Short Stories

The Parenticide Club

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce va…

Short Science Fiction Collection 006

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Short Science Fiction Collection 004

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Read by David Wales


Variousandalexander Jessup


Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omi…

Short Science Fiction Collection 010

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Ernest Bramah


Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…

Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

Ghost Story Collection 006

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Various


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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Washington Irving


Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…

New Arabian Nights

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Robert Louis Stevenson


New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

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Pádraic Colum


This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Gol…

Contos Fluminenses e Histórias da Meia-Noite

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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis


Contos Fluminenses, originalmente publicado em 1870, e Histórias da Meia-Noite, publicado em 1873, são os dois primeiros livro…

The Gift of the Magi

Read by Betsie Bush


O. Henry


The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their on…

Short Science Fiction Collection 003

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Various


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works

Read by NoelBadrian


Jane Austen


This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…

The Ruby and the Caldron

Read by Crln Yldz Ksr


Anna Katharine Green


A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…

Short Science Fiction Collection 050

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Various


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Round the Sofa

Read by NoelBadrian


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…

Castles in the Air

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Baroness Emma Orczy


Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…

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