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Narrated by:
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Peter Kenny
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By:
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Nicholas Pullen
About this listen
A spine-tingling, queer gothic horror debut where two men are drawn into an otherworldly spiral, and a journey that will only end when they reach the darkest part of the human soul.
“A gothic masterpiece. A devastating exploration of humanity's capacity for evil."–Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters
John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death of his secret lover and as the gnawing hunger inside him grows impossible to ignore.
He must write his last testament before it is too late.
The story he tells will take us to the darkest part of the human soul. It is a tale of otherworldly creatures, ancient cults, and a terrifying journey from the stone circles of Scotland to the icy peaks of Tibet.
It is a tale that will take us to the end of the world.
"A phenomenal book full of rich historical detail, occult mysticism, and slow, creeping horror. A triumph that should be on your reading list."–Thomas D. Lee, author of Perilous Times
"The Black Hunger reveals its horrors inch by devastating inch."–Molly O'Neill, author of Greenteeth
"A terrifying gothic journey to the place where the very cruelest, hungriest creatures hide in the snow, and wear our faces. This is a magisterial debut."–Michael Rowe, author of Wild Fell
"Rich in historical detail, poignant romance, sweeping adventure, and visceral terror."–Jennifer Thorne, author of Diavola
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The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Not a Fun Book
- By Julia Patrin on 05-08-25
By: Rivers Solomon
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The Ballad of Black Tom
- By: Victor LaValle
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,938
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,734
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,726
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his black skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their trained cops. But when he delivers an occult page to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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“I’ll take Cthulhu over you devils any day”
- By Jefferson on 11-16-19
By: Victor LaValle
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Motherthing
- By: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrated by: Adina Verson
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4 out of 5 stars 167
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great story with horrible narration
- By Calliope on 09-18-23
By: Ainslie Hogarth
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Exquisite Corpse
- By: Poppy Z. Brite
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Story4 out of 5 stars 470
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his “art” to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Killers on the Road!
- By Char on 01-02-21
By: Poppy Z. Brite
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Hungerstone
- By: Kat Dunn
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
It’s the height of the industrial revolution and ten years into Lenore’s marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry’s ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into their lives. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night. Carmilla, who stirs up something deep within Lenore. And before long, girls from the local villages fall sick, consumed by a terrible hunger . . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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11/10 for both the novel itself and for the narration
- By britney giraffe on 03-10-25
By: Kat Dunn
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Dark Matter
- By: Michelle Paver
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,606
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,402
January 1937. Jack Miller has just about run out of options. His shoes have worn through, he can't afford to heat his rented room in Tooting, and he longs to use his training as an specialist wireless operator instead of working in his dead-end job. When he is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates, he brushes off his apprehensions and convinces himself to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!
- By Madeleine on 02-12-11
By: Michelle Paver
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Greatest Hits
- Herald Classics
- By: Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski - editor
- Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
Harlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners discovering this zany, polyphonic writer for the first time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Huge fan of the writing but NOT of this production
- By Susannah on 04-23-24
By: Harlan Ellison, and others
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Cadaver: The Complete Zombie Apocalypse Series
- By: Nick Clausen
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 36 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 263
When two teenagers stumble upon a frozen corpse deep in the woods, they make the fateful decision to bring it back to town—unaware they’ve just unleashed the apocalypse. In the morgue beneath the hospital, the dead begin to stir, attacking the living and spreading a relentless infection. The once-quiet town quickly descends into chaos as the hospital becomes a battleground, its halls soaked in blood as survivors fight to escape the growing horde.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WWYD
- By Partner-In-Climb on 01-23-25
By: Nick Clausen
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The Unworthy
- A Novel
- By: Agustina Bazterrica
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 56
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- By MannyandJess on 04-29-25
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, Owen Teale
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 270
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 270
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SGJ blows readers away again again
- By D. Evert on 03-20-25
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Hampton Heights
- One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- By: Dan Kois
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
On a cold winter’s evening in 1987, six middle-school paperboys wander an unfamiliar Milwaukee neighborhood, selling newspaper subscriptions, fueled by their manager Kevin’s promises of cash bonuses and dinner at Burger King. But the freaks come out at night in Hampton Heights. Sent out into the neighborhood in pairs, the boys will encounter a host of primordial monsters—and triumph over them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Epic Tale and So Fun!
- By Lynn76 on 03-19-25
By: Dan Kois