Short Stories audiobooks

The Honest Swindler

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “The Honest Swindler,” Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must explain how an old prospector could have spent five years on a fruitless uranium hunt and still... Read more

A Manual for Cleaning Women

By: Lucia Berlin

Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary ...

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be—their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves.”—Lydia... Read more

Terror Town

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “Terror Town,” the small New England town of Northfield is deftly sketched as the background for a series of violent deaths, all on the exact same spot: the muddy gravesite where the first body, that of a farmer’s son,... Read more

Don’t Cry

By: Mary Gaitskill

Narrated by: Mary Gaitskill

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories—her first in more than ten years.In “College Town 1980,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor, Michigan, debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale “Mirror Ball,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; and in “The... Read more

The Tragedy of Errors, and Others

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries—the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen... Read more

QBI

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business—and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.In "The Three Widows," two of Theodore Hood's... Read more

Queens Full

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Since his first novel, Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world's detective-story writers. He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written for magazines. This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include "The Death of Don Juan,"... Read more

Calendar of Crime

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration—and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma... Read more

The New Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Trick I—The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear—each as dead as the other.Trick II—From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch... Read more

Love of Life, and Other Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White... Read more

Nothing but the Dead and Dying

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander & Tamara Marston

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman flees the hospital even as her infant son is breathing his last breaths. An aging construction worker comes to grips with the end of the only life he’s ever known. A deadbeat father meets his son for the first time, only to be blindsided by the boy’s birth defect. A man steals a corpse in order to give his father the burial he wanted.In... Read more

Valley of the Moon

By: Ryan W. Bradley

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan W. Bradley takes listeners into the world of blue-collar Alaska, reflecting on all that is unique about the rough and untamed state while touching on the basic truths about what it means to be human. In “Valley of the Moon,” an absentee father meets his son for the first time and comes to grips with the life he’s missed. Read more

Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Frances Sternhagen, Matthew Brode...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture!

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King.

An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to... Read more

Four Past Midnight

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe & Ken Howard

Length: 29 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King—four chilling novellas that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post).

ONE PAST MIDNIGHT: The Langoliers takes a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish... Read more

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, Hope D...

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on... Read more

Born to Endless Night

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Keahu Kahuanui

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when Magnus Bane brings a baby home to his boyfriend Alec Lightwood? One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After a warlock baby is abandoned on the steps of the Academy, Magnus Bane rescues the child—and brings him home to his boyfriend, Alec.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon... Read more

Angels Twice Descending

By: Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman

Narrated by: Brett Dalton

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon’s journey to become a Shadowhunter nears its end as his Ascension ceremony draws closer. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

Simon’s Ascension ceremony draws near in this brilliant conclusion to Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of... Read more

The Pier Falls

By: Mark Haddon

Narrated by: Clare Corbett & Daniel Weyman

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional power

The tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary... Read more

These Heroic, Happy Dead

By: Luke Mogelson

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With his harrowing debut, Luke Mogelson provides an unsentimental, unflinching glimpse into the lives of those forever changed by war. Subtle links between these ten powerful stories magnify the consequences of combat for both soldiers and civilians, as the violence experienced abroad echoes through their lives in America.
        Troubled... 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

Partners

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT • This standalone prequel to the #1 bestseller Rogue Lawyer tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner.

Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won't go near. It's controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian... Read more

A Slanting of the Sun

By: Donal Ryan

Narrated by: Wayne Farrell

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the European Prize for Literature
An Indie Next Selection
 
Short stories that capture the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its failings, hopes, and quiet triumphs—from one of “the most exciting voices in contemporary Irish fiction” (The Sunday Independent)
 
Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The... Read more

Crazy Night

By: Tennessee Williams

Narrated by: Brian Hatch

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation.

It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a bacchanalian celebration called Crazy Night. Our chaperone for the evening is Phil, a freshman on the verge of flunking out,... Read more

An Unrestored Woman

By: Shobha Rao

Narrated by: Neela Vaswani

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In her mesmerizing debut, Shobha Rao recounts the untold human costs of one of the largest migrations in history.

1947: the Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever.

An Unrestored Woman explores the fault lines in this mass displacement of... Read more