29 Best Short Stories (single author), Fiction Books
Short Stories (single author), Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Short Stories (single author), Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Short Stories (single author), Fiction audiobooks below.
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Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Vol. 2
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrator: Nelson Algren
- Length: 1 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThese four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literaryThese four recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.
Nelson Algren reads from his most famous novel, The Man with the Golden Arm, about the decline and fall of a drug dealer and card sharp. Bernard Malamud’s devastating selection from The Magic Barrel portrays poor, embittered old Jews who achieve a moment of grace after fierce antagonism. In John Updike’s story from Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, a seminary student working as a lifeguard draws a witty and lyrical contrast between saving souls and bodies. And James Jones’ account of a World War II battle in Japan in The Thin Red Line shows young soldiers at their most heroic and perilous moments.
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Master of the Macabre
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrator: John Rayburn
- Length: 1 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.49(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDJust who was Edgar Allan Poe? Of course he was an author, but there were parts of his life that were shrouded in mystery, like many of his stories. The differences between fact and fiction were intermingled and became even more so after hisJust who was Edgar Allan Poe? Of course he was an author, but there were parts of his life that were shrouded in mystery, like many of his stories. The differences between fact and fiction were intermingled and became even more so after his death.
Readers around the world had their imaginations stimulated by his tales of mystery and sometimes horror. He was able to arouse emotions by making implausible subjects and events into believable happenings. That ability made them into literary classics.
Affairs of his real life sometimes echoed the frequent bizarre viewpoints that he brought to startling life in his manuscripts.
This audiobook features two of his horror variety tales, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” as well as two of his more famous poems, “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”
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HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor, and Other Short Stories
- By: Nicholas Monsarrat
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.43(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn “HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor,” an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses toIn “HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbor,” an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses to surrender his ship. In “Leave Canceled,” an army officer and his young wife concentrate their passionate love into twenty-four hours, knowing that it might be their last chance. And in “Heavy Rescue,” an old soldier, having lived on the scrap heap for more than twenty years, finds that gallantry is once again in demand when he becomes leader of a heavy rescue squad.
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Coyote Tales
- By: Jim Bihyeh
- Narrator: Cayenne Chris Conroy
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.43(47 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you won’t find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyesWide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you won’t find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. Coyote (M-a’ii)–the trickster, thief, warrior, wizard, coward, clown, and savior–has come to call; and over the course of a year, life becomes strangely wonderful and terrifying.
In nine short stories and a novella that have been called part Sherman Alexie and part Stephen King, Coyote Tales leads listeners through the harsh and beautiful world of the modern Navajo Nation. Tracing the traditional yearly cycle of Early Dawn, Blue Daylight, and Evening Twilight, the separate paths of each story lead to the same Folding Darkness. And the only way out of that darkness is to follow the tracks of Coyote.
The stories are:
Reservation Monsters
A young boy with a monster living under his bed learns from Coyote that most monsters are far worse than the ones that go bump in the night.
The Dreaming Way
After Coyote reveals her hidden powers, a teenage girl must decide whether she will use them to save or destroy her community.
Love Like Thunder
A tragic schoolyard shooting invites a strange creature who sets up camp next to the local cemetery, where he goes to visit the dead so that he may live a few days longer.
The Speed of Lightning
In this novella, Shaun Sallabye, a famous high school runner, gets a shot of talent from Coyote that will push him to his limits–if it doesn’t break him first.
The Shooting Way
Jesse Benally is coming home to the Reservation. He doesn’t believe in witchcraft, but when his Aunt Bonita is afflicted with a strange sickness, he must meet with the local medicine man, who teaches Jesse that native witches don’t care what he believes in and what he doesn’t.
Black Body
Fernando Gishi waits for his father to get out of prison and rejoin his family. But after he finds the body of a dead girl in the desert, he must rely on his friends as a dark force reaches out to make a deal. And it’ll be a deal that he can’t refuse.
Changing Woman
Nellie Begay, a former combat nurse, is missing her daughter. When a supernatural force might know where she is, Nellie must find the strength to heal herself and talk to Changing Woman.
