Short Stories audiobooks

Horrid Henry's Family Fortunes

By: Lucinda Whiteley

Narrated by: Lizzie Waterworth, Tamsin Heatley, Aidan Cook, ...

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Horrid Henry on his adventures with his family! Contains 5 Horrid Henry stories, performed by the show's full cast. Catch up with Henry and family in "Home Improvement", "How To Be Good", "My Life", "Planet Of The Grapes" and "Grown Ups". Read more

Turnul de abanos

By: John Fowles

Narrated by: Radu Anastas

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Reunind o varietate de stiluri narative şi de teme, în fiecare dintre nuvelele din volumul Turnul de abanos răzbat ecouri din celelalte cărţi celebre ale lui John Fowles. Aventura unui pictor care trăieşte izolat împreună cu două femei, istoria unui scriitor de succes al cărui ultim manuscris e distrus, povestea de dragoste plasată în Evul... Read more

Povestiri bizare

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Dana Piroiu

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Un medic scoţian din secolul al XVII-lea, ajuns în slujba regelui Poloniei, descoperă o rasă ciudată de copii vegetali. O familie formată din patru femei identice primeşte vizita unui cuplu de bărbaţi similari. Un bătrîn văduv, însingurat şi tipicar, observă într-o dimineaţă că lumea din jur s-a transformat aleatoriu (sau, dacă nu, că şi-a... Read more

Zile de Crăciun

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Gabriela Bobeș

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeanette Winterson, una dintre cele mai inventive și mai îndrăznețe voci narative contemporane, ne propune în acest volum 12 povestiri și 12 rețete îmbietoare pentru cele 12 zile ale Crăciunului. Pentru autoare, Crăciunul e un moment fericit, "celebrarea neprevăzutului". De aceea îi place să-l întâmpine scriind o poveste. Cele 12 alese aici, de... Read more

Tot spaţiul dintre gândurile mele

By: Bogdan Raileanu

Narrated by: Mircea Trofin

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominalizare la categoria "Debut", în cadrul Premiilor "Nepotu' lui Thoreau", ediţia 2017 "Pentru noi, cei care iubim literatura, apariţia unei cărţi bune e o mare bucurie. Cu atît mai mult cînd vine din partea unui autor tînăr, perfect ancorat în realitatea vremurilor noastre. Bogdan Răileanu scrie despre implicare socială, probleme de cuplu,... Read more

The Gargoyle's Handbook

By: Marc Laidlaw

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer of the blockbuster videogame Half-Life, ten stories of the bard with a gargoyle’s handFor over a quarter of a century, Gorlen Vizenfirthe has entertained fans of wandering bards. Famous for playing his silver-strung eduldamer with one hand of flesh and one of stone, he has traveled from the dankest dens of Dankden to the... Read more

Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing

By: Robin McLean

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean’s reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States.Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents... Read more

Only If You Dare

By: Josh Allen

Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs & Andrew Joseph Perez

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night—but only if you dare.

You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets.... Read more

Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

Narrated by: Jasmin Walker, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jamie Smith ...

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award–winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-four stories you’ll find inhabitants of a small town who won’t vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man... Read more

Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi, Gisela Chipe, Ines del Castil...

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

The seven houses in these... Read more

Blues and Trouble

By: Tom Piazza

Narrated by: Todd Menesses

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate—from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane.Tom Piazza’s... Read more

ZWANGSKONDITIONIERT in der Klinik

By: Denise R.

Narrated by: Rick Hubbard

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Lena wird ein Traum wahr. Sich zwei volle Wochen einer Behandlung in einer Nobelklinik unterziehen und ihren Spaß mit den Ärzten haben! Und dafür sollte sie obendrein noch den nagelneuen Sportwagen ihres Mannes bekommen? Doch, als sie auf dem Untersuchungstisch Platz nimmt, merkt sie schnell, dass sie das Kleingedruckte hätte lesen... Read more

Bhikaryache Bhagya

By: Ravindra Gurjar

Narrated by: Milind Ingale

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

प्रकृती धडघाकट असताना एक भिकारी भीक मागत असतो. थापा मारून भीक मागणा-याला दारूचे व्यसनही असते त्यामुळे दुर्दैवात आणखी वाढच! अशा या भिका-याला एक सदगृहस्थ खूप उपदेश करतो आणि काही कामही देतो. हुळूहळू भिकारी नीट वागू लागतो. त्याचे व्यसनही सुटते. त्याला नोकरी मिळते. सदगृहस्थाला वाटते की आपल्या उपदेशामुळे भिकारी सुधारला. पण वस्तुस्थिती वेगळीच असते. काय... Read more

