Short Stories audiobooks

Father Was a Wise Old Man - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus... Read more

Blood And Smoke - Abridged

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film!

Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.

Stephen King's audio original... Read more

Stowaway and Milk Run - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue from her first two published stories.

In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a... Read more

How Paul Robeson Saved My Life

By: Carl Reiner

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-time Emmy Award winner and icon of American comedy, Carl Reiner, performs a sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of two dozen multi-dimensional short stories— some true and others merely tales. Included in this collection are stories about a man too handsome for his personality, a lifetime bond that is created by a football... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Hi Lo to Hollywood

By: Max Evans

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Short stories and three novellas by award-winning chronicler of the American West, Max Evans.Prolific writer Max Evans produced a wide-ranging body of work representing several genres. From among his numerous publications, Evans selected personal favorites for this collection, which spans most of his writing career. In addition to an essay about... Read more

Party People - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some folks just prefer to stay home. You know them - whole families who politely decline invitations because they don't spend money on fancy clothes, don't care for "small talk". And they certainly don't dance. They're just not "party people". Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are... Read more

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume II - Abridged

By: Richard Young & Judy Young

Narrated by: Richard Young & Judy Young

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more

Timeless Tales - Abridged

By: Bobby Norfolk

Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The children who populate these classic stories are heroes and heroines of timeless tales. Their unpredictable antics confound evil and treachery at every turn and leave listeners of generation after generation transfixed and uplifted. A forced marriage. A dangerous job. A horrible assignment. "Character-building experiences," we quip. And... Read more

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume I - Abridged

By: Richard Yound & Judy Yound

Narrated by: Richard Yound & Judy Yound

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more

The Washington Irving Library

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more

Histórias da mulher do fim do século - Contos

By: Ivana Arruda Leite

Narrated by: Sandra Silvério & Barros Batista

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Neste audiolivro de contos, Ivana Arruda Leite conta histórias de muitas mulheres, desde a doida até a que decifra a própria morte. São histórias verdadeiras, para valer, histórias de mulheres sem medidas. Foto da capa: Edson Kumasaka. Read more

The James Joyce Collection

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more

Emerald City

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse, Madeleine Lambert & Charlie...

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora,... Read more

Murder on the Aisle

By: Mary Clark, Joan Richter, William F Nolan, Edwa...

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare to be entertained by a host of Hollywood celebrities reading the finest collection of short mystery stories— many by Edgar Award-winning writers— set in the world of entertainment. The fourteen stories collected here include:
” Revival in Eastport” by Jon L. Breen
“ The... Read more

Tales of the Unexpected

By: SakiSaki

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Master storyteller H.H. Munro— better known by the pen name “ Saki” — is famous for his witty, mischievous, and macabre stories of suspense. Saki specialized in impudent practical jokes, devilish trickery, and incredible yarns, and his writing became popular in the early 1900s for its witty and... Read more

An Evening With Garrison Keillor, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin, Tom Wolfe and Calvin Trillin

By: Garrison Keillor

Narrated by: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What do Grammy winner Garrison Keillor, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Maya Angelou, acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, and National Book Award winner Tom Wolfe have in common? On a November night in 1990, this quartet of accomplished writers and performers united for a worthy cause— to participate in readings to benefit the... Read more

Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Ghost Chamber” is the story of a wife's destruction and the love of a young man for an imprisoned girl. “Mr. Testator's Visitation” portrays an eerie character who visits an impoverished, unhappy lawyer. “A Child's Dream of a Star” is the sad story of a little girl who becomes an angel and waits for her brother to join her. “The Signal-Man”... Read more

That's the Ticket & Voices in the Coal Bin

By: Mary Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark presents two short stories narrated by her daughter Carol: "That's the Ticket!"Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a... Read more

Stalkers

By: Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward D. Hoch,...

Narrated by: Bess Armstrong

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

There are two types of entities: the Hunter and the Hunted— and revenge, guilt, lust, and desperation drive all of them. Darkness falls quickly when you're being stalked— but it is always dark when you' re the stalker. From shadowy city streets and Amazon jungles to deep-South swamps, this collection of eight... Read more

Fix-It

By: David McPhail

Narrated by: Larry Robinson

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When her father finally fixes the TV set after her extended display of tears, Emma no longer cares - she's discovered the joy of reading a good book. Read more

The Masterworks and Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Poe

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

From Edgar Allan Poe—the master of the short story and lyric poem—comes this rare treasury of classics. The outstanding works "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "Annabelle Lee," "Eldorado," "The Bells," and "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," illustrate Poe's meticulous sense of construction, with signature themes of romance and... Read more

Whistle For Willie

By: Ezra Jack Keats

Narrated by: Linda Terheyden

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A little boy wishes he could whistle for his dog, Willie. Read more