Short Stories audiobooks

Tales of Terror and Mystery

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective is one of the most enduring and popular sleuths of all time. In this thrilling collection of mystery tales, Doyle's gift for creating compelling characters and tightly woven plots are sure to keep you riveted! Stories include "The Horror of Heights""The Leather Funnel""The New Catacomb""The Case of Lady... Read more

Selections from the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

By: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from Denmark, written by the legendary Hans Christian Andersen. Stories include:"The Princess and the Pea""The Ugly Duckling""The Emperor's New Suit""The Fir Tree""The Happy Family""The Little Match-Seller""The Little Mermaid""The Nightingale""The Pea Blossom""The Red Shoes""Thumbelina""The... Read more

Selections from the Flower Fables

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally written for the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a family friend, Louisa May Alcott charms us with the daily events in her fantasy world of flora and fauna. By using the magical fairies as actors in nature's play, Alcott creates delightful morality plays, allowing children to easily learn the lessons of right from wrong. Stories... Read more

The Yellow Mask

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Yellow Mask, a gothic romance filled with mystery and suspense, will hold you riveted from beginning to end.A scheming priest, Father Rocco of Pisa, decides the inheritance and great wealth of Count Fabio d'Ascoli was stolen from the church many generations ago and aims to steal it back. In order to do so, the priest manipulates Fabio's true... Read more

The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, ...

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker)

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroniclers of the city—the speakeasies and highballs,... Read more

Selections from Grimm’s Fairy Tales

By: The Brothers Grimm

Narrated by: Susan McCarthy, Bobbie Frohman & Bruce Blau

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from Germany, compiled by the legendary Brothers Grimm. Stories include:"Ashputtel""Cat and Mouse in Partnership""Cat-Skin""Clever Elsie""Hansel and Gretel""Jorinda and Jorindel""Doctor Knowall""Rapunzel""Little Red Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood""The Elves and the Shoemaker""Old... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of short stories for children reveals the magic of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Filled with animals of all shapes and sizes, these enchanting tales explain how the leopard got his spots, the elephant his trunk, and the camel his hump. Following the conventions of... Read more

Brown Wolf, and Other Short Stories

By: Jack London

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, "London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly not always—could have... Read more

A Little Brother to the Bear, and Other Animal Stories

By: William J. Long

Narrated by: Bobbie Frohman

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A Little Brother to the Bear is a collection of short stories for children with tales of woodland folk in their forest homes. Written by an American naturalist and minister, the stories are based on objective observations with a sincere respect for instincts and ingenuity of wildlife. His observations help us to understand nature and how all... Read more

The Age of Fable, Part 1

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Bulfinch, as one reviewer put it, "created an anthology of mythology." This audiobook contains the first fourteen chapters of The Age of Fable, the first of three volumes, comprising Bulfinch's complete work. The Age of Fable recounts stories of Greek gods, demigods, and best-known characters in mythology. In our times, many references... Read more

The Diamond Maker and The Door in the Wall

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

These two short stories by H. G. Wells display his gift for creating thought provoking themes. “The Diamond Maker” is a story about a chance encounter between two men who must then decide whether they can trust each other. “The Door in the Wall” is a fascinating tale about a successful politician who struggles to merge the beauty of his imagined... Read more

Lives of the Poets

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an... Read more

Tales of Fantasy

By: Scott Reeves

Narrated by: Scott Reeves

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

11 fantasy short stories by Scott Reeves, including:Washi in the Underworld — When his beloved uncle dies, a boy climbs into the coffin and is buried alongside him, intending to follow his uncle into the underworld when the Lord of the Underworld comes to take his uncle’s body from the coffin.Ambrosia — a greedy merchant enslaves a fairy,... Read more

The Octave of Jealousy

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier's famous depiction of human nature in action. An eight-part series of snapshots, starting with a tramp who feels pangs of envy when he sees someone with a more settled and domesticated life. The focus of the story shifts to this individual, who we discover is jealous of someone else...who in turn is envious of another person and... Read more

The Other Side

By: Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In the macabre tale The Other Side, Stenbock explores the werewolf theme in the sinister setting of a village on the edge of a stream. On the side where the village is, everything is peaceful and pleasant. But on the other side, where the forest is, there are werewolves, witches and other sinister beings.

When the young boy Gabriel is tempted to... Read more

The Werewolf

By: Eugene Field

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval legend about an evil curse, a love triangle and a dreadful tragedy. Harald and Alfred are love rivals for the hand of the beautiful Ysault. While Ysault favours the noble Harald, she does not know that Harald is under a terrible curse, inherited from his wicked grandfather.

The region is being ravaged by a vicious werewolf which... Read more

The Werewolves

By: Henry Beaugrand

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An eerie tale of how early pioneers in Canada are threatened by a pack of native werewolves. The watchman at the fort spots what he takes to be an Indian campfire on the other side of the frozen river. He fires warning shots and rouses the camp, but a party sent to investigate finds no trace of any human activity.

The sentry is arrested, but an... Read more

A Pastoral Horror

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A sinister werewolf story by the master of spooky storytelling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In a small village, high in the tyrolean mountains, an Englishman finds himself caught up in a local mystery. Peasants are being mysteriously attacked and killed by a mysterious figure who appears to live in the nearby woods.

Joining forces with the local... Read more

The Wolf

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking werewolf story by the master raconteur Guy de Maupassant.

Two brothers with a shared obsession for hunting, attempt to pursue a werewolf which is ravaging the neighbourhood. One brother is killed in the chase, but when the werewolf appears, the other brother's rage is such that he undertakes the hunt of his life. Read more

Gabriel-Ernest

By: Hector Hugh Munro & Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Hugh Munro, who wrote under the pseudonym "Saki" tells the tale of a modern werewolf.

"There is a wild beast in your woods" observes the artist Cunningham to his friend van Cheele. It turns out that Cunningham is right. The next day, van Cheele finds a naked feral child in the woods, who speaks in a very disturbing way about eating flesh... Read more

Jean Grenier - the French Werewolf

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval tale of the trial of a werewolf in southern France.

A strange wandering beggar-boy meets a group of French girls who are tending their flocks. He frightens the girls with dreadful stories of souls in Hell and explains that he is a werewolf and describes how at night he ravages the country and devours sheep and children. The boy is... Read more

My Adventure at Chislehurst

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling murder mystery. When the narrator bumps into an old friend of his at Olympia, who has recently remarried, he is invited to dinner at Chislehurst to meet the new wife. When they arrive however, it appears that the lady has gone to visit her mother in Worthing, and due to problems with the motor car, she will not return until the next... Read more

The Man-Wolf

By: Leitch Ritchie

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) was a Scottish novelist and journalist, who is best known for The Man-Wolf - one of the first British werewolf stories.

At the ceremony of the ducking of the fishermen, a knight is accidently pitched into the river by his servant Hugues. This humiliation, which occurs in the presence of the beautiful damsel Beatrix,... Read more

The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains

By: Frederick Marryat

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederick Marryat’s The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains is a unique literary work that stands out amidst the body of work of an author best known for pioneering the genre of the sea story. Excised from Marryat’s novel The Phantom Ship (1839) and published separately as The White Wolf it represents the first appearance of a female werewolf in... Read more