Short Stories audiobooks

Picture Perfect Love

By: Melissa McClone

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 32 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.When image becomes everything, it’s up to love to refocus the heart. Photographer Jenna Harrison wants every bride and groom to look picture perfect on their... Read more

Make Something Up

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk, Ken Marks, Scott Sowers, Rich ...

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. MAKE SOMETHING UP compiles these previously unpublished tails for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable... Read more

The Great Russian Short Story Collection

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate collection of great short stories by the best Russian classic authors.

1. "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky
2. "The Empty Drum" by Count Leo Tolstoy
3. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
4. "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev
5. "The White Dog" by Fedor Sologub
6. "The Cloak" by Nikolai Gogol
7. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor... Read more

A Dream of Wild Bees and Other Stories

By: Olive Schreiner

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, suffragist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, but some of her most haunting and memorable works are her short stories.

This collection presents four drealike short stories with multilayered meaning and allegorical significance: "A Dream of... Read more

The Mysterious Card

By: Cleveland Moffett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) was an American journalist and author who contributed articles and stories to magazines and weeklies. He first became famous with his short mystery story "The Mysterious Card", which was published in the Boston-based The Black Cat in 1895. This tale caused a sensation, partly because it did not reveal the answer to... Read more

Stories of Duels, Trials, Bets and Dares

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling collection of strange stories where characters are challenged to do something completely out of the ordinary.

The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress by J. S. Fletcher
The Giraffe Problem by Barry Pain
The Man who Stole a Meeting House by John Townsend Trowbridge
The Box Tunnel by Charles Reade
A Lucky Number... Read more

The Murder at Fernhurst

By: Hulbert Footner

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a popular Canadian writer of detective fiction. "The Murder at Fernhurst" features Footner's first great sleuth, Madame Rosika Storey.

The famous female detective is called in to investigate what seems like an open-and-shut case. A rich industrialist has been found shot...and all the evidence points to the murder... Read more

Alter Egos

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson & Ru...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most enduring themes in literature through the ages has been the internal conflict between two sides of a single character. It manifests itself in different ways, from the classic werewolf story to souls which are invaded by evil spirits to the pseudo sci-fi of Jekyll and Hyde to strange tales of total amnesia, as in Barry Pain's... Read more

A Soothing Dream

By: Fedor Sologub

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) was a Russian mystic and realist and one of the great novelists and short story writers of the Dostoyevsky school.

A favourite theme of his was reincarnation, which he uses very powerfully in his story

A Soothing Dream, which describes the last weeks of a dying boy's life. Read more

The District Doctor

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He was a great figure in Russian Realism and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

The District Doctor is the poignant story of the emerging relationship between a doctor and his dying patient. Read more

A Work of Art

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), sometimes referred to as the chronicler of the Russian period of depression and pessimism, was the leader of the realistic school of the Russian short story.

His ability to create an atmosphere and build to a climax is unparalleled. He takes a moment in the protagonists' lives and reveals their souls in a handful of... Read more

The Hoop

By: Fedor Sologub

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) was a mystic, a realist and a writer of novels and outstanding short stories in the Dostoyevsky school.

"The Hoop" is very representative of his evocative work. It tells the story of an old man who is captivated by the sight of a young child playing with a hoop. The image embeds itself in his psyche and from it, right at... Read more

The Missing Years

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 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 Missing Years" is the haunting tale of Sylvia Hetheril, who goes out to post letters one day and fails to return. All enquiries and advertisements fail to trace her, and eventually her family are forced to abandon the... Read more

The Cloak

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a preeminent Ukrainian-born story writer. He is particularly famous for those stories which veer in the direction of surrealism and the grotesque.

The Cloak is one such tale. Akaky Akakiyevich is a reclusive and widely ridiculed lower official whose job is to copy letters. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence with his... Read more

Miracles

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"Miracles" is the tale of two extraordinarily talented men, Best and Bliss, who develop a way of communicating nonverbally and use it for a career on the stage as mind readers. But when a bereaved mother asks them to try to... Read more

The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is generally considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. The Bet is the story of a banker and a lawyer who embark on an insane bet. The banker bets the lawyer two million roubles that he cannot endure 15 years of incarceration. The lawyer agrees and the terms of the imprisonment are set.

But... Read more

Strange Dreams and Terrifying Nightmares

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of classic short stories for the restless sleeper....

"A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner, "The Face" by E. F. Benson, "The Dream" by A. J. Alan, "In a Far-Off World" by Olive Schreiner, "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub, "Life's Gifts" by Olive Schreiner, "A Curious Dream" by Mark Twain, "The Artist's Secret" by Olive... Read more

Mister Pockets

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a young paperboy discovers that a random act of kindness may have greater consequences—especially as night falls in Pine Deep. Read more

Darkness on the Edge of Town

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a collection of five stories set in "the Spookiest Town in America"—including one brand-new story.In "Long Way Home," a young soldier returns from the Middle East and discovers that there is another—and much stranger—war to be fought in his hometown.In "Mister Pockets," a young... Read more

Whistlin’ past the Graveyard

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a cemetery worker in Pine Deep begins to suspect that the dead are not resting easy in their graves. Read more

The Trouble

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes an all-new short story set in “the Spookiest Town in America”—Pine Deep.In “The Trouble,” a direct sequel to the Pine Deep trilogy, Malcolm Crow thought he had destroyed the evil that had terrorized his town for forty years. But a new series of brutal murders forces him to prepare for... Read more

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

By: David Gates

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer & Lesa Lockford

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the human condition: parents in assisted-living - or assisted-dying - facilities, too many or too few... Read more

Long Way Home

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a young soldier returns from the Middle East and discovers that there is another—and much stranger—war to be fought in his hometown. Read more

Ellison Wonderland

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: Harlan Ellison, Josh Olson, Gabrielle de Cuir, ...

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1962 and updated in later decades with a new introduction, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's early career. This collection shows a vibrant young writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit, and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic.... Read more