Short Stories

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

by James Baldwin Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Lanagan Amateur Detective

by Edward H. Hurlbut Read by David Wales 4.2
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…

In Ghostly Japan

by Lafcadio Hearn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…

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…

Horror Story Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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…

Short Story Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Dead

by James Joyce Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.4
This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly …

Dracula's Guest

by Bram Stoker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Dracula's Guest is a collection of nine chilling tales that delve into the realms of the supernatural, crafted by the master of Gothic horro…

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 …

The Four Million

by O. Henry Read by Marian Brown 4.4
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

A Thief in the Night

by E. W. Hornung Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story coll…

The Aspern Papers

by Henry James Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

American Stories

by Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Gre…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Red Headed League

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It firs…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Alibi Jones and The Time War of The Devrizium

by Mike Luoma Read by Mike Luoma 4.2
A race of time travelers wants Alibi Jones' time to come to an end! The Devrizium appear willing to alter time and space itself to remove hi…

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…

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…

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