Short Stories audiobooks

The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, ...

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker)

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroniclers of the city—the speakeasies and highballs,... Read more

Lives of the Poets

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an... Read more

Tales of Fantasy

By: Scott Reeves

Narrated by: Scott Reeves

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

11 fantasy short stories by Scott Reeves, including:Washi in the Underworld — When his beloved uncle dies, a boy climbs into the coffin and is buried alongside him, intending to follow his uncle into the underworld when the Lord of the Underworld comes to take his uncle’s body from the coffin.Ambrosia — a greedy merchant enslaves a fairy,... Read more

A Pastoral Horror

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sinister werewolf story by the master of spooky storytelling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In a small village, high in the tyrolean mountains, an Englishman finds himself caught up in a local mystery. Peasants are being mysteriously attacked and killed by a mysterious figure who appears to live in the nearby woods.

Joining forces with the local... Read more

The Other Side

By: Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the macabre tale The Other Side, Stenbock explores the werewolf theme in the sinister setting of a village on the edge of a stream. On the side where the village is, everything is peaceful and pleasant. But on the other side, where the forest is, there are werewolves, witches and other sinister beings.

When the young boy Gabriel is tempted to... Read more

Jean Grenier - the French Werewolf

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval tale of the trial of a werewolf in southern France.

A strange wandering beggar-boy meets a group of French girls who are tending their flocks. He frightens the girls with dreadful stories of souls in Hell and explains that he is a werewolf and describes how at night he ravages the country and devours sheep and children. The boy is... Read more

Gabriel-Ernest

By: Hector Hugh Munro & Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki" tells the tale of a modern werewolf.

"There is a wild beast in your woods" observes the artist Cunningham to his friend van Cheele. It turns out that Cunningham is right. The next day, van Cheele finds a naked feral child in the woods, who speaks in a very disturbing way about eating flesh... Read more

The Man-Wolf

By: Leitch Ritchie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) was a Scottish novelist and journalist, who is best known for The Man-Wolf - one of the first British werewolf stories.

At the ceremony of the ducking of the fishermen, a knight is accidently pitched into the river by his servant Hugues. This humiliation, which occurs in the presence of the beautiful damsel Beatrix,... Read more

The Sailor Uncle

By: Mary Lamb

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Ann Lamb (1764 – 1847) was an English writer who battled with mental illness all her life. In 1796 during a nervous breakdown, she stabbed her mother to death and was sent to an asylum. Six months afterward, her brother Charles took over her care, and she went to live with him, and the two of them collaborated on many works of literature... Read more

The Octave of Jealousy

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier's famous depiction of human nature in action. An eight-part series of snapshots, starting with a tramp who feels pangs of envy when he sees someone with a more settled and domesticated life. The focus of the story shifts to this individual, who we discover is jealous of someone else...who in turn is envious of another person and... Read more

The Werewolf

By: Eugene Field

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval legend about an evil curse, a love triangle and a dreadful tragedy. Harald and Alfred are love rivals for the hand of the beautiful Ysault. While Ysault favours the noble Harald, she does not know that Harald is under a terrible curse, inherited from his wicked grandfather.

The region is being ravaged by a vicious werewolf which... Read more

The Wolf

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking werewolf story by the master raconteur Guy de Maupassant.

Two brothers with a shared obsession for hunting, attempt to pursue a werewolf which is ravaging the neighbourhood. One brother is killed in the chase, but when the werewolf appears, the other brother's rage is such that he undertakes the hunt of his life. Read more

The Werewolves

By: Henry Beaugrand

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An eerie tale of how early pioneers in Canada are threatened by a pack of native werewolves. The watchman at the fort spots what he takes to be an Indian campfire on the other side of the frozen river. He fires warning shots and rouses the camp, but a party sent to investigate finds no trace of any human activity.

The sentry is arrested, but an... Read more

Fifty Great Classic Stories

By: Various

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century.

1. Juxtapositions by Stacy Aumonier
2. The Misogynist by Henry Prothero
3. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott
4. An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin
5. The Roman Road by Kenneth Grahame
6. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
7. My Adventure in... Read more

The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains

By: Frederick Marryat

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederick Marryat’s The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains is a unique literary work that stands out amidst the body of work of an author best known for pioneering the genre of the sea story. Excised from Marryat’s novel The Phantom Ship (1839) and published separately as The White Wolf it represents the first appearance of a female werewolf in... Read more

Rats

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A discussion about an infestation of rats nesting under rotting bed-clothes leads to a reminiscence about something ever more gruesome. A truly grisly horror story, by the master of the ghostly vision himself. Read more

The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Fleete, a relative newcomer to India, becomes extremely drunk on New Year's Eve and on the way home desecrates the temple of the monkey-god Hanuman, by stubbing out his cigar on the statue of the deity. A mysterious leper appears and bites Fleete on the chest, leaving a strange mark. Another priest warns Fleete that Hanuman has not yet finished... Read more

My Adventure at Chislehurst

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling murder mystery. When the narrator bumps into an old friend of his at Olympia, who has recently remarried, he is invited to dinner at Chislehurst to meet the new wife. When they arrive however, it appears that the lady has gone to visit her mother in Worthing, and due to problems with the motor car, she will not return until the next... Read more

MacArthur Park - A Justice Security Short Story

By: T. M. Bilderback

Narrated by: Patrick Peterson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Megan Beck has been asked to perform a highly top-secret job for Justice Security, assigned by their FBI liaison, Marcus Moore.Megan is given sparse instructions on what she is to do, but no information about why she's doing this particular job, or who the target might be.The job, unfortunately, has to be done on the night of her husband's... Read more

Hannibal: The Patrol

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story.

WINTER 218 BC

In Cisalpine Gaul, a Carthaginian patrol is moving stealthily through thick woodland.

It’s led by Hanno, one of Hannibal’s young officers, and his second-in-command Mutt.

Famished and cold, they are making for a town full of... Read more

Battleborn

By: Claire Vaye Watkins

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Kevin Orton, T. Ryder Smith, Morg...

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of... Read more

The Unreal and the Real, Vol 1

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories-- as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-- the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day.... Read more

Bullseye

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.

Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist--and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone.... Read more

Bullseye

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.

Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist--and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone.... Read more