Short Stories audiobooks

Bloodcurdling Ghost Stories

By: Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome & Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of ghost stories which make your blood run cold. * "An Account Of Some Disturbances In Aungier Street" - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
* "The Spectre Of Tappington" - Richard Harris Barham
* "The Man Of Science" - Jerome K. Jerome
* "The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes" - Henry James
* "The Spectre Bride" - William Harrison... Read more

Swans A Swimming (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventh story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season James Kirkhill thinks he has the best job in the world: coaching the girls’ swimming team. But he’s about to get into some very deep water… Read more

Geese A Laying (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season The maternity ward: the last place you’d associate with criminal activity. Which makes it as good a place as any to carry it out… Read more

A Disgraceful Affair

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Michael Page & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories ""White Nights,"" ""A Disgraceful Affair,"" and ""The Dream of the Ridiculous Man,""... Read more

Gold Rings (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season There is never a good time to look upon the face of a dead loved one. But Mr Unwin has dedicated his life to helping the bereaved. While helping himself at the same time… Read more

Calling Birds (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season Working in a call centre normally offers few career opportunities. But it looks as if Tracy’s about to get her big break. Read more

French Hens (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Third story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season Being a top-flight chef can be stressful. Thankfully a professional kitchen throws up some unique opportunities for body disposal… Read more

Turtle Doves (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Second story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season When a double suicide arrives at the city morgue, Sandra thinks it’s a Christmas like any other. But she’s about to get a very nasty shock – make that two very nasty... Read more

A Partridge in a Pear Tree (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

First story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season Billy Partridge wasn’t really cut out to be a cat burglar, but it was ‘do the job, or come up with thirteen grand by Thursday, or have both legs shattered’. ‘Do the... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. It's also the least... Read more

übernacht (Hörspiel)

By: Johanna Steiner

Narrated by: Tom Schilling, Fritzi Haberlandt & Sascha Roter...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Silvesternacht in Berlin. Jan will sich von der lauten Stadt zurückziehen, Audrey will die Party ihres Lebens machen und Ella kehrt für eine Nacht zurück, um ihre Zukunft zu klären. Drei Schicksale von Menschen, deren Wege sich in einer Nacht kreuzen. Eine Geschichte von Wünschen und Hoffnungen, von Abschied und Neubeginn und von den... Read more

Men in the Making

By: Bruce Machart

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Machart, the author of The Wake of Forgiveness, pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle and often fail to be good providers, to protect their wives from... Read more

New Stories From the South 2005

By: Shannon Ravenel

Narrated by: Jessica Almasy, Caroline Clay, Michael Emerson,...

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award and Edgar Awards, the 19 writers in this 2005 edition are not just considered some of the best Southern writers, but among the best American writers period. With works by such writers as Dennis Lehane, Moira Crone, Robert Olen Butler, Cary Holladay, Tom Franklin, and Rebecca Soppe, this... Read more

Stories To Give You Nightmares

By: M.R. James, Bram Stoker & Edith Nesbit

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A petrifying collection of classic tales of the paranormal, spooky happenings, gruesome deeds and uncanny apparitions. Guaranteed to disturb your dreams and keep you awake all night. Includes: * "The Rose Garden" - M.R. James
* "The Five Senses" - Edith Nesbit
* "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* "The Voice Of Death"... Read more

The Angel Esmeralda

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Michael Cerveris, Peter Friedman, Heather Lind,...

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) short stories—now available as a trade paperback.

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this “small masterpiece of short fiction” (USA Today) is a mesmerizing... Read more

The Head of Hair

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside a hidden panel in an antique desk, a man discovers a long braid of hair. And the contemplation of this head of hair drives him mad. Do spirits really come back to inhabit the forms they left in this world? Read more

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 2

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is... Read more

The Bohemian Girl

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Laurie Klein

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection... Read more

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is not... Read more

Seedfolks

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: to Curtis, who believes he can win... Read more

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Adam Verner & Christine Williams

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to... Read more

The Book Case

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Book Case" is a story that features Nelson DeMille's most famous (successful) character, Detective John Corey, who has appeared in six DeMille novels: Plum Island, The Lion's Game, Night Fall, Wild Fire, and The Lion. In this story, we see John Corey in his early years as an NYPD Detective, before he became involved with the Federal... Read more

The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever. Read more

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with these unremarkable words: “Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir.” Years later, when Jeeves became a household name, Wodehouse said he blushed to think of the offhand way he had treated the man at their first encounter.In the story “Extricating Young... Read more