Short Stories audiobooks

Fifty Fantastic Tales

By: H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton & Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A superb collection of classic short stories showcasing the variety, depth and imagination of great Victorian writers.

'All Souls' by Edith Wharton
'The Plattner Story' by H. G. Wells
'Sparkling Biacrene' by F. Anstey
'Roads of Destiny' by O. Henry
'The Empire of the Ants' by H. G. Wells
'Treasure Trove' by Neil Munro
'The... Read more

Seven Christmas Tales

By: Hugh Walpole, J. H. Riddell & O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven contrasting short stories, all set at Christmastime.
1. 'Mr. Huffam' by Hugh Walpole
2. 'A Strange Christmas Game' by J. H. Riddell
3. 'The Christmas Tree and the Wedding' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
5. 'The Gift of the Magi' by O. Henry
6. 'The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. 'The Cop and the... Read more

No Ships Pass

By: Eleanor Smith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic famous for her supernatural stories. No Ships Pass is a strange tale of a shipwrecked sailor who manages to swim to a remote tropical island. He discovers, to his surprise, that he is not the first sailor to alight there. There are already four castaways... Read more

Jerry Bundler

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. Many of his stories were written in a Cockney vernacular and were keenly observant of... Read more

Sophy Mason Comes Back

By: E. M. Delafield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890-1943), was a prolific English author who wrote under the pseudonym E. M. Delafield. She is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady , which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the... Read more

Fifty Groundbreaking Stories by Women Writers

By: May Sinclair, Edith Wharton & Stella Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty short stories by women writers who broke the mould.

'The Token' by May Sinclair
'The Man Who Missed the Bus' by Stella Benson
'The Lady's Maid's Bell' by Edith Wharton
'The Scarecrow' by G. Ranger Wormser
'The Strinding Place' by Gertrude Atherton
'The Former Passengers' by B. M. Croker
'A Haunted House' by Virginia... Read more

A Strange Christmas Game

By: J. H. Riddell

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906), who wrote as Mrs J. H. Riddel, was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period.

'A Strange Christmas Game' is a brilliantly constructed ghost story with a strange twist at the end. Read more

Nachtreigen

By: Dietmar Wolfgang Pritzlaff

Narrated by: Dietmar Wolfgang Pritzlaff

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Auszüge aus der eBook-Veröffentlichung "Nachtreigen - Eine Lyrik-Sammlung". Lyrik, Kurzprosa und Lieder gelesen und gesungen von Dietmar Wolfgang Pritzlaff. Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in Colliers Magazine on May 27th, 1922. The story follows Benjamin's life from his birth in 1860. However he is no ordinary child, as he has the appearance of a 70 year old man, already capable of speech. His family soon realizes that Benjamin is... Read more

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

By: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Jo...

Narrated by: Various

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of Simon Lewis as he trains to become a Shadowhunter is now available in print with ten brand-new comic illustrations!

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. The events of City of Heavenly Fire left him... Read more

Die Ankunft einer anderen Zeit (ungekürzt)

By: Daniel Scheidgen

Narrated by: Maria Spanring

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Ankunft einer anderen Zeit" ist kein gewöhnliches Hörbuch. Worte über Liebe, Glück und Sehnsucht treffen auf Erinnerungen und immer wieder das Meer. Im Wechsel von Monolog und Dialog entsteht eine wortreiche Suche um die Frage, warum die Sehnsucht eine so starke Wirkung entfalten kann. Read more

Tales of Life and Death

By: H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton & M. R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Never more so than in this collection of 30 weird and macabre tales.

'The Stolen Body' by H. G. Wells
'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote
'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton
'When I Was Dead' by Vincent O'Sullivan
'A Vision of Judgement' by... Read more

Dobbs' Parrot

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End.

'Dobbs' Parrot' is a cleverly constructed humorous story about a con artist who manages to swindle four people simultaneously by selling them all a parrot in a cage, despite the fact... Read more

Fair Tales of Fowl

By: H. G. Wells, Arthur Morrison & Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten classic short stories from the quills of great bird-loving authors.
1. A Deal in Ostriches by H. G. Wells
2. Dobbs’ Parrot by Arthur Morrison
3. The Hen by Saki
4. The Egg by Sherwood Anderson
5. The Triumphs if a Taxidermist by H. G. Wells
6. The Grey Parrot by W. W. Jacobs
7. Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard
8. Aepyornis Island H. G. Wells
9.... Read more

Mr. Tallent's Ghost

By: Mary Webb

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English Romantic novelist, short story writer and poet whose work is set chiefly in Shropshire.

'Mr. Tallent's Ghost' is an amusing tale about an eccentric writer who likes to read his appalling and tedious novels aloud to his relatives...or indeed anyone who will listen. He persuades a lawyer to draw up a will... Read more

Mr. Huffam

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

'Mr. Huffam' is a heartwarming story about a delightful stranger who, on account of his personal bonhomie and his wonderful ability... Read more

Dream Life and Real Life

By: Olive Schreiner

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was a South African author, suffragist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, but some of her most haunting and memorable works are her short stories.

"Dream Life and Real Life" is a haunting short story about a little orphan girl in servitude to a cruel Boer family. One... Read more

Escape - Three and Sixpence

By: Winifred Holtby

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935) was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist.

"Escape - Three and Sixpence" is a haunting short story which opens with a Yorkshire housewife putting her head into the gas oven to commit suicide to escape her unbearable life of drudgery. We are swept along with the thoughts and emotions which go through... Read more

A Bird on its Journey

By: Beatrice Harraden

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a British writer and suffragette.

"A Bird on its Journey" is the story of a mysterious young Englishwoman hiking alone through Switzerland. When she arrives at a mountain hotel, she discovers that the piano is badly out of tune. The young woman - although she is travelling with only a small knapsack, has brought... Read more

Treasure Trove

By: Neil Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic - a serious writer but now known mainly for his humorous short stories.

'Treasure Trove' is an amusing tale of a time when a whale was beached on a Scottish island just off the coast by Tobermory. The crew of a passing ship, led by the enterprising... Read more

The Thing in the Upper Room

By: Arthur Morrison

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life.

'The Thing in the Upper Room' is a classic Victorian horror story. Poor young English artist Attwater is delighted to find an oddly cheap top-floor room to rent in an old house in Paris. The room, as he is... Read more

The Nature of the Evidence

By: May Sinclair

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

May Sinclair was the nom de plume of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863 – 1946), a British writer who wrote novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragette and a spiritualist.

"The Nature of the Evidence" is a ghost story about a first wife who returns to this world when her husband remarries to protest her disapproval of his choice of... Read more

The Man who Missed the Bus

By: Stella Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and short story and travel writer.

'The Man Who Missed the Bus' is a creepy horror story about a lonely and eccentric man who finds himself unable to see other human faces. Worse still, .gradually he also loses the ability to see his own reflection in the mirror. But this is only... Read more

The World's Slow Stain

By: Ella Hepworth Dixon

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ella Hepworth Dixon (1855 - 1932) was a British short story writer, journalist and novelist.

"The World's Slow Stain" is the story of a reconciliation which goes catastrophically wrong. Adela Buller and Anthony Mellingham, whose love affair had ended badly ten years earlier meet again and agree to marry. But after they broke up the first time... Read more