Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short Stories

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Title: The Ghost Ship

Author: Richard Middleton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 23 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories, of which 'The Ghost Ship' is the most famous. It is one of the few stories in literature which combines a ghostly theme with lightening humour. Middleton suffered from severe depression for much of his life (then known as melancholia) and committed suicide by poisoning himself with chloroform at the age of 29.

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Title: The Everlasting Club

Author: Arthur Gray

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 16 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Gray (1852-1940) wrote under the pseudonym Ingulphus for several years, and it was only in 1919 when his stories were collected as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye under Gray's own name that the identity of the author was discovered. 'The Everlasting Club' is a peculiar ghost story set in Jesus College Cambridge. A student drinking society has a peculiar set of rules, including the permanence of membership, regardless of whether the individual is corporeal (alive) or incorporeal (deceased). This, combined with an obligation to attend meetings on pain of awful punishment by the president, places an awful burden on the surviving members as slowly the original members die off....

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Title: The Conjurer

Author: Richard Middleton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 8 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his short ghost stories and supernatural tales. 'The Conjurer' is a short story about a stage performer whose act includes juggling and magic tricks. In one trick he makes his pretty young female assistant, who happens to be his wife, disappear. It is a pretty dull trick, but the audience applauds wildly, much too enthusiastically.... Why on Earth can that be? It is a while before the conjurer realises the horror of the situation.

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Title: [French] - Squirrel in a Cage

Author: E. M. Delafield

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 20 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890-1943), was a prolific English author who wrote under the pseudonym E. M. Delafield. She is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle-class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. In 'Squirrel in a Cage', she tells the story of the ending of a relationship between two lovers. The narrative moves fluidly between the real thoughts of each of the lovers, Sacha Michaelson and Ian Berringer, and their actual conversation where each speaks but without saying what they really mean.

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Title: On the Brighton Road

Author: Richard Middleton

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 8 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Barham Middleton (1882-1911) was an English poet and author who is remembered mostly for his supernatural short ghost stories, in particular 'The Ghost Ship', 'The Conjurer' and 'On the Brighton Road'. 'On the Brighton Road' is a strange tale of a homeless man who is trudging between London and Brighton when he meets a fragile-looking young boy, also homeless, who offers to walk with him for a while. The conversation between the two causes the tramp to question his own existence...in a highly creepy way.

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Title: The Victim

Author: Perceval Gibbon

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 22 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Perceval Gibbon (1879-1926) was an author and journalist working on the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa and several other publications. He is best remembered for his masterly short stories, which were often characterized by an ironic twist at the end. The Victim tells the tale of César Savinien, a French poet who finds himself enjoying a terrifying streak of good fortune. Everything he does turns out brilliantly...but he believes that luck is like a pendulum and that the further it swings in one direction, the further in the opposite direction it will swing when his luck turns.... This is the tale of Savinien's good fortune...and what happens when the pendulum suddenly swings the other way.

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Title: The Umbrella

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 33 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English author, born in one of the "Five Towns" which form the background of so many of his witty stories. When Professor Malpetant pays an unannounced visit to his sister, Muriel, he finds nobody at home. Both Muriel and her maid, Annie, have gone out, though he finds the door unlocked and takes the opportunity to take a look around the house. In Muriel's bedroom he uses the telephone to call the station and arrange his onward journey to Bristol before setting off for the station. It is only when he is steaming on his way to Bristol that he realises he has left his umbrella in Muriel's bedroom. The unexplained presence of a man's umbrella in Muriel's room plunges the entire household and neighbourhood into crisis. Rumours fly, suspicions and accusations are at first whispered...and later hurled. No umbrella ever caused so much trouble to so many people.

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Title: The Strange Case of Mr. Todmorden

Author: F. Britten Austin

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 28 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Frederick Britten Austin (1885 - 1941) was a popular British fiction writer, whose crime and mystery stories were very much influenced by his experiences as a soldier. He had enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade on 4 August, 1914, the day war was declared on Germany. By war's end he had reached the rank of captain. In 'The Strange Case of Mr. Todmorden' an elderly and wealthy woman has been mysteriously murdered in her bed. The only clue is that a particular diamond brooch is missing from her dressing table. Her oldest friend and solicitor, Mr. Todmorden, sets out to solve the mystery and discovers a terrible...truly terrible...secret, which he is desperate to conceal.

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Title: The Short Stories of W. W. Jacobs

Author: W.W. Jacobs

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

William Wymark Jacobs (1863 - 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the tap-room of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. Many of his stories were written in a Cockney vernacular and were keenly observant of character. His most famous horror stories are The Monkey's Paw and His Brother's Keeper both of which have been included in numerous anthologies. 'Smoked Skipper' 'Choice Spirits' 'Alf's Dream' 'A Tiger's Skin' 'The Test' 'A Disciplinarian' 'A Love Knot' 'Her Uncle' 'The Dreamer' 'Angel's Visits' 'A Circular Tour' 'An Intervention' 'The Cabin Passenger' 'Money Changers' 'The Lost Ship' 'Pickled Herring' 'His Lordship' 'A Distant Relative' 'A Rash Experiment' 'Two of a Trade' 'A Safety Match' 'In the Family' 'The Monkey's Paw' 'Brother Hutchins' 'Mixed Relations' 'The Grey Parrot' 'The Three Sisters' 'His Brother's Keeper' 'The Disbursement Sheet' 'Rule of Three' 'The Interruption' 'The Changeling'

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Title: The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand

Author: J. S. Fletcher

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 27 minutes

Release date: September 9, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 - 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian 'Golden Age' of the short story. 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' is the macabre tale of a new man arriving to work as assistant keeper at a remote lighthouse. After the boat that brought him and the month's rations has departed, he discovers that one of the other two keepers is his sworn enemy, who has vowed to murder him. The story is a breathtaking thriller as the tension rises between the cunning and homicidal lighthouse keeper, the terrified new arrival and the head keeper who is trying desperately to prevent a horrible crime.