Short Stories audiobooks

The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The bloody-minded Montresor leads the pompous Fortunato deep into the catacombs, seeking the famed Amontillado wine. Here we have one of Poe’s most terrifying, and most “beloved” tales. Revenge and pomposity commingle beneath the river’s bed, leading to a delightfully sinister conclusion. Read more

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are visited by a young lady of 30 with a face like a hunted animal. Fear, it seems, causes her to constantly shiver. But her horror lies in the fact that her fears are so vague. Two years ago, in the small hours of the morning, a low whistle was heard in their ancestral home. It was then that her sister suddenly... Read more

Bagombo Snuff Box - Abridged

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Alexander Marshall

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is vintage Vonnegut: short stories never-before collected or published in book form. They are from the era of the Golden Age of magazines: a pre-television time when publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy, and others reigned supreme as Americans' entertainment choice.

Before that Golden Age drew to a close half a... Read more

Michael Tolliver Lives

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityNearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the... Read more

Cat O' Nine Tales

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cat O'Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller and bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Archer's trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these thirteen stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison,... Read more

The Nick Adams Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick... Read more

Jesus Out To Sea Collection - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON?

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke... Read more

The Secrets of a Fire King

By: Kim Edwards

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The first story collection from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter

With The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards touched hearts across the nation. In this, her first collection of stories-now with three new stories added-she explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society: a fire-eater,... Read more

El Gato Bandido

By: Rafael Pombo

Narrated by: Various

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

El gato bandido que quiso volveerse pateta y todo le salio mal. Una de las más célebres fábulas de Pombo es la base para esta dramatización que explica al personaje y que es un deleite escuchar. Pombo fue un poeta Colombiano nacido Bogotá, estudió ingeniería, luego se hizo diplomático, fue miembro del Parlamento de su país; y se lo considera uno... Read more

The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot

By: Jeffrey Archer & Francis J. Moloney, SDB, AM, S...

Narrated by: Desmond Tutu

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot is the result of an intense collaboration between a storyteller and a scholar: Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney. Their brilliant work—bold and simple—is a compelling story for twenty-first-century readers, while maintaining an authenticity that would be credible to a first-century Christian... Read more

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Arthur Morey & Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    

In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at... Read more

In This Way We Are Wise

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Short Story)

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    

In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at... Read more

The Last One Way

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

Reb Kringle

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

The Gilgul of Park Avenue

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review
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The Wig

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.  “The Wig” takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of... Read more

Reunion

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

The Tumblers

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, in which Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm’s way. FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES is a work of startling authority and imagination–an... Read more

The Twenty-seventh Man

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

 A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review Read more

Field Notes - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Another powerful contribution from National Book Award winner Barry Lopez. Read more

Light Action In the Caribbean - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his first new work of fiction since Field Notes (1994), Barry Lopez embraces fable, historical fiction, and contemporary social realism in these spellbinding stories, all informed by his deep spiritual connection to the natural world. Read more

Story Club Collection

By: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group

Narrated by: TianXuanXingHe

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of migrant workers is richly diverse and ever-changing. The stories told in this book are but a drop in the ocean compared to real life, yet they accurately capture and reflect the real experiences of young migrant workers. These workers "venture into the cities" to survive; they "take control of their own lives" to realize their value... Read more

Story Club Collection

By: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group

Narrated by: QingYu

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Stories of Making a Fortune" collects dozens of stories about making a fortune, allowing more readers to enjoy good stories, read good stories, appreciate good stories, cherish good stories, and spread good stories. Works published in Story Club include hilarious and amusing stories that make people laugh, as well as tragic stories that move... Read more