Best Horror Audiobooks

Four people spend a summer in a house with a terrible reputation, and one of them begins to belong to it. Short, elegant and frightening in what it leaves unsaid.

A young lawyer travels to settle the affairs of a dead widow in a remote house on the salt marshes, and sees a figure in black at her funeral. A traditional ghost story, short enough for one long evening.

A recovering alcoholic takes a winter caretaker's job at an isolated Colorado hotel with his wife and young son, who has a psychic gift. Long, slow-building and relentless.

One caveat: Domestic violence and a child in danger.

In 1950s Mexico, a glamorous young socialite travels to a decaying mansion in the countryside to check on her cousin, who has written a frantic letter. Lush, strange and increasingly grotesque.

A woman looks back on the reality TV show that filmed her teenage sister's apparent demonic possession. Possession or mental illness? The narrator's voice keeps you guessing.

A twelve-year-old girl in Washington, D.C., begins to change in terrible ways, and her mother turns to a priest who is losing his faith. Far more of a slow, theological book than the film suggests.

One caveat: Disturbing content involving a child.

After something that drives people to violence the moment they see it has emptied the world, a mother must lead two children down a river blindfolded. A novel about not being able to look, experienced entirely by ear.

One caveat: Violent.

Four Blackfeet men who killed a herd of elk on land reserved for their elders are hunted, a decade later, by something that wants revenge. Brutal, sad and rooted in its characters' voices.

One caveat: Very violent.