Short Stories audiobooks
Deadman’s Road
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher.The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who... Read more
View audiobookThe Unreal and the Real, Vol 2
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power-- all the time... Read more
View audiobookThe Sea Shall Claim Them
By: Ed Teja
Narrated by: Michael Welte
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Paradise can be treacherousSailing out into deep water is deceptive, especially when the weather is beautiful, the sky crystal clear. The tropics can lull you into complacency. This is the story of a Rasta and his girlfriend going fishing in a borrowed motorboat, and the separate tale of a couple traveling the islands on their sailboat. They... Read more
View audiobookInside Madeleine
By: Paula Bomer
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Nine Months, which Marcy Dermansky called "deliciously, dangerously rogue," comes a powerful, daring collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys.A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her... Read more
View audiobookAll the Rage
By: A. L. Kennedy
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
All the Rage was named to the shortlist of Best Short Story Collection by The Frank O’Connor PrizeA.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she’s “one of Britain’s most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents.” Richard Ford calls her “a profound writer,” and Ali Smith dubbed her... Read more
View audiobookYou Are Not A Stranger Here
By: Adam Haslett
Narrated by: Norman Dietz, Scott Sowers, Jonathan Todd Ross,...
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In his bestselling and lavishly praised first book of stories, Adam Haslett explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish... Read more
View audiobookJoe Ledger: Special Ops
By: Jonathan Maberry
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain Joe Ledger—former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world's most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers. Joe and his team square off against terrorists who have the most advanced and exotic... Read more
View audiobookA May Bride
By: Meg Moseley
Narrated by: Amber Quick
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.Ellie has prepared for her wedding all her life . . . but she has forgotten the most important part.Ellie Martin, a country girl living in Atlanta, has dreamed of a traditional wedding all her life—a wedding just like the one her younger sister is... Read more
View audiobookThunderstruck
By: Elizabeth McCracken
Narrated by: Erin Yuen
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House comes a beautiful new story collection. In 'Property,' a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish a rental house by removing his landlord's possessions. In 'Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey,' the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years... Read more
View audiobookNight Ride, and Other Journeys
By: Charles Beaumont
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantasticThe stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for... Read more
View audiobookIncendiary Girls
By: Kodi Scheer
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Incendiary Girls explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and dark humor. In these stories, the body becomes strange and unfamiliar terrain, a medium for transformation. In “Fundamental Laws of Nature,” a doctor considers legacy, both good and bad, when she discovers her mother has been reincarnated as a Thoroughbred mare. The... Read more
View audiobookThe Man with the Watches
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A mysterious and unsolved murder has taken place on the train from Euston to Manchester. A bearded man with a cigar is sitting in the first class smoking carriage. In the next carriage a tall middle aged man and a younger woman travelling together. When the train arrives at Rugby, the smoking compartment is empty and in the next carriage the... Read more
View audiobookSelf-Help
By: W. W. Jacobs
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: No
W. W. Jacobs was best known for his humorous tales of sailors, often related by his most popular and enduring character: the night-watchman on the wharf in Wapping, recounting the preposterous adventures of his acquaintances Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet. These three characters, pockets full after a long voyage, would take lodgings... Read more
View audiobookMystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold
By: Mystery Writers of America, Jeffery Deaver & Ra...
Narrated by: various narrators, Tom Weiner, Stephen R. Thorn...
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat,... Read more
View audiobookThe Stone Dragon
By: R. Murray Gilchrist
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A clause in the will of an old embittered aunt means that our hero has to choose between two women, cousins of his, of whom one is conventional and submissive and the other beautiful, erotic and unconventional. Trysts are held in the Italian garden in the presence of a stone dragon, a symbol of emotion frozen for all time, just as in a... Read more
View audiobookAn April Bride
By: Lenora Worth
Narrated by: Kristy Ragland
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.War changed everything . . . even their love.Bride-to-be Stella Carson cannot wait another day to marry her longtime sweetheart, Marshall Henderson. But her plans fall to pieces when she receives the terrible news that Marshall has suffered a... Read more
View audiobookThe Viscount and the Witch
By: Michael Sullivan
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven years before they were framed for the murder of a king, before even assuming the title of Riyria, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater were practically strangers. Unlikely associates, this cynical thief and idealist swordsman, were just learning how to work together as a team. In this standalone first installment of The Riyria Chronicles,... Read more
View audiobookThe Serpent's Tale
By: Dana Cameron
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Serpent’s Tale” is a Fangborn story set in 13th-century England from the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell.When the villagers of Godestone report a series of bizarre and troubling events, Sir Hugo, his heavily pregnant wife, Lady Alice, and her distant kinsman Father Gilbert are honor bound to investigate, for they are “born to... Read more
View audiobookNine O'Clock
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 48 minutes
Abridged: No
On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, 21 condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet... Read more
View audiobookA Witch in the Peak
By: R. Murray Gilchrist
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867 – 1917) was an English novelist and author of short stories often set in the Peak District. He is best known today for his Gothic short horror stories, which earn him a deserved position alongside the likes of Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde and Stenbock.
A Witch in the Peak tells the story of a money-lender trying to... Read more
The Holly Tree
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Running away from a failed love affair, the lead character of the story, a very shy, bashful man, finds himself snowed up in a remote coaching inn called The Holly Tree. He spends much of the next seven days recalling strange tales of inns around Great Britain, Europe and America and remembering those which he has himself visited. After several... Read more
View audiobookThe Brown Wallet
By: Stacy Aumonier
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Giles is out of work and deep in debt after being cheated by a business partner. He is desperate to find a way to support his wife Eleanor and his daughter Anna, but he has no obvious marketable skills or talents. His one wealthy relative lends him tiny sums, and is so unpleasant over it that Giles scarcely dares borrow more.
Then one day, Giles... Read more
A Poor Gentleman
By: George Gissing
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
George Gissing's poignant story of the mysterious Mr. Tymperley who is known to have lived an affluent country life, but is now mysteriously inhabiting a shabby bedsit in a poor street in Islington, London. At a society dinner party, he is rumoured to be undertaking social work and living among the working classes out of charitable concern...but... Read more
View audiobookThe Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson
By: Sherwood Anderson
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, famous for his highly subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he became a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a... Read more
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