Best Peter Berkrot Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Peter Berkrot — 6 titles spanning Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Fantasy, averaging 3.89 ABR stars.

Peter Berkrot is a narrator built for the dark and the strange. His work on Clive Barker's The Books of Blood: Volume One showcases exactly what he does best — a low, weathered voice that never oversells the horror, letting Barker's grotesque imagery do the heavy lifting while Berkrot's steady, unhurried delivery makes it all feel uncomfortably real. He brings that same grounded quality to anthology work like The Best of Richard Matheson, where he has to shift registers across multiple authors and tones without losing coherence. Berkrot doesn't go for theatrical bombast; his strength is in restraint, in the creeping unease that builds when a narrator sounds like they genuinely believe every word they're saying. Listeners who love classic weird fiction — Barker, Matheson, the pulpy sword-and-sorcery tradition represented in Weird Tales Magazine — will find him an ideal guide. He's not flashy, but he's exactly right.

Where to Start with Peter Berkrot

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    Clive Barker's The Books of Blood: Volume One cover

    Clive Barker's The Books of Blood: Volume One

    Books of Blood • Book 1

    by Clive Barker

    Narrated by Simon Vance, Dick Hill, Peter Berkrot, Jeffrey Kafer, Chet Williamson, Chris Patton

    ★ 4.20 ABR Score (29.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (28.2K) ★ 4.37 Audible (1.3K)
    6h 51m listening time • Released 2013

    Six different narrators bring Barker's 16 horror stories to life with the precision they deserve—each voice perfectly matched to the grotesque intimacy of tales that redefined what short fiction horror could be.

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    Homefront: An Expeditionary Force Audio Drama Special cover

    Homefront: An Expeditionary Force Audio Drama Special

    Expeditionary Force • Book 7

    by Craig Alanson

    Narrated by Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Peter Berkrot, full cast

    ★ 4.01 ABR Score (16.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Audible (16.3K)
    5h 58m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Best of Richard Matheson cover

    The Best of Richard Matheson

    by Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle

    Narrated by Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot, Richard Powers, Hillary Huber, Traber Burns, Scott Brick, Devon Sorvari, Kevin Kenerly

    ★ 3.98 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.47 Audible (341)
    15h 7m listening time • Released 2017
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    Bum Rap cover

    Bum Rap

    Jake Lassiter • Book 10

    by Paul Levine

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    ★ 3.83 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (8.3K) ★ 4.17 Audible (327)
    8h 41m listening time • Released 2011
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue cover

    Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Various

    Narrated by Scott Aiello, John Pirhalla, Simon Vance, Paul Woodson, Hillary Huber, Roger Clark, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Dion Graham, Joe Hempel, Steve West, James Langton, Neil Hellegers, Natalie Naudus, Peter Berkrot

    ★ 3.72 ABR Score (53 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (37) ★ 4.13 Audible (16)
    7h 13m listening time • Released 2023

    A stellar ensemble cast elevates this sword-and-sorcery anthology into something rare: fifteen narrators who each bring distinct voice and urgency to stories from genre legends like Gaiman and James A. Moore.

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    Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird cover

    Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

    by Jonathan Maberry, R.L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, Victor LaValle, Robert E. Howard, Hailey Piper, H.P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, Usman T. Malik, James Aquilone, Michael A. Arnzen

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Richard J. Brewer, Natalie Naudus, Joe Hempel, Dion Graham, Neil Hellegers, Zura Johnson, Simon Vance, Peter Berkrot, James Patrick Cronin, Gabrielle de Cuir, Grover Gardner, full cast

    ★ 3.59 ABR Score (285 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (263) ★ 3.64 Audible (22)
    18h 44m listening time • Released 2023
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