Short Stories audiobooks

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jane Carr

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories

In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.

Stories of dislocation and family... Read more

An October Bride

By: Katie Ganshert

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Walk down the aisle with An October Bride, a sweet and enchanting love story that will leave you swooning. In this heartwarming tale of a fake engagement turned real love, The Proposal meets Father of the Bride.What if the only way you could make your father's last wish come true . . . was to marry the man of your dreams?Emma Tate has just moved... Read more

The Maze

By: Charity Tahmaseb

Narrated by: Ashley Klanac

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How can you escape when there's no way out?Three stories. Three heroines. Three choices.The Maze: Cadet Eppie Langtry navigates the cold and endless maze as part of the Academy’s final training exercise. Her exploration leads her to a fellow cadet, and their combined curiosity triggers something no one expects--least of all the cadre running the... Read more

Stone Mattress

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lo...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships... Read more

The Tale

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Joseph Conrad's most haunting sea-stories, describing a haunting life or death decision at sea which is made in a moment... and takes a lifetime to doubt it's wisdom. Read more

The Death Mask

By: H. D. Everett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 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. The Death Mask is one of the weirdest and most chilling of her short stories. It tells the tale of a widower who had made a peculiar promise to his late wife on her deathbed.... Read more

The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Jim Gough

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider... Read more

A Man Called Trent

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two exciting stories featuring Lance Kilkenny by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "A Man Called Trent," nester Dick Moffitt lies dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent"—an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to... Read more

Four Adventure Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping tales by the master of Adventure Stories, Joseph Conrad. "The Tale", "The Inn of the Two Witches", "The Secret Sharer", "The Idiots". Read more

A Joy Ride

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 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 dress.A... Read more

Lovely, Dark, Deep

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in... Read more

Carniepunk: A Duet with Darkness

By: Allison Pang

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss this urban fantasy short story featuring Abby Sinclair in the spellbinding Carniepunk anthology collection, from bestselling author Allison Pang!

Having just quit Julliard, disillusioned fiddler Melanie St. James finds herself as part of a group of traveling musicians en route to an OtherFolk carnival. Eager to break the chains of a... Read more

Carniepunk: The Cold Girl

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mesmerizing Carniepunk anthology, a vampire short story from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine—the author who brought you the immensely popular Morganville Vampires series.

When Kiley learns firsthand what evil lurks in the heart of her boyfriend, he’ll learn about the Cold Girl, and her penchant for retribution. Read more

Monstrous Affections

By: Kelly Link (Editor)

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Predatory kraken that sing with—and for—their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow... Read more

The Monogram Murders

By: Sophie Hannah & Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel... Read more

Carniepunk: The Demon Barker of Wheat Street

By: Kevin Hearne

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hounded—“a superb urban fantasy debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—comes an Iron Druid Chronicles short story in the captivating Carniepunk anthology.

The ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan gets more than greasy corn dogs and flat soda when he visits a carnival in Kansas to which his apprentice,... Read more

Carniepunk: The Sweeter the Juice

By: Mark Henry

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the Amanda Feral series Mark Henry lends his brilliantly twisted imagination to the gripping Carniepunk anthology in this creepy zombie short story.

When the zombie apocalypse overtakes New York City, a trip to Coney Island is the most frightening thing of all. A gruesome tale of transformation, Ferris wheels, and transsexuals. Read more

Shifting Shadows

By: Patricia Briggs

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author—including four all-new, original stories from the world of Mercy Thompson.Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger…A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today” (Fiction Vixen Book... Read more

The Amateur

By: David Gordon

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man fleeing heartbreak back home meets a mysterious expat at a café in Paris. What begins as a friendly conversation between two outsiders soon transforms into a heart-pounding confession that threatens to shake both men to their cores. In this darkly funny, Sopranos-meets-Sebald page-turner by acclaimed mystery writer David Gordon,... Read more

Esther Kreindel the Second

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. Read more

Trailing West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America’s favorite Western author.“Trap of Gold”Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling... Read more

Law of the Desert

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Western author.The Black Rock Coffin MakersTwo men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and... Read more

Gimpel the Fool

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely considered one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most notable works of short fiction, "Gimpel the Fool" was originally written in Yiddish. It was later translated into English by Saul Bellow and appeared in the 1953 edition of Partisan Review. The story, a parable, tells of a foolish, unlucky baker named Gimpel, who is constantly tricked and... Read more

Airtight Willie & Me

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of six gritty tales from the underground is a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them.With tales of slick con men, revenge, a heist gone awry, and more, Robert Beck, the man many know as Iceberg Slim, brings us on a ride through the terrifying urban streets. With the same unforgettable and distinctive prose... Read more