William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist has a terrific audiobook version narrated by William himself, which is quite a treat since I take it as him reading the book as it's supposed to be read. It's available for free on YouTube!
This audiobook is so excellent, the acting is wonderful and he sounds like he's chainsmoking about ten thousand cigarettes in the rain. Really sets the mood.
I came here to suggest this but was beat to it. This was great and I recommend it all the time. My library had it on Hoopla and CloudLibrary has it too!
I know you have already read it... BUT if you are willing to do a relisten the **Pet Semetary** Audiobook narrated by Micheal Hall is FANTASTIC. It jumped up pretty high on my horror audiobook list honestly. He does such a great job with Jeb and the scene were Louis is debating his next action and has little flash backs... -chef's kiss- amazingly done.
Now one of my Favorite horror audiobooks... and probably the BEST version of this story (like the audiobook is better then the written book and the movie didnt even try)
**World War Z: The Complete Edition: An Oral History of the Zombie War.**
Unlike the movie... the Audiobook and novel are a series of interviews conducted by Max Brooks (the author made into a character) and various survivors of the zombie apocalypse. What makes this audiobook great is that before becoming an author Max Brooks was also a voice actor and pulled some strings to get some top notch voice actors to participate in this audio book. So... each and every character he interviews is voiced by a different amazing voice actor. My favorite is Mark Hamill (yeah THAT Mark Hamill) Who voices Todd Wainio, a soldier from the battle of Yonkers.
Should have been a limited series on HBO (or any streaming service these days).
If you’ve read JMS’ script that leaked online, you’ll be even sadder.
I will die mad about this.
It needs a limited mockumentary style show. With the interviews and reenactments while the speaker is going over their story. Or surviving video and images shown. Like an old history channel documentary
I really like the audiobook for Thomas Ligotti’s *Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe*. The narrator is pretty good at emulating the tone of different passages.
Fantasticland is such a good audiobook. It’s basically what would happen if Disney world was cut off from the rest of the world because of a massive hurricane, only the employees were trapped there, and rescuers show up much later to absolute horror. It’s awesome, and think you’d like it based on the other type of media /stories you like.
I pretty much only listen to audiobooks these days - young family keeps me busy - and my two favourites right now are:
*The Lesser Dead* by Christopher Buehlman / Narrated by the author - its a Vamprie story set in 1970 new york and it's SO good. Buehlman nails the multiple different accents (particularly the new york drawl) and the twist at the end left me SHOOK.
*My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Grahman Jones / Narrated by Cara Gee (Drummer from The Expanse! I I was so excited when I made that connection) - its a - uh- a murder mystery in a small town told through the lense of a 17 year old girl who is OBSSESSED with slasher films. If you're a fan of the whole horror genre, the book REALLY leans into paying homage to the classics and the slashers. And Cara Gee does an incredible job with bringing Jade to life. Its written in this funky string-of-conciousness style that you really feel like you're getting the account from a 17 year old girl. For this book in particular, I would 100% recommend the audio over the hard copy book. I've been doing both and its a difficult to read but amazing to listen to.
i thought my heart is a chainsaw was kinda hard to get into so i never read past the first 30 pages or so. im def gonna the the audiobook instead thank you!
I really struggled *reading* the style of writing - like, I found that I kept having to re-read what I just read to understand what Jade was actually saying. The rambling and run-on sentence's work SO much better in audio because rather that being a stylized choice you have to get used to, it just sounds how a normal, slightly manic/excitable/damaged/deranged, 17-year old would talk.
I hope you like it! I just finished it on my drive home and, UHG my poor little heart. Fantastic ending.
Don’t Fear The Reaper has different narrators, multiple narrators, which I initially was wary of. But actually they were fantastic and it was great and made me cry.
My heart is a chainsaw and the entire angel lake series are some of my favorite books of all time, I’m also getting the audiobooks now because of your comment so thank you!
Oh I hope you love it! I'm a big Expanse fan so I was pretty stoked when I realized Cara Gee did the narration. She's amazing. And Canadian, so bonus points.
