Short Stories audiobooks

The Confession of Charles Linkworth

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 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.

Charles Linkworth is guilty of the very worst kind of murder imaginable and is sentenced to hang the next morning. The prison doctor certifies the death following the... Read more

The Other Bed

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 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 Other Bed tells the tale of a hotel guest who is allocated what appears to be a very fine first floor room at a highly reasonable price. There are two beds in the... Read more

If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

By: Judy Chicurel

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness—a novel in stories about a young woman and her town in the early 1970sIt is the summer of 1972, and Katie has just turned eighteen. Katie and her town, Elephant Beach, are both on the verge: Katie of adulthood, Elephant Beach of gentrification—but not yet. Elephant Beach is still gritty,... Read more

The Dust-Cloud

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 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.

"The Dust-Cloud" tells the story of a very unusual ghost. The apparition is a reconstruction of a dreadful car accident in which a child is run over and the... Read more

The Secret of Dr. Vaux's Intrigue

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

The Cat

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cat is an odd story about a young man who suffers a severe shock reaction to the unexpected ending of his engagement. Initially he is thrown into a deep depression which lasts several months, but then all of a sudden something snaps in his brain and he undergoes a phenomenal transformation.

Not only does his depression leave him, but he... Read more

The Parasite

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most intriguing novella.

Austin Gilroy is a scientist and is by nature sceptical of anything to do with the occult. So when his colleague, Professor Wilson, introduces him to the mysterious and sinister hypnotist, Miss Penclosa, he is inclined to view her as a fraud.

But when Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised and Miss... Read more

The Bath Chair

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 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.

The Bath Chair is a sinister tale of Alice Farraday who harbours an obsessive hatred of her selfish brother Edmund. Alice is a believer in occult powers, and... Read more

Gavon's Eve

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 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.

Gavon's Eve is a terrifying story of mysterious occult devil worship and witchcraft which pervades a remote rural district in Great Britain.

When two aristocratic... Read more

How I became a Secret Agent

By: Dr. A. K. Graves

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The mysterious man known as Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves was a double agent working for the German secret service and MI5 before the start of the first world war.

In 1912 he was arrested in Scotland and imprisoned. But after 8 months he was mysteriously released and shortly afterwards appeared in New York, where he caused a sensation by publishing... Read more

White Tiger on Snow Mountain

By: David Gordon

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff—art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality—in his own unique style, described by... Read more

A November Bride

By: Beth K. Vogt

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

There's more than just leaves falling this autumn! A November Bride is a heartwarming romance novella that will captivate your heart and make you say 'I do' to love. It's When Harry Met Sally meets You've Got Mail in a cozy fall setting.Can a decades-long friendship marred by two romantic missteps ever lead to happily ever after?Sadie... Read more

Six Stories and an Essay

By: Andrea Levy

Narrated by: Andrea Levy

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with the publication of her first novel, the semi-autobiographical EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE... Read more

A Baby and a Wedding

By: Lorhainne Eckhart

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Baby and a Wedding: A heartwarming tale of unexpected twists. As their wedding day approaches, Emily and Brad encounter an unexpected obstacle – Emily's past marriage resurfaces, threatening to cast a shadow over their happiness. Bitterness and challenges arise as they navigate the complexities of untangling her past. With determination and... Read more

Motoring Tales

By: E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling & A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers.

Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new... Read more

Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.

From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies,... Read more

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 1

By: Johnny Bread

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio-book is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories. A woman goes to an Indian reservation. She wants to see the shaman. She wants him to help her find a husband. The shaman knows a lot of things. Can he help her?A man breaks into a house. He thinks nobody is in the... Read more

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 2

By: Johnny Bread

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories.A young woman is looking for her diamond ring. She can’t find it. Then she remembers meeting a homeless man. Did he take her ring and disappear?A pack of trained wolf-like creatures are chasing a man in the forest.... Read more

My True Love Gave to Me

By: Stephanie Perkins

Narrated by: Various

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle... Read more

The Lottery, and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Ma...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime,... Read more

Fingers of a Hand

By: H. D. Everett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) was one of the most renowned Victorian horror writers, often publishing her spine-tingling tales under the pen name Theo Douglas.

"Fingers of a Hand" is an eerie tale in which strange and urgent written warnings appear to a family telling them to leave the house where they are staying immediately. These... Read more

Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 14 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.

Afterward is a dramatic story of the most mysterious ghost... Read more

Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

By: Andre Dubus III & Breece D'J Pancake

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia. Read more

Here in My Heart

By: Anna DeStefano

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Live and work together, or lose everything that matters…The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with—live with—is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can.Sheriff’s deputy Brad Douglas has come a long way... Read more