Short Stories audiobooks

The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Fleete, a relative newcomer to India, becomes extremely drunk on New Year's Eve and on the way home desecrates the temple of the monkey-god Hanuman, by stubbing out his cigar on the statue of the deity. A mysterious leper appears and bites Fleete on the chest, leaving a strange mark. Another priest warns Fleete that Hanuman has not yet finished... Read more

Fifty Great Classic Stories

By: Various

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 24 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century.

1. Juxtapositions by Stacy Aumonier
2. The Misogynist by Henry Prothero
3. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa May Alcott
4. An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin
5. The Roman Road by Kenneth Grahame
6. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
7. My Adventure in... Read more

Rats

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A discussion about an infestation of rats nesting under rotting bed-clothes leads to a reminiscence about something ever more gruesome. A truly grisly horror story, by the master of the ghostly vision himself. Read more

The Sailor Uncle

By: Mary Lamb

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Ann Lamb (1764 – 1847) was an English writer who battled with mental illness all her life. In 1796 during a nervous breakdown, she stabbed her mother to death and was sent to an asylum. Six months afterward, her brother Charles took over her care, and she went to live with him, and the two of them collaborated on many works of literature... Read more

MacArthur Park - A Justice Security Short Story

By: T. M. Bilderback

Narrated by: Patrick Peterson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Megan Beck has been asked to perform a highly top-secret job for Justice Security, assigned by their FBI liaison, Marcus Moore.Megan is given sparse instructions on what she is to do, but no information about why she's doing this particular job, or who the target might be.The job, unfortunately, has to be done on the night of her husband's... Read more

Hannibal: The Patrol

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling prequel to Ben Kane's Hannibal: Fields of Blood. An exclusive straight to digital short story.

WINTER 218 BC

In Cisalpine Gaul, a Carthaginian patrol is moving stealthily through thick woodland.

It’s led by Hanno, one of Hannibal’s young officers, and his second-in-command Mutt.

Famished and cold, they are making for a town full of... Read more

Battleborn

By: Claire Vaye Watkins

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Kevin Orton, T. Ryder Smith, Morg...

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of... Read more

The Unreal and the Real, Vol 1

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories-- as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself-- the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day.... Read more

One More Thing

By: B. J. Novak

Narrated by: B. J. Novak, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Jenna F...

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new... Read more

Bullseye

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.

Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist--and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone.... Read more

Ordinary Life

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In “Ordinary Life,” Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life... Read more

The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories

By: Patrick Taylor

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.

These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O'Reilly as he... Read more

Bullseye

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this all-new short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club.

Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of a bank heist--and he's taken hostage alongside Oliver Stone.... Read more

Christmas by Injunction

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cherokee has struck it rich, and he decides to make Christmas extra special for the children of a nearby town. Unfortunately, there ARE no children in the nearby town. When the appreciative townspeople try to round up some kids from the surrounding towns, they inadvertently set the stage for a Christmas miracle for Cherokee.  Read more

A February Bride

By: Betsy St. Amant

Narrated by: Amber Quick

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.Allie left the love of her life at the altar—to save him from a lifetime of heartbreak. When a Valentine’s Day wedding brings them back together, she struggles against her family’s destructive history. Can Allie ever realize that a marriage is so... Read more

The Haunted Dolls' House

By: M.R. James

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mr. Dillet buys a breathtakingly beautiful antique dolls' house from a dealer, he is delighted with his purchase and has it installed in his bedroom at home. When he goes to bed, however, he hears a clock strike one and then a strange scene unfolds before his eyes, leading him into a vision from the past in which he unravels a mysterious... Read more

Tales to Remember

By: Various

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting collection of unforgettable tales by great classic authors.

"My Adventure in Norfolk", by A. J. Alan
"A Child’s Revenge", by Paul Bourget
"The Telephone at the Oratory", by Lord Halifax
"The Mother Stone", by John Galsworthy
"The Haunted Dolls’ House", by M. R. James
"Lost in a Pyramid", by Louisa May Alcott
... Read more

The Hair

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When the narrator finds a mysterious brass box in a curiosity shop, he is intrigued. It is heavy, round, and shaking it shows that it clearly contains something...but it cannot be opened. He buys the box and takes it home. With some effort, he manages to open it and discovers a plait of mysterious hair. After cleaning and examining the hair, he... Read more

The Roman Road

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All roads lead to Rome. The young boy telling this story cannot quite comprehend this assertion - but of one road, he is certain it is true. The Knights' Road, as he and his friends call it. A road without hedges or ditches, a road that heads straight over the downs with a purpose. One day he will set off to Rome along this road... but for the... Read more

My Adventure in Norfolk

By: A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A. J. Alan's delicious narrative of a strange adventure on a cold winter night in Norfolk. The narrator is spending a night in an unfamiliar bungalow on the Norfolk Broads. He hears the sound of a car outside, and on investigation finds a young woman whose vehicle has broken down. Attempts to fix the car fail, but they flag down a milk lorry... Read more

Tales of Science Fiction

By: Scott Reeves

Narrated by: Scott Reeves

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen science fiction short stories by Scott Reeves.Ghost in the Machine —The mind of a dying man is transferred into a computer, sending him careening into an increasingly strange future at lightning-fast processor speed.Sunset, Sunrise — In man’s final days on Earth, the last man meets the first - Adam.Just Another Bloody Vampire Story — In... Read more

The Question of Bruno

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir & Vikas Adam

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force—the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's—Aleksandar Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an... Read more

Forgiving the Angel

By: Jay Cantor

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...Max Brod, his friend and literary... Read more

Sweet Land Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works... Read more