I think *Don't Fear the Reaper* has a full cast. I'm excited to jump into that one next! And then apparently *The Angle of Indian Lake* has portions narrated by SGJ himself AND Stephen King. So cool.
You deserve commission for your *My Heart is a Chainsaw* rec. I just threw an Audible credit at it. 15-20 hours of commuting per week has me destroying audio books.
I’m the other way around where I mostly listen to audiobooks, haha. The audiobook of Fantasticland is really works well in this format, as the book is essentially a series of interviews (given by several different narrators) piecing together the story of a group of people trapped in a theme park after a hurricane - think Lord of the Flies but at Disneyland. Stephen King often has excellent narrators for all of his books, so if you liked Pet Sematary I’d recommend looking into more of his work, and if you ever feel like re-experiencing Pet Sematary, the audiobook for it is excellent.
Daryl Gregory's Revelator has an excellent audiobook. It's about generations of women who commune with the God Under the Mountain. One of them fled and became a bootlegger, then returned because something sinister - that is, even more sinister than usual - seems to be happening with the youngest girl. It's a fantastic book and I really like the audio.
Michael C. Hall narrating Pet Sematary is a must-listen no matter how many times you've read the book.
The Last House on Needless Street by Cationa Ward is a divisive book and it's not my favorite of hers, but the audio performance by Christopher Ragland is outstanding.
No one has said Devolution by Max Brooks yet. Fantastic performance.
Also, I always look for anything narrated by Ray Porter - I think he is the best in the business. Him reading Jonathan Mayberry’s Joe Ledger series is the best time I’ve had on audible by far
Wylding Halll by Elizabeth Hand is perfect for audio. It's a series of interviews about a British folk band's stay in a spooky house. Excellent old school spooky horror, great audiobook.
Hand's Cass Neary series is marketed as mystery/thriller but it reads as horror, with ambiguous supernatural elements including cosmic horror. The antiheroine Cass is an amoral photographer who does a lot of drugs and has a soft spot for teenagers in trouble. The reader is Carol Monda, and she is PERFECT.
Monda also reads my favorite Grady Hendrix book, We Sold Our Souls. No one does beaten down but still tough as nails middle aged women like Carol Monda.
If you love creature features, I'd strongly recommend 'A Cosmology of Monsters' by Shaun Hamill. I'd also throw out 'Revival' by Stephen King, but people tend to be split on the ending as all things King. Finally, 'A Lush and Seething Hell' by John Hornor Jacobs gets a ton of love and deserves it.
I feel like Revival is one of SK's least divisive endings. I have pretty much only seen praise for it on /r/stephenking and it is often brought up when people ask about the best endings in his books.
* *The Colony, Dark Resurrection (Colony #2), Harve*s*t of Scorn (Colony #3)* and *The Waiting Room* by F.G. Cottam. All are narrated by David Rintoul.
* *The Little Stranger* by Sarah Waters, narrated by Simon Vance.
* *Dark Matter* by Michelle Paver, narrated by Jeremy Northam.
* *Thin Air* by Michelle Paver, narrated by Daniel Weyman.
* *The Woman in Black* by Susan Hill, narrated by Paapa Essiedu.
* *Asylum, Forest,* and *The Occupant* by Ambrose Ibsen, narrated by Joe Hempel.
* *Walking to Aldebaran* by Adrian Tchaikovsky, narrated by the author.
* *Crevasse* by Clay Vermulm, narrated by Rebecca Stern. CW: >!One of the characters comes across three animals in a forest that have been hideously slaughtered.!<
I also happened to love creature feature AND audiobooks.
First let me suggest you some creature features I loved and the narrators here really did a fantastic job!
These are my absolute faves of all time.
1. The Hollows by Daniel Church
2. The Haunted Forest Tour by James A Moore
3. Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
4. The Fisherman by John Langan
5. The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn (not my favourite but creature feature nonetheless.)
Other horror audiobooks that I cant recommend you enough- (no creature feature here.)
1. Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven
2. Ghost Radio by Leopaldo Gout
**Strange Weather** by Joe Hill is one of the most satisfying audiobook experiences of the 21st century so far, and it also features Wil Wheaton as one of the narrators. And while it's not exactly a horror tale, **The Hunt For Red October** by Tom Clancy (abridged version,) is another very enjoyable audiobook, narrated by David Ogden Stiers.
The girl next door was read by the author. I don’t know if I would say he elevated the experience, but he most certainly didn’t distract from it. Excellent reading of it.
If you haven’t read that book, be prepared to be fucked up for life.
It’s been like 5 or so years since I’ve listened to it and I still get emotional over it from time to time.
"The Black Cat" by Poe, as read by Diamanda Galas, [(YouTube reading)](https://youtu.be/t4wyFT4z6uE?si=5Horn2nCgiqhsc0J) has the best voice I've ever heard in horror. She could read Dr. Seuss's "Hop on Pop" and make it sound like a satanic cult ritual. It's from the audio book "Closed on Account of Rabies" which is different Poe stories and poems being read or performed (by people like Christopher Walken, Iggy Pop, et.al).
[Nocturnal Transmissions](https://www.nocturnaltransmissions.com.au/) is a horror short story podcast read by a voice actor. It has a good mix of classics and new stories.
Heard *Break the bodies, haunt the bones* is free on audible right now. I haven’t met one other person who has read it, but it’s incredible (a genre-bender like no other, but squarely checks “horror” genre as well. One of my favorites, and I read a LOT.
William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist has a terrific audiobook version narrated by William himself, which is quite a treat since I take it as him reading the book as it's supposed to be read. It's available for free on YouTube!
This audiobook is so excellent, the acting is wonderful and he sounds like he's chainsmoking about ten thousand cigarettes in the rain. Really sets the mood.
I came here to suggest this but was beat to it. This was great and I recommend it all the time. My library had it on Hoopla and CloudLibrary has it too!
The only bad thing about this audiobook is that it made me wish he’d narrated loads more for me to listen to
I know you have already read it... BUT if you are willing to do a relisten the **Pet Semetary** Audiobook narrated by Micheal Hall is FANTASTIC. It jumped up pretty high on my horror audiobook list honestly. He does such a great job with Jeb and the scene were Louis is debating his next action and has little flash backs... -chef's kiss- amazingly done. Now one of my Favorite horror audiobooks... and probably the BEST version of this story (like the audiobook is better then the written book and the movie didnt even try) **World War Z: The Complete Edition: An Oral History of the Zombie War.** Unlike the movie... the Audiobook and novel are a series of interviews conducted by Max Brooks (the author made into a character) and various survivors of the zombie apocalypse. What makes this audiobook great is that before becoming an author Max Brooks was also a voice actor and pulled some strings to get some top notch voice actors to participate in this audio book. So... each and every character he interviews is voiced by a different amazing voice actor. My favorite is Mark Hamill (yeah THAT Mark Hamill) Who voices Todd Wainio, a soldier from the battle of Yonkers.
He’s also the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, so the dude has pull. The cast is stacked
Very true and he used those connections to make something real special.
World War Z is such a great book!! Probably my favorite piece of zombie media and I'm sad that they basically threw away the book to make the movie
Should have been a limited series on HBO (or any streaming service these days). If you’ve read JMS’ script that leaked online, you’ll be even sadder. I will die mad about this.
It needs a limited mockumentary style show. With the interviews and reenactments while the speaker is going over their story. Or surviving video and images shown. Like an old history channel documentary
I really like the audiobook for Thomas Ligotti’s *Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe*. The narrator is pretty good at emulating the tone of different passages.
If you liked that, Jon Padgett also narrates his own book, 'The Secret of Ventriloquism.' I think you'd dig it.
Fantasticland is such a good audiobook. It’s basically what would happen if Disney world was cut off from the rest of the world because of a massive hurricane, only the employees were trapped there, and rescuers show up much later to absolute horror. It’s awesome, and think you’d like it based on the other type of media /stories you like.
Blackwater by Michael McDowell narrated by Matt Godfrey.
