Short Stories audiobooks

Mortal Lock

By: Andrew Vachss

Narrated by: Natalie Ross & Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his 'perimeter' from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival... Read more

Tales of Majipoor

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven stories of Majipoor from science fiction grand master Robert SilverbergHailed as "one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction" (Booklist), Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, Silverberg presents seven tales that chronicle thousands of... Read more

A Guide to Being Born

By: Ramona Ausubel

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A Guide to Being Born is organized around the stages of life - love, conception, gestation, birth - and the transformations that happen as people experience deeply altering life events, falling in love, becoming parents, looking toward the end of life. In each of these eleven stories Ausubel's stunning imagination and humor are moving,... Read more

More Ghost Stories

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

M. R. James second collection of ghost stories which he wrote while Provost of King's College, Cambridge. Written to be read aloud. Read more

Short Stories for Children

By: Washington Irving, Joseph Jacobs & Kenneth Graham

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect introduction to storytelling and a wonderful accompaniment to bedtime.

This collection includes well-loved tales such as Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Henny Penny by Joseph Jacobs, and The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Graham which are sure to charm children of all ages. Read more

Bedtime Stories for Children

By: Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm & Joseph Jacobs

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A magical collection of short stories to entertain children and ease the bedtime routine including Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm and Jack and the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington by Joseph Jacobs. Read more

Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of short stories will delight fans of the lovable Norfolk priest as he uses his, at times, eccentric insights to solve the seemingly unsolvable. Hugely entertaining. Read more

Stepping Stone & Love Machine

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson & Sean Crisden

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Stepping Stone: Truman Pope has spent his whole life watching the world go by. A gentle, unassuming soul, he has worked in the mailroom of a large corporation for decades without making waves, until the day he spots a mysterious woman in yellow. A woman nobody else can see. Soon Truman's quiet life begins to turn upside-down. Love Machine: The... Read more

Fatherhood, and Other Stories

By: Thomas H. Cook

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Over his acclaimed career, Cook's novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound readers across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of "Fatherhood," the Herodotus prize–winning title story, to the Edgar-nominated "Rain," a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a single, rain-swept... Read more

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A bumper selection of eight more stories featuring the Norfolk cleric which delights his audience with his idiosyncratic sleuthing. Read more

Short Stories by Jack London

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of four short stories by renowned storyteller, Jack London including 'The Scarlett Plague' and 'An Odyssey of the North'. Read more

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight classic spine-tingling tales from M. R. James. This was James' first collection of ghost stories which he intended to be read aloud. Read more

Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box

By: Mystery Writers of America & Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: various narrators, William Dufris, Karen White,...

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of The Mystery Box.With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one... Read more

Short Stories

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight brilliant short stories from the best female short story writer of her age. Katherine Mansfield's wit, pathos and descriptive genius combine in this collection to take the listener from a wry smile one minute to the verge of tears the next. - Miss Brill - The Child-who-was-tired - Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding - Life of Ma Parker -... Read more

In a German Pension

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1911, Katherine Mansfield's collection "In a German Pension" was inspired by her extended stay in a spa town in Bavaria in 1909, during which she suffered a miscarriage. The collection brought her instant fame and popularity as a short story writer, particularly as her amusing - though less than favourable - caricatures of the... Read more

Revenge

By: Yoko Ogawa

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Johanna Parker

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a... Read more

The Cask of Amontillado

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A sinister tale of grotesque vengeance. At carnival, the tipsy wine buff Fortunato is lured into a deadly snare by the man he considers to be his friend. The listener is at the same time horrified and yet fascinated. The audio equivalent of watching a train wreck. Read more

Without a Hero

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as a center for the treatment of... Read more

A TEXTBOOK CASE

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jeffery Deaver -- the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel The Kill Room -- comes an original short story featuring Rhyme.

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in a parking garage, with a veritable mountain of potential evidence to sift through, it may be the most challenging case former NYPD... Read more

Godforsaken Idaho

By: Shawn Vestal

Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Named “Outstanding 2013 Collection” by The Story Prize
Pushcart Prize WinnerIn this stunning debut, Shawn Vestal transports us to the afterlife, the rugged Northwest, and the early days of Mormonism. From “The First... Read more

The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the... Read more

Liar Liar

By: the Liars Club

Narrated by: various narrators, Ray Porter, Mirron Willis, R...

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Liar ['l─½-╔Ör] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer."Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until... Read more

The Dead

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Often hailed as the finest short story ever written in the English language, James Joyce's "The Dead" tells the story of a young woman who hears a familiar song unexpectedly at a Christmas party. The melody brings memories of a long-dead lover flooding back to her. Joyce's description of the multi-layered situation, characters, and atmosphere... Read more

After The Theater

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

After Nadya, a sixteen year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya's thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love... Read more