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An old man lives in a Victorian house alone. Or so he thinks. When he visits his basement, he is literally haunted by his past.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 154
In a bleak corner of the city of Valgaast, the House of Malveil awaits. A place of darkness, its halls throb with a sinister history. Its rooms are filled with malice. Its walls echo with pain. Now it stirs eagerly with the approach of an old heir - Colonel Maeson Strock of the Astra Militarum has returned home to his ancestral mansion. He is a man broken, both by the horrors of war and by personal loss, and he has come home to take up the mantle of Planetary Governor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Got so into it!
- By ClothingMonster on 11-01-19
By: David Annandale
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Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1
- Classic Horror Stories
- By: Charles Dickens, H. P. Lovecraft, Saki, and others
- Narrated by: Doug Bradley
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stories and wonderful performance
- By Gavin Lees on 10-12-18
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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Chiliad
- A Meditation
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Chiliad consists of two interrelated stories, stories filtered through the melancholy imagination of a narrator perched on the banks of a river that flows backward and forward through time. The first movement, "Men and Sin", takes place in the millennial year of 1000 AD. The second, "A Moment at the River's Heart", occurs exactly 1000 years - the length of a "chiliad" - later, as the new millennium approaches.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am in awe. I am shaken.
- By Jared Winkler on 01-16-21
By: Clive Barker
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Can Such Things Be?
- By: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Story4 out of 5 stars 313
Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you 25 tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration of the classics
- By Adeliese Baumann on 10-31-14
By: Ambrose Bierce
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A Test of Wills
- By: Charles Todd
- Narrated by: Samuel Giles
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,402
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,232
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,224
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after years fighting in the First World War. Unknown to his colleagues he is still suffering from shell shock, and is burdened with the guilt of having had executed a young soldier on the battlefield for refusing to fight. A jealous colleague has learned of his secret and has managed to have Rutledge assigned to a difficult case which could spell disaster for Rutledge whatever the outcome. A retired officer has been murdered, and Rutledge goes to investigate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to follow the narrator
- By Carol on 01-02-13
By: Charles Todd
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Weaveworld
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,939
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,773
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,780
Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world - and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror - a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Chore I Gave Up On
- By Michael V. on 09-30-18
By: Clive Barker
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Darkness Prevails
- More Dark Tales to Keep You Up at Night
- By: Cliff Barlow
- Narrated by: Crystal Sershen
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 429
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Story4 out of 5 stars 397
Darkness Prevails is a collection of 15 terrifying tales by author Cliff R. Barlow. From twisted yarns about the demons of hell to gut-wrenching stories about the unrelenting demons within, this collection pulls no punches. You have been warned. This is not for the faint of heart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Siri narrator
- By S.A. on 08-24-20
By: Cliff Barlow
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Dracul
- By: Dacre Stoker, J.D. Barker
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, Vikas Adam, Saskia Maarleveld, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 819
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 726
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's - and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a 21-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here....
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Well Done
- By DobieChuck on 01-01-19
By: Dacre Stoker, and others
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The Choosing
- By: Rachelle Dekker
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 246
Like all citizens since the ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she'd spent a lifetime preparing for - her choosing ceremony - to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she'll spend her days serving as a lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it's her duty to follow the true way of the authority. But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By Greg on 12-14-15
By: Rachelle Dekker
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
- By: Kiersten White
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 358
Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver", and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets...until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything - except a friend. Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable - and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing
- By MK on 02-02-19
By: Kiersten White
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Printer's Devil Court
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
Ideally spooky Halloween listening.... A chilling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black. One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious turn and Hugh is initiated into a dark secret. In the cellar of their narrow lodgings in Printer's Devil Court and a little used mortuary in a subterranean annex of the hospital, they have begun to interfere with death itself, in shadowy experiments beyond the realms of medical ethics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spooky but short
- By Amazon Customer on 12-29-15
By: Susan Hill
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The Chasm
- A Journey to the Edge of Life
- By: Randy Alcorn
- Narrated by: Randy Alcorn
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
He found himself a traveler in the strangest of lands. Where invisible secrets come starkly into sight. Where the fairest of companions leads the way into unsuspected danger and darkness. Where hidden battles burst into the open. Where so much is grasped…and so much more seems unattainable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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💖
- By 😉 on 02-25-16
By: Randy Alcorn
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The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress
- An Allegorical Tale
- By: Joel Berry, Kyle Mann
- Narrated by: Michael Axtell
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 252
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 233
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Story5 out of 5 stars 232
Ryan Fleming is a young agnostic reeling from his brother’s death. Though he is deeply angry with God, he makes good on a promise he made to his brother in the final moments of his life: to visit a church at least once. But shortly after his arrival, the slick megachurch’s shoddily installed video projector falls on his head—sending Ryan through a wormhole into another world. To make it back to his own universe, he must partner with a woman named Faith to awaken a long-sleeping King—the World-Maker who can make all things new.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wow!!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-23-22
By: Joel Berry, and others
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The Deacon of Wounds
- Warhammer Horror
- By: David Annandale
- Narrated by: Christopher Kent
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 126
The planet of Theotokos is dying. Drought has wiped out all but the capital city of Magerit. Worse, an outbreak of a terrible plague, known as the Grey Tears, ravages its populace. Only the charismatic Arch-Deacon Ambrose stands in the way of desperation and anarchy. But as the plague rampages through the streets, murdering its victims with unnatural symptoms, Ambrose struggles to confront the appalling measures he must take to save his people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally; a GW story that does not use a sledge hammer...
- By Jack Aubry on 05-04-21
By: David Annandale
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Blood Carousel
- The Carnival Series, Book 1
- By: A.I. Nasser, Scare Street
- Narrated by: Jake Urry
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The carnival is back in town, and for Jack Heldon, that's not a good sign. Since the last time it had come to the small and quiet town in Lensfield, Connecticut, he’s been plagued with nightmares of burning walls, raspy chuckles, and fiery red eyes in the dark. Ted Barton’s killing spree is still fresh in his mind, and Jack knows the carnival was behind it all. Now, it’s back for more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creepy Carnival.
- By Natalie @ ABookLoversLife on 10-02-19
By: A.I. Nasser, and others
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What Dreams May Come
- By: Richard Matheson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries between life and death. When tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Poor ending
- By Randall on 01-10-11
By: Richard Matheson
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Werewolf Cop
- By: Andrew Klavan
- Narrated by: Andrew Klavan
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 914
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 842
Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best in moral fantasy since CS Lewis!
- By Kindle Customer on 10-24-17
By: Andrew Klavan