Short Stories & Anthologies

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Brandon Sanderson
• Narrated By Michael Kramer, Kate Reading

Welcome to New York Times and Sunday Times best seller Brandon Sanderson's first collection of short fiction. These wonderful works, originally published individually, have been collected for the first time and convey the true expanse of the Cosmere.

Necronomicon

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 1 min)
• By H. P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, and others

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released.

Uncommon Type: Some Stories

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 1 min)
• By Tom Hanks
• Narrated By Tom Hanks

A collection of 17 wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game - and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves.

The Lottery, and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Shirley Jackson
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kathe Mazur, and others

"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. "Powerful and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with 24 equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate her remarkable range - from the hilarious to the truly horrible - and power as a storyteller.

Lord John and the Hand of the Devils

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Diana Gabaldon
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman

In these tales, Lord John vows to avenge a murder, investigates a terrifying "night-hag" on the battlefields of Europe, and discovers treason in His Majesty's ranks.

Four Past Midnight

• UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By James Woods, Ken Howard, Tim Sample, and others

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when, between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. Four Past Midnight: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity....

Men Without Women

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Haruki Murakami
• Narrated By Bruno Roubicek
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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 4 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By B. J. Harrison

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.

Welcome to the Monkey House

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Kurt Vonnegut
• Narrated By David Strathairn, Maria Tucci, Bill Irwin, and others
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

Australia's Best Unknown Stories

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Jim Haynes
• Narrated By Jim Haynes
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From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australiana authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns and furphies ... all of them unknown.Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know what the Ashes are?

The Best Australian Yarns and Other True Stories

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jim Haynes
• Narrated By Jim Haynes

The Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive work collected from memory, mates, word of mouth and decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history.

Including oft-told legendary yarns, reminiscences from the shearing shed, tall stories from the bush, sporting yarns, railway yarns, stories from the world of show business, digger yarns from both world wars, convict and bushranger yarns and anecdotes from the colonial days, yarns from shanties and gold rushes, ghost stories, bunyips and yowies, hauntings, and weird happenings.

Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 5 mins)
• By James Patterson (editor), Lee Child, James Grippando, and others
• Narrated By full cast

Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are 32 of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous, to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.

Green River Ghost Stories: Green River Crime & Horror

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs)
• By David Bain
• Narrated By Curt Campbell
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David Bain presents six tales of small town supernatural horror.

Terror Divine: Stories of Horror from Beyond

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Ron W Koppelberger
• Narrated By Daniel Olivares
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The peak of terror and the absolute definition of horror. Here you will find ghosts, haunts and spirits in shadow, maybe even a goblin or a few cannibals. Imagine a quiet moment where you wait for the outcome of some grand design, the empty space that leads you to the conclusion. The moment you get off of this rollercoaster you will wonder where you have been and how to get back on. This is the thrill in Terror Divine.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, and others

A thrilling collection of 20 stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and collected for the first time - with a wonderful bonus: in addition to his introduction to the whole collection, King gives readers a fascinating introduction to each story with autobiographical comments on their origins and motivations.

Difficult Women

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Roxane Gay
• Narrated By Robin Miles
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The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer.

Madness

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs)
• By Roald Dahl
• Narrated By Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Scott, Cillian Murphy, and others
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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected audiobook of his darkest stories, read by Juliet Stevenson, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Scarborough, Tamsin Greig, Stephanie Beacham and Andrew Scott. 'There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know.' Our greatest fear is of losing control - of our lives, but, most of all, of ourselves. In these 10 unsettling tales of unexpected madness master storyteller Roald Dahl explores what happens when we let go our sanity.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, full cast

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these 12 adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels. The 12 dramatisations are 'The Illustrious Client', 'The Blanched Soldier', 'The Mazarin Stone', 'The Three Gables', 'The Sussex Vampire', 'The Three Garridebs', 'The Problem of Thor Bridge', 'The Creeping Man', 'The Lion's Mane', 'The Veiled Lodger', 'Shoscombe Old Place' and 'The Retired Colourman'.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Flannery O’Connor
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, and others

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.

The State Of The Art: Culture Series, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Iain M. Banks
• Narrated By Peter Kenny
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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.

Mannequin Challenge

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Thomas Leverett
• Narrated By Greta Gorsuch

21 short stories best described as bold, intense Americana, though one is set in Thailand. Written between 2016 and 2017, the stories display the author's mastery of the craft of short story writing -- this is his sixth collection.

Trapping Rabbits

• UNABRIDGED (18 mins)
• By John Isaac Jones
• Narrated By James H Kiser

One day in June of 1951, Billy Johnson's father delayed plowing long enough to teach his son how to trap a rabbit. In the past, he had never seen his father delay plowing for any reason, especially when he was using black hired hands. Over the years that followed, he always assumed the motive for the lesson was nothing more than a father who was an avid sportsman teaching his son to trap a rabbit. After his father died, he learned differently.

The Bees

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 24 mins)
• By Carol Ann Duffy
• Narrated By Carol Ann Duffy

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends and - most movingly - the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee.

The Cone

• UNABRIDGED (31 mins)
• By H. G. Wells
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Cone' is a sinister story of betrayal, revenge, murder and horror. The ironmaster who manages the huge blast furnaces outside Newcastle shows the friend who has betrayed him with his own wife around the ironworks. A very dangerous environment to be alone with an enemy....

The Dream Woman

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Wilkie Collins
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

The Dream Woman is a strange tale of a man who has a dream about a beautiful woman attempting to murder him in bed by stabbing him with a buck-handled clasp-knife. He relates the details of the dream to his mother, who makes careful note of every detail. Then one day he meets the woman of his dream....

