Short Stories audiobooks

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud - Abridged

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of History’s Most Sacred Treasures. . .
An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . .
Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . .

Marco Valoni, chief of Italy’s Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no accident. It is only the last in a long line of mishaps,... Read more

Lawrence Loves

By: D.H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

David Herbert Lawrence was born into a mining family in Nottinghamshire in 1885. He created his finest work shortly after the finish of the First World War. Two of the themes in his writing are the gradual disintegration of the class system and the customs and sexual mores of people across class divisions. What made Lawrence unusual was the... Read more

Fragile Things

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A prodigiously imaginative collection.”—New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.”
—Washington Post Book World Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New... Read more

Jack London Boxed Set

By: Jack London

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills give his tales a striking vitality and force. Thrilling action and a sense of justice characterize the classic stories in this collection.White FangIn the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a lone wolf fights the heroic daily fight for... Read more

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

By: Susanna Clarke

Narrated by: Davina Porter & Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly... Read more

Little Golden Treasury

By: Gertrude Crampton, Janette Sebring Lowrey & Kat...

Narrated by: Susan Gregory & Skip Hinnant

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Poky Little Puppy, by Janette Sebring Lowrey. Read by Susan Gregory
A poky little puppy loves to dig holes under the fence despite what his family says. But the poky little puppy digs one hole too many and ends up missing dessert

Scuffy the Tugboat, by Gertrude Crampton. Read by Skip Hinnant
Meant for “bigger things,” Scuffy the Tugboat sets... Read more

Moral Disorder

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.

In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death.... Read more

The Guy Not Taken - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Mary Catherine Garrison & Jordan Bridges

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to... Read more

All Aunt Hagar's Children

By: Edward P. Jones

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the... Read more

Twelve Red Herrings - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Alec McCowen

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection, Twelve Red Herrings.

Featuring bonus interviews with the author.

Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive collection of a dozen short stories -- with a... Read more

Essential Cheever

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep & Ben Cheever

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

One Great Author. One Great CD.Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever wrote, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman... Read more

Hit Parade

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author and master of the modern mystery returns with a fierce and poignant new novel featuring his acclaimed killer-for-hire, Keller. John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the business partner, the retiree with a substantial... Read more

Essential Welty

By: Eudora Welty

Narrated by: Eudora Welty

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories. In her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, Ms. Welty deftly draws the listener in to the uproariously multilayered ""Why I Live at the P.O.,"" the spontaneous ""Powerhouse"" and the insightful voice of women's truths in ""Petrified Man."" Ms. Welty's... Read more

Stationary Bike

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New on audio from Stephen King...an unabridged novella"as artful as anything he has ever written." (Booklist)

Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.

When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally... Read more

Collected Stories and Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Edgar Allan Poe. Even so, no one is really sure who Poe was. Many people say that he was as crazy as the characters he wrote about. Others say that Poe was a driven man with a simple wish. He wanted to write and to make a living by his writing. Even though Poe lived a miserable life, he... Read more

Tales from Nightscape

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Robert Forster

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Author David Morrell is a consummate storyteller, investing his tales with passion, sympathy, and narrative drive. From this master of literate, high-adrenaline novels of action comes three suspenseful short stories that will keep listeners guessing: "Front Man" – An aging screenwriter cast adrift in a youth-oriented... Read more

The Road Virus Heads North

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read more

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

By: Don Wood & Audrey Wood

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the bear... How... Read more

Fairies Towne: Parent Collector Edition Book

By: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Narrated by: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This novella has combined the whole "Fairies Towne" series of children's books. Read more

Graven Images

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more

A Quiver Full of Arrows - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection.

Featuring bonus interviews with the author.

From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the listener on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly... Read more

The Summer He Didn’t Die

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer.In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more