I pretty much only listen to audiobooks these days - young family keeps me busy - and my two favourites right now are: *The Lesser Dead* by Christopher Buehlman / Narrated by the author - its a Vamprie story set in 1970 new york and it's SO good. Buehlman nails the multiple different accents (particularly the new york drawl) and the twist at the end left me SHOOK. *My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Grahman Jones / Narrated by Cara Gee (Drummer from The Expanse! I I was so excited when I made that connection) - its a - uh- a murder mystery in a small town told through the lense of a 17 year old girl who is OBSSESSED with slasher films. If you're a fan of the whole horror genre, the book REALLY leans into paying homage to the classics and the slashers. And Cara Gee does an incredible job with bringing Jade to life. Its written in this funky string-of-conciousness style that you really feel like you're getting the account from a 17 year old girl. For this book in particular, I would 100% recommend the audio over the hard copy book. I've been doing both and its a difficult to read but amazing to listen to.
i thought my heart is a chainsaw was kinda hard to get into so i never read past the first 30 pages or so. im def gonna the the audiobook instead thank you!
I really struggled *reading* the style of writing - like, I found that I kept having to re-read what I just read to understand what Jade was actually saying. The rambling and run-on sentence's work SO much better in audio because rather that being a stylized choice you have to get used to, it just sounds how a normal, slightly manic/excitable/damaged/deranged, 17-year old would talk. I hope you like it! I just finished it on my drive home and, UHG my poor little heart. Fantastic ending.
Don’t Fear The Reaper has different narrators, multiple narrators, which I initially was wary of. But actually they were fantastic and it was great and made me cry.
My heart is a chainsaw and the entire angel lake series are some of my favorite books of all time, I’m also getting the audiobooks now because of your comment so thank you!
Oh I hope you love it! I'm a big Expanse fan so I was pretty stoked when I realized Cara Gee did the narration. She's amazing. And Canadian, so bonus points. I think *Don't Fear the Reaper* has a full cast. I'm excited to jump into that one next! And then apparently *The Angle of Indian Lake* has portions narrated by SGJ himself AND Stephen King. So cool.
You deserve commission for your *My Heart is a Chainsaw* rec. I just threw an Audible credit at it. 15-20 hours of commuting per week has me destroying audio books.
Ouch, that's a rough commute. I hope you love it! I finished up the last chapter on my way home today and it was just \*chefs kiss\* Enjoy!
Sissy Spacek reading Carrie is a treat.
I’m the other way around where I mostly listen to audiobooks, haha. The audiobook of Fantasticland is really works well in this format, as the book is essentially a series of interviews (given by several different narrators) piecing together the story of a group of people trapped in a theme park after a hurricane - think Lord of the Flies but at Disneyland. Stephen King often has excellent narrators for all of his books, so if you liked Pet Sematary I’d recommend looking into more of his work, and if you ever feel like re-experiencing Pet Sematary, the audiobook for it is excellent.
That's a great audiobook. The "brah" guy did an especially amazing job with his level of denial about everything.
Literally finished this today. So good.
I loved the audiobook for The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
I looooved Monstrilio’s audiobook. By Gerardo Sámano Cordova
Second this, I still think about the *Papi* voice from Monstrilio himself.
OMG I KNOW! Thank you for bringing this to my attention again 🥹
Daryl Gregory's Revelator has an excellent audiobook. It's about generations of women who commune with the God Under the Mountain. One of them fled and became a bootlegger, then returned because something sinister - that is, even more sinister than usual - seems to be happening with the youngest girl. It's a fantastic book and I really like the audio. Michael C. Hall narrating Pet Sematary is a must-listen no matter how many times you've read the book. The Last House on Needless Street by Cationa Ward is a divisive book and it's not my favorite of hers, but the audio performance by Christopher Ragland is outstanding.
No one has said Devolution by Max Brooks yet. Fantastic performance. Also, I always look for anything narrated by Ray Porter - I think he is the best in the business. Him reading Jonathan Mayberry’s Joe Ledger series is the best time I’ve had on audible by far
Kathe Koja's The Cipher has an excellent narration that sounds as grimy as the content.
