Short Stories audiobooks

Selected Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.

"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.

"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.

"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America,... Read more

The Afterlife and Other Stories - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed, and bestselling author, John Updike. Read more

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In "The Model Millionaire", the destiny of a young, ambitious, brilliant pauper changes with an act of his misplaced generosity. "The Happy Prince" is one of Oscar Wilde’s renowned fairy tales. From his vantage point, high above the city, the statue of The Happy Prince gives of himself in a way most astonishing. In "The Sphinx Without a Secret",... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales like "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Camel Got His Hump" answer questions only children would ask and answers them in a way only children would believe. Rudyard Kipling very much intended Just So Stories to be read aloud— and no one does it better than Carl Reiner, who brings each original story to life. A superbly... Read more

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more

How It Ended

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation comes a collection of stories drawn from his nearly three-decade career. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York, or the South, they unveil the manic flux of our society as they capture various stages of adulthood: a young man confronting the class system... Read more

The Homecoming & Other Stories

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Joanna Myers, Kate Binchy, Patricia Hodge & Sea...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin’s restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? 'Telling... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue... Read more

Road Rage

By: Joe Hill, Stephen King & Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe... Read more

The Aunt and Amabel

By: E. Nesbit

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey to the roots of Narnia. C.S. Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. And the story of Amabel and her journey through a mahogany wardrobe so struck him, that he later created his whimsical masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Discover the tale that inspired the great C.S. Lewis, and journey to... Read more

Amélie and the ferry and other stories

By: Kim Hoffmeister

Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Amélie is a naughty little French girl who lives in Brittany with Maman, Papa and little brother Louis. In this set of four exciting stories, Amélie takes a trip on a ferry, goes to the seaside, stays on a farm and looses a tooth! Stories are narrated in English but have a generous sprinkling of French words and phrases to help children learn... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick & ...

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
-Chattery Teeth
-The Moving Finger
-Home Delivery
-Sneakers
and more…. Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, T...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
Introduction (Stephen King)
Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)
Crouch End (Tim Curry)
Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)
The House on Maple St. (Tabitha... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Joe Morton & Joe Man...

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
-The Night Flier
-Popsy
-It Grows on You
-You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
-The Ten O'Clock People
... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Multiple readers

Length: 26 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an... Read more

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Groff presents nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.



In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a... Read more

Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Young demigods, brace yourselves for a peak inside the highly classified Demigod Files! Compiled by Camp Half-Blood's senior scribe, Rick Riordan, these top secret archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilous adventures and behind-the-scenes interviews with your favorite characters--Connor and Travis, Clarisse, Annabeth, Grover, and... Read more

Day of Atonement

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York—or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he... Read more

Sketches by Boz Volume 1

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens started his literary career as a journalist reporting for ‘The Morning Chronicle,’ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come. The Sketches ‘Illustrative of Everyday Life... Read more

The Puss in Boots Collection

By: Uncredited

Narrated by: Margot Kidder

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Puss in Boots brings to life the tale of the clever cat who wins his kind master a fortune and wife. Children of all ages will enjoy The Frog Prince, The King of the Mountains, The Brave Little Tailor, The Rats of Hamlintown, The Fortunes of Moti and The Twelve Dancing Princesses, all included in this collection. Read more

Stories from the Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of our very best stories by Rudyard Kipling about Mowgli and his animal friends as well as his most dangerous enemy, the tiger Shere Khan. Read more

The Wolf Hunter

By: Alan LeMay

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A demon coyote that's too fast to shoot and too smart to poison is closing in. Will the Wolf Hunter survive? Read more

Death Marks Time in Trampas

By: T. T. Flynn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Five magnificent western stories, in addition to the title story: Battle Hymn for a Lost Lawman -- Valley of the Damned -- Glory Blast -- Border Blood. Read more

Weight of Command

By: Ernest Haycox

Narrated by: Swede Colter

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Several travelers risk death, and worse, to reach Lordsburg, Arizona. Among them — an English hunter, a whiskey drummer, a young woman known only as Henriette, an army officer's fiancée, a gambler and Malpais Bill, who's on his way to a gunfight. The stage route crosses hostile Apache territory — and they will be spotted. Read more