Short Stories audiobooks

The Little Ghost

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 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. 'The Little Ghost' tells the eerie story of a man who is grieving deeply following the unexpected death of a close friend, who... Read more

The Operation

By: Violet Hunt

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862-1942) was a British author of short stories, novels, memoir and biography. She is most famous for her supernatural fiction.

The Operation is a short novella which tells a very odd story. The second wife of the famous dwarf comedy actor, Joseph Mardell, learns that her cook has seen a funeral procession leaving a... Read more

Pomegranate Seed

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 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. "Pomegranate Seed" is a disturbing ghost story in which a... Read more

The Rockery

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

In this story the vicar of Stoneground, Mr. Batchel, is having the rockery at his vicarage dug up. He and the gardener discover an old yew stake buried in the rockery on which is... Read more

The Eastern Window

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence. 'The Eastern Window' is the peculiar tale of a vicar who sees something very odd one night in his church. It appears that a stained-glass window with the image of St. John the... Read more

Satan's Circus

By: Eleanor Smith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic. Many of her books, including her extensive oeuvre of ghost stories, involve a circus or gypsy setting, based on her own research and her (unsubstantiated) belief that she had a Romany great grandmother.

Satan's Circus is a creepy tale of a circus run by a... Read more

An Original Revenge

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer of horror and suspense stories.

'An Original Revenge' is a peculiar and ghoulish tale of a young soldier who commits suicide in order to better avenge himself upon his commanding officer in the form of an avenging spirit. Read more

The Necromancer

By: Arthur Gray

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Gray (1852-1940) wrote under the pseudonym Ingulphus for several years, and it was only in 1919, when his stories were collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye under Gray's own name, that the identity of the author was discovered.

The Necromancer is a strange tale set in Jesus College Cambridge in the time of Cromwell. A... Read more

The Man with the Roller

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

'The Man with the Roller' is a strange tale about a photograph in which a strange figure of a man with a roller appears and drags the roller from one part of the lawn to another.

But how can this... Read more

The Coffin Merchant

By: Richard Middleton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural tales and ghost stories, in particular 'The Ghost Ship', 'The Coffin Merchant' and 'On the Brighton Road'.

'The Coffin Merchant' is the peculiar tale of Eustace Reynolds, who is handed a handbill by a stranger one day. The flyer... Read more

Expiation

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 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 stories.

Expiation is a real gem of a ghost story. Two old friends rent a lonely house in an idyllic but remote part of Cornwall. But within a short time of their... Read more

Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork

By: Eleanor Smith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English writer, famous for her supernatural stories.

'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' is an eerie tale about Patrick Lamb, who takes a job as custodian of Mugivan's waxwork exhibition. In the part of the exhibition where all the murderers and freaks are displayed, there is one figure which fascinates him. It... Read more

His Unconquerable Enemy

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

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

'His Unconquerable Enemy' is the story for which Morrow is best known, and it tells the story of the determined revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah. Read more

The Tiger

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 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.

'The Tiger' is the evocative tale of an Englishman who travels to New York and descends strangely into a terrible psychosis in... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.

Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that.... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and Prince Precious Paws

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and Prince Precious Paws, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.

Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at... Read more

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

By: George R. R. Martin

Narrated by: Harry Lloyd

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEED
 
These... Read more

Red Fire

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Western author Max Brand comes a collection of stories about a slave, a jewel thief, and a captive.In “Master and Man,” Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master.“A Lucky Dog” is a... Read more

Sporting Guide

By: Liz Goldwyn

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen & David Colacci

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly imaginative recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or "Sporting Guide," to the brothels of the day.Before there was the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a rough place, building its way out to the global city of today. In the late nineteenth century it was a rapidly growing city filled with pimps and... Read more

The Tsar of Love and Techno

By: Anthony Marra

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak & Rustam Kasymov

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.

This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming... Read more

Love and Death in the Moose League

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the collection Nothing but the Dead and DyingDuring his years in the majors, Floyd Patterson had pitched for everyone—Oakland, Cleveland, Cincinnati, even the Marlins. Now he’s an Anchorage Lumberjack, and no one, perhaps not even Patterson himself, has any idea what the hell he’s doing toeing the rubber in Alaska’s Moose League. But when... Read more

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award finalist and author of Once Upon a River comes a dazzling story collection featuring ferocious mothers and scrappy daughters.
 
The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters love and betray one another; their richly fraught relationships can act as anchors, lifelines, or deadly poison. Bonnie Jo... Read more

The Perfect Arrangement

By: Katie Ganshert

Narrated by: Crestina Hardie

Length: 2 hours 36 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.Meeting Nate was truly an accident—but Amelia finds that he’s one of the few people she can count on.Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner... Read more

Guru Bones

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Zinnia, Mississippi, rolls out the red carpet for controversial food activist Priya Karsan. When the event turns bizarre - and downright deadly - PI partners Sarah Booth and Tinkie are on the case. But it's the detective agency's four-legged gumshoes, Sweetie Pie, Chablis, and Pluto, who save the day. Read more