Short Stories
Horror Story Collection 004
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Various
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…
What Men Live By and Other Tales
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Leo Tolstoy
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…
Four Weird Tales
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Algernon Blackwood
Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of su…
The Stars, My Brothers
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover pub…
A Tangled Tale
Read by Availle
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at …
Ghost Story Collection 004
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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…
Short Mystery Story Collection 001
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P. G. Wodehouse
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
Read by Ted Delorme
Mark Twain
Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep imp…
Five Beloved Stories by O. Henry
Read by Phil Chenevert
O. Henry
O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal top 20 stories that just seem to stand out because of their form, writin…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 5)
Read by StudioMike
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherl…
The Road
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Read by Mr. Baby Man
Mark Twain
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…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007
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Various
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Tales of the Jazz Age
Read by Don W. Jenkins
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to…
The Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01
Read by Kirsten Ferreri
Anton Chekhov
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor w…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922
Read by Alisa
Lucy Maud Montgomery
L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once publi…
Fireside Christmas Short Stories
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Various
A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection …
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3
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Edgar Allan Poe
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …
Short Science Fiction Collection 011
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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 Trees of Pride
Read by Maria Therese
G. K. Chesterton
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as…