Classic Horror Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Ghost and Dark Stories
Listen to classic horror audiobooks featuring ghost stories, supernatural encounters, gothic fiction, and psychological terror from the public domain. This podcast delivers free horror audiobooks from legendary authors, bringing dark, atmospheric storytelling to life. Explore haunted houses, eerie mysteries, and chilling tales that defined the horror genre. These classic audiobooks include timeless ghost stories and supernatural fiction designed for immersive listening. 🔒 Subscribe for free horror audiobooks, ghost stories, and classic dark fiction released regularly. 🎧 This audiobook recording is from LibriVox.org. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Text and narration are public domain. Narration provided by LibriVox volunteers. Curated, packaged, and distributed by Classic Horror Audiobooks. #HorrorAudiobooks #GhostStories #Supernatural #ClassicHorror #FreeAudiobooks
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Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the n...
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Cecilia de Noel is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints.
This is Cecilia de Noel by Mary Elizabeth Hawker.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker Length: 3 hours 29 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Published 1800 -1900
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 28:11 - Chapter 2 56:45 - Chapter 3 01:25:35 -...
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The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high - the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark.
This is Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.
Author: William Hope Hodgson Length: 18 hours 54 minutes Genre: H...
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A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers of keeping secrets. This novel by George MacDonald is a deceptively easy read aimed to be accessible to teens, but the ideas will remain in your mind long afterwards.
This is Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald.
Author: George MacDonald Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Genre: Gothic Fiction
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter ...
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Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".
This is Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens.
Author: Francis Stevens Length: 9 hours ...
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Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werew...
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A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason.
This is Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Genre: Dramatic Readings, Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Chap...
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Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife.
This is Windsor Castle, Book 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth — a classic public domain horror story.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Length: 3 hours 13 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Historical Fiction
Chapter Markers: W...
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Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he published more than 100 books, among them this collection of ghost stories.
This is Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould — a classic ghost story.
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Chapter Mark...
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A word about ghosts. Do you believe in Ghosts.
This is Ghost of Kingdom Come by Rev. Gerald T. Brennan — a classic ghost story.
Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan Length: 1 hours 58 minutes Genre: Religion
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The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would not put up with their love. This novel is considered to be one of the best Gothic novels ever written, by one of the first (and best) writers of the genre.
This is Italian by Ann Radcliffe — a classic gothic horror tale.
Author: Ann Radcliffe Length...
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The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of <i>Onward Christian Soldiers</i> and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned.
This is Bladys of the Stewp...
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This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many of them brief romantic sketches of phantasmagoric imagery, supernatural occurrences and tales from far away places. H.
This is Fantastics and Other Fancies by Lafcadio Hearn — a classic public domain horror story.
Author: Lafcadio Hearn Length: 4 hour...
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<i>The Marble Faun</i> is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy.
This is Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne — a classic gothic horror tale.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Length: 16 hours 12 minutes Genre: Fantastic Fiction, General Fiction, Gothic Fiction
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Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940.
This is Treasure by Selma Lagerlöf — a classic ghost story.
Author: Selma Lagerlöf Length: 2 hours 41 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England). and of some of the buildings, now long gone.
This is Ghosts of Piccadilly by G. S. Street — a classic ghost story.
Author: G. S. Street Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Col...
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Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella <i>The Beckoning Fair One</i>, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror.
This is Widdershins (Version 2) by Oliver Onions — a classic ghost story.
Author: Oliver Onions Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Ge...
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This is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each group of animals, you will hear of hauntings by dogs, cats, birds, jungle animals, etc.
This is Animal Ghosts by Elliott O'Donnell — a classic ghost story.
Author: Elliott O'Donnell Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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