Short Stories audiobooks

Grammy's Secret Recipe (Strawberry Top Short Mystery 1)

By: CC Dragon

Narrated by: Lauri Jo Daniels

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When good Southern girls get divorced, they go back home to Mama...

Stacey "Strawberry Top" Fields is home again in small town Willowbrook, TN. Divorced, she's already earned her amateur sleuth badge by proving her super rich ex-husband cheated on her (and getting her share of the money per the pre-nup). A prize winning cook and blue ribbon... Read more

The Dark Country

By: Dennis Etchison

Narrated by: Dennis Etchison, Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de...

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Etchison’s fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British... Read more

Tell Tale

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Robert Bathurst

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited audiobook collection. Tell Tale gives listeners a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across, and the countries he has visited.

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside... Read more

Trust Me - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege... Read more

Great Animal Stories

By: H. G. Wells, Arthur Morrison & Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Animal Stories, featuring 25 beastly tales.

Including:

'A Skinful of Trouble' by Arthur Morrison
'A Comedy of Capricorn' by Morley Roberts
'The Goldfish' by Elinor Mordaunt
'Bats in the Belfry' by Harry Graham
'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells
'The Young Bull' by Geraint Goodwin
'Dobbs Parrot' by Arthur Morrison
... Read more

The Pope's Mule

By: Alphonse Daudet

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of France's finest writers of short stories.

"The Pope's Mule" is the amusing story of an animal which waited patiently for seven years to repay a man who mistreated her. Read more

The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore

By: Ella Hepworth Dixon

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella Hepworth Dixon (1855-1932) was a British short story writer, journalist and novelist.

'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' is a humorous story of a young man who has inadvertently made an ill-advised marriage proposal to a chorus girl in Paris.

When the girl appears in London, he has more or less forgotten about the obligation...but his... Read more

The Cone

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Cone' is a sinister story of betrayal, revenge, murder and horror. The ironmaster who manages the huge blast furnaces outside Newcastle shows the friend who has betrayed him with his own... Read more

The Table under the Tree

By: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866 - 1946) was a popular and successful English writer of genre fiction, especially thrillers.

"The Table under the Tree" is the story of a mysterious murder which takes place one evening on a crowded restaurant terrace in France. The moon disappears behind a cloud and in the momentary darkness a cry rings out. When... Read more

The Dream Woman

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.

The Dream Woman is a strange tale of a man who has a dream about a beautiful woman attempting to murder him in bed by stabbing him with a buck-handled clasp-knife. He relates the details... Read more

Five Short Stories by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

By: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature. Here we present five of his best and most gripping adventure stories.

'The Fire'
'The Mummy of Thompson Pratt'
'The Lizard'
'The Paradise Coal-Boat'
'Fortunes Adrift' Read more

The Mistake of the Machine

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Mistake of the Machine', Father Brown pits himself against an early polygraph device to solve a highly puzzling crime. Read more

The White Ship

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction. 'The White Ship' is an eerie tale told by a lighthouse keeper of an uncanny voyage to the ends of the earth.... Read more

Fifty Enthralling Short Stories

By: W. F. Harvey, Rudyard Kipling & J.D. Beresford

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating and varied collection of 50 great classic short stories, including ghost stories, crimes, humorous tales and passionate romance.

The Tool by W. F. Harvey
The Overcrowded Iceberg by Morley Roberts
The House Surgeon by Rudyard Kipling
Powers of the Air by J. D. Beresford
The Substitute by W. W. Jacobs
A Tough Tussle... Read more

The Man with the Canine Teeth

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 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 Man with the Canine Teeth" is a classic murder mystery. A mild mannered scientist has been found, apparently strangled to death in his laboratory overnight. But... Read more

Fortunes Adrift

By: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944) was a British writer of popular adventure fiction and fantastic literature.

'Fortunes Adrift' is the story of a small trading steamer than comes across a broken down passenger liner off the coast of Africa just as a hurricane is bearing down on the two vessels. Never one to miss a commercial... Read more

Christmas with Princess Mirror-Belle

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Christmas with Princess Mirror-Belle, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.

Ellen gets a big shock when her reflection climbs out of a mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that. Join... Read more

The Illustrated Man

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do … ”Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning from the depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteen interconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of an... Read more

The Best of Richard Matheson

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Donald Corren, Peter Berkrot...

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century” (Ray Bradbury), as selected by award-winning author Victor LaValleAmong the greats of twentieth-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen... Read more

Peril at End House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Dead Man’s Folly - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Appointment With Death - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more