Short Stories audiobooks

The Rival Beauties

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. Many of his stories were written in a Cockney vernacular and were keenly observant of... Read more

The Voice in the Night

By: William Hope Hodgson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction stories.

"The Voice in the Night" is an uncanny story about a ship becalmed in fog in the middle of the Pacific. In the night, the watch hears a voice hailing the ship. It would seem to be a lone man... Read more

Los boys

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Yamil Ureña

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora la ópera prima de Junot Díaz. Premio Pulitzer 2008. La mejor literatura actual en versión audiolibro. Junot Díaz hizo su entrada en la escena literaria con esta colección de diez relatos que se desplazan de los barrios de la RepúblicaDominicana a los suburbios de Nueva Jersey. Díaz, que según Newsweek combina «la mirada objetiva de... Read more

A Pair of Silk Stockings

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) was a U.S. author of French and Irish descent famous for her short stories and novels set in Louisiana.

"A Pair of Silk Stockings" is the tale of a frazzled housewife and mother, Mrs. Sommers, who has come into a small fortune of $15. She plans selflessly to spend it on clothes and shoes for her children, but when she... Read more

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, medieval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary... Read more

One Hour Stories

By: Edith Wharton, H. G. Wells & Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating collection of 60-minute classic stories by great writers.

'The Overcrowded Iceberg' by Morley Roberts
'The House Surgeon' by Rudyard Kipling
'A Dream of Armageddon' by H. G. Wells
'The Mad Hatter' by Morley Roberts
'Ken's Mystery' by Julian Hawthorne
'The Lady's Maid's Bell' by Edith Wharton
'Roads of Destiny'... Read more

Thirty Tiny Tales

By: H. G. Wells, O. Henry & M. R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers.
1. The Flying Man by H. G. Wells
2. Between Rounds by O. Henry
3. A School Story by M. R. James
4. A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
5. A Deal in Ostriches by H. G. Wells
6. The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie
7. Royal Visitors by E. F. Benson
8. The Stolen Bacillus... Read more

Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger

By: Catherine Cookson

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for the wit of her writing, in her lifetime Catherine Cookson became the UK’s most widely read novelist. When the Cookson Estate discovered the unpublished manuscript of Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger in the attic of her home, they unearthed a gem for Cookson’s many fans.Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his... Read more

The House Surgeon

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

The House-Surgeon is a strange tale about a haunted house. Not that there is an actual ghost in evidence. Indeed, nobody has ever died in the house since it was originally built. But a strange all-pervading depression haunts the place... Read more

The Overcrowded Iceberg

By: Morley Roberts

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways, cattle, and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.

The Overcrowded Iceberg is the story of the argumentative crew of a fog-bound ship in... Read more

A Tough Tussle

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 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. 'A Tough Tussle' is a weird and horrible ghost story about a soldier in the Civil War who finds himself stationed on sentry duty, alone in a wood at night,... Read more

Philanthropy

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

"Philanthropy" is the story of a man who is approached by a drunken couple with a sob story, hoping to scrounge some money from him. The experience causes him to explore the underlying motivation for his habitual... Read more

The Hidden Beast

By: J.D. Beresford

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

John Davys Beresford (1873-1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres.

"The Hidden Beast" is a strange and evocative tale of superstition, supernatural forces and suspense. Could the rumours about a strange beast, imprisoned and tortured in the lonely... Read more

Short Cuts

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true... Read more

A Life of Adventure and Delight

By: Akhil Sharma

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta & Neil Shah

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's long-standing contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. The protagonists in A Life of... Read more

Knots

By: Gunnhild Oyehaug

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Gunnhild Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the... Read more

Cursed

By: Karen Perkins

Narrated by: Karen Perkins

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Jennet's back. No one's safe.A skeleton is dug up at the crossing of the ways on Hanging Moor, striking dread into the heart of Old Ma Ramsgill - the elderly matriarch of the village of Thruscross. And with good reason. The eighteenth-century witch, Jennet, has been woken.A spate of killings by a vicious black dog gives credence to her warnings... Read more

Sam the Cat

By: Matthew Klam

Narrated by: Matthew Klam

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Yorker magazine named Matt Klam one of the twenty best young writers in America, and the seven stories that comprise Sam the Cat are all the proof we need.

Knowing, perceptive, and wickedly funny, Matt Klam loves his characters but spares them nothing: the swaggering womanizer Sam falls in love with a woman across a crowded room... Read more

They Move Below

By: Karl Drinkwater

Narrated by: RJ Alldred

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Horror lives in the shadows.It exists under the earth’s surface in ancient caves. Below the vast sea’s undulating waves. Under dense forest cover. Within a storm’s thick, rolling clouds. And downstairs in our homes, when we hear the knife drawer rattle in the night. Even our minds and bodies harbour the alien under the skin, the childhood... Read more

The Once in a Blue Moon Guesthouse

By: Cressida McLaughlin

Narrated by: Emma Tate

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm welcome awaits…the charming new arrival from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe. Robin Brennan has come home to Campion Bay. Now her parents have retired, she’s set to become the new landlady of The Campion Bay Guesthouse.Bookings have been as thin as the hand towels, and it doesn’t take long for Robin... Read more

The Snow Man

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more

The Girl of the Lake

By: Bill Roorbach

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Girl of the Lake, Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains whose... Read more

The Teapot

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more

The Storks

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2,... Read more