Short Stories audiobooks
O Youth and Beauty!
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Five-Forty-Eight
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Jewels of the Cabots
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Death of Justina
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by Meryl StreepHere is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was... Read more
View audiobookThe Enormous Radio
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Performed by Meryl StreepHere is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York... Read more
View audiobookChristmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Chaste Clarissa
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Brigadier and the Golf Widow
By: John Cheever
Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more
View audiobookThe Box
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button?
"Button, Button," Richard Matheson's chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the... Read more
Great Classic Horror
By: various authors
Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Feel the breathtaking tingle of suspense. Share the captivating horror of the supernatural in these six complete stories presented by a masterful reader.This audio recording includes:- “A Watcher by the Dead” by Ambrose Bierce—A corpse brings death, dereliction, and madness to those who would play with it.- “The Body-Snatchers” by Robert Louis... Read more
View audiobookBrief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: John Krasinski, Cory Stoll, Joshua Ferris, Deni...
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a... Read more
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Muyeenuddin
Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan's cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin's linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyce's Dubliners and Turgenev's A... Read more
View audiobookBlindman's Bluff
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“A well-tangled web of intrigue and murder.”
—Entertainment Weekly“Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff shows why.”
—St. Louis Post-DispatchOne of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s... Read more
Lot No. 249
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most... Read more
View audiobookThe Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies
By: David Lubar
Narrated by: David Lubar
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A girl doesn't have a date for the school dance—until her dad makes one for her in his lab. "Lily—meet Stitchy." A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner—until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper weenies ends in flames.
Critically-acclaimed... Read more
The Maples Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Peter Van Norden
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of... Read more
View audiobookThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
By: Robert E. Howard
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 18 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
"Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities...there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand...to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
In... Read more
The Southern Woman
By: Elizabeth Spencer
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 20 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The... Read more
View audiobookTales of Terror and Mystery
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This volume presents some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way, which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brainchild Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that... Read more
View audiobookBetween the Assassinations
By: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection
Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By: John Updike
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel."Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a... Read more
View audiobookGreat Classic Suspense
By: various authors
Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural. The haunting language and brilliant renditions create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes the following suspense-filled classics:“Ethan Brand” by Nathaniel Hawthorne—A lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for... Read more
View audiobookAnimal Crackers
By: Hannah Tinti
Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Dan John Miller
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the... Read more
View audiobookNightmare at 20,000 Feet
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more
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