The Exorcist

The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 51 mins)
• By William Peter Blatty
• Narrated By William Peter Blatty, Eliana Shaskan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty's thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying novel ever written.

The Amityville Horror

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Jay Anson
• Narrated By Ray Porter

In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property - complete with boathouse and swimming pool - and the price were too good to pass up. This is the shocking true story of an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining for the Lutz family, who were forced to flee their new home in terror.

Alien: Covenant Origins: The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Alan Dean Foster
• Narrated By Tom Taylorson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind. Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch.

The X-Files: Cold Cases

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Dirk Maggs - adaptation
• Narrated By David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, and others

Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris - with creative direction from series creator Chris Carter - and adapted specifically for the audio format by aural auteur Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Alien: Out of the Shadows), Cold Cases marks yet another thrilling addition to the pantheon of X-Files stories. Featuring a mind-blowing and otherworldly soundscape of liquefying aliens, hissing creatures, and humming spacecraft, listeners get to experience the duo's investigations like never before.

Exorcist III

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 50 mins)
• By Morgan Creek Productions
• Narrated By full cast

A haunted homicide detective is confronted by the apparent return of a brutal serial killer he helped send to the electric chair 15 years earlier.

The Sentinel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Jeffrey Konvitz
• Narrated By Mary Murphy
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment: a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side. But her perfect home quickly turns hellish. The building is filled with a cast of sinister tenants, including a reclusive blind priest, who seems to watch her day and night through an upstairs window. Eventually, Allison starts hearing strange noises from the empty apartment above hers. Before long, she uncovers the building's demonic secret and is plunged into a nightmare of sinful misdeeds.

Gwendy's Button Box: Includes Bonus Story "The Music Room"

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
• Narrated By Maggie Siff

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zigzag up the cliffside. At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. One day a stranger calls to Gwendy: "Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me."

Hell House

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Richard Matheson
• Narrated By Ray Porter
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

For over 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.

But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Radio Dramatization

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 39 mins)
• By Washington Irving, Jerry Robbins (dramatization)
• Narrated By Jerry Robbins, The Colonial Radio Players

Ichabod Crane, a lanky, lean, superstitious school master, arrives to teach the children of Sleepy Hollow. As he vies for the attention of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel, his rival for her attention is the town rowdy, Brom Bones. Brom tries to scare Ichabod away with local superstitions and ghost tales. And soon enough the ill-fated schoolmaster encounters a terrifying legend come to life: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: A Radio Dramatization

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By The Colonial Radio Players

The people of Earth are preparing for war - a war that could potentially destroy the planet. Explorers are sent to Mars to find a new place for humans to colonize. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor, where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars... and then is conquered by it.

Exorcist: The Beginning

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Morgan Creek Productions
• Narrated By full cast

Prequel. Exorcist: The Beginning traces the story of Father Merrin back to his first encounter with the devil during his missionary work in Africa.

Misery

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Lindsay Crouse
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who has finally met his number-one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life - just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on.

Dracula (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 46 mins)
• By Bram Stoker, Charles Morey
• Narrated By David Selby, John Glover, Simon Templeman, and others

Before Twilight and True Blood, only one vampire commanded “the children of the night.” In this blood-thirsty tale of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil - so he can rest between victims. The city seems helpless against his frightful power, and only one man, Dr. Van Helsing, can stop the carnage. But to do this, he must uncover the vampire’s lair and pierce his heart with a wooden stake. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May, 2011.

The Haunting of Hill House

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Shirley Jackson
• Narrated By Bernadette Dunne
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House.

Pilgrim Series 5-7: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramas

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Sebastian Baczkiewicz
• Narrated By full cast, Paul Hilton

Paul Hilton stars as Pilgrim in the final three series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 supernatural drama by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. In 1185 William Palmer was making pilgrimage to Canterbury. Unbeknown to him, his fellow pilgrim was the King of the Greyfolk. When William claimed that the church would eradicate belief in the Faerie world, he was cursed by the Faerie King and condemned to walk forever between the worlds of magic and of men.

We're Alive: A Story of Survival - The First Season

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Kc Wayland
• Narrated By Blackstone Audiobooks

For Army Reserve soldier Michael Cross, the world as he knows it ends in an instant. One minute he’s in college, and the next rioters are roaming the highway around him, breaking into cars and literally tearing people apart. This is the day the dead walk. This is the world of We’re Alive.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 11 mins)
• By George Lucas
• Narrated By Anthony Daniels, Ed Asner

Like its predecessors, this electrifying drama boasts a splendid cast (including Anthony Daniels as See-Threepio and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt), a greatly expanded script, with many scenes and characters not found in the movie, and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence.

Devil in the Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By J.T. Hunter
• Narrated By Don Kline
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sinister. A master of deception, he was a rapist, arsonist, and bank robber, and a new breed of serial killer, one who studied other killers to perfect his craft. He methodically buried kill-kits containing his tools of murder years before returning to reclaim them.

Poirot's Finest Cases: Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

• ORIGINAL (15 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By John Moffat, Full Cast

John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The ABC Murders: A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer. After the Funeral: A wealthy businessman is dead, and his sister thinks it was murder. Death on the Nile: Poirot is in Egypt when a chilling murder takes place. Peril at End House: Whilst on holiday, the sleuth encounters a young woman, a hat and a bullet. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Mrs Farrars is found dead, one year after the death of her husband.

Four Past Midnight

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 21 mins)
• By George Lucas
• Narrated By Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, and others

Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast (including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Anthony Daniels as See Threepio, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow as Yoda); a greatly expanded script, with many scenes not found in the movie; and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence. The Empire Strikes Back takes you once more into a galaxy of pure sound and limitless imagination for an adventure you'll never forget.

Needful Things

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed", usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control, and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.

Salem's Lot

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Ron McLarty, Stephen King
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.

The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 59 mins)
• By John le Carré
• Narrated By Simon Russell Beale

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star-studded cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre's taut, thrilling spy novels.