Audiobooks Like The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Jonathan Keeble and Peter Noble share 37 hours of Poe's complete works, the two voices ranging across psychological horror, detective fiction, and dark verse — a listen that rewards in short bursts as much as extended sessions, letting the tonal variety across genres prevent the bleakness from becoming monotonous. Five other Poe titles appear in the recommendations for listeners who want to go deeper into specific works, with the full catalog covering both the horror and the ratiocination Poe pioneered.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  1. 1
    The Raven cover

    The Raven

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Dominic West

    4.55 ABR Score (173.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (172.0K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.6K)
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    The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings cover

    The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

    Gilded Nightmares – Timeless British Library Books

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by B. J. Harrison

    4.28 ABR Score (245.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.59 Audible (484)
  3. 3
    Annabel Lee cover

    Annabel Lee

    The dark Artifices

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

    3.98 ABR Score (12.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (22)
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    William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection) cover

    William Wilson: (Edgar Allan Poe Masterpiece Collection)

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

    3.73 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (10)
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    The Haunted Palace cover

    The Haunted Palace

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Lissa Lia, K. Anderson Yancy

    3.52 ABR Score (385 ratings)
    ★ 3.54 Goodreads (383) ★ 2.5 Audible (2)
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    Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov cover

    Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Luke Thompson

    4.49 ABR Score (395.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (394.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (638)
    43h 6m listening time • Released 2021
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    Shantaram cover

    Shantaram

    Shantaram • Book 1

    by Gregory David Roberts

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower

    4.60 ABR Score (253.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (242.1K) ★ 4.7 Audible (11.3K)
    42h 59m listening time • Released 2013
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    DON QUIXOTE. Translated cover

    DON QUIXOTE. Translated

    Don Quijote de la Mancha #1-2

    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.31 ABR Score (314.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (308.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.5K)
    39h 42m listening time • Released 2012
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    The Goldfinch cover

    The Goldfinch

    by Donna Tartt

    Narrated by David Pittu

    4.28 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.33 Audible (42.4K)
    32h 24m listening time • Released 2013
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    Anna Karenina cover

    Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    3.99 ABR Score (942.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (941.3K) ★ 4.08 Audible (933)
    36h 41m listening time • Released 2003

    Davina Porter's narration transforms this 36-hour epic into an intimate psychological journey, making Tolstoy's most devastating portrait of desire and consequence feel urgently alive.

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