Short Stories audiobooks

The Reticence of Lady Anne

By: Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki” tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end. Read more

The Red-Headed League

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was the leading detective writer of the late nineteenth century. A physician by profession, he soon found writing to be more profitable that medical practice and rapidly gained fame with his tales of the master sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.In The Red-Headed League, Holmes is faced with a bizarre puzzle. His client,... Read more

Tales of Unsound Minds

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens & Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An unsettling anthology of short stories featuring crazed characters, from the mildly eccentric to the criminally insane.

1. "The Tell-tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
2. "The Green Light" by Barry Pain
3. "A Madman’s Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
4. "His Brother’s Keeper" by W. W. Jacobs
5. "The Dream" by A. J. Alan
6. "Query"... Read more

Humplebee

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

George Robert Gissing (1857–1903) was a popular English novelist and short story writer who also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life.

Humplebee tells the tale of a young man of the same name who, in his youth, saves the life of his schoolfellow, Leonard Chadwick, who falls through thin ice on a winter pond. The gratitude of Chadwick... Read more

The Kings of Orion

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 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" and "The Kings of Orion".

"The Kings of Orion" is a classic tale of adventure set in the outer reaches of the British... Read more

Get In Trouble

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: Grace Experience, Kirby Heyborne, Tara Sands, R...

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A bewitching story collection from the author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, hailed as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” (Michael Chabon) and “our greatest living fabulist” (Carmen Maria Machado)

“Ridiculously brilliant . . . These stories make you laugh while... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new... Read more

There's Something I Want You to Do

By: Charles Baxter

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, T. Ryder Smith, Scott Sowers & Ke...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From a contemporary master of the short story: a dazzling new collection-his first in fifteen years-that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience. These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to virtues ("Bravery," "Loyalty," "Chastity," "Charity," and "Forbearance") and the other to... Read more

Overclocked

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, ...

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology-and its... Read more

Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone?; & Three Little Kittens

By: Melissa Everett

Narrated by: Erin Yuen & Nick Mondelli

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Where, Oh, Where Has My Little Dog Gone?: Look high and low with a little boy as he searches, and finds, his doggy in this classic rhyme. Three Little Kittens: Join three little kittens in their mischief with mittens in this classic Mother Goose tale, ending the way every good nursery rhyme should: with mother's homemade pie and kisses goodnight. Read more

Serving Up a Sweetheart

By: Cheryl Wyatt

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 3 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.Renovation contractor Colin McGrath can’t see someone in need and walk away.Which is precisely why, when a winter storm damages his new neighbor’s in-home... Read more

The Curious Case of Miss Amelia Vernet

By: Dana Cameron

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell comes an intriguing new tale that brings the supernatural thrills of the Fangborn world to Sherlock Holmes’s nineteenth-century London.On the surface, Amelia Vernet appears to be the great detective’s quiet sixteen-year-old cousin. But her innocent exterior conceals an important fact: Amelia... Read more

Almost Famous Women

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. Nearly every story in this dazzling collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity - she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first... Read more

Slow Death and Other Dark Tales

By: Faith L. Justice

Narrated by: Gordon Rothman & Faith L. Justice

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking for sparkly vampires or heroic werewolves? Sorry, humans—and the occasional ghost—intent on murder, revenge, and righting wrongs take center stage in these tales. Meet a grieving mother witnessing a death-row execution, a wronged bureaucrat condemned to a future drug rehabilitation center, an Alzheimer’s patient trapped in his own... Read more

Hall of Small Mammals

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.

The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers,... Read more

Property Condemned

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Pine Deep, the small town featured in Ghost Road Blues, Dead Man’s Song, and Bad Moon Rising, this is a chilling psychological ghost story. This story was previously published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone. Read more

The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. The basis of the story comes from a court case in the nineteenth century in which the testimony of a ghost was entered into evidence, leading to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan Maberry has thrown Holmes and Watson into the mix for added punch. This... Read more

The Truth about Pretty Girls

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Shannon Cochran

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jude Hanson returns home to Poulet and her mother—the Georgia mountain town she grew up in and couldn’t wait to leave, and the woman she hoped never to see again.This compelling short story by New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is taken from the exclusive audiobook collection The Unremarkable Heart, and Other Stories. Read more

The Martini Shot

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers.

Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even... Read more

Honeydew

By: Edith Pearlman

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this... Read more

Kate Wilhelm in Orbit

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Richard Powers, Carrington MacDuffie, Hillary H...

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit series of anthologies, representing the finest writing in the science fiction genre. Nineteen of Kate Wilhelm's stories were included in this series of twenty-one volumes. Among these are "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," an exploration of infertility and cloning in the aftermath of global... Read more

Calling Death

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published in the collection Hungry Tales, “Calling Death” is a nonviolent zombie story set in Appalachia. With humor and rich storytelling, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. Read more

Pegleg and Paddy Save the World

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a zombie story involving a couple of idiot moonshiners, a comet, gangsters, zombies, and the Great Chicago Fire. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more

The Death Poem of Sensei Otoro

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exclusive zombie story written especially for Blackstone Audio, Jonathan Maberry brings you zombies as you’ve never seen them before. It is a tale told with humor and rich storytelling. This story was previously published in the collection Hungry Tales. Read more