Short Stories audiobooks

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

Slow Death and Other Dark Tales

By: Faith L. Justice

Narrated by: Gordon Rothman & Faith L. Justice

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking for sparkly vampires or heroic werewolves? Sorry, humans—and the occasional ghost—intent on murder, revenge, and righting wrongs take center stage in these tales. Meet a grieving mother witnessing a death-row execution, a wronged bureaucrat condemned to a future drug rehabilitation center, an Alzheimer’s patient trapped in his own... Read more

Hall of Small Mammals

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.

The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers,... Read more

The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exclusive zombie story written especially for Blackstone Audio, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. It is a tale told with humor and rich storytelling. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. The basis of the story comes from a court case in the nineteenth century in which the testimony of a ghost was entered into evidence, leading to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan Maberry has thrown Holmes and Watson into the mix for added punch. This... Read more

Property Condemned

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Pine Deep, the small town featured in Ghost Road Blues, Dead Man’s Song, and Bad Moon Rising, this is a chilling psychological ghost story. This story was previously published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone. Read more

Cooked

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio, originally published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry brings us a tale of drugs, Haitian mysticism, and revenge. Read more

Kate Wilhelm in Orbit

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Richard Powers, Carrington MacDuffie, Hillary H...

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit series of anthologies, representing the finest writing in the science fiction genre. Nineteen of Kate Wilhelm's stories were included in this series of twenty-one volumes. Among these are "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," an exploration of infertility and cloning in the aftermath of global... Read more

The Truth about Pretty Girls

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Shannon Cochran

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jude Hanson returns home to Poulet and her mother—the Georgia mountain town she grew up in and couldn’t wait to leave, and the woman she hoped never to see again.This compelling short story by New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is taken from the exclusive audiobook collection The Unremarkable Heart, and Other Stories. Read more

Honeydew

By: Edith Pearlman

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this... Read more

Calling Death

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published in the collection Hungry Tales, “Calling Death” is a nonviolent zombie story set in Appalachia. With humor and rich storytelling, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. Read more

The Martini Shot

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers.

Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even... Read more

Pegleg and Paddy Save the World

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a zombie story involving a couple of idiot moonshiners, a comet, gangsters, zombies, and the Great Chicago Fire. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

At the Farmhouse

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories.

At the Farmhouse tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is... Read more

The Step

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

The Step tells the bizarre and terrifying tale of a British money-lender in Alexandria who is aware of uncanny footsteps following him as he walks home from his club at... Read more

The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories. This collection brings together twenty of his most brilliant works.

1.The Room in the Tower
2.The Dust Cloud
3. Gavon’s Eve
4. The Other Bed
... Read more

The Step

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

The Step tells the bizarre and terrifying tale of a British money-lender in Alexandria who is aware of uncanny footsteps following him as he walks home from his club at... Read more

The Horror-Horn

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Horror-Horn tells the story of a skiing holiday in the shadow of the mysteriously named Ungeheuerhorn mountain. Literally the name translates as "Horror-Horn". It... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) is best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Invisible Man', Father Brown is able to solve the mystery of the jilted lover who is able to track his beloved, threaten and attack his rival and yet is never seen by anybody, even those who are specifically on the look-out for him.

Can it be... Read more

The Face

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Face tells the story of a woman, Hester, who has a strange recurring nightmare. The night before the nightmare she dreams of walking a path across fields, over... Read more

The Watcher by the Threshold

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a scottish writer, barrister, Member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and Govenor-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 is a prime example.

When... Read more

13 contes pour rêver

By: Perrault, Grimm & Andersen

Narrated by: C. Lucas, J. Lancrenon & Lydie Lacroix

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un tour d'horizon des plus beaux contes pour enfants, sous le signe du rêve et de l'évasion. Des contes des Mille et une nuits à ceux d'Andersen, les essentiels et les plus rares, de Barbe Bleue à Tom Pouce, les petits poètes en herbe y trouveront de quoi s'évader tout en permettant à leurs parents de retrouver les contes préférés de leur enfance. Read more

The Man who went too Far

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Darcy, recuperating from a serious illness, goes to stay with an old friend of his, Frank, in the New Forest, he discovers a puzzling change in the man. He appears to have become significantly younger and is also filled with exuberance and joy. Frank explains that he has spent the last six years studying Nature and has discovered a new... Read more

Going to the Chapel

By: Rita Herron

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If there’s a naughty list, Izzy Sassafras is on it—but she’s ready to make a new start this Christmas. Especially after leaving her lying, cheating, no-good husband and fleeing to her old hometown of Matrimony, Georgia. Izzy’s made herself a promise: no more men. All she wants to do is get her wedding business up and running—and mend fences with... Read more