6 Scariest Audiobooks You Will Ever Listen To

If you’re like me and want an audiobook that actually feels scary, these are the ones I couldn’t stop thinking about after finishing. It’s not just quick scares. The narration makes it feel so real, like it’s happening right next to me. These are the kind I wouldn’t play right before bed.

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Scariest Audiobooks

The Black Farm by Elias Witherow

The Black Farm centers around a couple who end their lives after losing their child, thinking it’ll finally bring peace. But the guy wakes up in this brutal, nightmare world instead. It’s honestly disturbing, like survival horror after death, and he’s just trying to find his wife in all that chaos.

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives. Unable to cope with the misery that fills their days, they commit one last act together and die in loving relief.
Driven by desperation and a sudden will to survive, he sets out to find Jess and is unable to cope with the thought of her having to suffer through the terrors this new reality holds.
But nothing could prepare him for the nightmares he found… nothing could prepare him for The Black Farm.

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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City is about two real stories happening at the same time—one guy building this huge, beautiful Chicago World’s Fair, and the other is a serial killer using it to find victims. It’s creepy because it’s all real, and the contrast makes it even more unsettling.

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book’s categorization to be sure that ‘The Devil in the White City’ is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair’s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.

The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World’s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims.

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Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

Stolen Tongues is about a couple on a cabin trip that turns seriously creepy. The girlfriend starts hearing voices and then talking back to them, which is where things get scary fast. It’s very atmospheric, with that isolated, something-watching-you kind of horror that builds slowly.

A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned. High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows in the dead of night, whispering to Faye.

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist is about a young girl who gets possessed, and everything spirals from there. It’s not just scary—it feels intense and real because it’s based on a true case. The whole thing is about trying to save her while things get more disturbing and out of control.

It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one. Inspired by a true story of a child’s demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying. On opening day of the film, lines of the novel’s fans stretched around city blocks. In Chicago, frustrated moviegoers used a battering ram to gain entry through the double side doors of a theater. In Kansas City, police used tear gas to disperse an impatient crowd who tried to force their way into a cinema.

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Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

Imaginary Friend is about a little boy who goes missing and comes back… different. He hears a voice telling him to build something in the woods or bad things will happen. It starts emotional but turns into this big, creepy story about fear, control, and something supernatural going on.

We can swallow our fear or let our fear swallow us.

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania.

At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six long days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged.
Twenty years ago, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower made readers everywhere feel infinite. Now, Chbosky has returned with an epic work of literary horror, years in the making, whose grand scale and rich emotion redefine the genre. Read it with the lights on.

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