Short Stories audiobooks

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the preeminent figure in late 19th-century detective fiction. A physician by profession, he soon found such popularity as a writer of detective stories that his writing was far more profitable than his medical practice.

'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' is a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Holmes and Watson are... Read more

Wailing Well

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 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

The Story of Chugoro

By: Lafcadio Hearn

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn (1850-1904) was the son of a British father and Greek mother. He spent his early life in England, Ireland, France and America before moving in 1890 to Japan, where he married and settled. His most famous works are retellings of Japanese and Chinese folktales, in particular those of a ghostly or macabre... Read more

Silvermane

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved author Zane Grey come four thrilling tales of the West. The very essence of the American West can be found in the stories of Zane Grey, an author whose popularity has not flagged since his first novel was published."Silvermane" is concerned with the efforts of two Mormon mustangers, brothers Lee and Cuth Stewart, to capture a wild... Read more

True Heroes

By: Jonathan Diaz

Narrated by: various narrators, Andrew Eiden, Caitlin Davies...

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An encouraging collection of short stories by bestselling middle-grade authors.This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen bestselling middle-grade authors including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer A. Nielsen—who have created original short stories and modern-day fairy tales, based on the... Read more

Partners

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT • This standalone prequel to the #1 bestseller Rogue Lawyer tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner.
 
Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won't go near. It's controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian... Read more

Toss the Bouquet

By: Ruth Logan Herne, Amy Matayo & Janice Thompson

Narrated by: Amber Quick, Julie Lyles Carr & Windy Lanzl

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.All Dressed Up in Loveby Ruth Logan HerneTara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. Greg Elizondo is working at the shop,... Read more

Marsyas in Flanders

By: Vernon Lee

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856 - 1935), a British writer most famous for her supernatural short stories. She was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement.

""Marsyas in Flanders"" is a strange tale of an ancient carving of the crucified Christ - minus its arms and cross - which once washed up in the twelfth century on a... Read more

Good Lady Ducayne

By: M. E. Braddon

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was a British Victorian era novelist famous for her sensationalist writing. "Good Lady Ducayne" is a sensational tale of a young woman, Bella Rolleston, who secures a job as a paid companion to a very elderly and wealthy aristocratic lady who offers her a handsome salary, a winter travelling on the Italian... Read more

Great American Short Stories

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers.

'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain
'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton
'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard
'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft
'The Adventure of the German Student' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Absolute Zero' by... Read more

Ken's Mystery

By: Julian Hawthorne

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories.

'Ken's Mystery' is a wonderful story blending Gaelic folklore with Gothic mystery. Kenningale - or Ken, as his... Read more

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

By: John Keats

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the great English Romantic poets. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' is a haunting ballad describing a young knight whose very lifeblood and vitality have been drained by a beautiful but parasitic, fairylike vampire. This knight has now been left as an undead shell of his former self, alone on a barren hillside. Read more

The Piano Next Door

By: Elia W. Peattie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was a prolific American author, journalist and critic. Although she left school at 14, she was enormously talented, and by her 20s she was well established as a writer of short stories.

'The Piano Next Door' is an eerie tale about a man who hears beautiful and inspirational music emanating from the house next... Read more

The Old Portrait

By: Hume Nisbet

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hume Nisbet (1849-1923) was born in Scotland but moved to Australia as a young man and spent seven years travelling there before he returned to Scotland. He turned to literature in middle age and wrote a large number of mystery and adventure stories, which were published in England. "The Old Portrait" is a supernatural mystery about an... Read more

Mrs. Amworth

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories.

'Mrs. Amworth' is arguably Benson's most famous story...and certainly one of the most terrifying. It tells the story of a mysterious outbreak of... Read more

The Bride of Corinth

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is widely recognized as Germany's greatest poet and writer. His early works are rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which was also the early phase of German Romanticism.

'The Bride of Corinth' was written as part of a ballad-writing competition which Goethe was engaged in with Friedrich von... Read more

The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), a French author, was one of the most influential short story writers of the 19th century.

'Le Horla' is a truly terrifying story of a man, told through the pages of his diary, who is under the malign influence of some strange, invisible, parasitic being which saps his life energy.

De Maupassant's clear, pragmatic... Read more

The Death of Halpin Frayser

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American writer famous for his dark and cynical writings, which earned him the nickname ""Bitter Bierce"". He is famous also for his mysterious demise. He wrote a letter to a friend, which he closed by saying, ""As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,"" and then he vanished... Read more

The Sad Story of a Vampire

By: Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Count Eric Stenislaus Stenbock (1860-1895) was an aristocrat of German-Estonian origin who lived in England. He wrote weird, macabre fantasy fiction and was a favorite of H. P. Lovecraft. He was well known for his eccentric lifestyle, keeping snakes, salamanders, and toads in his bedroom, and owned a bear, a reindeer, and a fox. He had a... Read more

The Vampire Maid

By: Hume Nisbet

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

James Hume Nisbet (1849 - 1923) was born in Scotland but travelled extensively in Australia before returning to his native country. He became a writer in middle-age and wrote prolifically, mainly mystery and adventure fiction. "The Vampire Maid" is a classic vampire story about a traveller who takes lodgings with an apparently kind landlady and... Read more

Ghosts, Werewolves and Vampires

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying collection of classic Victorian short stories about ghosts, werewolves and vampires.

1. The Wolf Book by Henry Chapman Mercer
2. Number Ninety by B. M. Croker
3. Ken’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne
4. The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie
5. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat
6. The Horla by Guy de... Read more

Will

By: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), born in New York to an Irish American family, moved as a child to London. As a young man, he soon became well recognised as the master of decadent and macabre fiction.

'Will' is the macabre tale of a man who is in the process of poisoning his wife using the most deadly, untraceable and secret poison ever... Read more

Dracula's Guest

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bram (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912) was born in Dublin. As a sickly child, he spent much of his childhood bedridden, amused by his mother's stories of horror, folklore and real life, including grisly tales of the 1832 cholera epidemic in Sligo. Gradually his health improved, and from the age of seven he went to school, followed by university at... Read more

Count Magnus

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