Short Stories audiobooks

El contador de historias

By: Rabih Alameddine

Narrated by: Eugenio Gómez

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Las Mil y una noches del siglo XXI. Escuchad. Dejad que os guíe en un viaje hacia los confines de la imaginación. Dejad que os cuente una historia... Así empieza a hablar Osama, el hombre recién llegado a Beirut que a lo largo de estas páginas nos desvelará los secretos de su estrafalaria familia y muy en especial del abuelo, un hombre que había... Read more

Melody Helps Out A... Thief?

By: I. Holland

Narrated by: Claire King

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

While Melody reads a magazine at The Beach Bar and Grill, where Mam works, Uncle Higgie appears with a friend in trouble. Some important papers have been stolen, and without these documents, he can’t sell his hotel! So, the two friends turn to Melody for help. After just a few questions, Melody gets so curious she decides to take on the... Read more

Storytime from around the World

By: various authors, Lauren Kratz Prushko, A. A. Mi...

Narrated by: Lauren Kratz Prushko, Lorena Romero, Madeline W...

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of short stories for kids from around the world“Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees” by A. A. MilneIn this adaptation of the first chapter of A. A. Milne’s well known classic Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh gets himself into trouble when he tries to take honey from a bee hive. “Gigi Finds Her Voice” by Lorena RomeroGigi loves to sing, and is good at... Read more

Ver con los ojos

By: Miguel de Unamuno

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

En "Ver con los Ojos" Miguel de Unamuno nos ofrece una historia de amor y redención, pero también una reflexión sobre la experiencia humana, sobre la importancia de encontrar nuestra mirada y nuestro lugar en el mundo. A través del protagonista, un joven que regresa al pueblo desde una gran ciudad, atribulado y cargado de unos conocimientos y... Read more

Gunflower

By: Laura Jean McKay

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of The Animals in That Country.

A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men.

With her... Read more

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories is a collection of short stories which Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. It includes: The Story of a Panic The Other Side of the Hedge The Celestial Omnibus Other Kingdom The Curate's Friend  The Road from Colonus E.M. Forster (born January 1,... Read more

Abel Originals, Seizoen 3: Alex de rappende papegaai

By: Abeltje

Narrated by: Rein Hofman & Anna Keuning

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Er staat weer een leuk seizoen afleveringen met Alex en zijn gevederde vrienden te wachten. Alex gaat naar het strand, valt in als vervangende leraar en is uitgenodigd voor een chique papegaaienbal. Read more

Sommer. Kleine Sommergeschichten über die warme Jahreszeit

By: Simon Ternyik

Narrated by: Franziska Peterhänsel

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sommer Kleine Sommergeschichten über die warme Jahreszeit Ein Buch über Sommernachtsträume, Freibäder, Sonnenblumen, Getreidefelder und die Hängematte Betrachtungen zum Urlaub, Garten und See Dieses Hörbuch ist für Sie geeignet, wenn Sie - auf der Suche nach wunderschönen Sommergeschichten sind, die eine sommerliche Stimmung zu Ihnen nach Hause... Read more

Rainer Maria Rilke: Der Drachentöter. Fünf Erzählungen

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken... Mit dabei: Reflexe, Albrecht Ostermann, Der... Read more

Son of a Vampire

By: Ella Stone

Narrated by: Alyse Gibbs

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

He is dead. Life is just about to begin. Torn, bleeding and dying, from the battlefields of France, Calin Sheridan finds himself back in London. But while the city remains familiar, war has changed him in ways he couldn't imagine. This working class lad turned soldier, finds himself in the lap of luxury, but do the palatial trappings hide a more... Read more

Winter in the Air

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.

