Short Stories audiobooks

Mr. Tall

By: Tony Earley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated return of Tony Earley, celebrated author of Jim the Boy
Two decades after his debut collection Here We Are in Paradise (LB, 2/94) heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, the rueful, bittersweet, and riotous stories of Mr. Tall reestablish him as a mythmaker and tale spinner of the... Read more

A September Bride

By: Kathryn Springer

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.When Annie moves to Red Leaf, she’s ready to call the little town home. But one handsome, suspicious policeman is ready to stand in her way . . . even if it means walking her down the aisle first.All Annie Price has ever wanted is a place to call... Read more

The Hunger, and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

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

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles BeaumontWhen The Hunger, and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The... Read more

One Death, Nine Stories

By: Marc Aronson (Editor)

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Christina Traister

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas, Kevin. Age 19. Died at York Hospital, July 19, 2012. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job—at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two... Read more

Flings

By: Justin Taylor

Narrated by: Justin Taylor

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is roused from malaise when an alligator appears in her backyard. A group of college... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Riding for the Brand"After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and... Read more

West of the Tularosa

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Mistakes Can Kill You"Johnny O'Day, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam... Read more

The Game Played in the Dark

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.

In his stories of detection,... Read more

The Smile of La Gioconda

By: Morley Roberts

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways, cattle, and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.

In "The Smile of La Gioconda" he is concerned with the subtle psychological aspects of... Read more

The Dancing Partner

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jerome K. Jerome's masterpiece of gruesome fantasy.

A German toymaker seeks to oblige his daughter's friends by building the perfect dancing partner. He can dance all night, never treads on your feet, always says the right thing. At the ball the dancing partner is a great success...at first. But the waltz gets faster and faster...and the scene... Read more

His Brother's Keeper

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

W. W. Jacobs (1863-1941) is well known for humorous stories and for the most grisly of horror stories. His Brother's Keeper belongs firmly in the latter category. It tells the story of a man whose murdered enemy lies secretly buried at the bottom of the garden. It is the perfect crime. Nobody need ever know who has murdered him and where he... Read more

The Cabmen's Shelter

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Leslie Harrison Lambert, who wrote under the name of A. J. Alan (1883-1941), was an English magician, intelligence officer, short story writer, and radio broadcaster. He kept his identity secret, while as a spinner of yarns, humorous, fantastic, or mysterious, he became ever-more popular, especially via his regular radio broadcasts.

The Cabmen's... Read more

The Hammer of God

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Colonel's body is discovered in the blacksmith's yard, the skull smashed like a crushed eggshell. No man for 40 miles around could have struck such a blow, except the giant of a blacksmith... and the blackmith has a cast-iron alibi.

Only the reticent catholic priest Father Brown can deduce the extraordinary truth behind this bizarre murder. Read more

My Adventure in Jermyn Street

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The narrator receives a mysterious envelope in the post containing a single theatre ticket for that evening. There is no note or return address, and he has no idea who could have sent it. When he attends the performance, in the third act a mysterious lady takes the seat next to him and asks him to come with her to see her brother George after... Read more

The Giraffe Problem

By: Barry Pain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet, and writer, best known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.

The Giraffe Problem tells the story of an evening at the Problem Club, a secret society of gentlemen in London who meet once a month in a private room above a restaurant, where one of the waiters is the admirable... Read more

The Murder of the Mandarin

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A young wife in a quiet Midlands town, a new dress, a dance, an unimaginative husband. How could a mandarin's sudden death in far-away China have any connection with this homely situation? Read more

Casting the Runes

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mystery surrounds a certain Mr. Karswell. He has purchased an old Abbey, is a known alchemist, and has written a ludicrous history of witchcraft. Are these mysterious behaviors those of an irascible eccentric, or a cold-hearted murderer? Read more

The Best of A. J. Alan

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

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.

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The Furnished Room

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

O. Henry's poignant ghost story of a young man seeking his lost love in the city. When he rents a furnished room in the lower West Side, he senses from a mysterious and familiar scent that his lost love has recently stayed there. The ghostly essence of his lover exercises a very strange and sinister effect on him. Read more

The Dream

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A. J. Alan's curious story of a recurring dream. Possibly one of the strangest and creepiest tales ever told. Read more

Necronomicon

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Richard Powers, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Tho...

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft EstateOriginally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, H. P. Lovecraft’s astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft’s... Read more

Stories of the Golden West, Book 3

By: Jon Tuska, Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey & Max Brand

Narrated by: Christopher Lane & Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic Western talesTappan's Burro by Zane GreyProspecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repays her with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit.Jargan by Max... Read more

The Marionettes

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Marionettes tells the story of two disreputable men. One, Dr. James, is a suave doctor and also an assassin and safe-breaker. The other, Mr. Chandler, is a consumate wastrel, gambler, and wife beater. Each of the two adheres to a strict code of conduct and despises the other for their lack of morals.

A chance encounter between the two of them... Read more

The Siege of Berlin

By: Alphonse Daudet

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1870. The elderly Colonel Jouve has suffered a medical collapse and is confined to his bed. It is uncertain whether or not he will pull through.

His granddaughter takes over his care. Then one day, news reaches Paris of military successes in the war against Prussia. Colonel Jouve senses the optimism in the air and his health begins to... Read more