Short Stories audiobooks

The White Dog

By: Fedor Sologub

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) was the greatest of the Russian symbolists. Alongside his great novel The Little Demon, he wrote a number of masterful and haunting short stories, among which "The White Dog" is a superb example of his beautiful, poetic, and mystic prose. Read more

The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 18 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

Six Short Stories by George Gissing

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. His works often reflect the struggle for existence in a hostile world and the many (often tragic) compromises which are made along the way.

In this setting his often complex and endearing characters... Read more

The Salt of the Earth

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life. The Salt of the Earth is the poignant story of an overly kind-hearted, generous, and devoted clerk whose good nature and lack of self-assertion invites the exploitation of all around him. Read more

The House of Cobwebs

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life.

The House of Cobwebs is the story of an emerging friendship between two unlikely housemates: a young, struggling novelist and his landlord, a middle-aged retired assistant chemist who has inherited... Read more

Voices in the Night

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Jonathan Davis & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny, disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser... Read more

The Great War

By: David Almond, John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Ursu...

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell, JD Jackson, Gerard Doyle, ...

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In a powerful collection, eleven internationally acclaimed fiction writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life for listeners of all ages.A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart... Read more

Green Tea

By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.

Green Tea is an iconic Gothic horror story which tells the story of a tea-drinking clergyman, haunted by a terrifying... Read more

The Club of One-Eyed Men

By: Arthur Somers Roche

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) was an American writer, best known for his fast-paced mystery thrillers.

The Club of One-Eyed Men is an extraordinary crime story. The narrator is determined to turn himself into the master of all super-crooks if he can only find the right opportunity. Then suddenly one day in Paris, a strange set of circumstances... Read more

The Debt

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 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.

The Debt is the story of the relationship between an eminent Professor of Biology and a young but highly talented student. The great Professor Landfear adopts the bright but... Read more

Pigs is Pigs

By: Ellis Parker Butler

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was an American author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. He is best known for his famous short story Pigs Is Pigs, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. Read more

A Dill Pickle

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. A Dill Pickle is a wistful love story about a couple who meet again six years after their break-up, and for a moment the old passions, positive and negative, resurface in the course of a short, intense... Read more

The Problem of the Five Marks

By: Melville Davisson Post

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author best known for his detective stories.

The Problem of the Five Marks tells the tale of a young American who arrives in Paris with secret instructions from his father for the head of the Paris Police. All he knows is that it pertains to the recent death of his Great Aunt.

The senior detective... Read more

The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes

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

The Dabblers

By: W. F. Harvey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres.

Born into a wealthy Quaker family in Yorkshire, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, and took a degree in medicine at Leeds. Ill health dogged him, however, and he devoted much of his recuperation to writing short stories.

The... Read more

The 45% Hangover [A Logan and Steel novella]

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly twisty, 80-page novella from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Including an extract from his new Logan novel, THE MISSING AND THE DEAD. It’s the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing ‘No’ campaigner.... Read more

22 Dead Little Bodies (A Logan and Steel short novel)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A short novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author, featuring DI Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. CID isn’t what it used to be… It’s a been a bad week for acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae. Every time his unit turns up anything interesting, DCI Steel’s Major Investigation... Read more

The Water Museum

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America's preeminent literary voices “reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader's understanding of human boundaries” (Kirkus).

Examining the borders between one nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals his mastery of... Read more

When Tony Met Adam

By: Suzanne Brockmann

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An exclusive short story featuring characters from the Troubleshooters seriesTony Vlachic, a ruggedly handsome Navy SEAL, has kept his sexuality a secret for years under the threat of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." That is, until he meets Adam Wyndham, a charismatic yet troubled film star. Tony knows that by approaching Adam in front of his teammates,... Read more

In Tune with Love

By: Amy Matayo

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 34 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.April knows her job as maid of honor is to fulfill her sister’s every wish—whatever the bride wants, she will have. Unless it involves Jack Vaughn.April Quinn... Read more

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin... Read more

The Best Kind of Thief

By: Amy Sparling

Narrated by: Lauren Harris

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Being rich isn't fun when your dad is a womanizer whose newest girlfriend just stood you up in front of the entire high school. Seventeen-year-old Devin Asher has had enough. Armed with a full bank account, she takes a random road trip to have an adventure that will beat living in a house with a new step-mom each month. The only problem? She has... Read more

Things I'll Never Say

By: Ann Angel (Editor)

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Anne Flosnik, Amy Rubinate & Luke...

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on some provocative secrets in this fascinating collection of short fiction that will have listeners talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Hookups that are off-limits. A parent whose problems your friends won't understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their... Read more

Night at the Fiestas

By: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

***National Book Foundation 2014 "5 Under 35" honoree*** Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters... Read more