Short Stories audiobooks

Beginnings and Ends

By: Suzanne Brockmann

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Suzanne Brockmann, bestselling author of When Tony Met Adam and the pulse-pounding Troubleshooters series, has been hailed by USA Today as a "superstar of romantic suspense." In this original short story, Brockmann returns with two of her most beloved characters from the Troubleshooters world: operative Jules Cassidy and his husband, Robin.After... Read more

All Dressed Up in Love

By: Ruth Logan Herne

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr & Windy Lanzl

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Tara walks into Elena’s Bridal and finds her dream job—and a handsome man to match. A third-year law student, Tara Simonetti just needs a job to pay the bills and put food on the table. After her father’s untimely death, she’s determined to give her small hometown what he didn’t have: a good, honest lawyer, but law school isn’t cheap. When she... Read more

The Nightmare Room

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lucille. Are you poisoning me?"

When the young husband asks this question of his beautiful young wife, a terrible drama is about to unfold in The Nightmare Room...a strange place where high emotions and dire tragedies are the norm. Read more

Mad Monkton

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories.

Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this... Read more

Batchelors

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 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.

Batchelors is a charming tale of two brothers, Robin and Harry, who live in a mutually codependent relationship. Robin is timid... Read more

The Tea-Leaf

By: Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854-1943), an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation.

The Tea-Leaf is the most... Read more

The Perfect Crime

By: Seamark

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It takes two years for the elderly bank clerk to plan and commit the perfect crime. The crime where nobody will ever pursue the criminal and where he will be free to enjoy his ill-gotten gains for the rest of his life. His crime is so brilliantly planned that nobody will ever know...nobody need ever have known...had he not inadvertently given... Read more

Lost Treasure

By: Caradoc Evans

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

David Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) was a Welsh story writer, novelist, and playwright. Evans was brought up in a Welsh-speaking community in Cardiganshire, and although he learned English at school and always wrote in English, his work is soaked in Welsh syntax and vocabulary. Evans left school at 14 and worked throughout Wales in a series of... Read more

The Enemy

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist and short-story writer.

The Enemy tells the story of a mild-mannered bookseller, Jack Harding, whose life is completely ordered and unremarkable except that he has a terrible enemy - a man named Tonks, who pursues him with uninvited joviality, driving Harding to... Read more

The End of a Show

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer. The End of a Show is a poignant tale of a quack showman and seller of dubious stomach pills who carries out what he believes to be his first-ever act of kindness - an act which horrifies and saddens in equal measure. Read more

The Well

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1941) is best known as a writer of humorous stories and the crafter of the most grisly of horror stories.

The Well tells the subtle and terrible tale of a man who murders his unscrupulous cousin, who is attempting to blackmail him, and hides the body in a disused well. It seems to be the perfect crime until one day his beloved... Read more

The Coffin Maker

By: Alexander Pushkin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) leads the great names of Russian literature. After completing his education, Pushkin devoted himself to the pleasures of society, alongside his writing.

In 1820 he was banished to the Caucasus for writing and promoting liberal views. Deprived of his social life, Pushkin devoted himself to his writing and bequeathed... Read more

The Queer Feet

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In The Queer Feet, Father Brown pulls off an outstanding and captivating piece of deduction when he hears very odd footsteps in a most peculiar hotel in London, where a secret society is dining. As he considers the impact of... Read more

The Apple Tree

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.

The Apple Tree is a delightful story narrated from the perspective of a child whose father discovers that he has a rare and valuable apple tree growing in his orchard. The family wait impatiently for the... Read more

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Devon Bostick

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Lewis never thought he’d become a Shadowhunter…and now he has the chance. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy.

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

Three Twisted Stories

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This genre-bending collection proves that not only is Karin Slaughter "one of the best crime novelists in America" (Washington Post), she's one of today's very best writers—period. From the hallucinatory noir novella "Go Deep" to the twisted short stories "Necessary Women" and "Remmy Rothstein Toes the Line," this collection showcases the New... Read more

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the pre-eminent figure in late nineteenth century detective fiction. A physician by profession, he soon found such popularity as a writer of detective stories that his writing was far more profitable than his medical practice.The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is a classic Sherlock Holmes story in which... Read more

August Heat

By: W. F. Harvey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, particularly in the mystery and horror genres. August Heat is one of his best -nown stories. It tells a most peculiar tale of James Clarence Withencroft, an artist who is inspired to draw a sketch of a prisoner in the dock, being sentenced. Later the same day, he goes out... Read more

Five Short Stories by John Buchan

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, barrister, and member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and governor-general of Canada. While he was most famous for adventure stories, such as "The Thirty-Nine Steps", he was also popular for his supernatural horror stories, of which "The Watcher by the Threshold" and "The Wind in the... Read more

A Madman's Manuscript

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens' disturbing story detailing the memoirs of a deranged psychopath. Read more

An Impromptu Dance

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A. J. Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert (1883-1941), an English magician, intelligence officer, short-story writer, and radio broadcaster. He was hugely popular in the '20s and '30s for his radio broadcasts, wherein he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening... Read more

In the Midst of Life

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include“A Horseman in the Sky,”“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”“Chickamauga,”“A Son of... Read more

Who killed Zebedee?

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is one of the greatest of the Victorian mystery writers. For several years he was on the editorial staff of Dickens' magazine All Year Round and became Dickens' close friend and collaborator.

Alongside his great novels, Collins was the author of a great many superb short stories, mostly concerned with either the... Read more

The Wedding Guest

By: Guy Boothby

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy Boothby (1867 - 1905) was an Australian by birth, who came to England in 1894 and was quickly acknowledged as a masterly writer of thrillers and crime stories.

His best work includes a series of stories which appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1897 under the title The Prince of Swindlers. These stories describe the exploits of Simon Carne, one... Read more