Short Stories audiobooks

Del amor y otros demonios

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

La inspiración para escribir este libro le llegó a García Márquez con una insólita noticia que tuvo que cubrir como periodista. El inigualable Gabriel García Márquez, ahora en formato audiolibro El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar sobre... Read more

The Homely Heroine

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Homely Heroine is a collection of four short stories by author Edna Ferber. The other three stories in the collection are: A Bush League Hero, What She Wore and The Man Who Came Back. All of them centers around ordinary people, showing off both their courage, dignity and their shortcomings when facing challenges in life. A moving and... Read more

Beginners

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver's seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . . ., which portray the gritty loves and... Read more

Just so Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Just So Stories are a collection written by the world famous British author Rudyard Kipling, published in 1902. Highly fantasized origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The Just So Stories began as bedtime stories told to 'Effie' [Josephine, Kipling's child]; when the first three... Read more

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde, first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket... All of them are suffused with the... Read more

The Vortex Blaster

By: Edward Elmer Smith

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Vortex Blaster is a collection of three science fiction short stories by author E. E. Smith, published in 1960. The stories included are The Vortex Blaster, Storm Cloud on Deka & The Vortex Blaster Makes War, and they all bear the stamp of unmistakable quality to be expected from the old sci-fi specialist Smith!.. The hero of the... Read more

One Basket

By: Edna Ferber

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

One Basket is a collection of numerous short stories by author Edna Ferber, published in 1947. All of them share the author's wonderful way with prose and tone, and most of them are about very ordinary men and women, living their daily lives... Especially the women, their hopes, fears, strength and weakness are brought to loving life by the author! Read more

Christmas Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson & Imogen Church

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmastime, and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales.For the Twelve Days of Christmas—a time of celebration, sharing, and giving—she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories.These tales open a... Read more

The Sequel

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When a lawyer discovers the possible existence of a lost, secret second novel from America's favorite writer, all hell breaks loose.

For years, Frederick Lowell has quietly managed the estate of the revered novelist Edward Goodwin. Though the author of only one novel, that book has gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies, keeping Lowell... Read more

So Long, Chief

By: Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary noir novelist Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, a short story in which world-famous private eye Mike Hammer repays a debt to a dying police chief, proving loyalty can be as deadly as deception.

A legendary and retired police chief lies in a New York hospital bed, visited by two strangers: the first is ex-cop-turned-PI Mike... Read more

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

By: Kathleen Collins

Narrated by: Nina Lorez Collins, Cherise Boothe, Adenrele Oj...

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available in Ecco’s Art of the Story series: a never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker—a contemporary of revered writers including Toni Cade Bambara, Laurie Colwin, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Grace Paley—whose prescient work has recently resurfaced to wide... Read more

Almost Like Christmas

By: Joseph Heller

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful short story from the acclaimed author of Catch-22, about one long night of anticipation.

In a small town in the American South, it is night in the middle of the twentieth century. Carter, a high-school teacher and football coach in the newly desegregated schools, is awaiting news of two of his students who have been in a serious... Read more

Beneath the Skin

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short stories featuring Sam Hunter, from bestselling author Jonathan MaberrySam Hunter is a bit of an animal. He’s a former Twin Cities cop who lost his badge because of excessive force. Abusive husbands, child molesters, and other lowlifes wound up looking like they’d been mauled by a dog—or a wolf.Now Sam is a low-rent PI in... Read more

A Sad Mistake

By: R. L. Stine

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A reclusive, haunted Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant are visited by a strange, persistent stranger in this haunting short story by R.L. Stine.

It's a dark and stormy night, and the new, unnamed assistant to the penniless Dr. Victor Frankenstein answers the front door's knock. There stands a stranger, who has managed to track down the elusive... Read more

The Umbrella-Mender

By: Beatrice Harraden

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) was a British writer and suffragette.

"The Umbrella-Mender" is a disturbing tale about an eccentric man who runs a repair shop for umbrellas. One evening he is surprised by a knock at the door. Outside is a man who tells the umbrella-mender that his son is on his death-bed and wishes to see his father. The... Read more

White Magic

By: Ella D'Arcy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella D'Arcy (1856-1939) was a British short story writer, novelist and translator who grew up in the Channel Islands, France and Germany.

'White Magic' is a short story set in a rural part of the Channel Islands and tells the story of a pharmacist who provides a potent love potion to a young girl who has quarreled with her lover. Read more

The Man in the Scented Coat

By: Sarah Grand

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Grand (1854-1943) was a well-known Victorian writer and suffragette.

'The Man in the Scented Coat' is a story about an adventurous lady, Josepha, who gets lost in a pea-soup fog in London one evening. As she cannot see anything, she follows a scent of flowers, which turns out to emanate from a distinguished gentleman in disguise who is on a... Read more

The Secret of the Schwarztal

By: Francis Gribble

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Francis Henry Gribble (1862 - 1946) was an English writer who spent much of his life travelling in Europe, which provided the setting for many of his novels and stories.

The Secret of the Schwarztal is a mystery story. An English traveller had gone missing in the remote valley of Schwarztal in the Alps and was presumed dead. But three years later... Read more

The Yellow Drawing Room

By: Mona Caird

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Mona Caird (1854 -1932) was a British novelist and essayist whose strong feminist views raised many eyebrows in the Victorian period.

The Yellow Drawing Room is a story told through the eyes of an archetypical Victorian gentleman. He has met and fallen under the spell of the beautiful Vanora Haydon.

Vanora has been given permission to... Read more

A Strange Christmas Game

By: J. H. Riddell

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), who wrote as Mrs J. H. Riddel, was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period.

'A Strange Christmas Game' is a brilliantly constructed ghost story with a strange twist at the end. Read more

A Cowl in Cracow

By: Ménie Muriel Dowie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ménie Muriel Dowie (1866-1945) was a travel writer, a novelist and an author of short stories. An intrepid traveller, many of her tales are set in the exotic locations she explored.

'A Cowl in Cracow' describes a young female traveler who is exploring the beautiful old city of Krakow in Poland. She wanders into a building which turns out to be a... Read more

Fifty Groundbreaking Stories by Women Writers

By: May Sinclair, Edith Wharton & Stella Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty short stories by women writers who broke the mould.

'The Token' by May Sinclair
'The Man Who Missed the Bus' by Stella Benson
'The Lady's Maid's Bell' by Edith Wharton
'The Scarecrow' by G. Ranger Wormser
'The Strinding Place' by Gertrude Atherton
'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker
'A Haunted House' by Virginia... Read more

Sophy Mason Comes Back

By: E. M. Delafield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890-1943), was a prolific English author who wrote under the pseudonym E. M. Delafield. She is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady , which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the... Read more

Jerry Bundler

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 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