Short Stories audiobooks

Short Stories by Kate Chopin

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Bart Wolffe, Emma Topping & Emma Hignett

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of seven short stories by Kate Chopin including "A Pair of Silk Stockings' and 'The Kiss'. Read more

The Night and the Music

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Lawrence Block presents a rich volume of novelettes, short stories, and vignettes starring private eye Matthew Scudder. Lawrence Block’s seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the... Read more

Let’s Get Lost

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence Block's seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe, and the Maltese Falcon. But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and here's one example.Matthew Scudder reminisces of his uniformed days and of the night... Read more

Screwjack

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hunter S. Thompson’s legions of fans have waited a decade for this book.They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors’ copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first... Read more

Friday Firsts ( Complete Series)

By: Various

Narrated by: Evie Wyld, Full Cast & Tom Rachman

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Four acclaimed novelists write their first stories for radio. The Coup by Tom Rachman describes how a protest threatens to turn into a coup, in London' s genteel Kensington, which is next door to where the two Geralds have just moved in. Steak by Evie Wyld, describes how a group of male barflies in small town Australia are unsettled by the... Read more

She Loves Me Not

By: Ron Hansen

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Hansen has long been a master of the short form. His stories have been called 'beautifully crafted' (The New York Times), 'unforgettable' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'diverse and expansive' (The Washington Post). Ranging over subjects as diverse as Oscar Wilde, murder, dementia, and romance, this collection shows Ron Hansen at his... Read more

Dear Life

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... Read more

Signs and Wonders

By: Alix Ohlin

Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Tandy Cronyn & Morgan Hallett

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more

Birds of a Lesser Paradise

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.

Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of... Read more

Santa Claus in Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here in one recording are both of L. Frank Baum's Santa Claus stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and A Kidnapped Santa Claus. In The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Baum gives us a glimpse into the magical history that surrounds the life story of Santa Claus. In A Kidnapped Santa Claus, we find out what happens when Santa is... Read more

Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

These wonderfully funny short stories feature a cast of outrageous characters, all plotting to save themselves from wedlock, poverty, or ignominy—with various degrees of success. This recording includes the following stories: “All’s Well with Bingo,” “Bingo and the Peke Crisis,” “The Editor Regrets,” “Sonny Boy,” “Anselm Gets His Chance,”... Read more

Astray

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and... Read more

The Christmas Kid

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the... Read more

Extraction

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with... Read more

Hungry Tales

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead—including one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Calling DeathA nonviolent zombie story set in AppalachiaChokepointA semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to... Read more

The Fox

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Sheri Blair

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: a fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a mysterious young man appears at the door. Now the women have to fend off not one, but two foxes. Read more

Dancing Dogs

By: Jon Katz

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

No one brings to life the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs like New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz. He has warmed our spirits with enchanting tales and keen observations of his animal menagerie-the dogs, sheep, chickens, and other residents of Bedlam Farm. Now, Katz is back with what he does best in his first collection of... Read more

Fantastic Imaginings

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary who's who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the... Read more

The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An invisible, alien parasite slowly takes over the penetrating mind of a French Nobleman. He slowly loses control over his thoughts, his words, and his deeds. Is it insanity? Or is it, the Horla? Read more

Nice Girl Does Noir

By: Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by: James Lewis & Robin Rowan

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

To read Libby Fischer Hellmann is to love Libby Fischer Hellmann. Her writing is tight, fast, and highly entertaining. But I had no idea Libby was so versatile. My first inkling of this came a few years ago, when I asked her to contribute a story to an anthology I was editing. Frankly, I didn't think she'd make the cut. While Libby doesn't shy... Read more

This Is How You Lose Her

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Junot Díaz

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012
Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize
Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... 

"Electrifying." –The New York Times Book... Read more

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Isla B...

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one... Read more

The Convict and Other Stories

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Steven Boyer, Louis Moreno, Richard Poe, Ed Sal...

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South.

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South—the people, the crime,... Read more

Coyote Tales

By: Jim Bihyeh

Narrated by: Cayenne Chris Conroy

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Wide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you won't find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. Coyote... Read more