Short Stories audiobooks

Storming the Castle: An Original Short Story

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring the handsome and mysterious Wick from A Kiss At Midnight. What Miss Phillipa Damson needs is a good, old fashioned knight in shining armor. What she has is a fiancé she never wanted and a compelling urge to run away. But if she manages to escape, will she find her happily ever after? Read more

Fear and Was It a Dream?

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave. Read more

Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 27 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book... Read more

Fangs

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Erik Davies, Sus...

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More. . .

Featuring:

·        bloody fangs
·        dark and foreboding crypts
·        mysterious... Read more

Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Bruce Coville & Words Take Wing Repertory Co

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen thrills! Thirteen chills! Authors Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen, Laura Simms and others share their sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always satisfying tales - all about monsters! Read more

Angela

By: W. S. Gilbert

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sweet story of a paralyzed man in Venice, who sees out of his window a young girl across the way. Unbeknownst to her, she brightens his days over the course of several years, and he begins to fall in love with her. One day he throws out a flower into the canal between them to say "good morning" and she responds in kind. They still... Read more

A Piece of String

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

How does picking up a piece of string lead to a poor old man’s death? Find out in this Guy de Maupassant tale, narrated by actor Cornelius Garrett. Read more

A Coward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penned in 1899 by Edith Wharton, this short story features the proper Mrs. Carstyle, her husband Mr. Carstyle, and their daughter Irene who are all are taken with their guest and an eligible bachelor named Vibart. Narrator John Chancer is a film and television actor with professional readings of many audiobooks to his credit. Read more

Cousin William

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Kate Fenton

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin comes the short tale about a grown-up girl named Mary who finds good company with her cousin William—until the townspeople get to talking. Read more

Araby

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage boy falls in love with his friend's sister and must finagle a trip to a bazaar at nearby Araby to win her heart. But will it be that easy? Read more

Brigadoon's Luck

By: Susan Schapiro

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Written for children, Brigadoon’s Luck is a charming tale, told from the point of view of a dog, Brigadoon. By facing one challenge after another, Brigadoon learns that with a loving heart, persistent spirit, and a little bit of luck, he can achieve success and happiness. An engaging story that will long be remembered, Brigadoon’s Luck will... Read more

Palo Alto

By: James Franco

Narrated by: James Franco & Stacey Miller

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”

James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they... Read more

Great Classic Mysteries

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published. This collection includes the... Read more

Повести и рассказы

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: Vasiliy Kupriyanov

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Иван Алексеевич Бунин (1870 — 1953) – знаменитый писатель и поэт, первый русский обладатель Нобелевской премии по литературе, академик Санкт-Петербургской Академии наук. Провел много лет жизни в эмиграции, став одним из главных писателей русского зарубежья. В сборник вошли следующие произведения: Роза Иерихона, Брань, Исход, Зимний сон, Готами,... Read more

Иуда Искариот

By: Leonid Andreev

Narrated by: Vadim Maksimov

Length: 28 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Данный сборник содержит лучшие повести и рассказы Леонида Андреева. Произведения различны по сюжету: среди них есть и юмористические рассказы, истории из жизни и мистические новеллы, героями которых выступают потусторонние силы. Тем не менее, все рассказы объединяет напряженность, драматичность и эмоциональная насыщенность тона повествования,... Read more

Рассказы

By: Ivan Shmelyov

Narrated by: Ekaterina Krasnobaeva

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Рассказы разных лет русского писателя И.С. Шмелева (1873-1950) проникнуты любовью к России, к ее природе и народным обычаям, поднимают нравственные темы, важные для любого человека.В предлагаемый слушателю аудиосборник вошли воспоминания о детских и школьных годах автора, о встрече с Чеховым, об открытии памятника Пушкину, очерк о праздновании... Read more

Темные Аллеи

By: Ivan Bunin

Narrated by: Vasiliy Kupriyanov

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Иван Алексеевич Бунин (1870 — 1953) – знаменитый писатель и поэт, первый русский обладатель Нобелевской премии по литературе, академик Санкт-Петербургской Академии наук. Провел много лет жизни в эмиграции, став одним из главных писателей русского зарубежья. В сборник "Темные Аллеи" вошли следующие произведения: Темные аллеи, Кавказ, Баллада,... Read more

Great Classic Stories II

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature’s most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.This superlative treasury includes the following stories: “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass“Cousin... Read more

Guys Read: My Parents Give My Bedroom To a Biker

By: Paul Feig

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: ""What? You Think You Got It Rough?""

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: A Fistful of Feathers

By: David Yoo

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: The Bloody Souvenir

By: Jack Gantos

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Unaccompanied Minors

By: Jeff Kinney

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more

Guys Read: Will

By: Adam Rex

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for... Read more