Short Stories audiobooks

Once Upon a Sunday

By: Renee Allen McCoy

Narrated by: Stacy Wilson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance. –John 10:10, AMPGood Friday started as anything but that for Melinda Black. After losing her job and self-dignity, a series of events cascade her onto an emotionally charged roller coaster ride that drastically changes... Read more

Redemption of the Dead

By: Luke Delaney

Narrated by: Robin Bowerman

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan’s days as a newly minted detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of Cold Killing. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South London, and Detective Chief... 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

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

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Leslie S. Klinger, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheri...

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Gildart Jackson, Saskia Maarlevel...

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of PoeEdgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s... Read more

Thirteen Ways of Looking

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Colum McCann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has... Read more

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

By: Etgar Keret

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.
 
Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his... Read more

The Necromancer

By: Arthur Gray

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Gray (1852-1940) wrote under the pseudonym Ingulphus for several years, and it was only in 1919, when his stories were collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye under Gray's own name, that the identity of the author was discovered.

The Necromancer is a strange tale set in Jesus College Cambridge in the time of Cromwell. A... Read more

The Man with the Roller

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

'The Man with the Roller' is a strange tale about a photograph in which a strange figure of a man with a roller appears and drags the roller from one part of the lawn to another.

But how can this... Read more

An Original Revenge

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer of horror and suspense stories.

'An Original Revenge' is a peculiar and ghoulish tale of a young soldier who commits suicide in order to better avenge himself upon his commanding officer in the form of an avenging spirit. Read more

The Rockery

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence.

In this story the vicar of Stoneground, Mr. Batchel, is having the rockery at his vicarage dug up. He and the gardener discover an old yew stake buried in the rockery on which is... Read more

Pomegranate Seed

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career. "Pomegranate Seed" is a disturbing ghost story in which a... Read more

The Operation

By: Violet Hunt

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862-1942) was a British author of short stories, novels, memoir and biography. She is most famous for her supernatural fiction.

The Operation is a short novella which tells a very odd story. The second wife of the famous dwarf comedy actor, Joseph Mardell, learns that her cook has seen a funeral procession leaving a... Read more

Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork

By: Eleanor Smith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English writer, famous for her supernatural stories.

'Mrs. Raeburn's Waxwork' is an eerie tale about Patrick Lamb, who takes a job as custodian of Mugivan's waxwork exhibition. In the part of the exhibition where all the murderers and freaks are displayed, there is one figure which fascinates him. It... Read more

His Unconquerable Enemy

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author, famed for his short stories of horror and suspense.

'His Unconquerable Enemy' is the story for which Morrow is best known, and it tells the story of the determined revenge of a servant whose limbs have been amputated on the orders of a cruel rajah. Read more

Expiation

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories.

Expiation is a real gem of a ghost story. Two old friends rent a lonely house in an idyllic but remote part of Cornwall. But within a short time of their... Read more

Satan's Circus

By: Eleanor Smith

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902-1945) was an English author, journalist and film critic. Many of her books, including her extensive oeuvre of ghost stories, involve a circus or gypsy setting, based on her own research and her (unsubstantiated) belief that she had a Romany great grandmother.

Satan's Circus is a creepy tale of a circus run by a... Read more

The Coffin Merchant

By: Richard Middleton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural tales and ghost stories, in particular 'The Ghost Ship', 'The Coffin Merchant' and 'On the Brighton Road'.

'The Coffin Merchant' is the peculiar tale of Eustace Reynolds, who is handed a handbill by a stranger one day. The flyer... Read more

The Tiger

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 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.

'The Tiger' is the evocative tale of an Englishman who travels to New York and descends strangely into a terrible psychosis in... Read more

Over an Absinthe Bottle

By: W. C. Morrow

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American writer, famous for his short stories of horror and suspense.

'Over an Absinthe Bottle' is a peculiar horror story about a young man down and out in San Francisco who is slowly starving to death. Then he happens to meet a peculiar pale stranger who invites him to share a bottle of absinthe with... Read more

The Little Ghost

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 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. 'The Little Ghost' tells the eerie story of a man who is grieving deeply following the unexpected death of a close friend, who... Read more

The Eastern Window

By: E. G. Swain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Edmund Gill Swain (1861-1938) was an English cleric and author of ghost stories. He was a longtime friend of M. R. James, and his ghost stories show James' influence. 'The Eastern Window' is the peculiar tale of a vicar who sees something very odd one night in his church. It appears that a stained-glass window with the image of St. John the... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and Prince Precious Paws

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and Prince Precious Paws, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.

Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference.

Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that.... Read more