Short Stories audiobooks

Iggy and Me and The Happy Birthday

By: Jenny Valentine

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The second of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. More funny and endearing family stories featuring the the irrepressible 5-year-old IGGY as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo, the ME of the title. ... Read more

Dracula's Guest - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. Here Emma Topping reads two stories from the collection, "Dracula's Guest" and "The Judge's House". Read more

Ghost Stories - Abridged

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Emma Topping

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

M.R. James redefined the classic ghost stories and this collection of short stories of widely regarded as among the finest in English literature. Three stories from the collection are read here by Emma Topping including "Lost Hearts", "The Mezzotint" and "The Ash-Tree" Read more

The Empty Family

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Colm Toibin, Terry Donnelly, John Keating, Jeff...

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories—“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure” (The Seattle Times).

Critics praised Brooklyn as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In The... Read more

Guy Not Taken

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jordan Bridges & Mary Catherine Garrison

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had... Read more

Give Me Your Heart

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: various narrators, Angela Brazil, Susan Boyce, ...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening... Read more

Szeptember (teljes novella)

By: Zoltán Bene

Narrated by: Barbara Hegyi, Gábor Reviczky & Zoltán Bezerédi

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bene Zoltán Kölcsey-éremmel kitüntetett író, a KMI 12 szerzője Szeptember című novellájának hangoskönyv-változata. Szereplők: Elbeszélő: Hegyi Barbara Hadnagy: Reviczky Gábor Virág: Bezerédi Zoltán Rendezte: Hegyi Árpád Jutocsa Read more

Búza tér, 1956 (teljes novella)

By: Bene Zoltán

Narrated by: Béla Fesztbaum

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bene Zoltán Kölcsey-éremmel kitüntetett író, a KMI 12 szerzője Búza tér, 1956 című novellájának hangoskönyv-változata. Elbeszélő: Fesztbaum Béla Rendezte: Hegyi Árpád Jutocsa Read more

Fear and Was It a Dream?

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave. Read more

Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book... Read more

Fangs

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Erik Davies, Sus...

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . .

Featuring:

·        bloody fangs
·        dark and foreboding crypts
·        mysterious... Read more

Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Bruce Coville & Words Take Wing Repertory Co

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen thrills! Thirteen chills! Authors Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen, Laura Simms and others share their sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always satisfying tales - all about monsters! Read more

Cousin William

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Kate Fenton

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin comes the short tale about a grown-up girl named Mary who finds good company with her cousin William—until the townspeople get to talking. Read more

A Coward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penned in 1899 by Edith Wharton, this short story features the proper Mrs. Carstyle, her husband Mr. Carstyle, and their daughter Irene who are all are taken with their guest and an eligible bachelor named Vibart. Narrator John Chancer is a film and television actor with professional readings of many audiobooks to his credit. Read more

A Piece of String

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

How does picking up a piece of string lead to a poor old man’s death? Find out in this Guy de Maupassant tale, narrated by actor Cornelius Garrett. Read more

Angela

By: W. S. Gilbert

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sweet story of a paralyzed man in Venice, who sees out of his window a young girl across the way. Unbeknownst to her, she brightens his days over the course of several years, and he begins to fall in love with her. One day he throws out a flower into the canal between them to say "good morning" and she responds in kind. They still... Read more

Araby

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage boy falls in love with his friend's sister and must finagle a trip to a bazaar at nearby Araby to win her heart. But will it be that easy? Read more

Brigadoon's Luck

By: Susan Schapiro

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Written for children, Brigadoon’s Luck is a charming tale, told from the point of view of a dog, Brigadoon. By facing one challenge after another, Brigadoon learns that with a loving heart, persistent spirit, and a little bit of luck, he can achieve success and happiness. An engaging story that will long be remembered, Brigadoon’s Luck will... Read more

Palo Alto

By: James Franco

Narrated by: James Franco & Stacey Miller

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”

James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they... Read more

Great Classic Mysteries

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published. This collection includes the... Read more

Темные Аллеи

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: Vasiliy Kupriyanov

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Иван Алексеевич Бунин (1870 — 1953) – знаменитый писатель и поэт, первый русский обладатель Нобелевской премии по литературе, академик Санкт-Петербургской Академии наук. Провел много лет жизни в эмиграции, став одним из главных писателей русского зарубежья. В сборник "Темные Аллеи" вошли следующие произведения: Темные аллеи, Кавказ, Баллада,... Read more

Повести и рассказы

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: Vasiliy Kupriyanov

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Иван Алексеевич Бунин (1870 — 1953) – знаменитый писатель и поэт, первый русский обладатель Нобелевской премии по литературе, академик Санкт-Петербургской Академии наук. Провел много лет жизни в эмиграции, став одним из главных писателей русского зарубежья. В сборник вошли следующие произведения: Роза Иерихона, Брань, Исход, Зимний сон, Готами,... Read more

Иуда Искариот

By: Leonid Andreev

Narrated by: Vadim Maksimov

Length: 28 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Данный сборник содержит лучшие повести и рассказы Леонида Андреева. Произведения различны по сюжету: среди них есть и юмористические рассказы, истории из жизни и мистические новеллы, героями которых выступают потусторонние силы. Тем не менее, все рассказы объединяет напряженность, драматичность и эмоциональная насыщенность тона повествования,... Read more

Рассказы

By: Ivan Shmelyov

Narrated by: Ekaterina Krasnobaeva

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Рассказы разных лет русского писателя И.С. Шмелева (1873-1950) проникнуты любовью к России, к ее природе и народным обычаям, поднимают нравственные темы, важные для любого человека.В предлагаемый слушателю аудиосборник вошли воспоминания о детских и школьных годах автора, о встрече с Чеховым, об открытии памятника Пушкину, очерк о праздновании... Read more