Short Stories audiobooks

Guys Read: Boys Will Be Boys

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more

Guys Read: Thad, the Ghost, and Me

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s nothing better than taking your timid little cousin Thad to one of those sweet haunted houses the 4-H Club decorates for Halloween. Except, of course, if the house turns out to actually be haunted. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more

Guys Read: Nate Macavoy, Monster Hunter

By: Bruce Hale

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nate’s best friend Jeremy is missing, and Nate seems to be the only one worried that he’s been captured by hideous creatures that live in the sewers. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more

Stories To Scare You Witless

By: Hector Hugh Munro, Wilkie Collins & Edith Nesbit

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare! "What Was It?" - Fitz-James O'Brien "Laura" - Hector Hugh Munro "A Terribly Strange Bed" - Wilkie Collins "The Three Drugs" - Edith Nesbit ... Read more

Lord of the Dynamos

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Technology worship is brought to a head when Azuma-zi’s head spins at the wonder of a humming, whirling and buzzing electric dynamo. He prays for the dynamo to deliver him from his troubles, and make his life easier to bear. Apparently the dynamo demands a sacrifice... Read more

Looking for Jake

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century.”—Neil Gaiman 

What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking,... Read more

Blueprints for Building Better Girls

By: Elissa Schappell

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Elissa Schappell's book delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters including the high school slut, the party girl, the reluctant mother, and the anorexic daughter, twisting our pre-conceived notions of who these women are, offering surprising revelations into the nature of female identity, and how it evolves. How... Read more

Christmas Short Stories

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short stories about Christmas--A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The... Read more

Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire

By: Francesca Simon

Narrated by: Miranda Richardson

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for
Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school... Read more

Short Tales: Greek Myths

By: Christopher E. Long, J.J. Hart & Shannon Eric D...

Narrated by: Alice Rea

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Short Tales introduce entertaining, easy-to-read books to children in the hopes that they will acquire a love of reading that will last a lifetime. For centuries, stories have been told that explain the world and all of its secrets. The Short Tales Myths explore the most famous tales in a simple writing style for young readers. The brilliant... Read more

Great Classic Stories III

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Br...

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narratorsThis recording includes the following stories:- “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville- “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce- “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London- “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte- “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan... Read more

BBC National Short Story Award 2011

By: Various

Narrated by: Indira Varma, Lydia Wilson, Mike Sengelow, Tim ...

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2011 administered in partnership with Booktrust, containing: ‘Rag Love’ by M. J. Hyland, read by Mike Sengelow; ‘The Heart of Denis Noble’ by Alison MacLeod, read by Tim Pigott-Smith; ‘Wires’ by Jon McGregor, read by Lydia Wilson; ‘The Human Circadian Pacemaker’ by K. J. Orr,... Read more

Train Dreams and Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.

In Train Dreams Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the 20th century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times.... Read more

Joe Ledger: The Missing Files

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels.CountdownIn this prequel to Patient Zero, meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.Zero ToleranceZero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Evil

By: Donald Thomas

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are five stunning novellas featuring the great detective, by the acknowledged master of Sherlockian pastiche.In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers. He cooperates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street, helps defeat a plan for a German invasion... Read more

The She-Wolf

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mary Hampton challenges Leonard Bilsiter to deploy his self-proclaimed Siberian magic powers to transform her into a she-wolf, nobody reckons with Clovis's cunning. Mrs. Hampton's disappearance in an Azalea bush and the coincidental appearance of a female wolf in exactly the same part of the conservatory during coffee causes considerable... Read more

Laura

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura is dying. She confidently predicts that she will be reincarnated as an otter. When the day before her funeral, a she-otter goes on the rampage in her arch nemesis Egbert's chicken run and flower beds, Amanda feels this is far too much of a coincidence. Egbert decides to call in the otter hounds. But even Amanda cannot foresee what happens... Read more

Supernatural Horror Stories

By: Edith Nesbit

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Nesbit is best known as the author of children's classics, such as The Railway Children. She was also a renowned author of ghost stories and othertales of terror, the macabre and the supernatural. In this collection of spine-chilling narratives, Nesbit presents us with a truly masterful set of tales of love which reaches out beyond the... Read more

Nate the Great Collected Stories: Volume 3

By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat

Narrated by: John Lavelle

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New on CD is the third collection of classic stories from Nate the Great and his trusty companion Sludge.

Lost List
When Nate’s friend Claude’s grocery list is lost, Nate sets out to find it before lunch.

Sticky Case
A stegosaurus stamp belonging to Nate’s friend Claude disappears, and the indomitable Nate the Great is called in on the case.

Fishy... Read more

The Lady or the Tiger?

By: Frank R. Stockton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Lady Or The Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's most famous work, first published in 1882. The semi-barbaric ruler of an ancient kingdom has devised an unusual method of justice. Offenders are placed in the arena of an amphitheatre where they must choose between two doors. Behind one is a hungry tiger and behind the other a beautiful woman whom... Read more

How We Are Hungry

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers is the voice of a generation. This stunning collection of his matchless short fiction includes the highly acclaimed "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water." "Eggers imagines emotionally and symbolically resonant scenes as... Read more

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Scott Sowers, Thérèse Plummer...

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The compelling short stories of Lydia Peelle have earned her two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, and publication in Best New American Voices. This debut collection brings together eight superbly crafted stories that peer deeply into the human heart, exploring lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural... Read more

Sleep Toward Heaven

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Carol Monda & Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Eyre Ward’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal
Texas summer.

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial
killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists
the... Read more

Mord und Seeluft - Abridged

By: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Narrated by: Stefan Kaminski, Paul Kindermann, Claudia Miche...

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestsellerautor Klaus-Peter Wolf zeigt sich in seinen Kurz-Krimis auch als Meister der Kurzgeschichten. Erzählt wird von unheilvollen Vorahnungen, tödlicher Eifersucht und Mördern, die glauben, ihnen käme nie jemand auf die Schliche. So erlebt mancher eine böse Überraschung und die Zuhörer werden von hochkarätigen Sprechern wie Stefan Kaminski,... Read more