The Darkest Roots Run Deep
Ronnie Long, a maintenance worker barely making ends meet, will have to look to his girlfriend and their unborn child in order to forgive the biggest mistake of his life–before it kills him.
Remember by Your Scars
Jane Lewis is a white nurse who fled the East coast and the scars of abusive relationships. When her latest ends, a new man walks into her life and reopens all the scars she’s tried to hide.
The Bathroom People
LeCaine Keeyahani hates working fast food but he hates the idea of leaving the Reservation even more. When his dying grandfather asks for LeCaine to help him end his life with dignity, only the Bathroom People hold the answer to LeCaine’s future.
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Igifu
- By: Scholastique Mukasonga
- Narrator: Virtic Emil Brown
- Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.42(349 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThe stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor. Scholastique Mukasonga’s five autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring theThe stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s five autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on.
In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or “igifu,” gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent’s bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor sweepings. Igifu becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging abyss into which she falls. In a desperate act of preservation, Colomba’s mother gathers enough sorghum to whip up a nourishing porridge, bringing Colomba back to life. This elixir courses through each story, a balm to soothe the pains of those so ferociously fighting for survival.
The writing eclipses the great gaps of time and memory; in one scene she is a child sitting squat with a jug of sweet, frothy milk, and in another she is an exiled teacher, writing down lists of her dead. As in all her work, Mukasonga sits up with them, her witty and beaming beloved.
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Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
- By: Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Narrator: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.38(94 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDConfessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlin R. Kiernan’s World Fantasy Award-nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal asConfessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlin R. Kiernan’s World Fantasy Award-nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison.
Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure.
Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- By: Ken Liu
- Narrator: Corey Brill
- Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.37(18800 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDFeatured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection–including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The GraceFeatured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots
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Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection–including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).
Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices. -
The Max Lucado Christmas Collection
- By: Max Lucado
- Narrator: Max Lucado
- Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.36(350 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDChristmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. In the mystery of Christmas we find its majesty. The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come, and how he must love his people. Such mysteries can never be solved, justChristmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.
In the mystery of Christmas we find its majesty.
The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come, and how he must love his people.
Such mysteries can never be solved, just as Love can never be diagrammed.
- Three Christmas novellas: An Angel’s Story, The Christmas Candle, The Christmas Child
- A charming collection centered around the love and mystery of Christmas
- Perfect for reading aloud and spreading quick holiday cheer
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The Christmas Candle
- By: Max Lucado
- Length: 1 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.36(350 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDFrom New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado comes a timeless message that will warm your heart. “The Christmas Candle shines with a radiant insight. Written with Max Lucado’s signature style of sincerity and spiritual perception,From New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado comes a timeless message that will warm your heart.
“The Christmas Candle shines with a radiant insight. Written with Max Lucado’s signature style of sincerity and spiritual perception, this story will warm the reader’s heart with the wonders of God’s love and mercy.” —In the Library Reviews
Imagine a Victorian England village in the Cotswolds where very little out of the ordinary ever happens . . . except at Christmas time.
This year, Edward Haddington, a lowly candle maker, is visited by a mysterious angel. That angel silently imparts a precious gift—a gift that’s bungled and subsequently lost. The candle maker and his wife, Bea, struggle to find the gift.
And when they do, they have to make a difficult choice. Who among their community is most in need of a Christmas miracle?
Join inspirational author Max Lucado and experience anew the joy of Christmas.
“A powerful reminder of the true meaning of faith and community, The Christmas Candle is a welcome respite from the harried commercialism of the holiday season.” —BookPage
“Fans of Charles Dickens and Jan Karon, you’re in for treat! Max Lucado has penned a wholly original Christmas story complete with cobblestone streets, quirky characters, and a supernatural visit you’ll never forget.” —John C. Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author on The Christmas Candle
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrator: David Suchet
- Length: 35 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 31, 2021
- Language: English
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4.34(3229 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0048.99 USDAt last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie’s most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solvedAt last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie’s most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century–and, in his own humble opinion, is “probably the greatest detective in the world.”
