Short Stories audiobooks

Batchelors

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 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.

Batchelors is a charming tale of two brothers, Robin and Harry, who live in a mutually codependent relationship. Robin is timid... Read more

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Devon Bostick

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Lewis never thought he’d become a Shadowhunter…and now he has the chance. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy.

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

The Reticence of Lady Anne

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki” tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end. Read more

In the Midst of Life

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include“A Horseman in the Sky,”“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”“Chickamauga,”“A Son of... Read more

Five Short Stories by John Buchan

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, barrister, and member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and governor-general of Canada. While he was most famous for adventure stories, such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", he was also popular for his supernatural horror stories, of which "The Watcher by the Threshold" and "The Wind in the... Read more

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the pre-eminent figure in late nineteenth century detective fiction. A physician by profession, he soon found such popularity as a writer of detective stories that his writing was far more profitable than his medical practice.The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is a classic Sherlock Holmes story in which... Read more

A Madman's Manuscript

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' disturbing story detailing the memoirs of a deranged psychopath. Read more

An Impromptu Dance

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short-story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, wherein he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening... Read more

Who killed Zebedee?

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is one of the greatest of the Victorian mystery writers. For several years he was on the editorial staff of Dickens' magazine All Year Round and became Dickens' close friend and collaborator.

Alongside his great novels, Collins was the author of a great many superb short stories, mostly concerned with either the... Read more

The Kings of Orion

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, barrister, and member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and governor-general of Canada. While he was most famous for adventure stories, such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "The Kings of Orion".

"The Kings of Orion" is a classic tale of adventure set in the outer reaches of the British... Read more

The Wedding Guest

By: Guy Boothby

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy Boothby (1867 - 1905) was an Australian by birth, who came to England in 1894 and was quickly acknowledged as a masterly writer of thrillers and crime stories.

His best work includes a series of stories which appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1897 under the title The Prince of Swindlers. These stories describe the exploits of Simon Carne, one... Read more

The Red-Headed League

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the leading detective writer of the late nineteenth century. A physician by profession, he soon found writing to be more profitable that medical practice and rapidly gained fame with his tales of the master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.In The Red-Headed League, Holmes is faced with a bizarre puzzle. His client,... Read more

August Heat

By: W. F. Harvey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, particularly in the mystery and horror genres. August Heat is one of his best -nown stories. It tells a most peculiar tale of James Clarence Withencroft, an artist who is inspired to draw a sketch of a prisoner in the dock, being sentenced. Later the same day, he goes out... Read more

Three Twisted Stories

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This genre-bending collection proves that not only is Karin Slaughter "one of the best crime novelists in America" (Washington Post), she's one of today's very best writers—period. From the hallucinatory noir novella "Go Deep" to the twisted short stories "Necessary Women" and "Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line," this collection showcases the New... Read more

Humplebee

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 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.

Humplebee tells the tale of a young man of the same name who, in his youth, saves the life of his schoolfellow, Leonard Chadwick, who falls through thin ice on a winter pond. The gratitude of Chadwick... Read more

Tales of Unsound Minds

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens & Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An unsettling anthology of short stories featuring crazed characters, from the mildly eccentric to the criminally insane.

1. "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
2. "The Green Light" by Barry Pain
3. "A Madman’s Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
4. "His Brother’s Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
5. "The Dream" by A. J. Alan
6. "Query"... Read more

There's Something I Want You to Do

By: Charles Baxter

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, T. Ryder Smith, Scott Sowers & Ke...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From a contemporary master of the short story: a dazzling new collection-his first in fifteen years-that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience. These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to virtues ("Bravery," "Loyalty," "Chastity," "Charity," and "Forbearance") and the other to... Read more

Get In Trouble

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: Grace Experience, Kirby Heyborne, Tara Sands, R...

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “our greatest living fabulist” (Carmen Maria Machado)

“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new... Read more

Overclocked

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, ...

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its... Read more

Serving Up a Sweetheart

By: Cheryl Wyatt

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 3 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.Renovation contractor Colin McGrath can’t see someone in need and walk away.Which is precisely why, when a winter storm damages his new neighbor’s in-home... Read more

The Curious Case of Miss Amelia Vernet

By: Dana Cameron

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell comes an intriguing new tale that brings the supernatural thrills of the Fangborn world to Sherlock Holmes’s nineteenth-century London.On the surface, Amelia Vernet appears to be the great detective’s quiet sixteen-year-old cousin. But her innocent exterior conceals an important fact: Amelia... Read more

Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone?; & Three Little Kittens

By: Melissa Everett

Narrated by: Erin Yuen & Nick Mondelli

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone?: Look high and low with a little boy as he searches, and finds, his doggy in this classic rhyme. Three Little Kittens: Join three little kittens in their mischief with mittens in this classic Mother Goose tale, ending the way every good nursery rhyme should: with mother's homemade pie and kisses goodnight. Read more

Almost Famous Women

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. Nearly every story in this dazzling collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity - she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first... Read more