Short Stories audiobooks

The Night and the Music: A Matthew Scudder Story

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards. But Scudder has starred in short fiction as well, and here’s one example! This Matthew Scudder vignette was originally written for a New York City jazz festival program. Read more

Very Good, Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster’s consternation―Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha’s dog; getting into the bad books of Sir... Read more

You Think That’s Bad

By: Jim Shepard

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but... Read more

The Hunger, and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles BeaumontWhen The Hunger, and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The... Read more

The Lottery, and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Ma...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime,... Read more

Airtight Willie & Me

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of six gritty tales from the underground is a tribute to the streets and those forced to try to survive them.With tales of slick con men, revenge, a heist gone awry, and more, Robert Beck, the man many know as Iceberg Slim, brings us on a ride through the terrifying urban streets. With the same unforgettable and distinctive prose... Read more

New Frontiers

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cui...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of... Read more

Big World

By: Mary Miller

Narrated by: Mary Miller, various narrators, Andi Arndt, Jan...

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story collection full of powerful prose and remarkably genuine characters from the author of The Last Days of CaliforniaThe collection of stories, produced by Andi Arndt, is performed by the author along with a stunning cast of Nashville stars, including Janis Ian, Mary Gauthier, Telisha Williams, Amy Speace, and Louise Mosrie.The... Read more

Three Twisted Stories

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This genre-bending collection proves that not only is Karin Slaughter "one of the best crime novelists in America" (Washington Post), she's one of today's very best writers—period. From the hallucinatory noir novella "Go Deep" to the twisted short stories "Necessary Women" and "Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line," this collection showcases the New... Read more

The Truth about Pretty Girls

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Shannon Cochran

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jude Hanson returns home to Poulet and her mother—the Georgia mountain town she grew up in and couldn’t wait to leave, and the woman she hoped never to see again.This compelling short story by New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is taken from the exclusive audiobook collection The Unremarkable Heart, and Other Stories. Read more

Overclocked

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, ...

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its... Read more

Suspended Sentences

By: Patrick Modiano

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Sean Runnette & Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the... Read more

Calling Death

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published in the collection Hungry Tales, “Calling Death” is a nonviolent zombie story set in Appalachia. With humor and rich storytelling, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. Read more

Pegleg and Paddy Save the World

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a zombie story involving a couple of idiot moonshiners, a comet, gangsters, zombies, and the Great Chicago Fire. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exclusive zombie story written especially for Blackstone Audio, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. It is a tale told with humor and rich storytelling. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. The basis of the story comes from a court case in the nineteenth century in which the testimony of a ghost was entered into evidence, leading to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan Maberry has thrown Holmes and Watson into the mix for added punch. This... Read more

Property Condemned

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Pine Deep, the small town featured in Ghost Road Blues, Dead Man’s Song, and Bad Moon Rising, this is a chilling psychological ghost story. This story was previously published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone. Read more

Cooked

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio, originally published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry brings us a tale of drugs, Haitian mysticism, and revenge. Read more

Aunt Sass

By: P. L. Travers

Narrated by: Catherine Clarke

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of charming holiday tales, by the author of Mary Poppins - a timeless gift for all ages. Each of the stories in this book was written by P.L. Travers as a holiday gift, sent to her friends and family and never published. Now millions of readers and generations of film-goers will get a peek behind the curtain and see how she used... Read more

Where the Evidence Lies

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Allan Robertson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of the Lincoln Rhyme series, a short story about Lincoln Rhyme solving a mysterious plane crash with no forensic evidence.
A small jet with only one pilot onboard crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Local authorities are unsure whether the cause of the crash is a bomb or a violent storm. The case seems... Read more

A Sad Mistake

By: R. L. Stine

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A reclusive, haunted Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant are visited by a strange, persistent stranger in this haunting short story by R.L. Stine.

It's a dark and stormy night, and the new, unnamed assistant to the penniless Dr. Victor Frankenstein answers the front door's knock. There stands a stranger, who has managed to track down the elusive... Read more

Almost Like Christmas

By: Joseph Heller

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful short story from the acclaimed author of Catch-22, about one long night of anticipation.

In a small town in the American South, it is night in the middle of the twentieth century. Carter, a high-school teacher and football coach in the newly desegregated schools, is awaiting news of two of his students who have been in a serious... Read more

Providence and the Butler

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Never Kick a Dick

By: Cornell Woolrich

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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