The best horror audiobooks, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best horror audiobook in our dataset is The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1) by Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley: 4.58★ across 74 ratings and 11.7 estimated listening hours. We scored every published horror audiobook in our dataset: 182 qualify (horror-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 9,357 listener ratings between them. The top 20 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 20
The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1) by Scott Cawthon
About 12 days at an hour a day, 44% longer than the average horror audiobook.
Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman
About 7 days at an hour a day, 41% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Green Mile by Stephen King
About 14 days at an hour a day, 12% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
About 12 days at an hour a day, right at the average fantasy length.
The Stand by Stephen King
About 35 days at an hour a day, 177% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
About 25 days at an hour a day, 188% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
About 5 days at an hour a day, 38% shorter than the average horror audiobook.
Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
About 8 days at an hour a day, 37% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
Different Seasons by Stephen King
About 20 days at an hour a day, 77% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
About 6 days at an hour a day, 35% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
About 13 days at an hour a day, 11% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
Welcome to Dead House by Robert Lawrence Stine
About 3 days at an hour a day, 69% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
About 5 days at an hour a day, 58% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Terror by Dan Simmons
About 23 days at an hour a day, 85% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
About 17 days at an hour a day, 50% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
About 18 days at an hour a day, 113% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
About 11 days at an hour a day, 7% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Shining by Stephen King
About 15 days at an hour a day, 22% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Night Shift by Stephen King
About 12 days at an hour a day, right at the average fantasy length.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman
About 5 days at an hour a day, 47% shorter than the average horror audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published horror audiobook in our dataset qualifies: 182 books. Each is scored by its Open Library listener rating weighted by its rating count: score = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), where R is the book's rating, v its number of ratings, and C = 4.03★ the mean across all 2,181 published books we measured. Fewer ratings pull a score toward that mean, so a high rating on a handful of votes can't outrank a slightly lower one backed by hundreds. A book ranks here only when its own Open Library subject data confirms the horror shelf; surfacing in a horror search alone doesn't qualify it. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-10-12; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All horror audiobooks we measured
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