Short Stories audiobooks

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Complete with seven short stories, this is the definitive anthology for Nathaniel Hawthorne fans. Hawthorne’s dark romanticism and cultural commentary made him a staple of nineteenth-century American literature. Dive into the works that made him famoua, such as the chilling “Young Goodman Brown”. Hawthorne delved deep into the human soul with... Read more

The Bowmen

By: Arthur Machen

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.'The Bowmen' is perhaps the most famous of Machen's tales. It is the iconic story of an incident from the First World War trenches. Faced with inevitable death and defeat, a battalion of English soldiers is saved by... Read more

How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped' is the romantic story of a very small child who is abducted by two female travelers and taken away to the sea.A Red Door Consulting production. Read more

Stories by Suffragettes

By: Beatrice Harraden, Violet Hunt, May Sinclair, S...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short stories written by prominent supporters of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt 'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden 'The Mahatma's Story' by May Sinclair 'The Man in the Scented Coat' by Sarah Grande 'A Bird on Its Journey' by Beatrice Harraden 'The World's Slow... Read more

The Journey to Bruges

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'The Journey to Bruges' is a beautiful and perceptive description of a journey from Britain to Belgium by train and boat.A Red Door Consulting production. Read more

Wicked Captain Walshawe

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.'Wicked Captain Walshawe' is a disquieting ghost story. Captain Walshawe, a dissolute rake, marries a wealthy heiress as... Read more

The Green Mamba

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age. 'The Green Mamba' is a story in which Wallace's famous detective, Mr. J. G. Reeder, outsmarts one of the leading master criminals in London at the very moment when he... Read more

Ole Underwood

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. "Ole Underwood" is the story of a former seaman with a murky history... and the village where he lives has never forgotten his past deeds.A Red Door Consulting production. Read more

A Truthful Adventure

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'A Truthful Adventure' is Mansfield's account of a visit to Bruges, where her well-laid travel plans are thwarted by almost every highly annoying person she encounters.A Red Door Consulting production. Read more

The Little Girl

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf."The Little Girl" is the story of a child with a strict, overbearing Victorian father. When her mother is ill and her father has to look after the little girl alone, she gets to know a different, softer,... Read more

The Tiredness of Rosabel

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'The Tiredness of Rosabel' is a beautiful and poignant tale of a milliner who weaves glimpses of inspiration from her day's humdrum experiences into a wistful and romantic dream.A Red Door Consulting... Read more

Blue e la bambina senza cuore

By: Blake B.

Narrated by: Maurizio Mosetti

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Blue e la bambina senza cuore è una favola dark con sfumature bianco candido. E` una favola per adulti e bambini con contenuti di geniale delicatezza. Per il tipo di ambientazione è la favola perfetta di Natale.“Lei era un fantasma e lui un cinghiale. La coppia più improbabile del bosco. Eppure.”Questa è la storia di Blue, il grosso cinghiale... Read more

New Dresses

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'New Dresses' is the story of two sisters whose mother and grandmother have made them new dresses. One sister, Rose, is a model child in her mother's eyes - pretty, tidy and clean. The other, Helen, is... Read more

The Woman at the Store

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'The Woman at the Store' is a sinister tale about a woman living at a remote farm and general store in New Zealand with her small daughter and sheepdog...and a dark secret...A Red Door... Read more

Hetta

By: Adam Zander

Narrated by: Mats Söderlindh

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Det drar ihop sig till familjens årliga bilsemester. Varje år är det en plåga, och till råga på allt blir han inklämd i baksätet tillsammans med sin styvsyster, Elin. Micke har aldrig kommit bra överens med Elin, men hon har på senaste tiden blivit ... vrålsnygg. Inte sällan kommer han på sig själv med att spana in henne. Och under de trista... Read more

A Perfect Universe

By: Scott O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Thérèse Plummer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Scott O’Connor’s novels have been hailed as “astonishing” (Library Journal), and “so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word” (New York Times Book Review). Now, from the author of Untouchable and Half World comes A Perfect Universe, a piercingly emotional cycle of stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit... Read more

Die geteilte Ehefrau. Sex zu dritt

By: Vicky Carlton

Narrated by: Maike Luise Fengler

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Scharfer Dreier mit dem Schwager ...
Brianna findet ihren Schwager verdammt sexy. An einem heißen Sommertag kommt sie ihm näher – vor den Augen ihres Mannes ...
... eine prickelnde Hörfantasie ... JETZT DOWNLOADEN! Read more

Geiler Dreier. Sexgeschichte

By: Vicky Carlton

Narrated by: Maike Luise Fengler

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Verbotener Sex auf der Geschäftsreise ...
Nelly will ihren Boss verführen - in einer lauen Sommernacht am Hotelpool. Doch als sie zum Treffpunkt kommt, ist ihr Chef ins Liebesspiel mit ihrem Kollegen vertieft. Gebannt sieht Nelly zu - bis sie von ihrem Boss entdeckt wird ...
... ein sinnlicher Hörgenuss ... JETZT DOWNLOADEN! Read more

The Last Page

By: Richard Fierce

Narrated by: Kevin E. Green

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Not every story begins in light.Perhaps there was nothing I could have done differently. The atrocities I committed, the lives that I scorched from existence, the power I wielded with so little regard.Or maybe it was the love that I lost? The love that my priest father had snuffed like a candle whose flame has been violently blown out.I have... Read more

Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers around the world. Originally published by the tiny... Read more

Going for a Beer

By: Robert Coover

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America."



Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and... Read more

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Robert Hardy

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy’s most charming novel using, as it does, the four seasons of the Wessex year as a backdrop for the delightful romance of the young Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, the local school mistress. The story of the ups and downs of their courtship is set alongside the story of the rustics who form the Mellstock church choir... Read more

Beautiful Days

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Stephen Graybill & Caitlin Kelly

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien”.The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in... Read more

The Coachman

By: B. Pheasant

Narrated by: Ben Hauck

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

 Ignoring her friend’s warnings about The Coachman, a killer coachman from the 18th century, Jane heads for the street; hoping for a passionate night with Hank. When she encounters The Coachman, he was nothing like she expected. Charming, polite and captivating, she loses all self-control and gives in to his every demand. Read more