The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore

• UNABRIDGED (33 mins)
• By Ella Hepworth Dixon
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' is a humorous story of a young man who has inadvertently made an ill-advised marriage proposal to a chorus girl in Paris. When the girl appears in London, he has more or less forgotten about the obligation...but his willingness to go through with the marriage induces close family friend and busybody Mrs. Jack Ormesby to save him from this dreadful fate by kidnapping him and smuggling him to Russia.

Fortunes Adrift

• UNABRIDGED (42 mins)
• By Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

'Fortunes Adrift' is the story of a small trading steamer than comes across a broken down passenger liner off the coast of Africa just as a hurricane is bearing down on the two vessels. Never one to miss a commercial opportunity, the captain of the steamer strikes a deal. For £100,000, to be paid by the wealthy cruise passengers, he will attempt to tow the liner to safety. But will their groaning engines hold? And if not...will they even survive the storm?

A Christmas Miracle

• UNABRIDGED (24 mins)
• By Willow Cross
• Narrated By Abby Elvidge

A short inspirational story about a single mother and a very special Christmas.

The Tell-Tale Heart

• UNABRIDGED (16 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe
• Narrated By Wendy Ellison Mullen

Read by a woman, this rendition of the Poe classic stands out among the others. Nothing in the text suggests that the narrator is a man. How does the meaning shift when the narrator is a woman? What was the relationship between the narrator and the old man? Have a listen.

The Greatest Christian Stories Ever Written

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Henry Van Dyke, Johanna Spyri, Leo Tolstoy, and others
• Narrated By Shannon Latham, Joshua McConnaughey

This a handpicked collection of some of the greatest Christian stories ever written. When we speak of these works as Christian stories, we mean that each story has a powerful Christian message based on Jesus' teachings. Three of the stories are from Jesus himself. Others were written by devout believers like Henry Van Dyke and Johanna Spyri. Yet, one of the authors, Mark Twain, was not a Christian himself, but his story reveals profound insights into the teachings of Christ.

Australia Day

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Melanie Cheng
• Narrated By Katherine Tonkin
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Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes about are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in common - no matter where they come from - is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories explore universal themes of love, loss, family and identity while at the same time asking crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world.

The Tell-Tale Heart

• UNABRIDGED (15 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe
• Narrated By Kevin Theis

"True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily - how calmly - I can tell you the whole story."

She Did It: A Short Story

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By JT Lawrence
• Narrated By Bianca Flanders

A detective relies on his gut (and his hallucinations) to solve an intriguing murder case. Book 6 of 12 in the Sticky Fingers short story collection: diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized. Fans of Roald Dahl and Gillian Flynn will love these unsettling stories with a twist in the tale.

Murder for Christmas: Tales of Seasonal Malice

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Margery Allingham, Marjorie Bowen, Agatha Christie, and others
• Narrated By David Birney, Robert Culp, Paul Eddington, and others

Ah, the pleasures of Christmas...the hanging of greens, the traditional feast, the gathering families, a few secrets in the air...and a bit of murder, conspiracy, and theft. The holiday season seems to inspire the imagination of the best mystery writers, and their talents shine here in these delightful tales of Yuletide crime. So seize a few quiet hours in this busiest of seasons to enjoy their sleigh full of mysterious treasures, here with the finest of flair.

Pimpmaster Arturius and the Quest for a Main Ho

• UNABRIDGED (19 mins)
• By Persephone Rose
• Narrated By Persephone Rose

After claiming the title, Arty Davis discovers what it truly means to be the Pimpmaster of Cameltoe.

Mother's Day

• UNABRIDGED (13 mins)
• By John Isaac Jones
• Narrated By Eva R. Marienchild
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It was Mother's Day and Robert Allman tried to prepare for the occasion. Tradition held that when worshippers attended church on Mother's Day, those whose mothers were alive wore red roses. Those whose mothers were passed, like Robert's, would wear a white rose. However, after he could only find a red rose to wear, he never dreamed, not in a million years, what was in store for him.

The Shunned House

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 19 mins)
• By H. P. Lovecraft
• Narrated By Kevin Theis
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. Sometimes it enters directly into the composition of the events, while sometimes it relates only to their fortuitous position among persons and places. The latter sort is splendidly exemplified by a case in the ancient city of Providence, where, in the late 40s, Edgar Allan Poe used to sojourn often during his unsuccessful wooing of the gifted poetess, Mrs. Whitman.

Fifty Enthralling Short Stories

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 26 mins)
• By W. F. Harvey, Rudyard Kipling, J. D. Beresford, and others
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

A fascinating and varied collection of 50 great classic short stories, including ghost stories, crimes, humorous tales and passionate romance.

The Mistake of the Machine

• UNABRIDGED (39 mins)
• By G. K. Chesterton
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer best known for his fictional priest-detective, Father Brown. In 'The Mistake of the Machine', Father Brown pits himself against an early polygraph device to solve a highly puzzling crime.

Moon Face and Other Stories

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Jack London
• Narrated By John Burlinson

Jack London was one of the most prolific and imaginative writers America has ever produced. This collection includes eight masterpieces that showcase London's literary versatility and his genius at creating memorable, one-of-a-kind characters: "Moon-Face" - a study of extreme motiveless antipathy; "The Leopard-Man's Story" - passion and mayhem under the big top; "Local Color" - a wandering polymath might be too smart for his own good; "The Minions of Midas" - a tale of terrorism perhaps more disturbing today than it was 100 years ago; and much more.