Short Stories audiobooks

The Black Veil

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping mystery story by Charles Dickens. A newly qualified doctor receives a call from his first patient—a mysterious woman who is deeply distressed and who is covered in a thick black veil. She tells him a confusing story about a dying man who she wishes the doctor to visit the following day, although she assures the doctor that the patient... Read more

Herbert Armstrong, Poisoner

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Armstrong was a Welsh solicitor who murdered his wife by administering arsenic. His life was marked by love affairs and dubious business dealings. It is also probable that his hatred of his dull, respectable existence in a tiny rural village was one of the motives for his terrible crime. This story of the crime and trial of Armstrong... Read more

The Battersea Flat Mystery

By: Edgar Jepson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Battersea Flat Mystery' is the true story of a particularly unusual unsolved murder in the Battersea area of London. A man is found shot on the stairs outside the empty flat below the one where his ex-mistress lives and where his son is visiting for supper. A mysterious stranger is seen running from the scene. The murdered man has a history... Read more

A Duchess's Secret

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 'A Duchess's Secret', a young novelist is in the process of serialising a racy novel in the Fleet Street Magazine. It tells the story of a Duchess who murders her husband by giving him cheap sherry, in the knowledge that his constitution will not stand such rough liquor. The author is surprised to find a mysterious advertisement in the... Read more

Fifty Phenomenal Stories

By: J. S. Fletcher, Arthur Machen & P.C. Wren

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful collection of 50 phenomenal stories by the world’s great short story writers. 'The Other Sense' by J. S. Fletcher 'A Double Return' by Arthur Machen 'Presentiments' by P. C. Wren 'The Mahatma’s Story' by May Sinclair 'New Dresses' by Katherine Mansfield 'Major Wilbraham' by Hugh Walpole 'How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped' by Katherine... Read more

Inéditos y extraviados

By: Ignacio Padilla

Narrated by: Martín De Renzo

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Cuentos de toda la carrera narrativa de Ignacio Padilla, reunidos por primera vez en un solo volumen. «Padilla es un narrador de imaginación deslumbrante; un erudito que se vale de malabares y juegos de palabras para filtrar, de contrabando, sus abundantes conocimientos. Por añadidura, el mejor estilista de su generación.» Gerardo Laveaga,... Read more

Through Blood, Through Fire

By: Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman

Narrated by: Candice King

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray are finally united after waiting over a century to be together, but they become aware a dark threat is looming over a child of the Shadow Market: a lost Herondale, from a line of Herondales who have used the Market to hide from their fellow Nephilim. Now is the time for the lost Herondale to be discovered. Jem and... Read more

The Piazza

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: George Keller

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

While sitting on his private piazza, the narrator imagines life at an idyllic home in the mountains. In his daydream, he meets a lonely young woman who often gazes at his house from afar and wonders about him. Using prose rife with literary allusions, Melville explores the limitations of idealism. This story is found in his collection of short... Read more

The April 3rd Incident

By: Yu Hua

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.
 
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other... Read more

Ghost Stories

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre. His stories of madness, murder and revenge, often imbued with a sympathetic moral undertone, have continued to thrill and chill readers ever since they were written. Here then are 15 tales that display the full range of Dickens’s Gothic talents. The Signalman, perhaps the most well-known, is a... Read more

La última noche del tigre

By: Cristina Pacheco

Narrated by: Noelia Antúnez

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Los relatos que forman La última noche del Tigre son un ejemplo de sinceridad, elocuencia y verdad. Son historias en las cuales se advierten las grandezas y las miserias de hombres y mujeres cuyas decisiones, dudas, temores y tribulaciones son resultado no sólo de las disyuntivas que les plantea la realidad social en la que viven -la cual es... Read more

Los árboles caídos también son el bosque

By: Alejandra Kamiya

Narrated by: Noelia Antúnez

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

La estructura de estos cuentos es una cuidada cadena de precisión: nada de lo que la autora escribe o pone en juego queda librado al azar, porque lo que se nombra, aquello que se dice y, sobre todo, lo que los personajes callan, se vuelve un verdadero centro de gravedad, un peso propio que maneja el sentido de lo que se cuenta, como cuando,... Read more

You Are Free: Stories

By: Danzy Senna

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, January LaVoy, Cassandra Campbell...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Danzy Senna's You Are Free is now available for the first time in audio!

Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise... Read more

Evening in Paradise

By: Lucia Berlin

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia BerlinIn 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one... Read more

Evening in Paradise

By: Lucia Berlin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The New Order

By: Karen E. Bender

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award finalist for Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines the changes in American culture over the last two years through the increasing presence of violence, bigotry, sexual harassment, and the emotional costs of living under constant threat.



In the title story, the competition between two middle... Read more

Bezeten door Owen Gray

By: Sarah Skov

Narrated by: Cosmo Zinnia

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Het wordt stil in de ruimte. Het meisje heeft de juiste plek voor de lamp gevonden en de cameraman heeft zijn positie ingenomen. Ik heb het gevoel dat iedereen naar mij kijkt en houd mijn adem in." De fantasie van een wellustige vrouw wordt werkelijkheid wanneer zij aan de zijde van de felbegeerde pornoacteur Owen Gray optreedt in één van zijn... Read more

Ontvoerd

By: Reiner Larsen Wiese

Narrated by: Cosmo Zinnia

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dit is niet wat ik bedoelde toen ik je over mijn fantasieën vertelde. Het moest een spel zijn." Een Australische rugbyspeler wordt in allerijl ontvoerd door zijn Japanse vriendin. In een verlaten industriehal ontspint zich een sadomasochistisch rollenspel. Een spel waarbij niet hij de touwtjes in handen heeft, maar zij. Read more

Poolboy – erotisch verhaal

By: Anita Bang

Narrated by: Cosmo Zinnia

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hier op het platteland waren niet zoveel mannen, en het zien van deze jonge man deed een verlangen in mij ontwaken. Ik had zin om meer te zien van zijn halfnaakte, stevige lichaam. En natuurlijk moest het zwembad ook nog schoongemaakt worden." Een jonge vrouw mag een broeierige zomer in een afgelegen huis buiten de stad doorbrengen, op... Read more

Lust - de intieme bekentenissen van een vrouw 1

By: Anna Bridgwater

Narrated by: Charlotte Lap

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ik wil geen verontwaardiging wekken of veroordeeld worden als ik dit vertel. Ik wil vertellen hoe het is om mij te zijn. Ik denk niet dat er veel zijn zoals ik." Een prikkelend verhaal bestaande uit anekdotes van een getrouwde moeder, wier leven afwijkt van de heersende norm. Een vrouw die haar eigen weg bewandelt en voor zichzelf durft te... Read more

Driving Blind

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one. Read more

I Can Sleep

By: Marileta Robinson

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Highlights presents I Can Sleep by Marileta Robinson: Spot howls at the moon. Read more

Feeling Replaced

By: Lissa Rovetch

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Arizona befriends a new girl from swimming lessons, and Mareya feels left out. Read more

Felix's New Boots

By: Nancy E. Walker-Guye

Narrated by: Highlights for Children

Length: 1 minute

Abridged: No

Felix is excited to try out his new rain boots but he gets his foot stuck in one. After his friends successfully pull it off they find Mindy's acorns inside. Read more