Short Stories

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…

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…

The Man Who Hated Mars

by Randall Garrett Read by Phil Chenevert 4.3
To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp—get onto a ship that couldn't be boarde…

The Point of Honor

by Joseph Conrad Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…

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…

Heart of the West

by O. Henry Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Heart of the West is a captivating collection of short stories that showcases the wit and charm of O. Henry, one of America's most beloved s…

Just William

by Richmal Crompton Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.6
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's famil…

The Curious Republic of Gondour

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from poli…

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 …

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…

Short Science Fiction Collection

by H. G. Wells 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…

The Mysterious Stranger

by Mark Twain Read by Ted Delorme 4.7
Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep imp…

Five Beloved Stories

by O. Henry Read by Phil Chenevert 4.6
O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal top 20 stories that just seem to stand out because of their form, writin…

Danger! and Other Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Danger! and Other Stories is a captivating collection of short tales by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for his creat…

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…

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…

The Wife of His Youth

by Charles Waddell Chesnutt Read by James K. White 4.9
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

Three Stories & Ten Poems

by Ernest Hemingway Read by KevinS 4.4
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.2
And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

Mark Twain's Journal Writings

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…

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