Short Stories audiobooks

Stationary Bike

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New on audio from Stephen King...an unabridged novella"as artful as anything he has ever written." (Booklist)

Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.

When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally... Read more

Collected Stories and Poems

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Edgar Allan Poe. Even so, no one is really sure who Poe was. Many people say that he was as crazy as the characters he wrote about. Others say that Poe was a driven man with a simple wish. He wanted to write and to make a living by his writing. Even though Poe lived a miserable life, he... Read more

Tales from Nightscape

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Robert Forster

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Author David Morrell is a consummate storyteller, investing his tales with passion, sympathy, and narrative drive. From this master of literate, high-adrenaline novels of action comes three suspenseful short stories that will keep listeners guessing: "Front Man" – An aging screenwriter cast adrift in a youth-oriented... Read more

The Road Virus Heads North

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the dark, eerie tales that can only come from Stephen King, orginally a part of the #1 New York Times bestseller Everything's Eventual, "The Road Virus Heads North" tracks an author who buys a creepy paiting at a yard sale which was painted by a metal-head neighbor just before he committed suicide. Read more

Undone!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

I'm undone... Yes, I know. I'm a fink. A rat. A creep. Nobody likes Eric Mud and it's all my fault. But I don't deserve this, do I? Plans come undone. Zips come undone. Bullies come undone. And so will the listeners who try to predict the endings of these eight weird and wonderful stories. Read more

Gasp! Zapt! Splat!

By: Terry Denton

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Gasp!: This hilarious story is about a naughty, greedy little fish who nearly gets what he deserves. Zapt!: This hilarious sequel to Gasp! will leave you breathless, as our favourite fish stars again in an extraordinary and shocking adventure. Splat!: A third side-splitting adventure about everyone's favourite fish. Mayhem follows when our... Read more

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

By: Don Wood & Audrey Wood

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the bear... How... Read more

Ticklepot Episodes 1 - 5

By: Peter Combe

Narrated by: Peter Combe

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sing along to all of your favourite iconic songs by Peter Combe in Ticklepot: Episodes 1–5, including: Thelma Brown, 12345, Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Hammer in the Nails, Chops & Sausages and Happy as Larry Join Peter and Monkey (and their friends Parrot and Tortoise, too!) on their fun adventures. 1. THEME SONG 2. A VISIT TO THELMA... Read more

Fairies Towne: Parent Collector Edition Book

By: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Narrated by: Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This novella has combined the whole "Fairies Towne" series of children's books. Read more

Graven Images

By: Paul Fleischman

Narrated by: Paul Michael, Susan Denaker & Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers.

Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling... Read more

A Quiver Full of Arrows - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Sons of Fortune, Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection.

Featuring bonus interviews with the author.

From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the listener on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly... Read more

His Last Bow

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more

Quick Reads: The Red Boxing Gloves plus three more

By: Various Authors

Narrated by: Steven Whittaker

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Red Boxing Gloves by David Metzenthen - "Take it easy, Bicky. Or get out of the ring!" Jack and the Aliens by Damien Broderick - Jack, an interstellar cadet, is stranded on an alien planet with Chipster his computerised spacesuit. Will the rescue craft arrive in time to save him? Intergalactic Heroes by James Moloney - "This is my last... Read more

South Sea Tales

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language... Read more

Drei Geschichten (Ungekürzt)

By: Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan...

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit langer Zeit wieder ein gemeinsames Projekt der Sprecher von den 'Drei Fragezeichen': Drei Stimmen + Drei Autoren + Drei Musiker = Drei Geschichten. Unter diesem Motto ist die erste gemeinsame CD von Andreas Fröhlich, Oliver Rohrbeck und Jens Wawrczeck bei dem Label "Lauscherlounge" entstanden. Die Sprecher der Kulthörspielserie "Die drei... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be thrilled to know that Anne Shirley does appear in these wonderful stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. In fact, page one starts off with Anne curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room, where Anne spent a fortnight of her vacation.However, most of the people who appear in this book are new to listeners of the... Read more

The Summer He Didn’t Die

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer.In the title novella, “The Summer He Didn’t Die,” Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan... Read more

Unseen!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This is unbelievable. This is unreal. What is going on here? First I get a toilet seat stuck around my face and now this little parrot is following me around. Unseen events like... the dead coming back to life... escaping a man-eating ghost... growing spare fingers... cheating the fate that awaits you... from the one and only Paul Jennings. Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more

Dave Henderson’s Dog Stories

By: Dave Henderson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Henderson, a seasoned outdoorsman, presents twenty-one great stories about dogs he’s collected over the years. Although fictional, they represent the wonderful relationship between canine and man. Some stories have been previously published and have been favored by good reviews from all areas of dogdom.If you have come across them before,... Read more

Paris Stories

By: Mavis Gallant

Narrated by: Lorna Raver & Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an... Read more

Alentejo Blue

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing... Read more

Homeland and Other Stories - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book ReviewWith the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of numerous literary awards... Read more

Unbearable!

By: Paul Jennings

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It's unbearable... The bird's perch is swinging to and fro and hitting me on the nose. I can see my eye in its little mirror. Unbearably weird... You have the foulest feet ever. There are flies for lunch. A goat swallows your opal. And you have lived before. Read more