In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts–all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot’s skill and “little gray cells.”
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Droll Tales
- By: Iris Smyles
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.31(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWitty and surreal tales that transcend rationality and illuminate our world, from America’s most original writer Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical,Witty and surreal tales that transcend rationality and illuminate our world, from America’s most original writer
Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own.
A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue; Mallarme is at long last translated into pig Latin; a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show; a list of fortune-cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them; and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader’s grammar test.
Romantic, dark, and ironic, Droll Tales is a book like none you have read. It is a joyful interrogation of the paradoxes underpinning life, a cabinet of curiosities, a philosophical vaudeville, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles’s singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center.
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Wait for Signs
- By: Craig Johnson
- Narrator: Craig Johnson
- Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 21, 2014
- Language: English
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4.29(4342 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDTen years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson’s bestselling, award-winningTen years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson’s bestselling, award-winning novels and the A&E hit series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt’s life that doesn’t appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can’t buy the stories in book form. Wait for Signs collects those beloved stories-and one entirely new story, “Petunia, Bandit Queen of the Bighorns”-for the very first time in a single volume, regular trade hardcover. With glimpses of Walt’s past from the incident in “Ministerial Aide,” when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious “Messenger,” where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan’s shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrator: Stacy Keach
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2002
- Language: English
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4.29(32348 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDThe definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway’s literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon‚Äîan archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual inThe definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway’s literary reputation, originally published in 1938.
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Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image. Of all of Hemingway’s canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate so forcefully the power of the author’s revolutionary style as his short stories. In classics like “Hills like White Elephants,” “The Butterfly in the Tank,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Hemingway shows us great literature compressed to its most potent essentials. We also see, in Hemingway’s short fiction, the tales that created the legend: these are stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time.
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingway’s most famous classics alongside rare and unpublished material: Hemingway’s early drafts and correspondence, his dazzling out-of-print essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his earliest work—his first published story, “The Judgment of Manitou,” which Hemingway wrote when still a high school student, and a never-before-published story, written when the author was recovering from a war injury in Milan after WWI. This work offers vital insight into the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. It is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway readers, and it belongs in the collection of any true Hemingway fan. -
The Hemingway Stories
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrator: Stacy Keach
- Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(32349 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDA new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick–introduced by award-winningA new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick–introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff.
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Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway–who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture–interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts from his work.
The Hemingway Stories features Hemingway’s most significant short stories in chronological order, so viewers of the film as well as fans old and new can follow the trajectory of his impressive life and career. Hemingway’s beloved classics, such as “The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” “Up in Michigan,” “Indian Camp,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” are accompanied by fresh insights from renowned writers around the world–Mario Vargas Llosa, Edna O’Brien, Abraham Verghese, Tim O’Brien, and Mary Karr. Tobias Wolff’s introduction adds a new perspective to Hemingway’s work, and Wolff has selected additional stories that demonstrate Hemingway’s talent and range.
The power of Ernest Hemingway’s revolutionary style is perhaps most striking in his short stories, and here listeners can encounter the tales that created the legend: stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time. Featuring the voices of Mary Karr, Edna O’Brien, Michael Katakis, and other authors whose insights are heard in the PBS documentary, this audio collection is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway listeners and a vital volume for any fan. -
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Multiple readers
- Length: 26 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.29(205 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0069.95 USDIncludes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple inIncludes the story “It Grows on You”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
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The classic short story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there‚Äôs no escaping the free nightly concert‚Ķ.A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense‚Ķ.An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars‚Äîbut at what price?…A private investigator in Depression-era Los Angeles is finding his life unraveling as he discovers the shocking truth of who he really is‚Ķ.A third-grade teacher is willing to dig deep in order to exact revenge for his murdered wife…. These are just some of the haunting scenarios to be found in this classic collection‚Äîspellbinding tales from the darkest places and the unparalleled imagination of fiction‚Äôs master storyteller.
