If mysterious rituals, dark magic, and demonic forces keep you up at night, you’ll find no shortage of terrifying tales within the occult horror genre. Audiobooks provide a unique way to experience these stories. From classic works that launched a thousand nightmares to contemporary spine-tingling sagas, authors have long turned to occult themes to frighten and unnerve listeners. We found 25 of the best occult horror fiction audiobooks available, but we do not recommend listening to them alone in the dark! Enter the disturbing world of occult horror if you dare…
Updated 17 Nov 2023: Added Amazon reviews star review ratings that were not available when article was originally published.
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The Invisible Hour
Author: Alice Hoffman
Narrator: Jessie Mueller
Listening Time: 7 hours, 44 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
What happens when you realize a book written over 200 years ago, a classic no less, SPEAKS to you. It perfectly puts into eloquent words what your life is and what you feel everyday. The problem is the books is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mia Jacob lives in a commune.
Heartless Heathens
Author: Santana Knox
Narrators: Celia Stone, Corvin King
Listening Time: 13 hours, 41 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
This is a remake of Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame story, but darker and more evil. Take heed of the author’s warning this book is not intended for people under 18.
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three
Author: Jack Townsend
Narrator: MrCreepyPasta
Listening Time: 14 hours, 37 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
In the 3rd installment of the Gas Station series, Jack must once again figure out who is good, who is evil while things spiral out of control in his town.
The Beast You Are
Author: Paul Tremblay
Narrators: Johnny Heller, Xe Sands, Ewan Chung, Graham Halstead, Helen Laser, Jorjeana Marie, Joy Osmanski, Keith Sellon-Wright, Kirsten Potter, Neil Shah
Listening Time: 11 hours, 25 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
This is a compilation of horror stories by an innovative writer. For instance, a dog and a cat must work together to defeat a monster that terrorizes a town every 30 years.
Boys in the Valley
Author: Philip Fracassi
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Listening Time: 10 hours, 55 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
David Aaron Baker, an award winning narrator, brings this scary story to life. We all know nothing good ever happens at orphanages, even more so when it is in a secluded valley in Pennsylvania. The young orphans must fight for survival when evil shows up unannounced at their door.
They Lurk
Author: Ronald Malfi
Narrators: Joe Hempel, Amy McFadden
Listening Time: 9 hours, 59 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
Ronald Malfi has collected five of his stories into this book about evil that can be found just outside where you can see.
Demonic
Audiobook Summary:
This is a love story. Man falls in love with a woman he works with. Woman, though, is married. To a serial killer. Can he save her, more importantly will he want to when the truth comes out of what she has done ?
Everything the Darkness Eats
Audiobook Summary:
Weird stuff always happens in small towns. Henley’s Edge is no different, and all the weirdness comes out when people start disappearing.
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
Author: Lucy Barker
Narrator: Tracy-Ann Oberman
Listening Time: 11 hours, 8 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
Can Britain’s best medium Mrs. Wood revive her business that has been falling off due to new and increasingly intense manifestations ? Maybe a young apprentice will help.
Endless Knight
Audiobook Summary:
Dustin must gather all the dark power he can to compete against Agatha Black. He attempts a path so dangerour, but necessary to win the war. But at what cost ?
Nexus
Author: D. N. White II
Narrators: J Mac, Dale de la Fuente, Devon Dixon, Carlie Warley, Javaughn Henry, Tiffany King
Listening Time: 7 hours, 49 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
A group of young friends realize the devil really is behind a lot of the weird stuff happening in their 31st century world. When their friend disappears, it is up to them to learn what they need to to find their friend and fight evil.
Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls
Audiobook Summary:
Juniper learns about a different world than most of us. One inhabited by fairies and ghosts. Now she must fulfill a promise made to a group of ghosts that will put her in the cross-hairs of evil.
Grave Mistake
Audiobook Summary:
What happens when a psychic must battle the most evil haunted house she has ever encountered ? She must save her family from the evil, even if it costs her her life.
