Short Stories audiobooks

Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard it before. . . . The fable of a donkey who carries a mother and child safely to Egypt. . . . The tale... Read more

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser, Isla Blair & Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Agatha Christie at her very best.A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other... Read more

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson, David Suchet, Hugh Fraser & Simon...

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater.A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small... Read more

Double Sin and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Isla Blair, Joan Hickson, Anna Massey, David Su...

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.A country... Read more

Tales from the Fire Zone

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of five diverse and highly entertaining short stories, straight from the ingenious imagination of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, includes one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Adventure of the Greenbrier GhostStarring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West... Read more

The Sensational Baron Munchausen

By: Rudolph Erich Raspe

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Surprising, sensational, inexorable. These are the adventures of Baron Munchausen. See him escape from the jaws of a hungry lion, shoot a stag with cherry stones, climb a beanstalk to the moon and many other fantastical fables. Each tale is taller than the last, as we enter the world of Baron Munchausen. Read more

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser & Christopher Lee

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits—including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and Charles Laughton.A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the... Read more

The Golden Ball and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser & Christopher Lee

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A sterling collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and others, The Golden Ball and Other Stories is a riveting compendium of shocking secrets, dastardly crimes, and brilliant detection—a showcase of Dame Agatha at her very best.Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a... Read more

The Under Dog and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet & Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of short mystery fiction all featuring Hercule Poirot as the investigator. A beautiful heiress... Read more

Summer Lies

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth is, as a character in this provocative new collection puts it, 'passionate, beautiful, and hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it's always liberating.' In 'After the Season,' a man of humble means falls quickly in love with a woman belonging to a much elevated financial status and wrestles with his feelings and... Read more

When It Happens to You

By: Molly Ringwald

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be.Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Oblivion

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.

These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's... Read more

Where the Rivers Flow North

By: Howard Frank Mosher

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their life's blood."Within the borders of his fictional kingdom,"... Read more

Ellen and the Barber

By: Frank O'Rourke

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Vividly evoking a small mid-west town during the Great Depression and World War II, Ellen and the Barber introduces us to three strong and surprising young women and the men in their lives: Ellen, who has no good reason to deny her natural instincts; Miriam, torn between the promise of a loving future and the demands of family and home; and... Read more

None So Blind

By: Joe Haldeman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls “one of the best prophetic writers of our times,” once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination, transporting listeners across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness.From the... Read more

Rover’s Tales

By: Michael Z. Lewin

Narrated by: Michael Z. Lewin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of short stories, Michael Z. Lewin gives Rover, his canine narrator, a voice that speaks for dogs everywhere. He endows Rover with enough intelligence, spunk, and compassion to combat the injustices committed against his fellow canines by fate, unthinking humans, and even other dogs.Rover is a dog with street smarts, a bit of... Read more

The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... Read more

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitable Agatha Christie intrigues, surprises, and delights with The Mysterious Mr. Quin—a riveting collection of short stories centered around the enigmatic Harley Quin, whose unpredictable comings and goings are usually a good indication that something is about to happen…and rarely for the best.It had been a typical New Year's Eve party.... Read more

After the Funeral

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. “He was murdered, wasn’t he?”When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral... Read more

Appointment with Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death. Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection... Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel:... Read more

Black Coffee

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Moffatt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Claud Amory's formula for a powerful new explosive has been stolen, presumably by a member of his large household. Sir Claud assembles his suspects in the library and locks the door, instructing them that the when the lights go out, the formula must be replaced on the table -- and no questions will be asked. But when the lights come on, Sir... Read more

The Wondrous Child

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wondrous Child is a tale written by the famous Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. This short story is an amazing tale of a brother and sister, Sibold and May, and their dream adventure where they encounter the wondrous child. Read more