Short Stories audiobooks

The Stone Dragon

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A clause in the will of an old embittered aunt means that our hero has to choose between two women, cousins of his, of whom one is conventional and submissive and the other beautiful, erotic and unconventional. Trysts are held in the Italian garden in the presence of a stone dragon, a symbol of emotion frozen for all time, just as in a... Read more

An April Bride

By: Lenora Worth

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.War changed everything . . . even their love.Bride-to-be Stella Carson cannot wait another day to marry her longtime sweetheart, Marshall Henderson. But her plans fall to pieces when she receives the terrible news that Marshall has suffered a... Read more

The Viscount and the Witch

By: Michael Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven years before they were framed for the murder of a king, before even assuming the title of Riyria, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater were practically strangers. Unlikely associates, this cynical thief and idealist swordsman, were just learning how to work together as a team. In this standalone first installment of The Riyria Chronicles,... Read more

The Serpent's Tale

By: Dana Cameron

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Serpent’s Tale” is a Fangborn story set in 13th-century England from the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell.When the villagers of Godestone report a series of bizarre and troubling events, Sir Hugo, his heavily pregnant wife, Lady Alice, and her distant kinsman Father Gilbert are honor bound to investigate, for they are “born to... Read more

The Room

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

James Wilbraham Waite is living in a bedsit in Praxton Street, London, and feels trapped. Trapped by his life, his job...and particularly by the depressing room he rents. He sees it as his personal hell. His only escape is through reading books and imagining adventures. When he unexpectedly inherits a substantial sum of money from an uncle in... Read more

The Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, famous for his highly subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he became a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a... Read more

The Holly Tree

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Running away from a failed love affair, the lead character of the story, a very shy, bashful man, finds himself snowed up in a remote coaching inn called The Holly Tree. He spends much of the next seven days recalling strange tales of inns around Great Britain, Europe and America and remembering those which he has himself visited. After several... Read more

Nine O'Clock

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, 21 condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet... Read more

The Pig and Whistle

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A poor schoolteacher decides to spend the summer vacation at a remote country inn, where he falls gradually in love with not only the tavern's way of life, but also the landlord's daughter, the lovely Miss Fouracres. Meanwhile the landlord is sinking into drink and despair, driven by his obsession over an incident at a hotel he ran several years... Read more

One Thing Leads To Another

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier's classic tale tracking a series of initially mundane events which trigger a series of ever more extraordinary happenings. A father, scolding his son for stealing apples, throws a piece of bacon rind out of the window, sparking a chain of events which bring down the government. Read more

A Witch in the Peak

By: R. Murray Gilchrist

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867 – 1917) was an English novelist and author of short stories often set in the Peak District. He is best known today for his Gothic short horror stories, which earn him a deserved position alongside the likes of Stevenson, Stoker, Wilde and Stenbock.

A Witch in the Peak tells the story of a money-lender trying to... Read more

Unusual Short Stories

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty unusual and enchanting short stories.

1. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
2. The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier
3. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
4. A Strange Thing by John Galsworthy
5. Rats by M. R. James
6. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
7. My Adventure in Norfolk by A. J. Alan
8. Gabriel-Ernest... Read more

A Poor Gentleman

By: George Gissing

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

George Gissing's poignant story of the mysterious Mr. Tymperley who is known to have lived an affluent country life, but is now mysteriously inhabiting a shabby bedsit in a poor street in Islington, London. At a society dinner party, he is rumoured to be undertaking social work and living among the working classes out of charitable concern...but... Read more

The Brown Wallet

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Giles is out of work and deep in debt after being cheated by a business partner. He is desperate to find a way to support his wife Eleanor and his daughter Anna, but he has no obvious marketable skills or talents. His one wealthy relative lends him tiny sums, and is so unpleasant over it that Giles scarcely dares borrow more.

Then one day, Giles... Read more

Damage Control

By: Amber Dermont

Narrated by: Danielle Ferland, Eliza Foss & David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon," a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In " Damage Control," a young man... Read more

Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, Pet...

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the... Read more

The King in Yellow

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre, most notably H. P. Lovecraft. Its powerful combination of horror and lyrical prose has made it a classic, a masterpiece of weird fiction that endures to this day.There is a book that is... Read more

Trouble in Mind

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander, Kate Reading, Dennis Boutsika...

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Fiendish suspense. Shocking twists.
Twelve diabolical tales.

New York Times bestselling author and highly acclaimed storyteller Jeffery Deaver-the undisputed "grand master of the plot twist" (Booklist)-returns with a dazzling new collection of short stories. In these twelve electrifying tales (including six written just for this anthology)... Read more

Redeployment

By: Phil Klay

Narrated by: Craig Klein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review

Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book... Read more

Cachorros - Contos

By: Ivana Arruda Leite

Narrated by: Sandra Silvério

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Neste audiolivro de contos, homens, mulheres e cães se misturam nas histórias, que, embora profundas e muitas vezes marcadas pela angústia, aparecem sempre permeadas pelo deboche e pelo cinismo na forma como Ivana Arruda Leite as conta. Read more

Bark

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Lorrie Moore

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's).A literary event—a new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers, her first collection in fifteen years.In these... Read more

A March Bride

By: Rachel Hauck

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.Susanna has found her true prince, and their happily ever after is just around the corner. But when Nate asks her to give up something precious to her, Susanna can’t help but wonder if it’s a sign that their love is not meant to be.Susanna Truitt... Read more

The Peterkin Papers

By: Lucretia P. Hale

Narrated by: Susan McCarthy

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally appearing as a series of short stories in a children’s magazine, The Peterkin Papers is a collection of tales featuring the hysterically inept Peterkin family. The Peterkins’ unfortunate lack of common sense causes hilarious unintended consequences nearly every time they have an idea. They muddle through life’s challenges with love... Read more

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Bobbie Frohman & Dav...

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming collection of children's stories by Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince This is the tale of an unhappy prince and how he teaches generosity and love to a small sparrow who becomes his friend. The Nightingale and the RoseA nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give... Read more