Grave Devotion
Audiobook Summary:
This is a love story, with a haunted evil twist. Kale quickly falls in love with Annie, the mysterious, beautiful woman at the county fair. As their love quickly blooms, there is something not quite right and Kale has horribly haunted dreams. Can he unravel what is really going on ?
Starve Acre
Author: Andrew Michael Hurley
Narrator: Richard Burnip
Listening Time: 5 hours, 48 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
This one is about the grief over the loss of a five year old son. The grief stricken parents struggle to find answers after their son dies on their property. They each take different paths to try and find answers.
Black Dove
Audiobook Summary:
Young Oliver lives with his writer father, both trying to forget the spectre of his alcoholic mother’s ghost. He is chased, one day, into a tinkerer’s shop by bullies. As he spends more time with the shop owner, Oliver is exposed to a more magical world then he could imagine.
Chase Baker and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Audiobook Summary:
Think Indiana Jones. But, instead of the desert, the treasure hunt takes place in war plagued Ukraine. There are still Nazis, and still a lot of gold to find.
What Kind of Mother
Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Narrators: Megan Tusing, Joe Hempel
Listening Time: 10 hours
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Audiobook Summary:
Madi Price returns to her small hometown with her daughter. Trying to make a living, she becomes a palm reader at the local farmer’s market. All os going well until she reads the palm of her old crush Henry McCabe. His toddler son when missing 5 years ago, so the story goes. But, his palm says something different.
Schrader’s Chord
Audiobook Summary:
Can old vinyl records open a portal to the afterlife ? Not the one with fluffy clouds and bright light… the other one. After Charlie’s father dies, he leaves Charlie 4 records that do just that. After opening the portal, the newly resurrected father must help him close it. For good.
Expulsion
Audiobook Summary:
Elizabeth has an unwanted pregnancy after a strange encounter with a stranger man, and decides to abort the baby. But when she is living with her new husband and gets pregnant again, she realizes something is wrong. Horribly wrong.
It Waits on the Top Floor
Audiobook Summary:
From dirt lot to 60 story skyscraper. Overnight. With no construction crews. It just appears. Of course their is something mystical about it and a tech billionaire wants it. A young child gets trapped inside while exploring. The question is, will the building give up its secrets, and are they harmless or harmful ?
The Dead Take the A Train: Carrion City
Authors: Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
Narrator: Natalie Naudus
Listening Time: 12 hours, 30 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
Julie Crews is at the end of her rope. She needs to be successful. She happens to be a psychic magician. When she tries to do something that will giver her career the boost she needs, her spell goes wrong. Instead of the guardian angel she was looking for, she gets a pissed off elder god who wants to destroy the galaxy. Oops..
The Wolves of Eternity
Authors: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken
Narrators: Edoardo Ballerini, Vas Eli, Gilli Messer, Natasha Soudek
Listening Time: 23 hours
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Audiobook Summary:
Two step siblings who didn’t know of each other’s existence until the were adults, meet and share their world views and the mysteries they have seen. The step brother is Norwegian, the step sister is Russian, and the novel is set in 1980’s Russia.
Hunter’s Witch
Audiobook Summary:
Older vampire Fiona must protect and teach her younger sister Eleanor as she learns to the ropes as a newly made vampire. Tested, trained, or not, they must solve the mystery of Gabriel’s disappearance before Mountain Shadow is taken over.
Wish You Weren’t Here
Author: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
Narrator: Fran Burgoyne
Listening Time: 7 hours, 53 minutes
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Audiobook Summary:
The ghost hunting business has picked up for the Rook family. When they are called to Coldbay Island, is it just a normal ghost hunt, or something much more ? Are they looking at an apocalyptic situation ?
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Katy B. Rutland
My name is Katy, and storytelling is pretty much my jam. Snuggling up with a good book and escaping into a thrilling movie has been my addiction since I was a little kid. I studied English Lit in college which was literally heaven for a word nerd like me. Since graduating I've focused my passion and energy on writing my own novels and screenplays.