Short Stories audiobooks

The Three Strangers

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When a stranger turns up at Shepherd Fennel's party, held in honour of his daughter's christening, he is welcomed and treated to home-brewed mead, a pipe and tobacco and a seat by the fire. When a second, altogether more sinister stranger arrives, he too is welcomed, although he makes rather too free with the host's liquor and sings a song... Read more

The Withered Arm

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's sinister tale of jealousy, unrequited love and a mysterious and hideous curse. When Farmer Lodge brings his new wife home, nobody is more resentful and yet curious about her than his spurned former lover, Rhoda Brooke. But a terrifying and supernatural nightmare in which the two women fight, leaves strange and sinister marks on... Read more

Jenny ist meistens schön friedlich - Abridged

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Erika Skrotzki

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jenny - im besten Kindergartenalter - lebt mit Mama, Papa und der kleinen Schwester Lisa in einem ganz normalen Wohnhaus. Zu Hause, bei Oma Elli, beim Nachbarsjungen Niko und draußen vor der Haustür passieren kleine Alltagsgeschichten, die es in sich haben: Da wird die Puppe richtig "operiert" und eine Brille gegen Ohrringe getauscht. Jenny und... Read more

Three Ghostly Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Three superb ghost stories by master storyteller, Rudyard Kipling. The Finest Story in the World: When the young bank clerk Charlie Mears comes up with an innovative idea for a new story, he has no notion just how amazing his tale is. Inspired by dreams which are memories of former lives, he takes us back to the vivid and brutal world of... Read more

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Ona...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its... Read more

We Live in Water

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Jess Walter

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him... Read more

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more

The Phantom Rickshaw

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An uncanny tale from the Raj. When Jack Pansay's affair with Mrs. Keith-Wessington comes to an unseemly end, he believes the matter to be over. But Mrs. Wessington's obsession with him continues year after year, as she stalks him in her rickshaw around the walks of Simla. When Pansay announces his engagement to Kitty Mannering, the trauma is too... Read more

The Croxley Master

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced and engaging narrative about a medical assistant who despairs of finding the funds for his final year of medical school until, while defending himself against the belligerent spouse of a patient, he ends up knocking out the town's best candidate to defeat the local boxing champion, the Croxley Master. Learning that the impending... Read more

Moni and the Goat Boy

By: Johanna Spyri

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Moni, the goat boy, was a very cheerful young man who loved his job and his flock with all his heart. When young Paula first encounter's Moni's jubilant nature and happy song, she is captivated by his joy and becomes his friend. Moni spends each day up in the mountains with the goats and has a particularly special attachment to a kid named... Read more

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

By: Simon Kernick

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller.


Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?

You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl.

She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English.

She is clearly running away from someone.

Do you stop to help... Read more

News from Heaven

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Alexander Cendese, Cynthia Dar...

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh... Read more

Man Seeking Woman

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can be messy, painful, and even tragic. When seen through the eyes of Simon Rich it can also be hilarious.

In these ingenious stories, Rich conjures up some unforgettable romances: an unused prophylactic describes life inside a teenage boy's wallet; God juggles the demands of his needy girlfriend with the looming deadline for earth's... Read more

The Finest Story in the World

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When the young bank clerk, Charlie Mears, comes up with an innovative idea for a new story, he has no notion just how amazing his tale is. Inspired by dreams which are memories of former lives, he takes us back to the vivid and brutal world of ancient Greece. But Charlie’s own literary skill is not equal to the task of writing his novel. His... Read more

Uncanny Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson & Edith...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A spine-chilling collection of tales of uncanny happenings, ghostly apparitions, unexplained mysteries, evil deeds, and tragic events. "The Upper Berth" - F. Marion Crawford
"Andreas Vasalius the Anatomist" - Petrus Borel
"They" - Rudyard Kipling
"The Parricide Punished" - Anon
"The Poisoner of Montremos" - Richard Cumberland
... Read more

Great Horror Stories

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Horror Stories is a vintage collection of some of the finest ghost tales, horror stories and supernatural legends ever written, by the best writers the genre has to offer. “They” – Rudyard Kipling, The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Open Window – Saki, The Rocking Horse Winner – D.H.Lawrence, Markheim – Robert Louis... Read more

Kinsey and Me

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past.

“I've come to believe that Grafton is not only the most talented woman writing crime... Read more

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

NAMED ONE... Read more

They

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the... Read more

Edgar Poe : 3 plus belles histoires

By: Edgard Allan Poe

Narrated by: various

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Considéré comme l'inventeur du roman policier, Edgar Allan Poe évolue tout au long de sa vie entre génie créateur et folie destructrice. Fils de comédiens désargentés, Edgar Poe est adopté après leur mort par un riche négociant avec qui il voyage en Europe. Après de brillantes études en Angleterre, le jeune homme intègre l'école militaire... Read more

What Men Live By

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

A heart-opening tale of transformation.One winter evening a shoemaker finds a mysterious stranger naked and freezing by a shrine in his small village. The shoemaker rescues the man, and takes him home. Though the stranger won’t say where he came from, Simon invites him to work beside him, and stay with his family. As the story unfolds, the... Read more

Triple Threat

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Kevin T. Collins

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories.

In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance.

In "Game," a housekeeper looks for her murdered employer's... Read more

The Under Dog

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty Lily Margrave is not convinced that Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell’s murder. At the request of her employer, Lady Atwell, she has already recounted what happened ten days ago in the Tower Room, and the victim’s nephew has been charged with the murder. Nevertheless, Lady Atwell brings Poirot up to the great house, Mon... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal... Read more