Short Stories

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…

Beasts and Super-Beasts

by Saki Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories by Saki, a master of wit and irony. Set against the backdrop of Edwardian England, …

The Descent of Man

by Edith Wharton Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…

The Lady With the Dog

by Anton Chekhov Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. …

Short Story Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
LibriVox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox member…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

by Variousandalexander Jessup and Various And Alexander Jessup Read by David Wales 4.5
The Best American Humorous Short Stories is a delightful collection that brings together eighteen short stories from a diverse array of auth…

Can Such Things Be?

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Roger Melin 4.3
24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling…

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.5
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories showcases Mark Twain's profound exploration of human nature and morality through a collection of t…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Told after Supper

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Plain Tales from the Hills

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Mike Harris 4.6
Plain Tales from the Hills is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, set against the backdrop of British India during the height …

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

The Children's Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short st…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving Read by Bob Neufeld 4.5
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow invites listeners into a haunting tale set in the eerie, quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, where the legend of the…

The Tales of Chekhov

by Anton Chekhov Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.6
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor w…

Present at a Hanging

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

by Fergus Hume Read by Grant Hurlock 4.4
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…

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