Short Stories audiobooks

Seashore Macabre

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

"Seashore Macabre" tells the story of a curious boy who inexplicably follows a sinister-looking man at a seaside resort. The old... Read more

The Return

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867-1917) was an English novelist and author of short stories often set in the Peak District. He is best known today for his Gothic short horror stories, which earn him a deserved position alongside the likes of Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde, and Stenbock.

"The Return" is an eerie ghost story about a man who returns to his... Read more

Miss Mary Pask

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career.

Miss Mary Pask is the story of a young man who calls in on... Read more

The Fiddler of the Reels

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose work is best known for combining the traditions of Romanticism with a realistic portayal of a declining rural society in Victorian England.

"The Fiddler of the Reels" tells the story of a love triangle. The enigmatic, brilliant and rakish violin player, Wat Ollamore, who arrives in... Read more

The Fire

By: Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"The Fire", published in 1904, tells the story of Great Britain caught in the grip of a terrible freezing hurricane which has frozen everything solid. During this dire, cold weather, a huge fire breaks out in West... Read more

Kerfol

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories she wrote in her early career.

Kerfol is the story of an American who looks over the remote and... Read more

Room Number Ten

By: Bessie Kyffin-Taylor

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death.

Room Number Ten tells the story of Peter Maxton, a literary gentleman invited to join a house party at a remote house in Scotland. The driver taking him to the house from... Read more

Kew Gardens

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"Kew Gardens" is a short story set in the London botanic garden of the same name on a hot July day. The narrative consists of brief evocative snapshots of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. Read more

A Study in Murder

By: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 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.

"A Study in Murder" is the story of a man committing the perfect murder, told from the perspective of the warped murderer. Read more

The Revolt of "Mother"

By: Mary Wilkins-Freeman

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 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 Revolt of... Read more

A Season to Wed

By: Cindy Kirk, Rachel Hauck & Cheryl Wyatt

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr, Kristy Ragland & Amber Quick

Length: 9 hours 22 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.Love at Mistletoe Inn by Cindy KirkSometimes the road to happiness is paved with youthful mistakes.Ten years after what she thought was her almost-wedding, Hope... Read more

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, Hope D...

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on... Read more

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In these ripping short stories, the mystery genre's greatest sleuth shows his chops.For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a... Read more

Love in the Details

By: Becky Wade

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Holly ended things to give him a better life, but she was the future he’d always dreamed of.Eight years have passed since Holly last saw her high school sweetheart, Josh. Now the wedding of Josh’s best friend has brought him back to Martinsburg, Texas.  His duties as best man and Holly's as the church's volunteer wedding coordinator link them... Read more

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Nancy Linari & Sarah Scott

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned... Read more

Cuentos del intramundo

By: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Narrated by: Fernando Solís

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Disfruta escuchando de esta colección de microcuentos que nos dan, a través de la metáfora, pequeñas pistas para que nos conozcamos mejor. Fiel al carácter terapéutico de todos sus escritos, Alejandro Jodorowsky se interna en el mundo de las fábulas espirituales, de los cuentos sanadores, para que intentemos encauzar nuestro ser maltratado por... Read more

Once Upon a Sunday

By: Renee Allen McCoy

Narrated by: Stacy Wilson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance. –John 10:10, AMPGood Friday started as anything but that for Melinda Black. After losing her job and self-dignity, a series of events cascade her onto an emotionally charged roller coaster ride that drastically changes... Read more

Redemption of the Dead

By: Luke Delaney

Narrated by: Robin Bowerman

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan’s days as a newly minted detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of Cold Killing. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South London, and Detective Chief... Read more

Born to Endless Night

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Keahu Kahuanui

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Magnus Bane brings a baby home to his boyfriend Alec Lightwood? One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After a warlock baby is abandoned on the steps of the Academy, Magnus Bane rescues the child—and brings him home to his boyfriend, Alec.

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

Aunt Sass

By: P. L. Travers

Narrated by: Catherine Clarke

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of charming holiday tales, by the author of Mary Poppins - a timeless gift for all ages. Each of the stories in this book was written by P.L. Travers as a holiday gift, sent to her friends and family and never published. Now millions of readers and generations of film-goers will get a peek behind the curtain and see how she used... Read more

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Leslie S. Klinger, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheri...

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Gildart Jackson, Saskia Maarlevel...

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of PoeEdgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s... Read more

Thirteen Ways of Looking

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Colum McCann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has... Read more

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
 
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his... Read more

Over an Absinthe Bottle

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer, famous for his short stories of horror and suspense.

'Over an Absinthe Bottle' is a peculiar horror story about a young man down and out in San Francisco who is slowly starving to death. Then he happens to meet a peculiar pale stranger who invites him to share a bottle of absinthe with... Read more