Short Stories audiobooks

A Very Black Business

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author who wrote twenty-one books and numerous short stories. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.

"A Very Black Business' is a strange... Read more

Wonderful Short Stories

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering collection of classic short stories.

1. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
2. "Miracles" by Barry Pain
3. "In a Far-off World" by Olive Schreiner
4. "The House of Cobwebs" by George Gissing
5. "A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner
6. "A Very Black Business" by Ernest Bramah
7. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
8. "The Pig and Whistle" by... Read more

The Stories

By: Jane Gardam

Narrated by: John Telfer & Phyllida Nash

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction.

Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle, the exciting adventures of a mischievous princess.

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. Join magically mischievous... Read more

Princess Mirror-Belle and the Party Hoppers

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Sophie Thompson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From Julia Donaldson, the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, comes Princess Mirror-Belle and the Party Hoppers, 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

A Farewell to Legs

By: Scott Fivelson

Narrated by: Mariel Hemingway

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Hemingway fiction in our time, author Scott Fivelson takes listeners on a literary journey from Paris to Pamplona as a marathoner on his last legs reflects on the sport as it might have been written about if Hemingway had been a runner. A Farewell to Legs is both a satire of a classic and a classic satire. Read more

Nothing But Shadows

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Nico Mirallegro

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon learns about James Herondale’s time at Shadowhunter Academy. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

It’s hard to be a Shadowhunter when you’ve got demonic powers. Simon learns about the school-time struggles of half-warlock James Herondale in this prelude to The Last Hours.

This standalone e-only short story follows... Read more

PROSOPA ZOA PRAMATA

By: Petros Argyriou

Narrated by: Petros Argyriou

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The collection “Men- Things-Beings” by the subversive writer Petros Argyriou goes back to our birthplaces, goes to the places of soul and sentiments.


As "Historian" of a future without authors and books, he creates ten short stories that describe and satirize the present of the human species.


The author "creates" the conditions of a future world... Read more

The Great British Short Story Collection

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping collection of over 50 of the greatest short stories written by great British writers.

1. "The Missing Years" by Barry Pain
2. "His Brother's Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
3. "A Madman's Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
4. "The House of Cobwebs" by Barry Pain
5. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier
6. "A Long-Ago Affair" by John... Read more

A Costume Piece

By: E. W. Hornung

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English writer best known for tales of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles and his sidekick, Bunny Manders in late 19th-century London. These two characters are thought to have been in part based on his friends Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and also on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

In A... Read more

The Magnet

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

"The Magnet" is the uncanny story of a very unusual copycat mass murderer. Read more

The Tree of Death

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

The Tree of Death is a haunting story with something of a fairy tale character to it...but a fairy tale that turns into a gruesome horror story as the narrative unfolds.

A wealthy young man falls in love with a young girl in... Read more

Make Something Up

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk, Ken Marks, Scott Sowers, Rich ...

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. MAKE SOMETHING UP compiles these previously unpublished tails for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable... Read more

Picture Perfect Love

By: Melissa McClone

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.When image becomes everything, it’s up to love to refocus the heart. Photographer Jenna Harrison wants every bride and groom to look picture perfect on their... Read more

The Missing Years

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

"The Missing Years" is the haunting tale of Sylvia Hetheril, who goes out to post letters one day and fails to return. All enquiries and advertisements fail to trace her, and eventually her family are forced to abandon the... Read more

The District Doctor

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He was a great figure in Russian Realism and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

The District Doctor is the poignant story of the emerging relationship between a doctor and his dying patient. Read more

A Soothing Dream

By: Fedor Sologub

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Fedor Sologub (1863-1927) was a Russian mystic and realist and one of the great novelists and short story writers of the Dostoyevsky school.

A favourite theme of his was reincarnation, which he uses very powerfully in his story

A Soothing Dream, which describes the last weeks of a dying boy's life. Read more

The Great Russian Short Story Collection

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate collection of great short stories by the best Russian classic authors.

1. "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky
2. "The Empty Drum" by Count Leo Tolstoy
3. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub
4. "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev
5. "The White Dog" by Fedor Sologub
6. "The Cloak" by Nikolai Gogol
7. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor... Read more

The Cloak

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a preeminent Ukrainian-born story writer. He is particularly famous for those stories which veer in the direction of surrealism and the grotesque.

The Cloak is one such tale. Akaky Akakiyevich is a reclusive and widely ridiculed lower official whose job is to copy letters. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence with his... Read more

Miracles

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer best known for his ghost and horror stories.

"Miracles" is the tale of two extraordinarily talented men, Best and Bliss, who develop a way of communicating nonverbally and use it for a career on the stage as mind readers. But when a bereaved mother asks them to try to... Read more

The Murder at Fernhurst

By: Hulbert Footner

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a popular Canadian writer of detective fiction. "The Murder at Fernhurst" features Footner's first great sleuth, Madame Rosika Storey.

The famous female detective is called in to investigate what seems like an open-and-shut case. A rich industrialist has been found shot...and all the evidence points to the murder... Read more

Stories of Duels, Trials, Bets and Dares

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling collection of strange stories where characters are challenged to do something completely out of the ordinary.

The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress by J. S. Fletcher
The Giraffe Problem by Barry Pain
The Man who Stole a Meeting House by John Townsend Trowbridge
The Box Tunnel by Charles Reade
A Lucky Number... Read more

The Mysterious Card

By: Cleveland Moffett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) was an American journalist and author who contributed articles and stories to magazines and weeklies. He first became famous with his short mystery story "The Mysterious Card", which was published in the Boston-based The Black Cat in 1895. This tale caused a sensation, partly because it did not reveal the answer to... Read more

A Dream of Wild Bees and Other Stories

By: Olive Schreiner

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 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.

This collection presents four drealike short stories with multilayered meaning and allegorical significance: "A Dream of... Read more