Short Stories audiobooks

The Voice

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 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, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening... Read more

Seven Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven short story masterpieces by the acknowledged master of the short story, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

'The Parasite'
'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley'
'The Man with the Watches'
'A Pastoral Horror'
'The Slapping Sal'
'Lot No. 249'
'The Ring of Thoth' Read more

The Eyes

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 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. Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career.

During a convivial evening during which all the guests... Read more

Three Detective Anecdotes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Three short detective anecdotes by one of the key founding fathers of the detective genre, Charles Dickens.

The Pair of Gloves.
The Artful Touch.
The Sofa. Read more

The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 – 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian "Golden Age" of the short story.

"The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress" is the story of a... 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

Multiverse

By: Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois

Narrated by: Jim Manchester, Richard Powers, Charlotte Anne ...

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted... Read more

Outside the Door

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 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.

Outside the Door is a strange tale illustrating how terrible deeds from the past can imbue the rooms in which they happened with the spirit of the events which... Read more

A Brush with Love

By: Rachel Hauck

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ginger Winters is a gifted hairstylist with scars no one can see. The last thing she expects from the New Year is a new chance at love.Overcoming a childhood tragedy, Ginger emerges from the pain and trauma with a gift for bringing out the beauty in others. From the top big city salons to traveling the world as personal stylist to a country... Read more

The Gardener

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugh and Margaret Grainger have rented a lovely old house near an excellent golf course. At the bottom of the garden is a strange, well-kept, but untenented thatched cottage.

A visitor to the Graingers has a strange and overwhelming presentiment on passing the cottage that the house is actually not empty. Indeed, on several occasions he seems to... Read more

The Terror by Night

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Terror by Night describes a strange and uncanny haunting which is simultaneously experienced by multiple different witnesses in entirely separate ways... each of them... 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

Her Grave Secrets

By: Kendra Elliot

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for.Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back. Still caught up in the excitement... Read more

Gute-Nacht-Geschichte: Hans und Fritz - Das Seil der Freundschaft

By: Michael Bauer & Carina Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Kinder: Natürlich darf man sich nicht absichtlich in Gefahr begeben! Dennoch haben auch unschöne Situationen oft einen Sinn oder bringen etwas Gutes mit sich, wenn man hinterher so darüber nachdenkt... Und echte Freunde helfen sich und vertrauen sich Geheimnisse an. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als gemeinsam Abenteuer zu bewältigen und... Read more

Gute-Nacht-Geschichte: Hans und Fritz mit Susi und Petra - Magische Vögel und Freundinnen

By: Michael Bauer & Carina Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Kinder: "Warum in die Ferne schweifen, denn das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer da." In diesem Abenteuer stellen Hans und Fritz fest, dass neue gute Freundinnen gar nicht weit von ihnen entfernt wohnen...! - Wenn man sich neugierig, aber achtsam von einem guten Gefühl leiten lässt, können... Read more

Gute-Nacht-Geschichten: Hans und Fritz mit Susi und Petra - Band I

By: Michael Bauer & Carina Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieser Band enthält die ersten fünf Geschichten aus der Reihe der Erzählungen für Kinder "Hans und Fritz". Es handelt sich um Geschichten in einer günstigen Länge, um sie als Gutenacht-Geschichten anzuhören. Die Kinder erleben gemeinsame Abenteuer und erfahren, was Freundschaft bedeutet. In vielen der Erzählungen finden die Kinder Schätze -... Read more

Electric Dreams: Seven Futuristic Tales

By: Deborah A. Bailey

Narrated by: Kendall Livick

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of speculative fiction stories set in future worlds from Earth to the far reaches of the solar system. At the intersection of technology and humanity, what could happen? Electric Schemes – A frustrated employee plugs himself into his computer everyday in his boring job, but when his micromanaging boss tries to get him fired, his... Read more

Carniepunk: Hell's Menagerie

By: Kelly Gay

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A Charlie Madigan short story—from the series praised for “intricate world-building and richly complex characters” (Publishers Weekly)—as it first appeared in the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology. Read more

The Maker of Moons

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Released one year after the publication of The King in Yellow—a milestone of supernatural fiction—Robert W. Chambers' title story of this short-story collection is considered one of his finest weird tales. It is followed by a series of romantic art nouveau stories. Chambers' love of natural scenery, symbolic animal figures, and ghostly imagery... Read more

A Whisper in the Dark

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: various narrators, Cassandra Campbell, Gabriell...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight.This collection represents the best of Alcott's adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners... Read more

Suspended Sentences

By: Patrick Modiano

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Sean Runnette & Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the... Read more

Carniepunk: The Three Lives of Lydia

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Set in the enchanting land of Sang, a Blud series urban fantasy short story by the winner of Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Steampunk, Delilah S. Dawson, from the thrilling Carniepunk anthology.

The question isn’t whether Charlie Dregs has met Lydia, a Sang riff on Lydia the Tattooed Lady, but rather whether the woman has even... Read more

Carniepunk: Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the Carniepunk anthology—for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious…

It’s been seventeen years since the last time Ada’s carnival passed through her father’s hometown in Alabama—and no one is expecting the reception she gets. Read more

Carniepunk: Recession of the Divine

By: Hillary Jacques

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Urban fantasy author Hillary Jacques spins a mesmerizing tale of investigation and gods for the Carniepunk anthology—a collection of darkly supernatural short stories you won’t be able to put down!

Olivia Locke, formerly the Greek titan Mnemosyne, has built a nice little life for herself. She’s bound her ancient powers, has a steady job... Read more