Short Stories audiobooks

Nothing but the Dead and Dying

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander & Tamara Marston

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he’s ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy’s birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted.In... Read more

Calendar of Crime

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration—and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma... Read more

Music and Stories for Children

By: Beatrix Potter & Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Nicki White

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a delightful collection of classic nursery tales including The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen and The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes by Beatrix Potter complemented by favourite songs such as "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Hush Little Baby". Read more

QBI

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business—and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.In "The Three Widows," two of Theodore Hood's... Read more

Queens Full

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Since his first novel, Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world's detective-story writers. He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written for magazines. This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include "The Death of Don Juan,"... Read more

The New Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Trick I—The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear—each as dead as the other.Trick II—From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch... Read more

Love of Life, and Other Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White... Read more

The Mark on the Wall

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century.

'The Mark on the Wall' is a description of a chain of thoughts inspired by catching sight of a mysterious mark on the wall. It does not matter what the mark actually is.... What is important is the imaginative images and... Read more

The Missing Model

By: Lettice Galbraith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lettice Galbraith is as mysterious as the stories she wrote. She appeared on the literary scene in 1893 with a rash of short stories and one novel, published another story four years later, and then disappeared without trace. Yet despite the brevity of her presence on the literary stage, her supernatural stories have remained popular to this... Read more

The Gull

By: F. Anstey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey.

"The Gull" is a strange tale about a man whose sweetheart, on setting sail for Guernsey one evening, romantically promises him that if she should die, she will return to him as a white dove.

Next morning he awakes to... Read more

Unlikely Stories

By: Edith Wharton, Richard Middleton & Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping collection of weird and fantastical stories of supernatural and unbelievable happenings.

"Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton
"The Tiger" by Hugh Walpole
"When I Was Dead" by Vincent O'Sullivan
"The Fire" by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
"Satan's Circus" by Eleanor Smith
"The Coffin Merchant" by Richard Middleton
... Read more

The Cold Embrace

By: Mary E. Braddon

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) was a British Victorian-era novelist famous for her sensationalist writing.

"The Cold Embrace" is a ghost story about a pair of lovers who promise to be true to each other. The young man declares he will even return from beyond the grave to be with his lover, but she declares that only a suicide can do this, as... Read more

The Ticking of the Clock

By: Louisa Baldwin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) was a British author of popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister.

'The Ticking of the Clock' is a touching tale of a grandfather and... Read more

Let Loose

By: Mary Cholmondeley

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English novelist and short story writer. 'Let Loose' is a supernatural ghost story where a young architect wishes to research a unique fresco in the crypt of a remote and ancient parish church in Yorkshire.

The parish clergyman is remarkably reluctant to hand over the keys to the crypt and sets some odd... Read more

The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt

By: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt" is a strange supernatural tale of Gargrave, a young egyptologist at Cambridge University who manages to reanimate the 3,000-year-old mummy of Menen-Ra via the man he has identified as a direct... Read more

A Child of the Rain

By: Elia W. Peattie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 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.

'A Child of the Rain' is an eerie, poignant, supernatural tale about a strange, destitute child who appears spectrally on a... Read more

The Lost Ghost

By: Mary Wilkins-Freeman

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American writer best known for her stories reflecting the world of women fighting for dignity and independence from men. Her tales typically describe domestic settings and intimate relationships and are told with sensitivity and a poignancy which illuminates a bygone era in vivid detail.

'The Lost Ghost' is... Read more

On the Northern Ice

By: Elia W. Peattie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) was an American author, journalist and critic. As a child she was an avid reader, and despite leaving school at 14, she quickly became recognized as a brilliant short story writer.

'On the Northern Ice' is an eerie ghost story set around the Great Lakes. Read more

From the Loom of the Dead

By: Elia W. Peattie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

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

'From the Loom of the Dead' is a story with the character of an Icelandic folktale about two young... Read more

The Network

By: Luke Delaney

Narrated by: Robin Bowerman

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan’s days as a detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of COLD KILLING. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered as a child has left him with an... Read more

Angels Twice Descending

By: Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman

Narrated by: Brett Dalton

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon’s journey to become a Shadowhunter nears its end as his Ascension ceremony draws closer. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

Simon’s Ascension ceremony draws near in this brilliant conclusion to Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of... Read more

Weihnachten in der Stadt - Abridged

By: Hartmut Haker

Narrated by: Kai Schulz

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Über allem aber erstrahlt das Licht der Heiligen Nacht, das die Welt verändert hat. Wir sehen alles mit neuen Augen. "Hartmut Hakers kleine Geschichten sind Edelsteine die leuchten, wenn wir sie ins Weihnachtslicht halten. Wem Gott nichts sagt und wer meint, er habe genug Geld, was doch beruhige und zu Freude und guter Laune Anlass sei, dem... Read more

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) is recognized as one of the greatest English novelists, poets, playwrights and short story writers. His works address themes such as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct, wrapped up in gripping plots which range from the poignant to the downright creepy. "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" is... Read more

When I was Dead

By: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born in New York, son of an Irish-American family, and moved to London as a child. As a young man, he quickly established a reputation as a master of horror and decadent macabre stories. He was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other leaders of the aesthetic movement.

"When I Was Dead" is the... Read more