Short Stories audiobooks

Pickman’s Model

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as one of the one of the greatest horror writers of the twentieth century, H. P. Lovecraft's stories are known for their profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Here is "Pickman's Model," one of his more terrifying stories. Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His... Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest practitioners of gothic and detective fiction that ever lived, and popular culture is replete with references to him. In "The Pit and the Pendulum," one of his most famous short works, a condemned man is judged guilty by the Spanish Inquisition and sentenced to die. Locked away in a... Read more

The Open Window

By: H. H. Munro

Narrated by: Gary Dikeos

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered a master of the short story, Saki was best known for his witty and mischievous stories that satirized the culture and society of Edwardian England. In "The Open Window," his best-known vignette, a teenage girl regales the tale of an eerie family tragedy to a high-strung visitor, who receives something of a shock.Proceeds from sale of... Read more

The Prophets’ Paradise

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert W. Chanbers' The King in Yellow, a collection of short stories, is considered one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. Within the collection is "The Prophets' Paradise," a dream-like narrative of prose and poetry. Featuring personifications of Love and Truth, the story's structure has a palindrome-like quality... Read more

The Spectre Bridegroom

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" and "Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving perfected the American short story. His stories were written in an approachable tone and intended to entertain rather than enlighten. Originally published in 1819, "The Spectre Bridegroom" is a ghost story about a baron and his daughter in historic Germany. The... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A prominent sociologist, lecturer, and writer of the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's unorthodox concepts and lifestyle helped shape future generations of feminists. This audiobook includes her most enduring work, "The Yellow Wallpaper" as well as her 1913 article, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" The Yellow WallpaperTold... Read more

Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, Legends of the Fall is Jim Harrison's classic trilogy of epic novellas. The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels—Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name—confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his... Read more

Broken Silence

By: Karen Rose

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Watch Your Back comes a suspenseful new novella featuring Assistant State's Attorney Daphne Montgomery and Baltimore Special Agent Joseph Carter.After a traumatic kidnapping, Daphne's boss insists that she take time off. But she refuses to sit on the sidelines when she meets a six-year-old girl... Read more

“All You Zombies—”

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring "All You Zombies—," the basis for the movie PredestinationThis collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins—and relation to the young man—are more complex and... Read more

Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.

From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies,... Read more

Merry Christmas, Baby

By: Jill Shalvis

Narrated by: Angela Starling

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Season's Kisses . . .
Wild child Chloe Thompson can't believe how much things have changed. She still can't get enough of her sexy husband Sawyer, but he seems to prefer working to impending fatherhood. So tonight, a very pregnant Chloe is escaping her troubles at the town Christmas party.

Sheriff Sawyer Thompson hopes surprising Chloe at the... Read more

Honeydew

By: Edith Pearlman

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this... Read more

The Martini Shot

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers.

Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new... Read more

Cheesus Christ

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Dave Eggers

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door read by Dave Eggers Read more

Grab the Cuckoo by the Tail

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Gary Shteyngart

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door read by Gary Shteyngart Read more

Healthy Start

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Ben Foster

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door read by Ben Foster Read more

Teamwork

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Mathieu Amalric

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door read by Mathieu Amalric. Read more

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jane Carr

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories

In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.

Stories of dislocation and family... Read more

Multiverse

By: Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois

Narrated by: Jim Manchester, Richard Powers, Charlotte Anne ...

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted... Read more

Dreams of Terror and Death

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance,...

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of Dreams of Terror and Death authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales, such as:The Doom That Came to Sarnath—Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse... Read more

Balto

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the Paris Review and selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2007 by Stephen King.Angelle's father is a drunk, and Angelle and her little sister, Lisette, know it. Their mother has told them as much. But their mother has abandoned them and gone back to France,... Read more

La Conchita

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.Gordon is a delivery driver with a predilection toward road rage, and he's on the most important delivery of his life. In Santa Barbara there's a mother of three on life support waiting for Gordon, waiting for the liver he's transporting from Los Angeles.... Read more

Question 62

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Harper's.Mae is in her southern California garden early one morning when a tiger shows up at the edge of her yard. Meanwhile Mae's sister, Anita, is in Wisconsin grieving her dead husband, dealing with a pack of feral cats under her trailer, and trying to start a... Read more