One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford, read by Sofia Engstrand
This darkly funny tale follows a scientist as she desperately tries to find a cure for the last victim of a zombie apocalypse – who also happens to be her husband. For now, he’s chained to the radiator in their spare room, but time is running out for both of them. While it’s a smart and unique take on the zombie trope, it’s also a heartrending story about a woman pushed to the edge.
Listening length: 13 hours and 12 minutes
Fourteen people, a week-long hide-and-seek contest, a life-changing amount of money up for grabs, and an abandoned theme park – what could possibly go wrong? Mack is determined to win, but she soon realises that this friendly competition is anything but. As people start to go missing, it’s clear that the game is turning deadly and those who are left standing will have to work together if they have any hopes of getting out alive…
Billed as the perfect thriller for fans of Stephen King and the hit TV show Squid Game , this immersive audiobook will make you think twice about counting to 10.
Listening length: 8 hours and 9 minutes
Full of menace, The Turn of the Key is a gripping, addictive and hugely atmospheric modern-day haunted house thriller.
When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it’s too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a staggeringly generous salary. When she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she’s smitten by the luxurious home by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare – one that will end with a child dead and her in a cell awaiting trial for murder. She knows she’s made mistakes. But she’s not guilty – at least not of murder. Which means someone else is…
Listening length: 12 hours and 15 minutes
Lydia lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son. There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, but she doesn’t know that pursuing it will lead to murder. However, needs must – because nothing can stop this mother from getting what she wants.
Fans of The Talented Mr Ripley
Listening length: 8 hours and 32 minutes
Rizzoli and Isles
When Ava arrives at Brodie’s Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind. The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely?
Listening length: 9 hours and 22 minutes
It by Stephen King, read by Steven Weber
Take a trip to Derry, Maine, where It lurks in the storm drains and sewers, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread – and turning it into a terrible reality.
If you love a truly scary story, then It is the book for you – and this audio edition is beyond sinister in the way it brings the characters to life, lifting them off the page. Make sure you listen to this one with the lights on.
Listening length: 44 hours and 53 minutes
Sinister, dark and seriously creepy, Richard Armitage’s first class narration will prove note-perfect for those who can’t get enough of scary audiobooks.
One night, Annie went missing. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, after forty-eight hours, she came back. But she couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say what had happened to her. And she certainly wasn’t the same. Now, eight years later, her brother is being pulled back to their hometown – because what happened to his sister is happening again…
Listening length: 10 hours and 43 minutes
Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way Annie can make it stop is to hand her in to the police. Now, with a new family and a new name, surely she can be whoever she wants to be. But blood is thicker than water and she is, after all, her mother’s daughter. Can she escape the secrets of her past that keep her awake at night?
Hannah Murray’s bleak, monotonous yet gentle and soft narration captures Annie’s troubled mindset perfectly, creating an eerie and uncanny listening experience. The suspense builds with every chapter, so we promise you’ll find yourself listening long into the night.
Listening length: 10 hours and 19 minutes
When it comes to horror classic, it doesn’t get much scarier than Hannibal Lecter, Thomas Harris’ blood-curdling serial killer with a penchant for cannibalism. If you’re already familiar with the best-known books and films of the Hannibal series (like Silence of the Lambs ), we recommend turning to the prequel Hannibal Rising . Narrated by Harris himself, this audiobook is a chilling origin story of childhood trauma and inner demons that paint a portrait of one of the most disturbing villains in the history of horror.
Listening length: 7 hours and 3 minutes
Across America, from trailer parks to aircraft carriers to cable news studios, the undead are rising up. Those remaining among the living are fighting to protect themselves. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, a single-minded federal employee is hell-bent on recording the data of this astonishing phenomenon. If you love zombie movies, horror, or political thrillers, this audiobook narrated by actors Lori Cardille (Day of the Dead ) and Bruce Davison (X-Men , Ozark ) is for you.
When Jack and Syd moved into their new house, it seemed like their dream home – so when they made a grisly discovery in the attic, they chose to ignore it. That was a mistake. Because someone has just been murdered outside their back door. And now the police are watching them.
If you like your psychological thrillers tense and intriguing, then this is wonderfully creepy story is for you. Told from two perspectives, it’s the characters that really shine here – and the two narrators do a stellar job of capturing their personalities in their performances.
Listening length: 8 hours and 29 minutes
Based on the chilling true story that inspired the Ridley Scott BBC2 series of the same name, The Terror charts the doomed 1845 expedition of HMS Terror and Erebus. Trapped in Arctic ice in their attempt to find the Nort-West Passage, the two ships and their crews await certain death and starvation in the frozen landscape with no hope of returning to safety. But in this already-grim reality, something far more sinister is taking its toll on the men…
Listening length: 28 hours and 27 minutes
Lauren and her father Niall live a secluded village in the Scottish Highlands, where freakish deaths, unexplained disappearances, and strange behaviour is more common than you think. Still, Lauren is desperate for answers – about her long-missing mother, the hunter found hanging in the forest with his catch, the drunk woman her father rescued one Halloween night, but was gone by morning. She turns to tarot cards in the hopes of finding the truth, but if people in her community just talked, maybe she wouldn’t have to…
Part gothic horror, part pacy thriller, this audiobook narrated by the lilting voice of Cathleen McCarron is an immersive and spine-tingling listening experience.
Listening length: 8 hours and 57 minutes
