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Stay inside and lock the doors—these slasher audiobooks bring the thrills to you

Stay inside and lock the doors—these slasher audiobooks bring the thrills to you

Though I love all things spooky, I can be a bit of chicken when it comes to horror movies, stopping just short of toting a blanket to cower under to the theater. Though I read and listen to innumerable works of wild, weird horror with reckless abandon, there’s something about the visual medium that sets my anxiety into overdrive. The dread of imminent jump scares leaves me with sweaty palms, while the horrific images remain stubbornly fixed in my memory, making guest appearances in nightmares for years to come.

Nevertheless, as a scaredy-cat with an affinity for the eerie, I have to get some seasonal thrills somewhere. Enter the slasher—a classic subgenre of horror that ruled the big screen in the late 70s through the mid 80s. Unlike the disorienting unease wrought by psychological horror or the chilling realism of found footage, the slasher’s reliable tropes and formulas lend a bit of familiarity, while its menacing killers and shocks of violence still offer plenty of scares.

So if you're up for a bit of that spine-chilling, lock-your-doors and look-over-you-shoulder paranoia, don't miss this list of our favorite slasher horror audiobooks, which capture the genre’s signature thrills—and that fierce fight to survive to the sequel.

How Horror Works in Books and Film
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
The Final Girl Support Group
There's Someone Inside Your House
The Night Shift
Survive the Night
Jackal
The Con Season
My Sister, the Serial Killer
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Even If We Break

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