Short Stories
Round the Sofa
Read by NoelBadrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
Read by NoelBadrian
Jane Austen
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…
The Ruby and the Caldron
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Anna Katharine Green
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it…
Short Science Fiction Collection 050
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Various
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…
Castles in the Air
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma ("Emmuska") Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi) (Septe…
Monday or Tuesday
Read by LizMourant
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist li…
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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William Hope Hodgson
Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by William Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted ph…
The King in Yellow (part 2)
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Shortly after returning to America, he became popular a…
Wessex Tales
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
Cuentos Rusos
Read by KendalRigans
José Carlos Bruna Santiesteban
El presente libro cuenta con 17 breves cuentos rusos tradicionales cada uno de los cuales nos trae una lección de vida similar a las …
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 2
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Louis Ginzberg
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; …
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Read by David Wales
Various and Walter de la Mare
Twenty-four short stories by famous and not-so-famous British authors. (Summary by David Wales) Note: A shortened section 21 was replaced on…
Crucial Instances
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories is a 1906 collection of 30 comic short stories by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Published j…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…
Contos, volume 1
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Artur de Azevedo
Artur de Azevedo foi um dos principais autores de teatro no Brasil do século XIX. Dando continuidade à obra de Martins Pena, c…
Contos de Lima Barreto
Read by Vicente Costa Filho
Lima Barreto
Lima Barreto começou a sua colaboração na imprensa desde estudante, em 1902, no A Quinzena Alegre, depois no Tagarela, …
Werewolf -- Five Pieces
Read by David Wales
Saki
Five stories and essays about werewolves. - Summary by david wales
Cuentos de la selva para los niños
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Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Quiroga ha sido uno de los cuentistas más célebres del Río de la Plata. Sus Cuentos de la Selva exploran con hu…