Short Stories audiobooks

The Black Wedding

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 24 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

The Spinoza of Market Street

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd below, showing equal disdain for merchants and... Read more

The Man of the Night

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) had no equal in the realm of the pure "thriller." "The Man of the Night" is a classic example of Wallace's genius. Stepping purposefully out of the dark shop, with a large sharp knife hidden under his coat, the wanted man met a stranger. But it was quite a different kind of stranger than he could have imagined...... Read more

The Green Light

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The Green Light is an iconic horror story describing graphically the rapid decline into psychosis of a man who has murdered his wife. Read more

The 19 Club

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A secretive gentlemen's dining society meets twice a year. On these occasions they invite a guest speaker... always somebody who has done something extraordinary, like flying to Australia and back, driving across China... or some incredible criminal feat such as robbing the Bank of England. On the search for the next speaker, the Club Secretary... Read more

The Burglary

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English author, born in one of the "Five Towns" which form the background of so many of his witty stories. In The Burglary, Bennett tells the story of a highly respectable and distinguished citizen who hires a burglar to rob his house. Read more

Four Horror Stories

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1941) is best known as a writer of humorous stories and the crafter of the most grisly of horror stories.

The following four stories belong firmly in the latter category.

"His Brother’s Keeper"
"The Interruption"
"The Monkey’s Paw"
"The Three Sisters" Read more

Great Classic Crime Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, G. K. Chesterton & Va...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

1. Charles by A. J. Alan
2. The Magic Casket by R. Austin Freeman
3. The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
4. The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
5. His Brother’s Keeper by W. W. Jacobs
6. The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett
7. The Murder of the... Read more

The Interruption

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1941) is well known for humorous stories and for the most grisly of horror stories. The Interruption belongs very much in the latter category.Spencer Goddard's wife has died suddenly after a short and intense illness. Finally Goddard has his freedom and full use of his wife's wealth. But before he can begin to enjoy his... Read more

The History of the Man in Black

By: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. In The History of the Man in Black he describes the cynical journey of a generous and benevolent young man from dire pecuniary circumstances to riches, achieved by divesting himself of any moral considerations for others. Read more

The Squaw

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) is best known for his masterpiece of horror, "Dracula". But he was also the author of many exceptional horror stories, of which "The Squaw" is a prime example.It tells the story of a brash but kind-hearted American visiting Europe. He and his travelling companions are keen to visit the Torture Tower in the Burg at... Read more

The Seventh Man

By: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Six men, shipwrecked on the ice and trapped in their shack by the bitter Arctic winter, might be excused for beginning to "see" things. But how was it that they all saw the same thing - the mysterious stranger? Read more

The Storm

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Storm" is Kate Chopin's most sexually charged story, and as such is quite exceptional for a work which was written in 1898. It describes a chance sexual encounter between Calixta and her former flame Alcée during a heavy storm in Louisiana when her husband Bobinôt and her son Bibi are absent.Chopin's description of the events of that day is... Read more

A September Bride

By: Kathryn Springer

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.When Annie moves to Red Leaf, she’s ready to call the little town home. But one handsome, suspicious policeman is ready to stand in her way . . . even if it means walking her down the aisle first.All Annie Price has ever wanted is a place to call... Read more

Mr. Tall

By: Tony Earley

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell & Courtney Patterson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mr.Tall, his first story collection in two decades, Tony Earley brings us seven rueful, bittersweet, riotous studies of characters both ordinary and mythical, seeking to make sense of the world transforming around them. He demonstrates once again the prodigious storytelling gifts that have made him one of the most accomplished writers of his... Read more

The Hunger, and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles BeaumontWhen The Hunger, and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The... Read more

Mr. Tall

By: Tony Earley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated return of Tony Earley, celebrated author of Jim the Boy
Two decades after his debut collection Here We Are in Paradise (LB, 2/94) heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, the rueful, bittersweet, and riotous stories of Mr. Tall reestablish him as a mythmaker and tale spinner of the... Read more

One Death, Nine Stories

By: Marc Aronson (Editor)

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Christina Traister

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas, Kevin. Age 19. Died at York Hospital, July 19, 2012. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job—at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two... Read more

Flings

By: Justin Taylor

Narrated by: Justin Taylor

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is roused from malaise when an alligator appears in her backyard. A group of college... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Riding for the Brand"After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and... Read more

West of the Tularosa

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Mistakes Can Kill You"Johnny O'Day, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam... Read more

The Giraffe Problem

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer, best known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.

The Giraffe Problem tells the story of an evening at the Problem Club, a secret society of gentlemen in London who meet once a month in a private room above a restaurant, where one of the waiters is the admirable... Read more

The Best of A. J. Alan

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

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.

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My Adventure in Jermyn Street

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The narrator receives a mysterious envelope in the post containing a single theatre ticket for that evening. There is no note or return address, and he has no idea who could have sent it. When he attends the performance, in the third act a mysterious lady takes the seat next to him and asks him to come with her to see her brother George after... Read more