Classic Gothic Audiobooks: Haunted Castles, Victorian Horror & Dark Secrets
by Free Audiobook Library · 54 episodes
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Classic Gothic Audiobooks is a growing collection of public domain gothic horror, Victorian ghost stories, haunted castles, forbidden secrets, psychological terror, supernatural mysteries, and atmospheric dark fiction curated for immersive long-form listening. Inside the archive you will discover cursed families, decaying mansions, mysterious strangers, hidden chambers, ancient secrets, tragic romances, supernatural encounters, and influential gothic classics that defined the foundations of horror literature. From Victorian nightmares and candlelit mysteries to gothic suspense and eerie supernatural tales, each audiobook is selected to create a cinematic listening experience designed for fans of dark atmosphere, mystery, and timeless gothic storytelling. New recordings and...
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🟡 Two Supernatural Stories (Full Audiobook) | Perceval Landon
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In 'Railhead', a man receives an urgent message - from an out-of-servi…
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6 h 07
🟡 Mystery Of Choice (Full Audiobook) | Robert W. Chambers
The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short horror stories written by Robert W. Chambers.Author: Robert W. ChambersLength: 6 hours 7 minutesGenre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction,…
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6 h 35
🟡 Great Ghost Stories (Full Audiobook) | Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Part 2 of 2)
A great collection of 12 classic stories about ghosts and the supernatural. Included are stories by Thomas Hardy, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Margaret Oliphant.Author: Edward Bulwer-Ly…
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🟡 Great Ghost Stories (Full Audiobook) | Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Part 1 of 2)
A great collection of 12 classic stories about ghosts and the supernatural. Included are stories by Thomas Hardy, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Margaret Oliphant.Author: Edward Bulwer-Ly…
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4 h 17
🟡 Scottish Ghost Stories (Full Audiobook) | Elliott O'Donnell
A public domain collection of Scottish Ghost tales by Elliott O'Donnell. 1911 - Summary by Sherry Morrow.Author: Elliott O'DonnellLength: 4 hours 17 minutesGenre: Single Author Col…
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1 h 26
🟡 Lot No. 249 (Full Audiobook) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Abercrombie Smith, Edward Bellingham and William Monkhouse Lee are three students at Oxford University, sharing adjacent lodgings. When people against whom Bellingham holds a grudg…
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3 h 02
🟡 Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (Full Audiobook) | Charles Dickens
Marley was dead, to begin with. until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning.Author: Charles DickensLength: 3 hours 2 minutesGenre: Li…
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6 h 36
🟡 Witch of the Glens (Full Audiobook) | Sally Watson
The time is 1644 in Inverness Scotland. Kelpie, now a teenage girl, doesn't remember being kidnapped by Gypsies.Author: Sally WatsonLength: 6 hours 36 minutesGenre: Fantasy Fiction…
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🟡 Dracula (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Bram Stoker (Part 2 of 2)
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been around since the early part of the centur…
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8 h 13
🟡 Dracula (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Bram Stoker (Part 1 of 2)
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been around since the early part of the centur…
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4 h 23
🟡 Statement of Stella Maberly (Full Audiobook) | F. Anstey
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but soon loses friends, when in the grip of…
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🟡 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Robert Louis Stevenson
This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these…
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3 h 39
🟡 Light Invisible (Full Audiobook) | Robert Hugh Benson
Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old English Roman Catholic priest telling stor…
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1 h 13
🟡 Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles (Full Audiobook) | James Planch
Freely adapted from Lord Byron's Fragment of a Novel, J. R.Author: James PlanchLength: 1 hours 13 minutesGenre: DramaChapters:00:00 - Chapter 108:15 - Chapter 245:37 - Chapter 3#Fu…
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7 h 30
🟡 Itinerant House, and Other Stories (Full Audiobook) | Emma Frances Dawson
This is a volume of short stories of supernatural fiction by American author Emma Frances Dawson. Not all of the tales depend on ghosts, most of them are much more subtle than that…
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7 h 46
🟡 Dracula (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Bram Stoker (Part 2 of 2)
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy.Author: Bram StokerL…
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7 h 46
🟡 Dracula (Alternative Reading) (Full Audiobook) | Bram Stoker (Part 1 of 2)
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy.Author: Bram StokerL…
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3 h 18
🟡 Stories in the Dark (Full Audiobook) | Barry Pain
This is a collection of some of Barry Pain's finest horror stories and weird fiction. - Summary by Carolin.Author: Barry PainLength: 3 hours 18 minutesGenre: Horror & Supernatural…
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🟡 Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural (Full Audiobook) | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is a collection of short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.Author: Mary E. Wilkins FreemanLength: 4 hours 21 minutesGenre: Horror & Supernatural FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapt…
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7 h 11
🟡 Stories in Grey (Full Audiobook) | Barry Pain
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain. Pain was well-known in his time for his supernatural and horror stories.Author: Barry PainLength: 7 hours 11 minutesGenre: Shor…