Short Stories audiobooks

The Decameron

Italian Poet Giovanni Boccaccio's novella collection The Decameron is a frame story told by a group of people, while sheltering themselves in fear of Black death. The stories explores the life lessons in various angles of love, erotica and death. This 13th century tales has greatly influenced popular literary legends like Shakespeare and Chaucer in..

Sketches New and Old

by Mark Twain

Sketches New and Old is a collection of stories unrelated to each other blend with Mark Twain's trademark humor and wit. Most of the stories are Twain's reaction to the then current events. Notable stories are "Cannibalism in the Cars", "The Jumping Frog", "Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy", "A Curious Dream", "A Ghost Story", and "My Bloody Massac..

The Lock and Key Library

by Julian Hawthorne

The Lock and Key Library is a collection of mystery and detective stories compiled by American novelist Julian Hawthorne. Notable stories included in this volume are The Haunted House by Charles Dickens, The Incantation by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Avenger by Thomas de Quincey, A Mystery with a Moral by Laurence Sterne, and The Notch on the Ax by W..

Cautionary Tales for Children

by Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children written by Anglo-French poet Hilaire Belloc is a collection of moral tales for children which narrates the moral by stating a danger and punishment for not following the moral. This collection contains 11 stories notable one are Jim: Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion; Matilda: Who told Lies, and was ..

The Red Room

by H. G. Wells

The Red Room is an unusual H. G. Wells's short story in horror fiction which leave us blind on the existence of Ghosts. The narrator who is proud of his courage taking up a challenge of staying in a haunted room. Haunted by the darkness in the room he tries to light candles, but one after the other they keep extinguish. Trying to escape from the ro..

The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories

by Rabindranath Tagore

A collection of 13 short stories by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who is well known Indian scholar. Some othe stories other than the Title The Hungry Stones are The Victory, Once there was a King, The Home-coming, The Kingdom of cards, Living or dead,.. etc. Tremendous support has been provided in translating this work by many people includin..

Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

Hunted Down is a short story of suspense genre written by Charles Dickens. It looks like Dickens has greatly influenced by Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle when working on this manuscript as the narration style mostly resemble the masters of detective fiction works. One can notice the missing elements of suspense and mystery in this story, tho..

The Variable Man

by Philip K. Dick

The Variable Man written by Philip K Dick opens up stating the war between Centaurian and Terra. Icarus, a deadly weapon created by Terra could travel faster than light can destroy their enemy Centaurian Empire. Unfortunately it does not work and Thomas Cole had been brought from the past to fix it. When he fixed the bug, Icarus explodes and the un..