Short Stories audiobooks

New Stories From the South 2005

By: Shannon Ravenel

Narrated by: Caroline Clay, Michael Emerson, Linda Stevens, ...

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award and Edgar Awards, the 19 writers in this 2005 edition are not just considered some of the best Southern writers, but among the best American writers period. With works by such writers as Dennis Lehane, Moira Crone, Robert Olen Butler, Cary Holladay, Tom Franklin, and Rebecca Soppe, this... Read more

übernacht (Hörspiel)

By: Johanna Steiner

Narrated by: Tom Schilling, Fritzi Haberlandt & Sascha Roter...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Silvesternacht in Berlin. Jan will sich von der lauten Stadt zurückziehen, Audrey will die Party ihres Lebens machen und Ella kehrt für eine Nacht zurück, um ihre Zukunft zu klären. Drei Schicksale von Menschen, deren Wege sich in einer Nacht kreuzen. Eine Geschichte von Wünschen und Hoffnungen, von Abschied und Neubeginn und von den... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. It's also the least... Read more

Stories To Give You Nightmares

By: M.R. James, Bram Stoker & Edith Nesbit

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A petrifying collection of classic tales of the paranormal, spooky happenings, gruesome deeds and uncanny apparitions. Guaranteed to disturb your dreams and keep you awake all night. Includes: * "The Rose Garden" - M.R. James
* "The Five Senses" - Edith Nesbit
* "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* "The Voice Of Death"... Read more

The Head of Hair

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside a hidden panel in an antique desk, a man discovers a long braid of hair. And the contemplation of this head of hair drives him mad. Do spirits really come back to inhabit the forms they left in this world? Read more

The Angel Esmeralda

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Michael Cerveris, Peter Friedman, Heather Lind,...

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) short stories—now available as a trade paperback.

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this “small masterpiece of short fiction” (USA Today) is a mesmerizing... Read more

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 2

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is... Read more

The Book Case

By: Nelson DeMille

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Book Case" is a story that features Nelson DeMille's most famous (successful) character, Detective John Corey, who has appeared in six DeMille novels: Plum Island, The Lion's Game, Night Fall, Wild Fire, and The Lion. In this story, we see John Corey in his early years as an NYPD Detective, before he became involved with the Federal... Read more

The Bohemian Girl

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Laurie Klein

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who inhabit her fiction. This collection... Read more

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Christine Williams & Adam Verner

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense. “The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to... Read more

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is not... Read more

Seedfolks

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: to Curtis, who believes he can win... Read more

The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever. Read more

The Bite Before Christmas

By: Lynsay Sands & Jeaniene Frost

Narrated by: Paula Christensen & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With The Bite Before Christmas, New York Times bestsellers Lynsay Sands and Jeaniene Frost—two of the hottest names in paranormal romance—team up for the first time to bring lucky readers a holiday anthology…with teeth! Here are delightful brand new stories featuring familiar faces from their enormously popular Argeneau family and Night Huntress... Read more

The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with these unremarkable words: “Mrs. Gregson to see you, sir.” Years later, when Jeeves became a household name, Wodehouse said he blushed to think of the offhand way he had treated the man at their first encounter.In the story “Extricating Young... Read more

The Diamond Necklace and Other Stories

By: Guy De Maupassant

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautifully simple and marvelously strong, the stories of Guy de Maupassant have enchanted generations around the world. One of the finest short story writers of all time, de Maupassant believed that the most heart-wrenching and powerful moments in life lay in the simple events of daily life, and he proved it by turning those moments into... Read more

The Elk

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertie Thropplestance stands to inherit a vast fortune from his wealthy but indomitable grandmother, a fact that has not escaped the notice of every mother of a marriageable girl in the county. But old Mrs. Thropplestance has her own ideas of a suitable mate for her grandson, and even when he romantically rescues Dora Yonelet from a rampaging... Read more

The Suicide Club

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1878, The Suicide Club is a collection of three gruesome adventure stories which combine into a single narrative, recounting the exploits of Floritzel, Prince of Bohemia and his trusty confidante Colonel Geraldine as they infiltrate a secret society of dubious individuals intent on losing their own lives. The stories... Read more

The Invisible Eye

By: Erkmann-Chatrian

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In a certain chamber on the second story of a wayside inn, and in this chamber, men hang themselves. Nobody knows for certain, but it is whispered that the malignant old hag who lives across the way casts spells on the inhabitants of the benighted room. Read more

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

By: Kelly Link (Editor) & Gavin J. Grant (Editor)

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McMa...

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans—decked out... Read more

The Whore's Child

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women... Read more

The Outlaw Album

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair & Brian Troxell

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press).

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly... Read more

My Little Town

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town . . .” Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor’s fictional home town—and America’s—for almost 40 years. Many of us have grown up with “the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” The Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility,... Read more

Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories

By: John Flanagan

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors--tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil--have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Only now, centuries after these men and women walked the earth, do we have confirmation of their... Read more