Short Stories audiobooks

Dear Life

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... Read more

Santa Claus in Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here in one recording are both of L. Frank Baum's Santa Claus stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and A Kidnapped Santa Claus. In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Baum gives us a glimpse into the magical history that surrounds the life story of Santa Claus. In A Kidnapped Santa Claus, we find out what happens when Santa is... Read more

Birds of a Lesser Paradise

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.

Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of... Read more

Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy—with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: “All’s Well with Bingo,” “Bingo and the Peke Crisis,” “The Editor Regrets,” “Sonny Boy,” “Anselm Gets His Chance,”... Read more

The Christmas Kid

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the... Read more

Astray

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and... Read more

Extraction

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with... Read more

Hungry Tales

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead—including one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Calling DeathA nonviolent zombie story set in AppalachiaChokepointA semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to... Read more

The Fox

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Sheri Blair

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: a fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now the women have to fend off not one, but two foxes. Read more

Dancing Dogs

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

No one brings to life the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs like New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz. He has warmed our spirits with enchanting tales and keen observations of his animal menagerie-the dogs, sheep, chickens, and other residents of Bedlam Farm. Now, Katz is back with what he does best in his first collection of... Read more

Fantastic Imaginings

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary who's who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the... Read more

The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An invisible, alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French Nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it, the Horla? Read more

Nice Girl Does Noir

By: Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by: James Lewis & Robin Rowan

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

To read Libby Fischer Hellmann is to love Libby Fischer Hellmann. Her writing is tight, fast, and highly entertaining. But I had no idea Libby was so versatile. My first inkling of this came a few years ago, when I asked her to contribute a story to an anthology I was editing. Frankly, I didn't think she'd make the cut. While Libby doesn't shy... Read more

This Is How You Lose Her

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Junot Díaz

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... 

"Electrifying." –The New York Times Book... Read more

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Isla B...

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one... Read more

The Convict and Other Stories

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Steven Boyer, Louis Moreno, Richard Poe, Ed Sal...

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South.

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime,... Read more

Coyote Tales

By: Jim Bihyeh

Narrated by: Cayenne Chris Conroy

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Wide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you won't find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. Coyote... Read more

Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard it before. . . . The fable of a donkey who carries a mother and child safely to Egypt. . . . The tale... Read more

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair & Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Agatha Christie at her very best.A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other... Read more

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser & Simon...

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater.A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small... Read more

Tales from the Fire Zone

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of five diverse and highly entertaining short stories, straight from the ingenious imagination of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, includes one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Adventure of the Greenbrier GhostStarring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West... Read more

The Sensational Baron Munchausen

By: Rudolph Erich Raspe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Surprising, sensational, inexorable. These are the adventures of Baron Munchausen. See him escape from the jaws of a hungry lion, shoot a stag with cherry stones, climb a beanstalk to the moon and many other fantastical fables. Each tale is taller than the last, as we enter the world of Baron Munchausen. Read more

When It Happens to You

By: Molly Ringwald

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be.Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion... Read more

The Under Dog and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet & Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of short mystery fiction all featuring Hercule Poirot as the investigator. A beautiful heiress... Read more