Short Stories audiobooks

Rain, Rain, Go Away; Winken, Blinken, and Nod; & One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

By: Melissa Everett

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rain, Rain, Go Away celebrates and encourages the playful spirit of children, no matter the weather! From sunshine to rain, nothing can stop the fun of a group of friends ready to play outside together! *** Join Winken, Blinken, and Nod on their fantastical journey to a land beyond sleep in this expanded version of the classic children's tale.... Read more

The Three Sisters

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At the deathbed of Ursula, the eldest of three sisters, the dying women declares that she will return from the dead when the time comes to accompany each of her younger siblings into the afterlife. The two survivors and their old housekeeper, now live on in fear of encountering Ursula's ghost, and strange happenings in the house bring this... Read more

A Race for a Bride

By: H. K. Hales

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When a friend phones H. K. Hales one Christmas Eve in a panic and asks for help, he is somewhat bemused. The caller is due to be married the next day and cannot possibly get there on time. H. K. rises to the challenge of driving him at top speed to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It seems like they might be in with a chance of getting there on time, until... Read more

Something Rich and Strange

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International... Read more

Let Me Be Frank With You

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of... Read more

Mr. Bones

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Garrick Hagon & Tim Flavin

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young... Read more

The Bath Chair

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 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.

The Bath Chair is a sinister tale of Alice Farraday who harbours an obsessive hatred of her selfish brother Edmund. Alice is a believer in occult powers, and... Read more

The Parasite

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most intriguing novella.

Austin Gilroy is a scientist and is by nature sceptical of anything to do with the occult. So when his colleague, Professor Wilson, introduces him to the mysterious and sinister hypnotist, Miss Penclosa, he is inclined to view her as a fraud.

But when Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised and Miss... Read more

The Cat

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cat is an odd story about a young man who suffers a severe shock reaction to the unexpected ending of his engagement. Initially he is thrown into a deep depression which lasts several months, but then all of a sudden something snaps in his brain and he undergoes a phenomenal transformation.

Not only does his depression leave him, but he... Read more

The Secret of Dr. Vaux's Intrigue

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

The Dust-Cloud

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 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.

"The Dust-Cloud" tells the story of a very unusual ghost. The apparition is a reconstruction of a dreadful car accident in which a child is run over and the... Read more

The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

How I became a Secret Agent

By: Dr. A. K. Graves

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The mysterious man known as Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves was a double agent working for the German secret service and MI5 before the start of the first world war.

In 1912 he was arrested in Scotland and imprisoned. But after 8 months he was mysteriously released and shortly afterwards appeared in New York, where he caused a sensation by publishing... Read more

Gavon's Eve

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 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.

Gavon's Eve is a terrifying story of mysterious occult devil worship and witchcraft which pervades a remote rural district in Great Britain.

When two aristocratic... Read more

Caterpillars

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 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.

Caterpillars is the story of a strange visit to the mysterious Villa Cascana, where one bedroom is inexplicably always kept empty. The visitor feels uneasy... Read more

The Other Bed

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 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 Other Bed tells the tale of a hotel guest who is allocated what appears to be a very fine first floor room at a highly reasonable price. There are two beds in the... Read more

The Confession of Charles Linkworth

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 38 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.

Charles Linkworth is guilty of the very worst kind of murder imaginable and is sentenced to hang the next morning. The prison doctor certifies the death following the... Read more

The Room in the Tower

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 for his spine-tingling and beautifully written ghost stories. The Room in the Tower is the most famous of these. It describes a horrific recurrent dream of nameless dread, occurring over a period of 15 years, in... Read more

The Secret of the Black Bag

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

By: Judy Chicurel

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness—a novel in stories about a young woman and her town in the early 1970sIt is the summer of 1972, and Katie has just turned eighteen. Katie and her town, Elephant Beach, are both on the verge: Katie of adulthood, Elephant Beach of gentrification—but not yet. Elephant Beach is still gritty,... Read more

A November Bride

By: Beth K. Vogt

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

There's more than just leaves falling this autumn! A November Bride is a heartwarming romance novella that will captivate your heart and make you say 'I do' to love. It's When Harry Met Sally meets You've Got Mail in a cozy fall setting.Can a decades-long friendship marred by two romantic missteps ever lead to happily ever after?Sadie... Read more

White Tiger on Snow Mountain

By: David Gordon

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff—art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality—in his own unique style, described by... Read more

Six Stories and an Essay

By: Andrea Levy

Narrated by: Andrea Levy

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with the publication of her first novel, the semi-autobiographical EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE... Read more

A Baby and a Wedding

By: Lorhainne Eckhart

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Baby and a Wedding: A heartwarming tale of unexpected twists. As their wedding day approaches, Emily and Brad encounter an unexpected obstacle – Emily's past marriage resurfaces, threatening to cast a shadow over their happiness. Bitterness and challenges arise as they navigate the complexities of untangling her past. With determination and... Read more