Short Stories audiobooks

Between Here and the Yellow Sea

By: Nic Pizzolatto

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A reissue of Nic Pizzolatto's debut short story collection, now featuring two previously uncollected stories.

Set in variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzalotto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and... Read more

Summer Brides

By: Beth Wiseman, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen & Debra Cl...

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr, Kristy Ragland & Amber Quick

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at three summer weddings . . .A June Bride by Marybeth WhalenWynne Hardy never thought she’d get engaged on a reality TV show, but when she met Andy the two of them hit it off. Now he’s asked her to marry him, and they’re all set to wed on live TV in a seaside ceremony. But... Read more

A Tale of the Great Plague

By: Thomas Hood

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hood (1799-1845) was an English writer and great friend of Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works.

"A Tale of the Great Plague" is an ironic piece set in the time of the Black Death, about how an old man outwits... Read more

Beneath the Bonfire

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Luke Daniels & Andi Arndt

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nickolas Butler's debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, has become an international bestseller and won numerous accolades, including France's Prix PAGE/America. Now, in Beneath the Bonfire, he demonstrates his talent for portraying "a place and its people with such love that you'll find yourself falling for them, too" (Josh Weil, author of The Great... Read more

The Love Object

By: Edna O'Brien

Narrated by: Catherine McGoohan

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom).

As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this volume provide, among other things, a cumulative... Read more

Gismondi's Wage

By: Raphael Sabatini

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Gismondi sits on his horse, breathing heavily and grinning, looking down at Messer Crespi, who is lying prostrate in the snow, and isn’t breathing at all. Gismondi’s next target – Duke Cesare Borgia. But what happens when the duke discovers Gismondi’s plans? Raphael Sabatini was a legendary writer of adventure, penning such classic novels as... Read more

The Short Stories of Barry Pain

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

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

This selection gives a marvellous insight into the strength and diversity of Pain's writing. Collection includes "The Missing Years", "Rose Rose", "Miracles", "The End of a Show", "The Giraffe Problem", "The Green... Read more

Never a Bridesmaid

By: Janice Thompson

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 26 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.Mari wants her sister Crystal’s wedding to be perfect. But a poorly-chosen maid of honor may turn it into a disaster.Mari Hays’s older sister Crystal is getting... Read more

Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell & Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A one-of-a-kind mystery collection that showcases the immense storytelling talent #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has honed over her tremendous career—including a bone-chilling, previously unpublished short story forty years in the making.

In 1974, master storyteller Mary Higgins Clark began writing a novella inspired by... Read more

Devotion

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book.

“That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she’d been desperate. She... Read more

Nothing Serious

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with faces old and new, this collection of stories from the master of humor promises pure entertainment for audiobook lovers everywhere.P. G. Wodehouse's famed collection of ten stories marks the reappearance of many old friends—who find themselves in delightfully absurd situations. In "How's That, Umpire?" a mutual hatred of cricket... Read more

Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes

By: Per Petterson

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo of his mother as a... Read more

The Whitechapel Fiend

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Luke Pasqualino

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack the Ripper stalks through London, and only the Shadowhunters can stop him. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

Simon learns the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders—“Jack” was stopped by Will Herondale and his institute of Victorian Shadowhunters.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon... Read more

A Long-Ago Affair

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

A Long-Ago Affair is a poignant story of requited love and betrayal. A 16-year-old boy with a torrid crush on an older married woman finds himself unwittingly facilitating her secret love affair with another man. Read more

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) is recognised as one of the greats of Russian literature. Soon after his 1843 graduation from the School of Engineering in St. Petersburg, the young Dostoyevsky abandoned his career to devote himself to literature. He quickly became a popular, recognised author, but in the unstable political environment of the... Read more

Her Lover

By: Maxim Gorky

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov, is probably the best-known late-19th-century Russian fiction writer among the English-speaking world. His pen name translates as Maxim the Bitter, an attitude reflected in many of his works.

Much of his writing reflects his own terrible life experiences and suffering. It is in his short... Read more

The Diary of Mr. Poynter

By: M. R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, mediaeval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary... Read more

The Blue Cross

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In The Blue Cross however, we are following the famous Parisien sleuth Aristide Valentin in pusuit of a master criminal in London.

Valentin's problem is that he has no clue where to start looking... until in a restaurant where... Read more

Five Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 28 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

Who killed Charlie Winpole?

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 15 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

The Comedy at Fountain Cottage

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 57 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

The Trial for Murder

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An eerie and evocative ghost story by one of English literature's greatest writers. On looking out of his window, the narrator sees two men going down Piccadilly. The second man looks strangely unwell and waxen. When he is later called to jury service, the accused turns out to be the first man he had seen in Piccadilly...and the second his... Read more

The Empty Drum

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) began writing when he was stationed in the Caucasus in the Russian army. After fighting in the Crimean war, he settled in St. Petersburg, where he wrote a number of stories which reveal an increasing disillusionment with society and the military. "The Empty Drum" is an antiwar story adapted from a Russian folk tale. Read more

Five Detective Stories by G. K. Chesterton

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

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

This collection features five of Chesterton's most intriguing cases:The Shadow of the Shark, The Hammer of God, The Invisible Man, The Queer Feet and The Blue Cross Read more