Short Stories

In Ghostly Japan

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Lafcadio Hearn



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

The Dead (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


James Joyce



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

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin



This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

A Garland for Girls

Read by Lorelle Anderson


Louisa May Alcott



"These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure s…

Der Mantel

Read by Christian Al-Kadi


Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol



Akakij Akakijewitsch ist mit Leib und Seele Beamter, genauer gesagt: Kopist. Der Beruf des Abschreibens füllt sein ganzes Leben aus. Er…

Short Story Collection Vol. 003

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Various



LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 003: a collection of 20 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Ghost Story Collection 005

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Various



A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Read by David Wales


Variousandalexander Jessup and Various And Alexander Jessup



Eighteen short stories by famous and little known authors compassing the period 1839 - 1914. The editor's very extensive introduction is omi…

Short Science Fiction Collection 006

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Various



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

The Parenticide Club

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce



Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce va…

Short Science Fiction Collection 004

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Various



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

Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen



Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

Short Science Fiction Collection 010

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Various



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

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Ernest Bramah



Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Washington Irving



Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…

Ghost Story Collection 006

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Various



A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

New Arabian Nights

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Robert Louis Stevenson



New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …

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