Short Stories

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…

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…

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 Ghost and Horror Collection

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

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…

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…

Nineteen Science Fiction Short Stories

by James Harmon Read by KirksVoice 4.2
19 Science Fiction short stories by Jim Harmon from Galaxy Science Fiction and Worlds of If Science Fiction Magazines - Summary by kirk202

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…

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…

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…

Three Short Works

by Gustave Flaubert Read by David Barnes 4.6
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

Life's Little Ironies

by Thomas Hardy Read by David Wales 4.6
Life's Little Ironies is a collection of eighteen short stories by renowned author Thomas Hardy, exploring the complexities of human nature …

Aunt Jo's Scrapbag

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Aunt Jo's Scrapbag is a delightful collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, crafted to entertain and inspire readers of all ages. E…

The Confessions of Arsene Lupin

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Cate Barratt 4.6
Step into the world of Arsène Lupin, the charming gentleman thief whose escapades blur the line between crime and adventure. In this …

Tales of Men and Ghosts

by Edith Wharton Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …

Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.4
Tales of the Jazz Age is a captivating collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of …

The Greater Inclination

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…

Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.5
In Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories, Mark Twain showcases his signature wit and keen observation through a delightful collection of short stori…

What is Man?

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involve…

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