Short Stories

Once a Week

by A. A. Milne Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Once a Week is a delightful collection of short stories by A. A. Milne, the celebrated author of Winnie the Pooh. Originally published in th…

The Luck Of Roaring Camp

by Bret Harte Read by David Wales 4.2
The Luck of Roaring Camp is a poignant short story by Bret Harte that captures the rugged spirit of California's Gold Rush era. Set in a rou…

The Offshore Pirate

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Bellona Times 4.3
This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball mo…

Five Stories

by Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse Read by KirksVoice 4.2
These Five Stories were written by Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction (SF) author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adu…

BLOOD IS RED

by Scott Sigler Read by Scott Sigler 4.6
A collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and ANCEST…

Extracts from Adam's Diary

by Mark Twain Read by Mr. Baby Man 4.6
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in th…

Ghost Story Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

The Prussian Officer

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Cate Barratt 4.2
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers u…

Fairy and Wonder Tales

by William Patten Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Blazed Trail Stories

by Stewart Edward White Read by David Wales 4.1
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …

Puck of Pook's Hill

by Rudyard Kipling Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 4.4
Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different period…

Madame Butterfly

by John Luther Long Read by Availle 4.8
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outca…

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Eric Leach 4.6
Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doy…

The Book of Wonder

by Lord Dunsany Read by Sandra Cullum 4.5
The Book of Wonder (1912) is an amazing collection of fourteen tales by one of the pioneers and masters of the fantasy genre Lord Dunsany. S…

Rappaccini's Daughter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Brett W. Downey 4.2
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

Watchbird

by Robert Sheckley Read by Phil Chenevert 4.3
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…

Eve’s Diary

by Mark Twain Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world arou…

The Duel

by Anton Chekhov Read by Phil Griffiths 4.5
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda…

A House-Boat on the Styx

by John Kendrick Bangs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …

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