charismatic but reckless Silas, who has been chasing the next big high since graduation. When he texts her to spring him out of rehab, she knows enough is enough. She is ready to start a career, make new friends, and meet a great guy-even if that means cutting Silas off. But when Silas turns up dead from an overdose, Erin’s world falls apart.
When Erin learns that Silas discovered a drug that allowed him to see the dead, she doesn’t believe it’s real but agrees to a pill-popping “séance” to ease her guilt and pain. When she steps back into the real world, she starts to see ghosts everywhere from her Southern hometown’s bloody and brutal past. Are the effects pharmacological or something more sinister? And will Erin be able to shut the Pandora’s box of horrors she has opened?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– I’m going to place a little warning here with this horror audiobook. As someone who has had to deal with the dark side of what addiction can do to people, Ghost Eaters may be triggering. All in all, this is a terrifying audiobook that you don’t want to miss.
35. Amazing modern horror twisted and dumped on its head
Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone’s got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You’re from this town.
Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay. She’s just barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer, alone, bra-less. Her story is already a legend. She’s this town’s heroic final girl, their virgin angel.
Monster Vision: Halloween masks floating down that same river the kids jump into. But just as one slaughter is not enough for Billie Jean, our masked killer, one victory is not enough for Lindsay. Her high school is full of final girls, and she’s not the only one who knows the rules of the game.
When Lindsay chooses a host of virgins, misfits, and former final girls to replace the slaughtered members of her original homecoming court, it’s not just a fight for survival – it’s a fight to become The Last Final Girl.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– So If you’re a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s horror work, the Final Last Girl should be your next horror audiobook listen. I always enjoy a good horror comedy and horror tropes dumped on their heads, and this one delivers beautifully.
36. Scary as hell yet fun horror comedy audiobook
Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.
But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her coworkers’ mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches its peak during the company’s annual Secret Santa gift exchange when Lussi receives a demonic-looking object that she recognizes but doesn’t understand.
Suddenly, her coworkers begin falling victim to a series of horrific accidents akin to a George Romero movie, and Lussi suspects that her gift is involved. With the help of her former author, the flamboyant Fabien Nightingale, Lussi must track down her anonymous Secret Santa and figure out the true meaning of the cursed object in her possession before it destroys the company and her soul.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles–Show of hands, if you love the 80s, The Office, Stephen King, horror comedy, and or holiday horror Secret Santa is a great horror audiobook listen. This one sits close to my heart as a writer who loves everything 80’s horror.
37. Nightmare-weaving Blair Witch-style horror audiobook
by Adam Nevill
It was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition.
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise.
A shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, things couldn’t possibly get any worse.
But then they stumble across an old habitation. Ancient artefacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the floors. The residue of old rites for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. And as the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees . . .
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– So this horror audiobook is for all the Blair Witch-style story lovers out there. The Ritual is one of the best horror audiobooks of all time and will soon be on Netflix. So of course it’s on my tbr list.
38. Classic must-listen horror audiobook
by Ray Bradbury
ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man, the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud, can help the boys find him.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– So if you love Halloween, mystery, history, and horror as much as me, Halloween Tree is a must-listen. Needless to say, the characters may be young but is there anything more terrifying than youth?
39. Terrifying supernatural horror audiobook
by Joseph Fink
Esther Gold loves Halloween more than anything in the world. So she is determined to go trick-or-treating again this year even though her parents think she is officially too old. Esther has it all planned out, from her costume to her candy-collecting strategy. But when the night rolls around, something feels…. off.
No one is answering their door. The moon is an unnatural shade of orange. Strange children wander the streets, wearing creepy costumes that might not be costumes at all. And it seems like the only people besides Esther who are awake to see it all are her best friend, her school bully, and her grown-up next-door neighbor.
Together, this unlikely crew must find a way to lift the curse that has been placed upon their small town before it’s too late. Because someone is out to make sure Halloween never comes to an end. And even Esther doesn’t want to be trapped in this night forever.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– Okay, at first I thought this was a YA Horror Audiobook. But to my surprise, The Halloween Moon has more than enough to offer adult horror audiobook listeners.
40. Goosebump-inducing horror audiobooks
by Ben Cheetham
Two years ago, the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics.
Whatever the truth, Adam and Ella Piper are about to discover that their family’s future is inextricably bound up with the last place they ever wanted to see again. The Pipers aren’t the only ones whose fate is tied to Fenton House.
Three thieves seeking their fortune and a mysterious redheaded woman are also converging on the remote Cornish mansion. Throughout a single stormy night, each of them will be forced to confront their true self. How far are they willing to go in pursuit of their deepest, darkest desires? How much are they prepared to give to simply survive till dawn?
Booked & Bewitched Babbles– I haven’t gotten to listen to this one yet, but I did read the first in this series. House of Mirrors is a great choice for those who enjoy horror mystery and supernatural horror audiobooks.
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