Short Stories audiobooks

Darkness on the Edge of Town

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a collection of five stories set in "the Spookiest Town in America"—including one brand-new story.In "Long Way Home," a young soldier returns from the Middle East and discovers that there is another—and much stranger—war to be fought in his hometown.In "Mister Pockets," a young... Read more

Long Way Home

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a young soldier returns from the Middle East and discovers that there is another—and much stranger—war to be fought in his hometown. Read more

Whistlin’ past the Graveyard

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling story from New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, a cemetery worker in Pine Deep begins to suspect that the dead are not resting easy in their graves. Read more

The Trouble

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes an all-new short story set in “the Spookiest Town in America”—Pine Deep.In “The Trouble,” a direct sequel to the Pine Deep trilogy, Malcolm Crow thought he had destroyed the evil that had terrorized his town for forty years. But a new series of brutal murders forces him to prepare for... Read more

Charlie Martz and Other Stories

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Will Patton, Mark Bramhall, George Newbern, Tis...

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens of bestselling books—many adapted for the big... Read more

To Hold the Bridge

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Raphael Corkhill, Roger Wayne, S...

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining short-story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of A Confusion of Princes.Garth Nix is renowned for his legendary fantasy works, but To Hold the Bridge showcases his versatility as the... Read more

Guys Read: Terrifying Tales

By: Jon Scieszka, Adam Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Dav Pil...

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Andrew Eiden, Vikas Adam, Johnny ...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia—have come together to bring you a... Read more

When Tony Met Adam

By: Suzanne Brockmann

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An exclusive short story featuring characters from the Troubleshooters seriesTony Vlachic, a ruggedly handsome Navy SEAL, has kept his sexuality a secret for years under the threat of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." That is, until he meets Adam Wyndham, a charismatic yet troubled film star. Tony knows that by approaching Adam in front of his teammates,... Read more

Inside Madeleine

By: Paula Bomer

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Nine Months, which Marcy Dermansky called "deliciously, dangerously rogue," comes a powerful, daring collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys.A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her... Read more

The Question of Bruno

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir & Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force—the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's—Aleksandar Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an... Read more

Fantastic Imaginings

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary who's who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the... Read more

Between the Assassinations

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection

Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more

No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly... Read more

Birds of a Lesser Paradise

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.

Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of... Read more

The Short Stories Gift Edition

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bald... Read more

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

Twisted

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines, Michele Pawk & Frederick Weller

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.

Diverse, provocative, and eerie, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman goes to extremes to rid herself of her stalker; a... Read more

Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell & Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A one-of-a-kind mystery collection that showcases the immense storytelling talent #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has honed over her tremendous career—including a bone-chilling, previously unpublished short story forty years in the making.

In 1974, master storyteller Mary Higgins Clark began writing a novella inspired by... Read more

In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American... Read more

Men without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war,... Read more

The Nick Adams Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick... Read more

The Short Stories Volume III

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold... Read more

The Short Stories Volume II

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

Carniepunk: Hell's Menagerie

By: Kelly Gay

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A Charlie Madigan short story—from the series praised for “intricate world-building and richly complex characters” (Publishers Weekly)—as it first appeared in the Carniepunk urban fantasy anthology. Read more