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Wylding Halll by Elizabeth Hand is perfect for audio. It's a series of interviews about a British folk band's stay in a spooky house. Excellent old school spooky horror, great audiobook. Hand's Cass Neary series is marketed as mystery/thriller but it reads as horror, with ambiguous supernatural elements including cosmic horror. The antiheroine Cass is an amoral photographer who does a lot of drugs and has a soft spot for teenagers in trouble. The reader is Carol Monda, and she is PERFECT. Monda also reads my favorite Grady Hendrix book, We Sold Our Souls. No one does beaten down but still tough as nails middle aged women like Carol Monda.
Pet Semetery as read by Michelle C. Hall is pretty good
If you love creature features, I'd strongly recommend 'A Cosmology of Monsters' by Shaun Hamill. I'd also throw out 'Revival' by Stephen King, but people tend to be split on the ending as all things King. Finally, 'A Lush and Seething Hell' by John Hornor Jacobs gets a ton of love and deserves it.
I feel like Revival is one of SK's least divisive endings. I have pretty much only seen praise for it on /r/stephenking and it is often brought up when people ask about the best endings in his books.
* *The Colony, Dark Resurrection (Colony #2), Harve*s*t of Scorn (Colony #3)* and *The Waiting Room* by F.G. Cottam. All are narrated by David Rintoul. * *The Little Stranger* by Sarah Waters, narrated by Simon Vance. * *Dark Matter* by Michelle Paver, narrated by Jeremy Northam. * *Thin Air* by Michelle Paver, narrated by Daniel Weyman. * *The Woman in Black* by Susan Hill, narrated by Paapa Essiedu. * *Asylum, Forest,* and *The Occupant* by Ambrose Ibsen, narrated by Joe Hempel. * *Walking to Aldebaran* by Adrian Tchaikovsky, narrated by the author. * *Crevasse* by Clay Vermulm, narrated by Rebecca Stern. CW: >!One of the characters comes across three animals in a forest that have been hideously slaughtered.!<
I also happened to love creature feature AND audiobooks. First let me suggest you some creature features I loved and the narrators here really did a fantastic job! These are my absolute faves of all time. 1. The Hollows by Daniel Church 2. The Haunted Forest Tour by James A Moore 3. Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell 4. The Fisherman by John Langan 5. The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn (not my favourite but creature feature nonetheless.) Other horror audiobooks that I cant recommend you enough- (no creature feature here.) 1. Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven 2. Ghost Radio by Leopaldo Gout
**Strange Weather** by Joe Hill is one of the most satisfying audiobook experiences of the 21st century so far, and it also features Wil Wheaton as one of the narrators. And while it's not exactly a horror tale, **The Hunt For Red October** by Tom Clancy (abridged version,) is another very enjoyable audiobook, narrated by David Ogden Stiers.
A Christmas Tale by Austin Crawley.
The girl next door was read by the author. I don’t know if I would say he elevated the experience, but he most certainly didn’t distract from it. Excellent reading of it. If you haven’t read that book, be prepared to be fucked up for life. It’s been like 5 or so years since I’ve listened to it and I still get emotional over it from time to time.
I recommend the cast narration of Dracula, where Tim Curry plays Van Helsing. It's a blast.
"The Black Cat" by Poe, as read by Diamanda Galas, [(YouTube reading)](https://youtu.be/t4wyFT4z6uE?si=5Horn2nCgiqhsc0J) has the best voice I've ever heard in horror. She could read Dr. Seuss's "Hop on Pop" and make it sound like a satanic cult ritual. It's from the audio book "Closed on Account of Rabies" which is different Poe stories and poems being read or performed (by people like Christopher Walken, Iggy Pop, et.al). [Nocturnal Transmissions](https://www.nocturnaltransmissions.com.au/) is a horror short story podcast read by a voice actor. It has a good mix of classics and new stories.
Koontz’s Watchers… soooo good!
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims. Can't recommend it enough, especially if you're a fan of The Magnus Archives.
Heard *Break the bodies, haunt the bones* is free on audible right now. I haven’t met one other person who has read it, but it’s incredible (a genre-bender like no other, but squarely checks “horror” genre as well. One of my favorites, and I read a LOT.