Gothic & Horror audiobooks
Best heard after dark.
From the crumbling castles of Ann Radcliffe to the cosmic dread of H. P. Lovecraft, this is the long history of the ghost story and the monster tale. Bram Stoker's Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe's tales, Sheridan Le Fanu's vampires, Charles Maturin's wanderer and Algernon Blackwood's haunted wilderness all live here. Gothic fiction was made for the human voice — it grew up as stories told by firelight — and it still works best that way.
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Under 5 hours — finish one this weekAll 50 gothic & horror audiobooks
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Dracula
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
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The King in Yellow
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Call of Cthulhu
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At the Mountains of Madness
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The Monk: A Romance
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The Castle of Otranto
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The Dunwich Horror
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The Canterville Ghost
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The Lair of the White Worm
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Volume 1
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Volume 2
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Volume 3
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Melmoth the Wanderer, Volume 4
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The Jewel of Seven Stars
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The Beetle: A Mystery
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Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
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Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
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The Shunned House
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The Lady of the Shroud
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The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
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A Sicilian Romance
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Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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The Ghost Pirates
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The Wyvern Mystery
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Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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Can Such Things Be?
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Carmilla
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Day and Night Stories
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Four Weird Tales
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
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The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
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The Great God Pan
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The Haunted Hotel
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The Romance of the Forest, Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry.
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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The Wendigo
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The Willows
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3
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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
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Wylder's Hand
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Are these gothic & horror audiobooks free?
The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 50 gothic & horror titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Can I read along while I listen?
Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.
What's the shortest and longest gothic & horror audiobook here?
The Shunned House is the shortest at 55 min; The Mysteries of Udolpho is the longest at 26 hr 48 min. The whole collection runs about 347 hours.
