Horror

A recovering alcoholic takes a winter caretaker job at a remote Colorado hotel, moving his wife and gifted young son into its empty halls just as the snow seals them in. The slow squeeze of isolation, family strain and something wrong in the building makes the fear easy to follow from the very start.

A lonely young woman in a remote castle welcomes a mysterious guest whose affection grows stranger as local girls fall ill. At just over two hours, this Audible Original adaptation, with David Tennant and Rose Leslie in its cast, is a quick way into the vampire tale that came before Dracula.

Four people gather at a brooding, abandoned mansion to study the supernatural: an occult scholar, two recruits and the heir to the house. The fear builds through small, unsettling moments rather than gore, making it a fine starting point for anyone curious about the haunted-house story.

Something outside drives anyone who sees it to violence, so a mother must lead two small children downriver blindfolded, toward a place that might be safe. The rule is simple and the stakes are immediate, keeping every scene tense from its opening chapter.

Seven kids in Derry, Maine, face a shape-shifting evil that feeds on the town's children, and they swear to return if it ever comes back. Nearly thirty years later the call comes, and this 45-hour epic moves between their childhood summer and the reckoning they return for as adults.

Travis Cornell, a lonely ex-soldier hiking the California hills, finds a golden retriever of startling intelligence, and something monstrous is hunting it. Government agents and a hired killer close in as man and dog form a bond worth fighting for.

A few people who can seize control of other minds play deadly games with human pawns, and a Holocaust survivor who once escaped one of them sets out to hunt the hunters. The story ranges from Nazi camps to 1980s Charleston and Philadelphia across nearly forty hours.

In Milburn, New York, the four surviving members of a five-man club meet to trade ghost stories—and to keep buried what they did together as young men. When a winter of strange deaths settles over the town, the past they hid starts to walk again, and the dread builds slow and cold.

After a whirlwind romance, a shy young bride arrives at her wealthy husband's Cornish estate, Manderley, and finds his first wife's presence in every room. A cold housekeeper keeps that memory sharp, and each hushed silence hints there is more to Rebecca's story than anyone will say.

Six years after arsenic killed four of their relatives at dinner, sisters Merricat and Constance Blackwood live shut away with frail Uncle Julian, shunned by the village below. Narrated by the odd, fiercely protective Merricat, it's a darkly funny portrait of a house under siege and a family bound by its secret.

A young governess takes charge of two orphaned children at Bly, a remote English country house, on the condition that she never troubles their absent uncle. Soon she glimpses strangers on the grounds, and the question of what she really sees, and what the house is hiding, grows more unnerving by the hour.

What's a junior solicitor expecting when he's sent to settle a dead recluse's affairs at Eel Marsh House, cut off by the tides beyond Nine Lives Causeway? Sorting through Mrs. Drablow's papers, Arthur Kipps starts to uncover the grief behind the house, and a figure in black the townsfolk refuse to discuss.