Short Stories audiobooks

The Southern Woman

By: Elizabeth Spencer

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas including The... Read more

Tales of Terror and Mystery

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume presents some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way, which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical brainchild Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that... Read more

Between the Assassinations

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection

Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel."Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a... Read more

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: various narrators, Richard Powers, Malcolm Hill...

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including... Read more

Great Classic Suspense

By: various authors

Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural. The haunting language and brilliant renditions create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes the following suspense-filled classics:“Ethan Brand” by Nathaniel Hawthorne—A lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for... Read more

Animal Crackers

By: Hannah Tinti

Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the... Read more

Selected Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.

"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.

"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.

"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America,... Read more

The Afterlife and Other Stories - Abridged

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed, and bestselling author, John Updike. Read more

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In "The Model Millionaire", the destiny of a young, ambitious, brilliant pauper changes with an act of his misplaced generosity. "The Happy Prince" is one of Oscar Wilde’s renowned fairy tales. From his vantage point, high above the city, the statue of The Happy Prince gives of himself in a way most astonishing. In "The Sphinx Without a Secret",... Read more

Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales like "How the Leopard Got His Spots" and "How the Camel Got His Hump" answer questions only children would ask and answers them in a way only children would believe. Rudyard Kipling very much intended Just So Stories to be read aloud— and no one does it better than Carl Reiner, who brings each original story to life. A superbly... Read more

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more

How It Ended

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation comes a collection of stories drawn from his nearly three-decade career. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York, or the South, they unveil the manic flux of our society as they capture various stages of adulthood: a young man confronting the class system... Read more

The Homecoming & Other Stories

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Joanna Myers, Kate Binchy, Patricia Hodge & Sea...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Maeve Binchy is one of Britain’s most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate the warmth and compassion that have made her many novels bestsellers. In 'Homecoming', read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin’s restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? 'Telling... Read more

The Boat

By: Nam Le

Narrated by: Gideon Emery, Henry Strozier, Jesús E. Martínez...

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of stories from Pushcart Prize-winning author Nam Le has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, is a New York Times Editors' Pick, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The seven stories' protagonists range from a Colombian teenage assassin to an elderly painter with health problems. "Powerful ... Lyrical ...... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue... Read more

Road Rage

By: Joe Hill, Stephen King & Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe... Read more

The Aunt and Amabel

By: E. Nesbit

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Journey to the roots of Narnia. C.S. Lewis enjoyed the writings of E. Nesbit from the time he was a child. And the story of Amabel and her journey through a mahogany wardrobe so struck him, that he later created his whimsical masterpiece, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Discover the tale that inspired the great C.S. Lewis, and journey to... Read more

Amélie and the ferry and other stories

By: Kim Hoffmeister

Narrated by: Kim Hoffmeister

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Amélie is a naughty little French girl who lives in Brittany with Maman, Papa and little brother Louis. In this set of four exciting stories, Amélie takes a trip on a ferry, goes to the seaside, stays on a farm and looses a tooth! Stories are narrated in English but have a generous sprinkling of French words and phrases to help children learn... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, T...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
Introduction (Stephen King)
Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)
Crouch End (Tim Curry)
Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)
The House on Maple St. (Tabitha... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick & ...

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
-Chattery Teeth
-The Moving Finger
-Home Delivery
-Sneakers
and more…. Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Multiple readers

Length: 26 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume III

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Joe Morton & Joe Man...

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
-The Night Flier
-Popsy
-It Grows on You
-You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
-The Ten O'Clock People
... Read more

Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Young demigods, brace yourselves for a peak inside the highly classified Demigod Files! Compiled by Camp Half-Blood's senior scribe, Rick Riordan, these top secret archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilous adventures and behind-the-scenes interviews with your favorite characters--Connor and Travis, Clarisse, Annabeth, Grover, and... Read more