Short Stories audiobooks

Motoring Tales

By: E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling & A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers.

Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new... Read more

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 2

By: Johnny Bread

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories.A young woman is looking for her diamond ring. She can’t find it. Then she remembers meeting a homeless man. Did he take her ring and disappear?A pack of trained wolf-like creatures are chasing a man in the forest.... Read more

The Lottery, and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Ma...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime,... Read more

My True Love Gave to Me

By: Stephanie Perkins

Narrated by: Various

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle... Read more

Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price.

From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies,... Read more

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 1

By: Johnny Bread

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio-book is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories. A woman goes to an Indian reservation. She wants to see the shaman. She wants him to help her find a husband. The shaman knows a lot of things. Can he help her?A man breaks into a house. He thinks nobody is in the... Read more

Afterward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 14 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.

Afterward is a dramatic story of the most mysterious ghost... Read more

Fingers of a Hand

By: H. D. Everett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) was one of the most renowned Victorian horror writers, often publishing her spine-tingling tales under the pen name Theo Douglas.

"Fingers of a Hand" is an eerie tale in which strange and urgent written warnings appear to a family telling them to leave the house where they are staying immediately. These... Read more

Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

By: Andre Dubus III & Breece D'J Pancake

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia. Read more

Here in My Heart

By: Anna DeStefano

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Live and work together, or lose everything that matters…The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with—live with—is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can.Sheriff’s deputy Brad Douglas has come a long way... Read more

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jane Carr

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories

In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.

Stories of dislocation and family... Read more

An October Bride

By: Katie Ganshert

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Walk down the aisle with An October Bride, a sweet and enchanting love story that will leave you swooning. In this heartwarming tale of a fake engagement turned real love, The Proposal meets Father of the Bride.What if the only way you could make your father's last wish come true . . . was to marry the man of your dreams?Emma Tate has just moved... Read more

The Maze

By: Charity Tahmaseb

Narrated by: Ashley Klanac

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How can you escape when there's no way out?Three stories. Three heroines. Three choices.The Maze: Cadet Eppie Langtry navigates the cold and endless maze as part of the Academy’s final training exercise. Her exploration leads her to a fellow cadet, and their combined curiosity triggers something no one expects--least of all the cadre running the... Read more

Stone Mattress

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lo...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships... Read more

A Joy Ride

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

The Tale

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Joseph Conrad's most haunting sea-stories, describing a haunting life or death decision at sea which is made in a moment... and takes a lifetime to doubt it's wisdom. Read more

Four Adventure Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Four gripping tales by the master of Adventure Stories, Joseph Conrad. "The Tale", "The Inn of the Two Witches", "The Secret Sharer", "The Idiots". Read more

The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Jim Gough

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider... Read more

The Death Mask

By: H. D. Everett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) was one of the most renowned Victorian horror writers, often publishing her spine-tingling tales under the pen name Theo Douglas. The Death Mask is one of the weirdest and most chilling of her short stories. It tells the tale of a widower who had made a peculiar promise to his late wife on her deathbed.... Read more

A Man Called Trent

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two exciting stories featuring Lance Kilkenny by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "A Man Called Trent," nester Dick Moffitt lies dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent"—an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to... Read more

Carniepunk: The Demon Barker of Wheat Street

By: Kevin Hearne

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hounded—“a superb urban fantasy debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—comes an Iron Druid Chronicles short story in the captivating Carniepunk anthology.

The ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan gets more than greasy corn dogs and flat soda when he visits a carnival in Kansas to which his apprentice,... Read more

The Monogram Murders

By: Sophie Hannah & Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel... Read more

Lovely, Dark, Deep

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in... Read more

Monstrous Affections

By: Kelly Link (Editor)

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Predatory kraken that sing with—and for—their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow... Read more