'Worth £9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It's exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within ... By turns creepy, melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.' Sunday Times
'One of our finest writers.' Neil... Read more

Mother of Wolves

By: Ella Stone

Narrated by: Alyse Gibbs

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A vampire Queen and a mad scientist set out to create an army of loyal guards, instead they unleash a primal fury unlike anything the world has ever seen.Kidnapped, tortured and terrorised, Eve awaits her inevitable death with a fierce resilience. But little does she know that instead of death she will be reborn. However, she immediately finds... Read more

La casa maldita

By: Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

El premio nobel de ciencia Santiago Ramón y Cajal nos dejó algunos cuentos en los que confluyen sus pasiones por la ciencia y la literatura. En "La casa maldita" nos cuenta la historia de un médico que regresa a España después de haber hecho fortuna en América pero que, por una desgracia, debe empezar de cero para poder casarse con el amor de su... Read more

A secreto agravio, secreta venganza

By: Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

El premio nobel de ciencia Santiago Ramón y Cajal nos dejó algunos cuentos en los que confluyen sus pasiones por la ciencia y la literatura. En "A secreto agravio, secreta venganza", además de una original historia de venganza y celos, encontramos el retrato psicológico interesantísimo de un científico de éxito en el campo de la microbiología.... Read more

Once upon a magical time

By: Sana Khan

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a magical time is a compilation of 8 short fictional stories that follow a magical theme. These bedtime stories include the following titles: Once upon a magical garden, once upon a farmhouse mansion, once upon a covid chameleon, once upon a winter wonderland, once upon a unicorns wish, once upon a spaceship, once upon a summer camp... Read more

Rainer Maria Rilke: Wladimir, der Wolkenmaler. Fünf Erzählungen

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken... Mit dabei: Teufelsspuk, Das Lachen des Pán... Read more

The Evil Clergyman

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Josh Greenwood

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovecraft writes about the short story in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith dated October 22, 1933: "A few months ago, I had a dream about an evil clergyman in the attic filled with forbidden books". The evil clergyman was extracted from a letter to Bernard Austin Dwyer. The latter copied a fragment of the correspondence and titled it "The Wicked... Read more

The Book

By: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Josh Greenwood

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The plot of the book is almost identical to the story presented in the first three sonnets of the Fungi from Yuggoth. In other words, the protagonist in a peculiar bookstore purchases a book of extraordinary and dangerous power for a paltry sum of money.
This is only a fragment of the story, likely written during the period when Lovecraft was... Read more

The Slaying of the Monster

By: H.P. Lovecraft & Robert H. Barlow

Narrated by: Josh Greenwood

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A short novella about a brave nation attempting to slay a terrible beast that no one has seen. Read more

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

By: H.P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffmann Price

Narrated by: Josh Greenwood

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of men gather in New Orleans to distribute the estate of the missing Randolph Carter. One of them claims that Carter is alive and begins to weave an incredible tale of his adventures.
E. Hoffman Price, during Lovecraft's visit to his home in New Orleans in June 1931, tried to persuade the Providence writer to create a continuation of... Read more

The Masque of the Red Death

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: George Pearson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A novella by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Its theme revolves around attempts to avoid a dangerous plague called the Red Death by the main protagonist, Prince Prospero.
The story follows the footsteps of gothic literature and is often interpreted as an allegory of the inevitability of death, although such an analysis is not... Read more

Edgar Allan Poe: Das unvergleichliche Abenteuer eines gewissen Hans Pfaall

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hans Pfaall - diese frühe Science Fiction-Geschichte Edgar Allan Poes diente Jules Verne als Inspiration für seine Romane "Von der Erde zum Mond" und "Reise um den Mond"! Nur dass Hans Pfaall für diese Reise nicht aus einer Kanone abgefeuert wird - sondern in einem luftdichten Kautschukballon... Read more

BrainGymJr : Listen and Learn with Conversational Stories ( Age 8-9 years) - III

By: BrainGymJr

Narrated by: BrainGymJr

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

BrainGymJr is a child development platform that teaches children ‘how’ to think, not ‘what’ to think. We orient children to think independently, creatively and adopt a solution-oriented approach. This is done through reinforcement of age-appropriate content in the form of puzzles, challenges and conversational learning through interactive... Read more

BrainGymJr : Listen and Learn with Conversational Stories ( Age 9-10 years) - III

By: BrainGymJr

Narrated by: BrainGymJr

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

BrainGymJr is a child development platform that teaches children ‘how’ to think, not ‘what’ to think. We orient children to think independently, creatively and adopt a solution-oriented approach. This is done through reinforcement of age-appropriate content in the form of puzzles, challenges and conversational learning through interactive... Read more