tell me a scary story but not too scary audio book

The world pins its hopes on the one boy who can save them … but there’s an awful lot they’re not telling him about his mission. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound) Scientists race to defeat an extraterrestrial bacteria that threatens to destroy the world. The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton.Oil runs out-then what? Kunstler imagines it here, and it’s not pretty. World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler.A haunting tale of an unnamed man and boy on the road alone at the end of the world. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).

Don’t Breathe a Word, Jennifer McMahon ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).

Watson. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound)

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).

Pines, Blake Crouch ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Suskind ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury.The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).The Turn of the Screw, Henry James ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).The Giver, Lois Lowry ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).The Telltale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).1984, George Orwell ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound).This gave me serious goosebumps, and I didn’t want to ever put it down. She’s wonderful at psychological drama. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound) The Distant Hours (or anything else by Kate Morton).( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Indiebound) The first in a favorite series, set in a tiny village in Quebec. Seriously creepy supernatural elements. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound) Especially the later three books set in the 1960s. The Starbridge series, by Susan Howatch.A modern Gothic page-turner. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound) This would never be defined as horror, but it is spine-tinglingly creepy. ( Amazon | Barnes and Noble | IndieBound) Tana French writes an amazing psychological thriller. Definitely disturbing, but un-put-down-able. If you hate horror but are still up for a spine-chilling read, these seriously spooky (but not quite scary) books are for you.

I love chilling mysteries and psychological thrillers: books that make my hair stand on end, but still allow me to sleep at night. Now that I’m an adult, I still hate scary stories. My poor sensitive soul just couldn’t handle it. It never worked, and I’d have nightmares for weeks. ( Classic HSP.) The librarian inevitably read us too many ghost stories, and I’d spend the half hour with my fingers in my ears, humming softly to myself and trying not to hear.

Tell me a scary story but not too scary audio book