Short Stories audiobooks

The Watcher by the Threshold

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

John Buchan (1875 - 1940) was a scottish writer, barrister, Member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and Govenor-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 is a prime example.

When... Read more

The Step

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

The Step tells the bizarre and terrifying tale of a British money-lender in Alexandria who is aware of uncanny footsteps following him as he walks home from his club at... Read more

The Face

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Face tells the story of a woman, Hester, who has a strange recurring nightmare. The night before the nightmare she dreams of walking a path across fields, over... Read more

At the Farmhouse

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 41 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 and horror stories.

At the Farmhouse tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is... Read more

The Horror-Horn

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Horror-Horn tells the story of a skiing holiday in the shadow of the mysteriously named Ungeheuerhorn mountain. Literally the name translates as "Horror-Horn". It... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) is best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Invisible Man', Father Brown is able to solve the mystery of the jilted lover who is able to track his beloved, threaten and attack his rival and yet is never seen by anybody, even those who are specifically on the look-out for him.

Can it be... Read more

The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 34 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. This collection brings together twenty of his most brilliant works.

1.The Room in the Tower
2.The Dust Cloud
3. Gavon’s Eve
4. The Other Bed
... Read more

13 contes pour rêver

By: Perrault, Grimm & Andersen

Narrated by: C. Lucas, J. Lancrenon & Lydie Lacroix

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un tour d'horizon des plus beaux contes pour enfants, sous le signe du rêve et de l'évasion. Des contes des Mille et une nuits à ceux d'Andersen, les essentiels et les plus rares, de Barbe Bleue à Tom Pouce, les petits poètes en herbe y trouveront de quoi s'évader tout en permettant à leurs parents de retrouver les contes préférés de leur enfance. Read more

Outside the Door

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

Outside the Door is a strange tale illustrating how terrible deeds from the past can imbue the rooms in which they happened with the spirit of the events which... Read more

Bagnell Terrace

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 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.

Bagnell Terrace is the tale of a very strange but highly desirable house. The narrator who lives on the same street, has always coveted it because of its... Read more

Multiverse

By: Greg Bear & Gardner Dozois

Narrated by: Jim Manchester, Richard Powers, Charlotte Anne ...

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted... Read more

The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 – 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian "Golden Age" of the short story.

"The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress" is the story of a... Read more

The Man who went too Far

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Darcy, recuperating from a serious illness, goes to stay with an old friend of his, Frank, in the New Forest, he discovers a puzzling change in the man. He appears to have become significantly younger and is also filled with exuberance and joy. Frank explains that he has spent the last six years studying Nature and has discovered a new... Read more

Going to the Chapel

By: Rita Herron

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If there’s a naughty list, Izzy Sassafras is on it—but she’s ready to make a new start this Christmas. Especially after leaving her lying, cheating, no-good husband and fleeing to her old hometown of Matrimony, Georgia. Izzy’s made herself a promise: no more men. All she wants to do is get her wedding business up and running—and mend fences with... Read more

The Eyes

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 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.

During a convivial evening during which all the guests... Read more

A Brush with Love

By: Rachel Hauck

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Ginger Winters is a gifted hairstylist with scars no one can see. The last thing she expects from the New Year is a new chance at love.Overcoming a childhood tragedy, Ginger emerges from the pain and trauma with a gift for bringing out the beauty in others. From the top big city salons to traveling the world as personal stylist to a country... Read more

The Thing in the Hall

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 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 and horror stories.

'The Thing in the Hall' is one of the creepiest supernatural tales ever told. Two old friends live next door to one another. One, Louis Fielder... Read more

Seven Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven short story masterpieces by the acknowledged master of the short story, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

'The Parasite'
'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley'
'The Man with the Watches'
'A Pastoral Horror'
'The Slapping Sal'
'Lot No. 249'
'The Ring of Thoth' Read more

The Voice

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 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, when he performed his own humorous and often macabre short stories, which he always delivered wearing full evening... Read more

The Terror by Night

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Terror by Night describes a strange and uncanny haunting which is simultaneously experienced by multiple different witnesses in entirely separate ways... each of them... Read more

The Gardener

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugh and Margaret Grainger have rented a lovely old house near an excellent golf course. At the bottom of the garden is a strange, well-kept, but untenented thatched cottage.

A visitor to the Graingers has a strange and overwhelming presentiment on passing the cottage that the house is actually not empty. Indeed, on several occasions he seems to... Read more

Three Detective Anecdotes

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Three short detective anecdotes by one of the key founding fathers of the detective genre, Charles Dickens.

The Pair of Gloves.
The Artful Touch.
The Sofa. Read more

Her Grave Secrets

By: Kendra Elliot

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for.Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back. Still caught up in the excitement... Read more

Gute-Nacht-Geschichte: Hans und Fritz - Das Seil der Freundschaft

By: Michael Bauer & Carina Bauer

Narrated by: Michael Bauer

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Für Kinder: Natürlich darf man sich nicht absichtlich in Gefahr begeben! Dennoch haben auch unschöne Situationen oft einen Sinn oder bringen etwas Gutes mit sich, wenn man hinterher so darüber nachdenkt... Und echte Freunde helfen sich und vertrauen sich Geheimnisse an. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als gemeinsam Abenteuer zu bewältigen und... Read more