Short Stories audiobooks
The McCone Files
By: Marcia Muller
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Marcia Muller is, as Sue Grafton pointed out, the creator of the modern female private eye story, and Sharon McCone is one of the finest and most sensitive of all current sleuths. Sharon came upon the scene in 1977 with Edwin of the Iron Shoes, the first of fifteen novels and fifteen short stories filled with cluing and caring. The McCone Files... Read more
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Mortal Coils
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, "The Giaconda Smile," is a short murder story. "Permutations among the Nightingales" is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. "The Tillotson Banquet" tells of an old artist who was thought to be... Read more
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Great Classic Ghost Stories
By: various authors
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of short ghost stories includes some of the best-known classics in the genre, as well as some that may be new to ghost story fans. This recording includes: “The Damned Thing,” by Ambrose Bierce; “The Empty House,” by Algernon Blackwood;“The Consequences,” by Willa Cather; “How It Happened,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “A Ghost,”... Read more
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Five by Fitzgerald
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Here are five stories from one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century: Head and Shoulders, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Read more
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Dangerous Laughter
By: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Adam Grupper, Sharon Washington, George Guidall...
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser's imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that's given up its... Read more
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Beasts And Super-Beasts
By: Hector Hugh Munro
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A glittering collection of 36 short stories by Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki". Beasts And Super-Beasts includes many of Saki's best loved tales, exemplifying his witty and multi-layered storytelling, satirizing the habits and morals of British society of his day. "The She-Wolf", "Laura", "The Boar... Read more
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The Stalled Ox
By: Hector Hugh Munro
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When Theophil Eshley, the bovine painter, is called upon by his neighbour Adela Pingsford to remove a stray ox from her garden things go inevitably and comically wrong. No oxen are harmed in the course of this story, but sadly the same cannot be said of assorted chrysanthemums, drawing rooms and egos. Read more
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Guys Read: Believing in Brooklyn
By: Matt de la Pena
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Benny’s friend Ray come up with his craziest invention idea yet: a machine that grants wishes. But when Benny realizes he has some wishes that need granting, he starts to wonder if it might just work. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Thriller
By: Jon Scieszka
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Ramon de Ocampo, Steve West & ...
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A body on the tracksA teenage terroristA mysterious wish-granting machineThe world’s worst private detectiveThe second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity. Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled by certified guy Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Thriller is a... Read more
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Guys Read: Ghost Vision Glasses
By: Patrick Carman
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The ad promised you’d be able to see into the spirit world. But they couldn’t work for real . . . could they? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Boys Will Be Boys
By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Nate Macavoy, Monster Hunter
By: Bruce Hale
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Nate’s best friend Jeremy is missing, and Nate seems to be the only one worried that he’s been captured by hideous creatures that live in the sewers. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: The Snake Mafia
By: Gennifer Choldenko
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
River and Niko find their dad is missing, and they have no choice but to track him down. But when they discover the clues lead to a shady reptile dealer, they start to think they might have gotten in over their heads. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Pudding
By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
His friends warned him not to try the fried pudding at the carnival, but Dan didn’t listen. A short story in comics from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Thad, the Ghost, and Me
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
There’s nothing better than taking your timid little cousin Thad to one of those sweet haunted houses the 4-H Club decorates for Halloween. Except, of course, if the house turns out to actually be haunted. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: Pirate
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Abdullah Syed Hari is fourteen years old. He loves his family and his friends. And he is a Somali pirate. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: The Double Eagle Has Landed
By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Tim Diamond—the world’s worst private detective—takes on his most dangerous case yet, and it’s going to be up to his brother to keep him out of trouble. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Guys Read: The Old, Dead Nuisance
By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Two fake psychics, one real haunted house—what could go wrong? A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka. Read more
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Stories To Scare You Witless
By: Hector Hugh Munro, Wilkie Collins & Edith Nesbit
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare! "What Was It?" - Fitz-James O'Brien "Laura" - Hector Hugh Munro "A Terribly Strange Bed" - Wilkie Collins "The Three Drugs" - Edith Nesbit ... Read more
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Lord of the Dynamos
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Technology worship is brought to a head when Azuma-zi’s head spins at the wonder of a humming, whirling and buzzing electric dynamo. He prays for the dynamo to deliver him from his troubles, and make his life easier to bear. Apparently the dynamo demands a sacrifice... Read more
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Looking for Jake
By: China Miéville
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
“Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century.”—Neil Gaiman
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking,... Read more
Blueprints for Building Better Girls
By: Elissa Schappell
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Elissa Schappell's book delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters including the high school slut, the party girl, the reluctant mother, and the anorexic daughter, twisting our pre-conceived notions of who these women are, offering surprising revelations into the nature of female identity, and how it evolves. How... Read more
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Short Tales: Greek Myths
By: Christopher E. Long, J.J. Hart & Shannon Eric D...
Narrated by: Alice Rea
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Short Tales introduce entertaining, easy-to-read books to children in the hopes that they will acquire a love of reading that will last a lifetime. For centuries, stories have been told that explain the world and all of its secrets. The Short Tales Myths explore the most famous tales in a simple writing style for young readers. The brilliant... Read more
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Christmas Short Stories
By: Charles Dickens
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short stories about Christmas--A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The... Read more
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