Short Stories audiobooks

The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey

By: Mary Frere

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of the first English-language field-collected book of Indian folk stories."The Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the Donkey" is a strange but compelling tale of two co-dependent friends who nonetheless mistrust each other. They find a donkey and a large container... and then when sheltering... Read more

The Blue Rose

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, novelist, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.The Blue Rose is a fairy tale about a Chinese princess who is as clever as she is beautiful. When her father sets out to find her a husband, she determines to make her own choice. The Emperor... Read more

The Gifts of the Magician

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish poet and novelist, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.The Gifts of a Magician is the story of a young lad who gets lost in the forest and accidentally saves a magician who is being attacked by wolves. The magician tells the boy he can ask for anything as a reward. The boy asks for the... Read more

The Cunning Apprentice

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English writer who retold traditional fairy tales from many countries.The Cunning Apprentice is a fairy tale set in Russia. It tells the story of a young lad who is apprenticed to a wicked sorcerer who intends to use his magic to trick the boy's parents into giving up their son to him forever. Only the cunning... Read more

The Glass Mender

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, novelist, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.The Glass Mender is a fairy story about a princess named Rainbow, who as a baby is cursed by a wicked fairy. If Rainbow hears or sees the spring, her happiness will end. Her parents decide to... Read more

The Pancake

By: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales.The Pancake is the tragic tale of one piece of fried batter's desperate escape attempt from the woman who cooked it, her seven ravenous children, her husband, a passer-by, assorted poultry and a greedy pig. Read more

Four Short Stories by Maurice Baring

By: Maurice Baring

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, novelist, and travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War. This audiobook presents four varied examples of Baring's inventive storytelling, ranging from classic horror, to a ghost story with a twist, to classic literary fiction, to classic sci-fi. Includes 'The... Read more

The Cormorants of Udröst

By: Peter Christen Asbjörnsen

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) was a Norwegian writer, scholar and collector of traditional folktales.The Cormorants of Udröst is one of the stories he collected. It tells of a fisherman who found the mythical island of Udröst and befriended its strange and wonderfully generous inhabitants. Read more

DAN+ABBY

By: Kay Hartford

Narrated by: Kay Hartford

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

If you like people watching, this is one is for you. DAN+ABBY is a novel made up of 52 flash fiction chapters. The title comes from graffiti scratched into wet cement decades ago in an Arizona city park. The park visitors, activities and art inspired this anthology of a year's worth (52) of short-short stories. One story each month updates Dan... Read more

Wait, Blink

By: Gunnhild Oyehaug

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection Knots, Gunnhild Øyehaug's first novel to be translated into English is a jolt of desire and imagination, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the intractable weirdness of being alive.



Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her own voice, but... Read more

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

By: John Langan

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan has already garnered... Read more

Half Gods

By: Akil Kumarasamy

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar & Vikas Adam

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A startlingly beautiful audiobook debut, Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers

Following the fractured origins and destinies of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten... Read more

Rivers

By: Martin Michael Driessen

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A critically acclaimed, award-winning collection drawing sparkling prose from the inspiration of three rivers passing through different times and places.On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish:... Read more

Brief Cases

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: James Marsters, Jim Butcher, Cassandra Campbell...

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard.

The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth,... Read more

Sweet and Low

By: Nick White

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF SUMMER 2018 BY O Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, The Millions, Southern Living, POPSUGAR, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Review of Books

Praised by the Washington Post as "Tennessee Williams . . . transposed to the twenty-first-century South," Nick White returns with a stunning... Read more

The Merry Spinster

By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From Daniel Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from his beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, The Merry Spinster takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and his best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become... Read more

Days of Awe

By: A.M. Homes

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“With dark humor and sharp dialogue, Homes plumbs the depths of everyday American anxieties.” —Time

A razor-sharp story collection from the "furiously good" A.M. Homes, author of the forthcoming novel The Unfolding (Zadie Smith, bestselling author of Swing Time).

With her signature humor and compassion, A.M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy... Read more

Boys

By: Scott Semegran

Narrated by: J.R. Moorland, John Stempien & Cody Roberts

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BESTSELLING, AWARD-WINNING BOOK WITH THREE CAPTIVATING STORIESIndieReader Discovery Awards: Winner for Short Stories, 2018These are the stories of three boys living in Texas: one growing up, one dreaming, and one fighting to stay alive in the face of destitution and adversity. There's second-grader William, a shy yet imaginative boy who... Read more

The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Rhashan Stone

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audio edition of A Puffin Classic: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, read by Rhashan Stone.

Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the snake-fighting... Read more

The World’s Worst Children 3

By: David Walliams

Narrated by: David Walliams, Jon Culshaw, Nitin Ganatra, Jam...

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bookshelf, 10 more horrendously hilarious stories about the absolute worst children ever! From ten-year old Hank and his endless pranks on his poor,... Read more

Walking Alone

By: Bentley Little

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Peter Berkro...

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mind of the man Stephen King calls “a master of the macabre,” comes a brilliant new collection of no-punches-pulled horror stories, some never before collected and many originals that have never been published anywhere before. Bentley Little can take the innocuous, twist it around, and write a story that will change your way of thinking.... Read more

Tales Of The Seer

By: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Narrated by: Guy Elan

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales of the Seer is a collection of the best stories published by the seer. The objective is to gather in a text the necessary help for a life analysis and positive replacement even in the face of casualties failures. This collection is inspiring and you can not lose for a price unique. Read more

Existence Augmented

By: Channing Whitaker

Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Existence Augmented is a dystopian, sci-fi novelette and psychological thriller. The world outside is cold, hostile, and virtually lifeless. Human existence depends on sophisticated, technological living compounds. The people who don’t have them, once driven to theft and murder, are believed to be long since dead. Alden, a genius of physical and... Read more

Japanese Tales

By: Patrick Healy

Narrated by: Denise Kahn

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The teacher, Patrick Healy, travelled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable.
This book is the eighth volume of his work, 21 Japanese Tales, in his words. He... Read more