Short Stories audiobooks

The False Collar

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fable about what happens to liars and boasters, a gentleman's collar decides to marry and proposes to various female objects, embroidering his accomplishments and good qualities at every turn. Read more

The Story of a Mother

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Story of a Mother, a mother, watching over her sick child, briefly closes her eyes, and Death comes. Rushing outside to pursue Death, she encounters various spirits who offer conditional advice. When she finally finds her child, Death offers her a terrible choice. First published in 1847, this story has been adapted for film several times. Read more

The Dream of Little Tuk

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Dream of Little Tuk, a little boy named Tuk interrupts his studying to help an old woman carry water. Later, when he goes to sleep, he puts his geography book under his pillow in the hopes that its knowledge will be magically transmitted into his brain. In his dreams, the old woman appears and repays his earlier kindness. Read more

The Relive Box and Other Stories

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: T.C. Boyle

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous,... Read more

The Business of Dying

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: Traber Burns & Pam Ward

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected here are ten Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy.In “Mugs Birdsong’s Crime Academy,” celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. “The Last Days of Dominic Prince” is the tragic tale of a... Read more

Mindfuck Stories

By: Christian Hardinghaus

Narrated by: Tom Vogt

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mindfuck Stories" hören - das bedeutet, sich literarisch mal so richtig den Kopf verdrehen zu lassen. Die fünfzehn mysteriösen Kurzgeschichten führen geschickt in die Irre, indem sie immer wieder überraschende Haken schlagen. Christian Hardinghaus lädt dazu ein, zusammen mit den Helden der Stories das gänzlich Unerwartete zu erleben. Jede... Read more

¿Qué me quieres, amor?

By: Manuel Rivas

Narrated by: Juan Magraner & Marina Viñals

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

«Verdaderas piezas maestras de nuestra narrativa contemporánea. Y eso muy pocos escritores lo consiguen.»
Diario 16 Escucha ahora el premio de Narrativa Torrente Ballester y
Premio Nacional de Narrativa Un viajante, vendedor de lencería, espera ansioso al volante la reaparición del hijo huido y recibe la milagrosa ayuda de un héroe del rock. El... Read more

Vad skulle vi göra om vi inte var rädda?

By: David Ericsson

Narrated by: Gert Lundstedt

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

I David Ericssons andra novellsamling skildras den märkliga kontinenten Europa, där välbärgade länder och människor bor granne med fattiga. Vi får möta EU-byråkraten som tvingas lifta hem med lastbil efter vulkanutbrottet på Island, den rumänska prostituerade kvinnan på flykt från en spansk bordell och nattchauffören som ser döden på vägen genom... Read more

The Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making Money

By: P. T. Barnum

Narrated by: Janet Paulson

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important financial books ever written. Following the practical advice herein will lead to increased wealth. Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But... Read more

Trauma Room Two

By: Philip Allen Green, MD

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In every hospital emergency department there is a room reserved for trauma. It is a place where life and death are separated by the thinnest of margins. A place where some families celebrate the most improbable of victories while others face the most devastating of losses. A place where what matters the most in this life is revealed.



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Madness from the Inconstant Moon

By: Larry Niven

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Madness from the Inconstant Moon is a collection of early short science fiction works by Larry Niven, the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series.“All the Myriad Ways” (1968)“Passerby” (1969)“For a Foggy Night” (1968)“Wait It Out” (1968)“The Jigsaw Man” (1967)“Not Long before the End” (1969)“Unfinished Story No. 1”... Read more

Doctor Who: Tales of Terror

By: Mike Tucker, Paul Magrs, Richard Dungworth, Sco...

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred, Rachael Stirling, Adjoa Andoh, D...

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audio download edition of Doctor Who: Tales of Terror read by Sophie Aldred, Adjoa Andoh, Rachael Stirling, David Bailie and Derek Jacobi.

A new spine-chilling collection of twelve illustrated adventures packed with terrifying Doctor Who monsters and villains, just in time for Halloween . . .

Written by Jacqueline Rayner, Mike... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes antebellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning “in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less... Read more

The Green Door

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

"The Green Door" is a classic O. Henry tale. A young adventurer, strolling one evening along Broadway, is handed a card by a man advertising a dentist's... Read more

The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh

By: Saki & Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

"The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh" is a tale recounted by a traveller on a train to a fellow passenger. It concerns the bizarre... Read more

The Byzantine Omelette

By: Saki & Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage. When the Duke of Serbia does her the honour of... Read more

The Jade Earrings

By: Andrew Soutar

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Soutar (1879–1941) was a British author and journalist best known for his novels and short stories.

"The Jade Earrings" is the story of an elderly antiques collector with a young and pretty wife, Rosetta. One day he presents her with a pair of jade earrings with a legend attached to them. It is said that any faithful wife who wears them... Read more

The Blue Pearl

By: John G. Brandon

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Gordon Brandon (1879-1941) was an Australian-born writer who started life as a professional heavyweight boxer.

He moved to England after the First World War and wrote more than 120 novels, and numerous short stories.

"The Blue Pearl" is an adventure story set in the Dutch East Indies. "Bad Luck" Jim Barton is slaving in a chain-gang and... Read more

The Pursuing Shadow

By: Andrew Soutar

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Soutar (1879-1941) was a British author and journalist best known for his novels and short stories.

'The Pursuing Shadow' is the story of Spatz, an unscrupulous and self-absorbed businessman who has left a trail of devastation behind him in the form of destroyed business partners, one of who lost an arm as a result of a suicide attempt... Read more

The Outsider

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), more commonly known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer renowned for his highly influential works of horror fiction.

"The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's earliest and creepiest stories. A man exists alone in a mysterious dark castle, with no memory of how or why he is there. One day he decides to... Read more

The Moonlit Road

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.

"The Moonlit Road" is a brilliant and eerie ghost story which recounts a terrible murder of a woman from three different viewpoints. First from the... Read more

The Robe of Peace

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and surprise endings.

'The Robe of Peace' is a story which explains the mysterious disappearance of New York's leading swell, the fashion king Johnny Bellchambers. Read more

The Lost Sanjak

By: Saki & Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

'The Lost Sanjak' is the last-minute account by a condemned man, speaking to the prison chaplain, telling the astounding story of how he... Read more

Witches' Loaves

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

In this story, Miss Martha's good deed in helping a man whom she takes for an impoverished artist goes very badly wrong. Read more