Stories include:
-Dolan’s Cadillac
-The End of the Whole Mess
-Suffer the Little Children
-The Night Flier
-Popsy
-It Grows on You
-Chattery Teeth
-Dedication
-The Moving Finger
-Sneakers
-You Know They Got a Hell of a Band
-Home Delivery
-Rainy Season
-My Pretty Pony
-Sorry, Right Number
-The Ten O’Clock People
-Crouch End
-The House on Maple Street
-The Fifth Quarter
-The Doctor’s Case
-Umney’s Last Case
-Head Down
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How Long ’til Black Future Month?
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Shayna Small
- Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(12103 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThree-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of shortThree-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.
“Marvelous and wide-ranging.” — Los Angeles Times“Gorgeous” — NPR Books“Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.” — Entertainment Weekly
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
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Two Deserts
- By: Julie Brickman
- Narrator: Jeff Gurner
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.28(28 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDDeserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts, the story collection Two Deserts follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a seventeen-year-old girlDeserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts, the story collection Two Deserts follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a seventeen-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.
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The Witness for the Prosecution
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrator: Christopher Lee
- Length: 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 26, 2012
- Language: English
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4.28(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.99 USDWhen wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with anWhen wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French’s housekeeper, Janet, gives damning evidence against Vole, and, as Romaine’s cross-examination begins, her motives come under scrutiny from the courtroom. One question remains, will justice prevail?
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Joe Ledger: Special Ops
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrator: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.27(1191 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDCaptain Joe Ledger–former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world’s most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests orCaptain Joe Ledger–former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world’s most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers. Joe and his team square off against terrorists who have the most advanced and exotic weapons of mass destruction, designer bioweapons, cutting-edge transgenics … real mad-scientist stuff.
If they have to call Joe Ledger–it’s already hit the fan.
Joe Ledger: Special Ops collects several of the Ledger short stories and presents two brand-new tales exclusive to this volume. Bonus features include character profiles and a never-before-published glimpse behind the scenes of the Department of Military Sciences.
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Lad: A Dog
- By: Albert Payson Terhune
- Narrator: John Rayburn
- Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.26(8430 ratings)
4.26(8430 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis is a collection of heart-warming short stories about a courageous rough collie that lived in what was called the Place on Sunnybank Farm near Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Lad was a real-life dog, but author Terhune took liberties to tellThis is a collection of heart-warming short stories about a courageous rough collie that lived in what was called the Place on Sunnybank Farm near Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Lad was a real-life dog, but author Terhune took liberties to tell fictional tales about his favorite pet.
These became vital parts of classic literature that captured dog-lover imaginations for more than a century as even the fiction had an intense feeling of reality. As owner of the actual location, Terhune was referred to as the Master and his wife as Mistress. Both of them had the fondest of feelings for Lad, who died at about age sixteen. Terhune wrote, “Yes, Lad was a ‘real’ dog, the greatest dog by far I have known or shall know.”
Buried on the grounds, Lad’s granite marker reads, “LAD, Thoroughbred in body and soul.” Join us as we listen to these wonderfully sentimental stories.
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The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures
- By: Holly Hepburn
- Narrator: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.25(285 ratings)
4.25(285 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published in four parts this is the full story in one package. When Hope loses her husband, she fears her happiest days are behind her. With herThe brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Katie Fforde. Originally published in four parts this is the full story in one package.
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When Hope loses her husband, she fears her happiest days are behind her. With her only connection to London broken, she moves home to York to be near her family and to begin to build a new life.
Taking a job at the antique shop she has always admired, she finds herself crossing paths with two very different men. Will, who has recently become the guardian to his niece after the tragic death of her parents. And Ciaran, who she enlists to help solve the mystery of an Egyptian antique. Two men who represent two different happy endings.
But can she trust herself to choose the right man? And will that bring her everything she really needs?
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Going to Meet the Man
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrator: Dion Graham
- Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.25(4 ratings)
4.25(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.95 USD“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail“There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying–and informed throughout by Baldwin’s uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators–Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
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Ghost Summer
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrator: Tananarive Due
- Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.23(1264 ratings)
4.23(1264 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDWhether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of shortWhether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.
