Short Stories audiobooks

In the Vault

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.

In the Vault tells the tale of a lazy and parsimonious undertaker who tries to skimp on the cost of a coffin by reusing a substandard, cheap box which he had... Read more

Sea Curse

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author famous for his weird tales and horror stories.

Sea Curse is the tale which starts with a village tragedy. A local girl who lives with her elderly aunt has been seduced and deflowered by a swaggering, drunk sailor.

In despair she drowns herself in the ocean. The sailor mocks her aunt over the... Read more

The Fearsome Touch of Death

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906-June 11, 1936) was an American author renowned for his weird tales and horror fiction.

The Fearsome Touch of Death is the story of a man who is holding an overnight vigil with a stranger's corpse in a remote house. In the dark of the remote house, he begins to hear and see strange sounds and visions. Or is he... Read more

The Beast in the Cave

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), more commonly known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer renowned for his highly influential works of horror fiction.

"The Beast in the Cave" is a typical example of Lovecraft's mastery and descriptive genius. A man is lost in an extensive cavern with his light about to run out. He has already given up... Read more

The Thing on the Roof

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror stories.

The Thing on the Roof is a gruesome tale of Tussman, a scholar and explorer who becomes obsessed with finding a hidden treasure which he believes to be buried beneath the altar of the ruined Temple of the Toad in the jungles of Honduras. He only needs to... Read more

In the Country

By: Mia Alvar

Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Don Castro

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere—and sometimes turning... Read more

Charlie Martz and Other Stories

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Will Patton, Mark Bramhall, George Newbern, Tis...

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens of bestselling books—many adapted for the big... Read more

To Hold the Bridge

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Raphael Corkhill, Roger Wayne, S...

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining short-story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of A Confusion of Princes.Garth Nix is renowned for his legendary fantasy works, but To Hold the Bridge showcases his versatility as the... Read more

Unusual Fairy Tales

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful collection of lesser known traditional and modern fairy stories:

1. "The King of the Golden River"
2. "The Empty Drum"
3. "The Fire Spirit"
4. "The Tree of Death"
5. "The Smuggler’s Daughter"
6. "A Dream of Wild Bees"
7. "The Fisherman"
8. "The Masked Ball"
9. "The Petrified Man"
10. "The Were-Wolf"
11. "The Walled Nun of Avila"
12. "The Little... Read more

The Purple Wig

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Publisher's Summary

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown.

In The Purple Wig, an investigative journalist, Frances Finn, sets out to discover the strange secret of the dukes of Exmoor and the legend of their mysterious hereditary deformed ear. When Finn meets the... Read more

Wonderful Short Stories

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering collection of classic short stories.

1. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
2. "Miracles" by Barry Pain
3. "In a Far-off World" by Olive Schreiner
4. "The House of Cobwebs" by George Gissing
5. "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner
6. "A Very Black Business" by Ernest Bramah
7. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
8. "The Pig and Whistle" by... Read more

This is All

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

This Is All tells the story of Alexander Wyatt ,who has a morbid fear of dying. Unfortunately Wyatt is ill with a heart condition which, in combination with his paranoid anxiety and depression, threatens to become life... Read more

A Very Black Business

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author who wrote twenty-one books and numerous short stories. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.

"A Very Black Business' is a strange... Read more

The Missing Witness Sensation

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.

In his stories of detection,... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle, the exciting adventures of a mischievous princess.

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. Join magically mischievous... Read more

The Stories

By: Jane Gardam

Narrated by: John Telfer & Phyllida Nash

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction.

Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Party Hoppers

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and the Party Hoppers, 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

Nothing But Shadows

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Nico Mirallegro

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon learns about James Herondale’s time at Shadowhunter Academy. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

It’s hard to be a Shadowhunter when you’ve got demonic powers. Simon learns about the school-time struggles of half-warlock James Herondale in this prelude to The Last Hours.

This standalone e-only short story follows... Read more

A Farewell to Legs

By: Scott Fivelson

Narrated by: Mariel Hemingway

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Hemingway fiction in our time, author Scott Fivelson takes listeners on a literary journey from Paris to Pamplona as a marathoner on his last legs reflects on the sport as it might have been written about if Hemingway had been a runner. A Farewell to Legs is both a satire of a classic and a classic satire. Read more

PROSOPA ZOA PRAMATA

By: Petros Argyriou

Narrated by: Petros Argyriou

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection “Men- Things-Beings” by the subversive writer Petros Argyriou goes back to our birthplaces, goes to the places of soul and sentiments.


As "Historian" of a future without authors and books, he creates ten short stories that describe and satirize the present of the human species.


The author "creates" the conditions of a future world... Read more

The Magnet

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

"The Magnet" is the uncanny story of a very unusual copycat mass murderer. Read more

The Great British Short Story Collection

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers.

1. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain
5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier
6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John... Read more

A Costume Piece

By: E. W. Hornung

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English writer best known for tales of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles and his sidekick, Bunny Manders in late 19th-century London. These two characters are thought to have been in part based on his friends Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and also on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

In A... Read more

The Tree of Death

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

The Tree of Death is a haunting story with something of a fairy tale character to it...but a fairy tale that turns into a gruesome horror story as the narrative unfolds.

A wealthy young man falls in love with a young girl in... Read more