Short Stories audiobooks

Ghost Stories

By: E F Benson

Narrated by: Mark Gatiss

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) reads chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson.

There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy train platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that?... Read more

Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?

The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and... Read more

Big Cats

By: Holiday Reinhorn

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the... Read more

After the Fireworks

By: Aldous Huxley & Gary Giddins

Narrated by: Michael Page & Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer’s affair with a mysterious young fan—now back in print for the first time in the U.S. in more than seventy years and also featuring two other acclaimed short works, plus an original introduction from noted critic Gary... Read more

Fotos Arruinadas

By: Hernán Casciari

Narrated by: Hernán Casciari

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Desde su más rolliza infancia, el gordito Casciari arruinaba las fotos. Todas las fotos. Con el tiempo las cosas cambiaron. Se había convertido en un adolescente que arruinaba, sin querer, los momentos importantes de su vida: amores juveniles, estudios, vidas ajenas y la salud de sus mayores. El clima de Mercedes, el agobio de la situación... Read more

The Wind Off the Small Isles

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved author Mary Stewart's long-lost novella, now available for the first time in 40 years and perfect for fans of Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier and Santa Montefiore.

'Now she would spell love her own way...'

In 1879, a wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family, who live on the volcanic island of Lanzarote,... Read more

A Dream of Armageddon

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'A Dream of Armageddon' is a strange tale of a man who is haunted by a prophetic dream of life in the future in a time when the world is rushing towards a catastrophic and... Read more

A Vision of Judgment

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

"A Vision of Judgment" tells the story of a man who is awakened from his grave by a trumpet sounding for the last judgment. As the first souls are called before God, he realises that things are... Read more

Mr. Brisher's Treasure

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of wonderful and varied stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

'Mr. Brisher's Treasure' is a humorous tale about a man who finds a chest of buried treasure while making a rockery for his future father-in-law, but circumstances repeatedly... Read more

Under the Knife

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'Under the Knife' is an eerie firsthand account by a patient of a surgical operation he experiences, which he already knows he will not survive. Read more

The Plattner Story

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction

"The Plattner Story" is the strange tale of Gottfried Plattner, the modern languages teacher at a private school in England, who while conducting a chemistry experiment,... Read more

The Beautiful Suit

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Beautiful Suit' is a haunting allegorical tale of a man who has a beautiful suit of clothes which he is never allowed to wear. But one night he decides to put on the... Read more

The Reconciliation

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of short stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Reconciliation' is the story of two old enemies who had quarrelled as students but who are now attempting to reconcile by spending an evening together. But as they drink more whisky,... Read more

The Stolen Body

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

"The Stolen Body" tells the story of two men who are experimenting with mind over matter. On pre-arranged evenings they sit in their own rooms, two miles apart, and attempt to... Read more

The Inexperienced Ghost

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

"The Inexperienced Ghost" is a ghost story with a twist. Clayton, overnighting alone at the club, encounters a pathetic ghost who is struggling to remember how to get back... Read more

The Pearl of Love

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Pearl of Love' is a pecular allegorical tale taken from ancient persian literature, telling the story of a bereaved Indian prince whose beloved wife dies young. The... Read more

The Star

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

"The Star" is the story of a shooting star which is discovered hurtling towards our solar system. It is on a collision course with Neptune. When the celestial crash occurs, the... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of H. G. Wells

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A spine tingling collection of the greatest short stories by the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells.
1. The Time Machine
2. The Empire of the Ants
3. The Crystal Egg
4. The Sea-Raiders
5. The Door in the Wall
6. A Dream of Armageddon
7. The Country of the Blind
8. Under the Knife
9. The Stolen Body
10. The Plattner Story
11. The Stolen Bacillus
12. The... Read more

The Apple

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Apple' is a strange tale about a young student who, in a third-class railway carriage, is unexpectedly offered the genuine fruit of the Tree of Knowledge from the Garden... Read more

The Country of the Blind

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a... Read more

The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

"The Time Machine", first published in 1895, is possibly Wells' most famous work. It tells the story of the inventor of a vehicle which allows him to travel in time, and his first hand account of... Read more

Männer und Frauen - 17 Versuche über einen großen Unterschied (Gekürzte Hörbuchfassung) - Abridged

By: Harald Martenstein

Narrated by: Harald Martenstein

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seine besten Kolumnen endlich zum Hören Wenn Deutschlands Lieblingskolumnist Harald Martenstein über sein Lieblingsthema schreibt, schlagen fast immer die Wellen hoch. Es ist ja auch schwierig. Wie viele Geschlechter gibt es überhaupt? Wo genau verläuft die Grenze zwischen charmant und sexstisch? Welche Liebestechniken sind politisch korrekt... Read more

A Tree or a Person or a Wall

By: Matt Bell

Narrated by: Karen Chilton, T. Ryder Smith, Andrew Garman & ...

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world. A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man... Read more

The Treasure in the Forest

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction.

'The Treasure in the Forest' is the tale of two treasure hunters, Evans and Hooker, who have murdered a Chinese man to steal his map, which locates a buried stash of gold ingots.... Read more