Short Stories audiobooks

Magic Terror

By: Peter Straub

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between. . . .

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“CHILLING.”“SKILLFULLY CONSTRUCTED.”
–The New York Times–Kirkus Reviews (starred... Read more

This Year It Will Be Different - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends and The Glass Lake comes This Year It Will Be Different, a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life;... Read more

Gray Matter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

The Lawnmower Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

The Commemorative - Abridged

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the woman who hires him. Read more

Wonderful Town - Abridged

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Tyne Daly, Maria Tucci, Joe Morton & Timothy Je...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more

New England Stories

By: Sarah Orne Jewett

Narrated by: Tana Hicken

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of four short stories, nineteenth-century writer Sarah Orne Jewett explores the theme of female friendship. Tana Hicken brings authenticity to the New England towns in which each story is set. The skillful reading and vivid descriptions conjure images of strong country women living simple, inspirational, lives.

In... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin... Recommended for most collections." -- Library Journal
James Joyce, 1882-1941, is one of the world's greatest writers. Dubliners, his first and most accessible fiction, was started in in 1904 and completed in 1905. Because it was considered explicit and critical of the Church, it... Read more

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: George Vafiadis

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Two American classics which tell of the earliest days in Dutch New York: Ichabod Crane's encounter with the Headless Horseman and Rip's long nap.Washington Irving, the first American writer to make his living by his profession, was born April 3, 1783. At the age of six he was introduced to his namesake, George Washington. He studied law but then... Read more

Bayou Stories

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Jacqueline Kinlow

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of nine short stories takes the listener back to nineteenth-century Louisiana. Universal themes of love and death are intertwined with the issues of slavery and racism. Each story, steeped in the religious and social culture of the bayou, holds an unexpected turn or two. Read more

The Black Monk and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize his characters' strongest emotions. These four stories dramatize an array of obsessions that are at once purely Russian and deeply universal. Ralph... Read more

Father Was a Wise Old Man - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father "cures" a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus... Read more

Blood And Smoke - Abridged

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including 1408, now a feature film!

Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.

Stephen King's audio original... Read more

Stowaway and Milk Run - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue from her first two published stories.

In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a... Read more

How Paul Robeson Saved My Life

By: Carl Reiner

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-time Emmy Award winner and icon of American comedy, Carl Reiner, performs a sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of two dozen multi-dimensional short stories— some true and others merely tales. Included in this collection are stories about a man too handsome for his personality, a lifetime bond that is created by a football... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Hi Lo to Hollywood

By: Max Evans

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Short stories and three novellas by award-winning chronicler of the American West, Max Evans.Prolific writer Max Evans produced a wide-ranging body of work representing several genres. From among his numerous publications, Evans selected personal favorites for this collection, which spans most of his writing career. In addition to an essay about... Read more

Timeless Tales - Abridged

By: Bobby Norfolk

Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The children who populate these classic stories are heroes and heroines of timeless tales. Their unpredictable antics confound evil and treachery at every turn and leave listeners of generation after generation transfixed and uplifted. A forced marriage. A dangerous job. A horrible assignment. "Character-building experiences," we quip. And... Read more

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume I - Abridged

By: Richard Yound & Judy Yound

Narrated by: Richard Yound & Judy Yound

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children, Volume II - Abridged

By: Richard Young & Judy Young

Narrated by: Richard Young & Judy Young

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Everybody loves scary stories, and nobody loves them more than children. Storytellers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young gathered these stories from the most discerning of critics: the children themselves. These are the tales kids tell most often and most often ask to be told. The stories in this multicultural collection come from the Ozark... Read more

Party People - Abridged

By: Donald Davis

Narrated by: Donald Davis

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some folks just prefer to stay home. You know them - whole families who politely decline invitations because they don't spend money on fancy clothes, don't care for "small talk". And they certainly don't dance. They're just not "party people". Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are... Read more

The Washington Irving Library

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more

Histórias da mulher do fim do século - Contos

By: Ivana Arruda Leite

Narrated by: Sandra Silvério & Barros Batista

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Neste audiolivro de contos, Ivana Arruda Leite conta histórias de muitas mulheres, desde a doida até a que decifra a própria morte. São histórias verdadeiras, para valer, histórias de mulheres sem medidas. Foto da capa: Edson Kumasaka. Read more