Short Stories audiobooks

Bitter of Tongue

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Torrance Coombs

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When Simon is kidnapped by the fey, he’s amazed to find a friend in former Shadowhunter Mark Blackthorn. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After Simon is kidnapped by faeries (why is he always kidnapped?), he uncovers rumors of a secret weapon Sebastian left behind for the faerie queen. He must escape the Fey, relying... Read more

Fortune Smiles

By: Adam Johnson

Narrated by: W. Morgan Sheppard, Johnathan McClain, Cassandr...

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson is one of America’s most provocative and powerful authors. Critics have compared him to Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, and George Saunders, but Johnson’s new book will only further his reputation as one of our most original writers.... Read more

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys

By: April Genevieve Tucholke

Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Emma Bering, Nora Hunter, Jorje...

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lois Duncan, and Daphne Du Maurier comes a powerhouse anthology featuring some of the best writers of YA thrillers and horror

A host of the smartest young adult authors come together in this collection of scary stories and psychological thrillers curated by Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’s April... Read more

The Beat Goes On

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: James Macpherson

Length: 20 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

There is no detective like Ian Rankin's Detective Inspector John Rebus, a man The New Yorker calls "the ideal sleuth."

Brilliant, irascible and frequently frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, John Rebus has made the dark places of Edinburgh his home for over two decades. The Beat Goes On collects all of Ian Rankin's... Read more

The State We're In

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ann Beattie at her most magnificent…Her first new collection in ten years...These tales explore the range of emotional states the author is famous for: longing, disaffection, ambivalence, love, regret. It’s nice to hear her voice again” (People).

“A peerless, contemplative page-turner” (Vanity Fair), The State We’re In is about how we live in... Read more

Nocturnes

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly comes Nocturnes, a dark, daring, utterly haunting shot story anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts.

Connolly’s collection of supernatural novellas and stories echoes the work of some of the masters of the genre while never losing his own... Read more

The Short Stories of Hugh Walpole

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 52 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.

This collection includes some of Walpole's finest works, including 'The Whistle', which he described as "the best short story I... Read more

The Biter Bit

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens.

The Biter Bit is a detective story with a twist. A rookie investigator, Matthew Sharpin, has been thrust on Scotland Yard with instructions to try him out on a case. He is assigned the... Read more

The Stranger

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.

"The Stranger" is a ghost story set in the old Wild West. A group of travellers are sitting around the campfire in a remote part of the desert in Arizona,... Read more

The Case of the White Footprints

By: R. Austin Freeman

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in West Africa in his novels.

The Case of the White Footprints is a murder mystery set in Margate.

A lady has been found dead in her... Read more

Five Short Stories by D. H. Lawrence

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 28 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 such themes as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct, wrapped up in gripping plots which range from the poignant to the downright creepy.

The Rocking Horse... Read more

The Lovely Lady

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 – 1930) was one of England's greatest novelists, poets, playwrights, and writers of short stories. His works often explore are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.

"The Lovely Lady" is a short story which tells of an unnervingly dysfunctional family. The elderly mother and aunt, the lovely... Read more

Lilac

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.

Lilac is a multilayered tale of a marriage proposal. Frederick Anstey, an art dealer, asks his beloved Lily Brocket to marry him.... Read more

The Snow

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 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 Snow" is a multilayered ghost story in which the phantom of a jealous and vindictive first wife seems to haunt the new young... Read more

The Deserter

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928) was a British writer, best known for his outstanding short stories. Nobel Prize-winner John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short story writers of all time" and predicted that he would "outlive all the writers of his day."

Aumonier wrote over 85 short stories in his lifetime. He has been described as... Read more

The Ruby Glass

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 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. One recurring theme in his works, based in his own unhappy experiences of being bullied at school, is alienation in childhood.

The... Read more

The Tarn

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 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 Tarn is one of the most grisly horror stories ever conceived. Giles Foster goes to visit his old acquaintance, Fenweick, in his... Read more

Six Short Stories by Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 29 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. This selection presents six of her best tales:... Read more

A Considerable Murder

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his outstanding mystery and horror stories, often with a strange twist at the end.

"A Considerable Murder" is the odd tale of a retired gentleman and his daughter who are suddenly imposed upon by an old, sick and highly cantankerous old man... a former... Read more

No más amores

By: Javier Marías

Narrated by: Javier Marías

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Una recopilación en audiolibro de los mejores cuentos de Javier Marías seleccionados y narrador por él mismo. No más amores es una recopilación de los mejores cuentos de Javier Marías, es decir, una buena muestra de los mejores cuentos que se han publicado en lengua española en los últimos años. El propio autor ha efectuado la selección, y el... Read more

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 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 Mazarin Stone is a Sherlock Holmes mystery in which Holmes is in... Read more

The Clarion Call

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

The Clarion Call tells of the chance encounter between two old childhood friends. One, Kernan, is now a burglar who three weeks ago committed his first murder.... Read more

A Ghost Story

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. He is widely recognized as one of America's greatest authors and humorists.

A Ghost Story is a classic Twain story. The author skillfully builds up layers of atmosphere and tension as he describes spending the night in a spooky house where chains rattle and... Read more

The Cop and the Anthem

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories, known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.

In The Cop and the Anthem, a New York tramp, Soapy, is determined to be arrested and sent to jail on 'The Island' for three months during the coldest part of... Read more