Short Stories audiobooks

Sailors' Yarns

By: W. W. Jacobs, Joseph Conrad & Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A splendid collection of seafarers' tales.

"Choice Spirits", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Descent into the Maelström", by Edgar Allan Poe
"Pickled Herring", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Secret Sharer", by Joseph Conrad
"Mixed Relations", by W.W. Jacobs
"The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford
"The Finest Story in the World", by Rudyard Kipling
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Someone Saved My Life Tonight - A Justice Security Short Story

By: T. M. Bilderback

Narrated by: Scott O'Neill

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

They're called the "grunts" - the uniformed officers of Justice Security. They don't have the cushy, highly publicized jobs held by the plainclothes members of the company - they're the people that appear in the background every day at banks, office buildings, and retail establishments, providing a secure environment for customers and... Read more

The World's Best Classic Short Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:

'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James
'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling
'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy
'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde
'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs
'An... Read more

Nine Inches

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families

The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar... Read more

Tales of Rags and Riches

By: O. Henry, Katherine Mansfield & Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A fabulous collection of stories about the fabulously rich, the grindingly poor, sudden wealth, odd inheritances, greed and generosity.

The Inconsiderate Waiter by J.M. Barrie
The One Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
Alf's Dream by W.W. Jacobs
One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry
The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
In the Family by W.W. Jacobs
A... Read more

That's Why I'm The Soap Opera Writer

By: Matthew W. Grant

Narrated by: Jeannie Lin

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Go behind the scenes of popular soap opera To Live And Love in this humorous short story in which the backstage drama is more intense than what happens in front of the camera. Follow hopeful actor Robert Schwarzmann in his journey from a small town in Maine to the glitz and glamor lifestyle of daytime television in Hollywood,... Read more

Telling Stories

By: O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce & Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An engaging collection of short stories from some of the world's greatest racconteurs. Included are 'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey; 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield; 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs; 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley; 'A Curious Dream' by Mark Twain; 'Regret' by Kate Chopin;... Read more

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor & Ellen Archer

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). 

"A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco Chronicle

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an... Read more

Tales with a Twist

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating collection of tales with unexpected endings.

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
American Sir! By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
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Short Cruises

By: W. W. Jacobs

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

W.W. Jacobs was an English writer, famous for his humorous short stories, particularly those relating the preposterous adventures and misadventures of sailors on leave. This collection, Short Cruises, contains some of W.W. Jacobs' most popular characters, including the night watchman at the docks in Wapping who relates the stories of his friends... Read more

Classic Humorous Stories

By: Hector Hugh Munro, Ambrose Bierce & Mark Twain

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 24 of the best humorous stories ever written.

"The Inconsiderate Waiter", by J.M. Barrie
"Mrs. Packletide's Tiger", by Saki
"Curried Cow", by Ambrose Bierce
"Cannibalism in the Cars", by Mark Twain
"A Love Knot", by W.W. Jacobs
"A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce
"Biffin on the Bassoon", by Harry Graham
"Esme",... Read more

Middle Men

By: Jim Gavin

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen, Jonathan Todd Ross & T. Ryder S...

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In " Play the Man" a high-school basketball player aspires to a college scholarship, in " Elephant... Read more

The Color Master

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.

Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and... Read more

Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of... Read more

The Short Stories of Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro & Saki

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixty-five short stories by the master storyteller, Saki:

'Esme', 'The Match-Maker', 'Tobermory', 'Mrs. Packletide's Tiger', 'The Stampeding of Lady Bastable', 'The Background', 'Hermann the Irascible', 'The Unrest-Cure', 'The Jesting of Arlington Stringham', 'Sredni Vashtar', 'Adrian The Chaplet', 'The Quest', 'Wratislav', 'The Easter Egg',... Read more

The Beast

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the reclusive elderly billionaire. But it soon becomes clear... Read more

The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple... Read more

Short Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A scintillating collection of Ambrose Bierce's humorous and macabre short stories:

Oil of Dog
A Shipwreckollection
A Cargo of Cat
Curried Cow
The Eyes of the Panther
A Bottomless Grave
The Boarded Window Read more

Brotherhood and Others

By: Mark Sullivan

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes Robin Monarch––called "one of the most compelling heroes since Jason Bourne" (Lisa Gardner)–– in three propulsive, nerve-wracking stories.

BROTHERHOOD

Robin Monarch is a man with a complicated, secret past and a very grim future. Currently locked up in the USDB—the military... Read more

The Best of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty hours of the very best of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories:

The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
The Gold Bug
The Balloon Hoax
Von Kempelen and his discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the case of M Valdemar
The Thousand and Second Tale of Sheherazade
MS Found in a bottle
A Descent into the... Read more

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

By: Roald Dahl

Narrated by: Andrew Scott

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times

Seven superb stories, from the world's no. 1 storyteller

Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out... Read more

The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus

Narrated by: Andre Dubus

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society—these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog.In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a... Read more

Gracious Lies

By: Hilda Lolly

Narrated by: Anne Reid & Joanna David

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Gracious Lies, is a collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage. In "Hand, Foot & Finger", imperious Leonard and his pale wife Audrey head once again to Aunty Lynne’s West Country guesthouse. Can Audrey endure another week of toil on the... Read more

Mountain Man

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the first story in his most commercially successful seriesA comedic western, "Mountain Man" is about the tall tales and big adventures of Brekenridge Elkins, an exaggerated, cartoonish version of Howard himself. The story first appeared in the March–April 1934 issue of Action Stories and was so popular... Read more