Short Stories audiobooks

The Lost Herondale

By: Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman

Narrated by: Jack Falahee

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon learns the worst crime a Shadowhunter can commit: desertion of their comrades. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

In the early nineteenth century, Tobias Herondale abandoned his fellow Shadowhunters in the heat of battle and left them to die. His life was forfeit, but Tobias never returned, and the Clave claimed... Read more

A Blink of the Screen

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.
 
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other... Read more

Strange Worlds

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new collection of five short stories from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, listeners get an eclectic sampling of the writer's work—from SF parody to murder mystery and beyond."The Things That Live in Cages"An MMA fighter at the end of his career is offered the chance to stay young, fit, and stronger than ever—but the... Read more

Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories

By: Susan Gabriel

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This delightful collection of short stories from bestselling author Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 and Amazon #1 bestseller), is rich in humor, as well as mystery and meaning.Whether white or black, living or dead, down home country or upscale urban, Gabriel’s characters are quirky, poignant and... Read more

The Last Trump

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

'The Last Trump' is an engaging and tense story about a man who believes he has calculated the exact date and time of the end of... Read more

The Things That Live in Cages

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry!In “The Things That Live in Cages,” an MMA fighter at the end of his career is offered the chance to stay young, fit, and stronger than ever—but the price is his humanity. Read more

The Vanishing Assassin

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, Edgar Allan Poe’s brilliant amateur detective, Auguste Dupin, is called in to investigate a savage murder perpetrated by an invisible killer. Read more

The Doll Maker

By: John William Wall

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful horror tale by the author of The Sound of His HornThe Doll Maker tells the tale of Clare Lydgate, a young woman studying at boarding school for her Oxford scholarship examinations. In the evenings, she escapes the school grounds by climbing over the wall of Brackenbine Hall. It is here that she encounters the charismatic and... Read more

The Death Song of Dwar Guntha

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry!In “The Death Song of Dwar Guntha,” two old warriors prepare to ride into battle for the last time to save the future of Barsoom. Set in the world of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, this story first appeared in the anthology Under the Moons of Mars. Read more

Clean Sweeps

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a reporter accompanies a special ops team on a dangerous mission against space pirates. Read more

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother and Father are called away suddenly, because Grandma is “failin’ fast”. This leaves the oldest Bassett girls, Tillie and Prue, to oversee the cooking of the Thanksgiving feast. Soon all eight children pitch in, though the subtleties of plum pudding and stuffed turkey are completely unknown to them. The result is a whole bunch of... Read more

Beginnings and Ends

By: Suzanne Brockmann

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Suzanne Brockmann, bestselling author of When Tony Met Adam and the pulse-pounding Troubleshooters series, has been hailed by USA Today as a "superstar of romantic suspense." In this original short story, Brockmann returns with two of her most beloved characters from the Troubleshooters world: operative Jules Cassidy and his husband, Robin.After... Read more

All Dressed Up in Love

By: Ruth Logan Herne

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Windy Lanzl

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Tara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. A third-year law student, Tara Simonetti just needs a job to pay the bills and put food on the table. After her father’s untimely death, she’s determined to give her small hometown what he didn’t have: a good, honest lawyer, but law school isn’t cheap. When she... Read more

The End of a Show

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The End of a Show is a poignant tale of a quack showman and seller of dubious stomach pills who carries out what he believes to be his first-ever act of kindness - an act which horrifies and saddens in equal measure. Read more

Lost Treasure

By: Caradoc Evans

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

David Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a Welsh story writer, novelist, and playwright. Evans was brought up in a Welsh-speaking community in Cardiganshire, and although he learned English at school and always wrote in English, his work is soaked in Welsh syntax and vocabulary. Evans left school at 14 and worked throughout Wales in a series of... Read more

The Well

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1941) is best known as a writer of humorous stories and the crafter of the most grisly of horror stories.

The Well tells the subtle and terrible tale of a man who murders his unscrupulous cousin, who is attempting to blackmail him, and hides the body in a disused well. It seems to be the perfect crime until one day his beloved... Read more

The Perfect Crime

By: Seamark

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It takes two years for the elderly bank clerk to plan and commit the perfect crime. The crime where nobody will ever pursue the criminal and where he will be free to enjoy his ill-gotten gains for the rest of his life. His crime is so brilliantly planned that nobody will ever know...nobody need ever have known...had he not inadvertently given... Read more

Mad Monkton

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories.

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this... Read more

The Nightmare Room

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lucille. Are you poisoning me?"

When the young husband asks this question of his beautiful young wife, a terrible drama is about to unfold in The Nightmare Room...a strange place where high emotions and dire tragedies are the norm. Read more

The Coffin Maker

By: Alexander Pushkin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) leads the great names of Russian literature. After completing his education, Pushkin devoted himself to the pleasures of society, alongside his writing.

In 1820 he was banished to the Caucasus for writing and promoting liberal views. Deprived of his social life, Pushkin devoted himself to his writing and bequeathed... Read more

The Apple Tree

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 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.

The Apple Tree is a delightful story narrated from the perspective of a child whose father discovers that he has a rare and valuable apple tree growing in his orchard. The family wait impatiently for the... Read more

The Tea-Leaf

By: Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854-1943), an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation.

The Tea-Leaf is the most... Read more

The Enemy

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist and short-story writer.

The Enemy tells the story of a mild-mannered bookseller, Jack Harding, whose life is completely ordered and unremarkable except that he has a terrible enemy - a man named Tonks, who pursues him with uninvited joviality, driving Harding to... Read more

The Queer Feet

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In The Queer Feet, Father Brown pulls off an outstanding and captivating piece of deduction when he hears very odd footsteps in a most peculiar hotel in London, where a secret society is dining. As he considers the impact of... Read more