Short Stories audiobooks

Middle Men

By: Jim Gavin

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen, Jonathan Todd Ross & T. Ryder S...

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In " Play the Man" a high-school basketball player aspires to a college scholarship, in " Elephant... Read more

The Color Master

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.

Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and... Read more

Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of... Read more

The Short Stories of Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro & Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki:

'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'Adrian The Chaplet', 'The Quest', 'Wratislav', 'The Easter Egg',... Read more

The Beast

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the reclusive elderly billionaire. But it soon becomes clear... Read more

The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple... Read more

Short Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating collection of Ambrose Bierce's humorous and macabre short stories:

Oil of Dog
A Shipwreckollection
A Cargo of Cat
Curried Cow
The Eyes of the Panther
A Bottomless Grave
The Boarded Window Read more

Brotherhood and Others

By: Mark Sullivan

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes Robin Monarch––called "one of the most compelling heroes since Jason Bourne" (Lisa Gardner)–– in three propulsive, nerve-wracking stories.

BROTHERHOOD

Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated, secret past and a very grim future. Currently locked up in the USDB—the military... Read more

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty hours of the very best of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories:

The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
The Gold Bug
The Balloon Hoax
Von Kempelen and his discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the case of M Valdemar
The Thousand and Second Tale of Sheherazade
MS Found in a bottle
A Descent into the... Read more

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Andrew Scott

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times

Seven superb stories, from the world's no. 1 storyteller

Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out... Read more

The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus

Narrated by: Andre Dubus

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society—these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog.In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a... Read more

Gracious Lies

By: Hilda Lolly

Narrated by: Anne Reid & Joanna David

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Gracious Lies, is a collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage. In "Hand, Foot & Finger", imperious Leonard and his pale wife Audrey head once again to Aunty Lynne’s West Country guesthouse. Can Audrey endure another week of toil on the... Read more

Mountain Man

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the first story in his most commercially successful seriesA comedic western, "Mountain Man" is about the tall tales and big adventures of Brekenridge Elkins, an exaggerated, cartoonish version of Howard himself. The story first appeared in the March–April 1934 issue of Action Stories and was so popular... Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Kyle Munley

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the classic short story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. Flashing between the present and the past—from Peyton's thoughts as he stands on the bridge to his memories as a major Confederate supporter in the... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A prominent sociologist, lecturer, and writer of the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's unorthodox concepts and lifestyle helped shape future generations of feminists. This audiobook includes her most enduring work, "The Yellow Wallpaper" as well as her 1913 article, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" The Yellow WallpaperTold... Read more

Adventure

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherwood Anderson's most enduring work, Winesburg, Ohio, is considered one of earliest works of modernist literature. The sequence of short stories centers on the life of George Willard and those who live in the rural, pre-industrial town. "Adventure," a short story within the novel, tells the tale of Alice Hindman, a twenty-something girl, and... Read more

The Ice Palace

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's earliest short stories, "The Ice Palace" is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young Southern woman who is bored with her conventional life. She's engaged to Harry Bellamy, a young man from the North. Despite concern from her family and friends, Sally travels to Harry's hometown to meet his family. Hoping for an exciting... Read more

The Monkey’s Paw

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1902, "The Monkey's Paw" is a classic horror short story written by author W. W. Jacobs. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy... Read more

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in the same vein as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most imaginative shorter works. John T. Unger is a young southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply... Read more

Eveline

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eveline" is a short story from James Joyce's classic Dubliners. Nineteen-year-old Eveline has decided to leave home, but her future journey may not be all that she hopes. Like other stories in Dubliners, "Eveline" offers a penetrating analysis of Dublin society, especially its stagnation and paralysis. Each story incorporates epiphanies, by... Read more

Pickman’s Model

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as one of the one of the greatest horror writers of the twentieth century, H. P. Lovecraft's stories are known for their profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Here is "Pickman's Model," one of his more terrifying stories. Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His... Read more

Eve’s Diary

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Though known for his classic novels of adventure and coming of age, Mark Twain is equally esteemed for his short stories, which abound with the colorful characters and often comic antics readers have come to expect from his longer works. Included here is "Eve's Diary," the comic tale of Eve, the first woman in the Judeao-Christian creation... Read more

The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry was a prolific American short-story writer—a master of surprise endings—who wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. In "The Gift of the Magi," one of his best-known works, a young couple at Christmas time who, despite having little money, buy secret gifts for each other. A moral lesson on the importance of love and... Read more

The Prophets’ Paradise

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert W. Chanbers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is "The Prophets' Paradise," a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuring personifications of Love and Truth, the story's structure has a palindrome-like quality... Read more