Short Stories audiobooks

The Sorrows of Gin

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a... Read more

One More Year

By: Sana Krasikov

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sana Krasikov's short story collection has won widespread accolades and earmarked the author as a writer of immense promise. In these affecting tales, Russian and Georgian immigrants find love and fear in their new homeland. "In her stunning short story debut, Krasikov hones in on the subtleties of hope and despair that writhe in the hearts of... Read more

The Box

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button?

"Button, Button," Richard Matheson's chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the... Read more

Great Classic Horror

By: various authors

Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Feel the breathtaking tingle of suspense. Share the captivating horror of the supernatural in these six complete stories presented by a masterful reader.This audio recording includes:- “A Watcher by the Dead” by Ambrose Bierce—A corpse brings death, dereliction, and madness to those who would play with it.- “The Body-Snatchers” by Robert Louis... Read more

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: John Krasinski, Cory Stoll, Joshua Ferris, Deni...

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a... Read more

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

By: Daniyal Muyeenuddin

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan's cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin's linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyce's Dubliners and Turgenev's A... Read more

Blindman's Bluff

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“A well-tangled web of intrigue and murder.”
—Entertainment Weekly“Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff shows why.”
—St. Louis Post-DispatchOne of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s... Read more

Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexplained events are happening at Oxford these days. Several students have been attacked at night by some strange form of wild animal. It can scale walls with cat-like agility. Its arms are as thin and as strong as steel bands. And there is one student who conducts midnight studies in his room with certain Egyptian artifacts. The most... Read more

The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies

By: David Lubar

Narrated by: David Lubar

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A girl doesn't have a date for the school dance—until her dad makes one for her in his lab. "Lily—meet Stitchy." A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner—until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper weenies ends in flames.

Critically-acclaimed... Read more

The Maples Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the... Read more

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities...there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand...to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."

In... Read more

The Southern Woman

By: Elizabeth Spencer

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The... Read more

Tales of Terror and Mystery

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume presents some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way, which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brainchild Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that... Read more

Between the Assassinations

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection

Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel."Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a... Read more

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more

Great Classic Suspense

By: various authors

Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural. The haunting language and brilliant renditions create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes the following suspense-filled classics:“Ethan Brand” by Nathaniel Hawthorne—A lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for... Read more

Animal Crackers

By: Hannah Tinti

Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the... Read more

Selected Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.

"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.

"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.

"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America,... Read more

The Afterlife and Other Stories - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed, and bestselling author, John Updike. Read more

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In "The Model Millionaire", the destiny of a young, ambitious, brilliant pauper changes with an act of his misplaced generosity. "The Happy Prince" is one of Oscar Wilde’s renowned fairy tales. From his vantage point, high above the city, the statue of The Happy Prince gives of himself in a way most astonishing. In "The Sphinx Without a Secret",... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales like "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Camel Got His Hump" answer questions only children would ask and answers them in a way only children would believe. Rudyard Kipling very much intended Just So Stories to be read aloud— and no one does it better than Carl Reiner, who brings each original story to life. A superbly... Read more

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more