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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Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneliness is at an end when a carriage accindent close by their castle brings a mysterious visitor: Carmilla was injured in the accident, and remains at the castle to heal.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic H...
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Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this chilling early horror work (set in the middle-ages) by Marjorie Bowen that some consider to be the ultimate Gothic Novel. With enough suspenseful plot twists and turns to keep most listeners on edge guessing till the very end.
Author: Marjorie Bowen...
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Chapters:Fifteen ghost stories to hear around the Yule log. "It happened that I spent the last winter in a large country mansion, in the north of England, where we had a succession of visitors, and all manner of amusements-.
This is Ghosts And Family Legends; A Volume For Christmas by Catherine Crowe.
Author: Catherine Crowe Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fic...
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This is a collection of seven ghost stories by Francis Marion Crawford. The volume includes all of the essential ingredients for good ghost and horror stories, such as mysterious deaths, haunted houses, and even vampires.
Author: Francis Marion Crawford Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:46 - Chapter 2 30:31 - Chapter 3 46:07 - Chapter ...
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London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound.
Author: George Walter Thornbury Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:27 - Chapter 2 16:48 - Chapter 3 01:04:48 - Chapter 4 01:40:04 - Chapter 5 02:10:46 - Chapter 6 02:38:04 -...
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William Clark Russell is well-known for his maritime stories, for which he could draw upon his own experiences as a sailor in the British Navy. This is one of the finest examples of his maritime ghost stories.
Author: William Clark Russell Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Genre: Classic Gothic Horror
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 04:23 - Chapter 2 11:47 - Chapter 3 28:58 - Chapter 4 42:36 - Cha...
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An early werewolf novel, praised by H. P Lovecraft.
This is Door of the Unreal by Gerald Biss.
Author: Gerald Biss Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:10 - Chapter 2 23:42 - Chapter 3 37:03 - Chapter 4 54:56 - Chapter 5 01:08:56 - Chapter 6 01:26:34 - Chapter 7 01:40:13 - Chapter 8 01:51:49 - Chapter 9 02:07:29 - Chapter 10 0...
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"A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at one level, it is quite clear - a ghost appears) must ever remain unresolved.
This is Jolly Corner (Remastered) by Henry James.
Author: Henry James Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 45:56 - Chapter 2 ...
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One of May Sinclair's "uncanny" stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair's most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical everyday implications of philosophical Idealism. In the story, when Agatha Verrall enters into an extra-marital affair with Rodney Lanyon, she str...
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Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black Water" by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this "ghost" story (that is, if it is "a ghost story") is a profound psychological observation of a love transcending death - also a detailed exploration of the min of the woman who would rath...
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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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