Short Stories audiobooks

Further Tales of the City

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Frances McDormand

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Frances McDormandInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons... Read more

The Moving Finger

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients,... Read more

4:50 From Paddington

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery 4:50 From Paddington, a woman in one train witnesses a murder occurring in another passing one…and only Miss Marple believes her story.For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a... 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

Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

These four stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer's work. Theodore Bikel reads these wise and funny tales in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. The tales include "Gimpel the Fool," "Esther Kreindel the Second," "The Spinoza... Read more

Classic Short Stories

By: Mark Twain, O. Henry & Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written.The Fly by Katherine Mansfield, The Mezzotint by M. R. James, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy, The Jew’s Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Tobermory by Saki, The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton, B24 by Sir Arthur... Read more

The Jew's Beech Tree

By: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's dark tale of an unsolved murder, revenge and the supernatural. When the young Friedrich Mergel goes to work for his uncle, he is quickly drawn into a world of shady business dealings and a ruthless band of wood-thieves. But on the night when Friedrich quarrels with Aaron the Jew, he subsequently disappears, together... Read more

The Hangman's Noose

By: Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Hardy & Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An exceptional collection of strange and uncanny tales which cast various slants on that most grisly of events, the execution. These stories are all well-known classics, combining intrigue, fascination, compelling writing and endings with an unusual twist. - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy -The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy - An Occurrence at... Read more

The Fun Parts

By: Sam Lipsyte

Narrated by: Sam Lipsyte, Peter Berkrot, Deanna Hurst & Mich...

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A writer Time magazine has said “everybody should read,” Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestselling The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. In another story, an... Read more

Der kleine Ritter Trenk und das Schwein der Weisen

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Karl Menrad

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Trenk ist glücklich, als der Herr Fürst verkündet, dass er demjenigen, der den Stein der Weisen findet, jeden Wunsch erfüllt, den ein Fürst nur erfüllen kann. Das ist doch die Gelegenheit, Trenks Familie aus der Leibeigenschaft zu befreien! Aber auch der böse Ritter Wertolt ist hinter dem sagenumwobenen Stein her. Doch als Ferkelchen dem... Read more

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written by Adolphe Danziger De Castro in 1889, but based on an earlier German tale, this story was submitted to Ambrose Bierce for revision. He insisted on reinstating the tragic ending which De Castro had altered in order to cater for the tastes of the day. In reverting to the original plot, the story regains its full importance as a... Read more

The Three Strangers

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When a stranger turns up at Shepherd Fennel's party, held in honour of his daughter's christening, he is welcomed and treated to home-brewed mead, a pipe and tobacco and a seat by the fire. When a second, altogether more sinister stranger arrives, he too is welcomed, although he makes rather too free with the host's liquor and sings a song... Read more

The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's sinister tale of jealousy, unrequited love and a mysterious and hideous curse. When Farmer Lodge brings his new wife home, nobody is more resentful and yet curious about her than his spurned former lover, Rhoda Brooke. But a terrifying and supernatural nightmare in which the two women fight, leaves strange and sinister marks on... Read more

Jenny ist meistens schön friedlich - Abridged

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Erika Skrotzki

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jenny - im besten Kindergartenalter - lebt mit Mama, Papa und der kleinen Schwester Lisa in einem ganz normalen Wohnhaus. Zu Hause, bei Oma Elli, beim Nachbarsjungen Niko und draußen vor der Haustür passieren kleine Alltagsgeschichten, die es in sich haben: Da wird die Puppe richtig "operiert" und eine Brille gegen Ohrringe getauscht. Jenny und... Read more

Three Ghostly Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Three superb ghost stories by master storyteller, Rudyard Kipling. The Finest Story in the World: When the young bank clerk Charlie Mears comes up with an innovative idea for a new story, he has no notion just how amazing his tale is. Inspired by dreams which are memories of former lives, he takes us back to the vivid and brutal world of... Read more

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Ona...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its... Read more

We Live in Water

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Jess Walter

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him... Read more

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more

The Croxley Master

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced and engaging narrative about a medical assistant who despairs of finding the funds for his final year of medical school until, while defending himself against the belligerent spouse of a patient, he ends up knocking out the town's best candidate to defeat the local boxing champion, the Croxley Master. Learning that the impending... Read more

The Phantom Rickshaw

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An uncanny tale from the Raj. When Jack Pansay's affair with Mrs. Keith-Wessington comes to an unseemly end, he believes the matter to be over. But Mrs. Wessington's obsession with him continues year after year, as she stalks him in her rickshaw around the walks of Simla. When Pansay announces his engagement to Kitty Mannering, the trauma is too... Read more

Moni and the Goat Boy

By: Johanna Spyri

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Moni, the goat boy, was a very cheerful young man who loved his job and his flock with all his heart. When young Paula first encounter's Moni's jubilant nature and happy song, she is captivated by his joy and becomes his friend. Moni spends each day up in the mountains with the goats and has a particularly special attachment to a kid named... Read more

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

By: Simon Kernick

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller.


Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?

You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl.

She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English.

She is clearly running away from someone.

Do you stop to help... Read more

News from Heaven

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Alexander Cendese, Cynthia Dar...

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh... Read more

Man Seeking Woman

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can be messy, painful, and even tragic. When seen through the eyes of Simon Rich it can also be hilarious.

In these ingenious stories, Rich conjures up some unforgettable romances: an unused prophylactic describes life inside a teenage boy's wallet; God juggles the demands of his needy girlfriend with the looming deadline for earth's... Read more