The Point of Honor

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Mark F. Smith

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards... Read more

Anfang, Ende und etwas dazwischen

By: Kai Seuthe

Narrated by: Kai Seuthe

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Lust auf interessante Kurzgeschichten, in denen es morbide, skurril, traurig, lustig oder auch ein bisschen ekelhaft ist? Bitteschön, hier werden Sie fündig. Hereinspaziert, hereinspaziert ins Kuriositätenkabinett des K. Seuthe. 10 ausgewählte Kurzgeschichten für alle, die offen sind für fantasievolle Einfälle und jene, die einen grundsätzlichen... Read more

The Grim Reaper and Child

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"I feel weird going to a cemetery," said said a nervous teenage girl to her father."Why is me?" asked her father the Necromancer who was in the form of a grim reaper."Nuh," said the Necromantrix, "All the dead people here is freaking me out.""They are just shells their souls are gone they can't hurt you," said her father, "you are my heir you... Read more

Die Olchis. Matschige Müffelwitze

By: Erhard Dietl

Narrated by: Monty Arnold, Dagmar Dreke, Tim Grobe, Wolf Fra...

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Die lustigsten, müffelfurzcoolsten, matschigsten, käsefußstinkigsten Olchi-Witze Professor Brausewein hat sich mal wieder selbst übertroffen – um an einem Erfinderwettbewerb teilzunehmen hat er den supergalaktischen Roboter PBLH-3000 entwickelt. Als die Olchi-Kinder jedoch auf einen falschen Knopf drücken, wird PBLH-3000 auf einmal schrecklich... Read more

Die Plätzchenlotterie

By: Bettina Huchler

Narrated by: Shanti Lunau

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Alljährlich gibt es in der Schule einen Weihnachtsbasar. Der Klassenlehrer schlägt dieses Jahr einen Stand mit Weihnachtsplätzchen vor. Karina und Silke stehen daraufhin in der Küche und backen. Als es zu einem Missgeschick mit einem kleinen Vierbeiner kommt, gelangen sie zu der Idee mit der Plätzchenlotterie. mit Karinas Plätzchenrezept Read more

BÖSARTIG - Zwölf heimtückische Kurzgeschichten (ungekürzt)

By: Carla Eisfeldt

Narrated by: Gerrit Petersen

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

BÖSARTIG - Zwölf heimtückische Kurzgeschichten sind wie dein Nachhauseweg an einem dunklen Herbstabend. Hundertmal bist du ihn schon gegangen, glaubst ihn in- und auswendig zu kennen, und doch strahlen die Büsche heute etwas Bedrohliches aus ... Nur eine Hecke, flüstert dein Verstand und sein verzagter Unterton setzt deine Sinne in... Read more

爱的信笺

By: 吴韦材

Narrated by: 李荣德

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

新加坡著名作家吴韦材以《感悟小说•爱的系列》为系列名， 推出了三部短篇小说合集——《爱的礼物》、《爱的信笺》、《爱的十秒》。 《感悟小说•爱的系列》是吴韦材经历了半世纪的人生来磨练后的励志作品。其小说特色是：老少皆可阅读，男女都可共鸣；文字浅白，寓意深厚，以迷离、奇幻的情节，带出激励与感动的精神。 《感悟小说•爱的系列》所收纳的短篇小说，虽然大多数有诡异、鬼怪的情节或成分，但是，作者通过鲜明的主题定位，为每篇作品加了"一点感悟，与您分享"的注释，为读者开拓另一种阅读经验，同时，也引导读者以正面的态度阅读。 © 2009 by Wu Weicai. Published in paper format in Singapore by Lingzi Media, recorded by... Read more

The First King

By: Laurel A. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Alex Freeman

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in 2012, The First King is a short story introducing the Peers of Beinan universe to readers. The story continues in "Good-bye A672E92 Quintus." Read more

New and Selected Stories

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Jane Op...

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza.“One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In... Read more

Natural History

By: Andrea Barrett

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author



In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award–winning collection, Ship... Read more

Illuminations

By: Alan Moore

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear, Emilia Fox, Laura Haddock, Nina S...

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Illuminations by Alan Moore, read by Rory Kinnear, Emilia Fox, Laura Haddock, Nina Sosanya, Toby Jones, Clarke Peters, Mark Meadows, Sian Clifford, Alan Moore and Matt Reeves.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE

From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore—one of the most influential writers in... Read more