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Dreams of Terror and Death
- By: H P Lovecraft
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 20 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.23(6634 ratings)
4.23(6634 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDThe only audio edition of Dreams of Terror and Death authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate! This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of hisThe only audio edition of Dreams of Terror and Death authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!
This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales, such as:
The Doom That Came to Sarnath–Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar.
The Statement of Randolph Carter–“You fool, Warren is dead!”
The Nameless City–Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos.
The Cats of Ulthar–In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat … and woe unto any who tries.
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath–The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle.
Plus twenty more tales of surreal terror!
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The Short Stories Volume II
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrator: Stacy Keach
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2002
- Language: English
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4.22(18 ratings)
4.22(18 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDThe definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway’s literary reputation, originally published in 1938.Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon‚Äîan archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual inThe definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway’s literary reputation, originally published in 1938.
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Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image. Of all of Hemingway’s canonical fictions, perhaps none demonstrate so forcefully the power of the author’s revolutionary style as his short stories. In classics like “Hills like White Elephants,” “The Butterfly in the Tank,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” Hemingway shows us great literature compressed to its most potent essentials. We also see, in Hemingway’s short fiction, the tales that created the legend: these are stories of men and women in love and in war and on the hunt, stories of a lost generation born into a fractured time.
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway presents many of Hemingway’s most famous classics alongside rare and unpublished material: Hemingway’s early drafts and correspondence, his dazzling out-of-print essay on the art of the short story, and two marvelous examples of his earliest work—his first published story, “The Judgment of Manitou,” which Hemingway wrote when still a high school student, and a never-before-published story, written when the author was recovering from a war injury in Milan after WWI. This work offers vital insight into the artistic development of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. It is a perfect introduction for a new generation of Hemingway readers, and it belongs in the collection of any true Hemingway fan. -
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.21(7924 ratings)
4.21(7924 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDMiss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem,Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It’s an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.
Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as “the typical old maid of fiction,” Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature–and used it to devastating effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, has been heard to say: “She’s just the finest detective God ever made”–and many Agatha Christie fans would agree.
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The Neon Wilderness
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrator: Richard Poe
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.2(601 ratings)
4.2(601 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAs rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career–the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no moreAs rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career–the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedeviled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary originals of his times.”
Algren’s classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent novels and stories. The stories in this collection are literary triumphs that “don’t fade away.”
Among the stories included here are “A Bottle of Milk for Mother,” about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder, and “The Face on the Barrome Floor,” in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death–the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Algren’s World War II stories whose final expression would be in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm are also part of this collection. “So Help Me,” Algren’s first published work, is here. Other stories include, “The Captain Has Bad Dreams,” in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is “Design for Departure,” in which a young woman drifting into hooking and addiction sees her own dreaminess outlasting her hopes.
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Necronomicon
- By: H P Lovecraft
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 21 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.2(13315 ratings)
4.2(13315 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, H. P. Lovecraft’s astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmicThe only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate
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. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft’s fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.
Stories include:
“Dagon””Herbert West – Reanimator””The Lurking Fear””The Rats in the Walls””The Whisperer in the Darkness””Cool Air””In the Vault””The Call of Cthulu””The Color Out of Space””The Horror at Red Hook””The Music of Erich Zann””The Shadow Out of Time””The Dunwich Horror””The Haunter of the Dark””The Outsider””The Shunned House””The Unnameable””The Thing on the Doorstep””Under the Pyramids”
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The Pit and the Pendulum
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.19(54382 ratings)
4.19(54382 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDEdgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest practitioners of gothic and detective fiction that ever lived, and popular culture is replete with references to him. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” one of his most famous short works,Edgar Allen Poe is seen today as one of the greatest practitioners of gothic and detective fiction that ever lived, and popular culture is replete with references to him. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” one of his most famous short works, a condemned man is judged guilty by the Spanish Inquisition and sentenced to die. Locked away in a pitch-black cell, he soon discovers a pit in the center of the room, a watery grave at its base. Above him hangs a large, razor-sharp pendulum. As the man is slowly tortured, he must face either the pit or the pendulum.
Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.
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