Anthologies

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

A treasure chest of timeless short stories by some of the world's greatest authors....

From New York Times best-selling author Kendall Ryan comes Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series, containing every title in the sexy and intense best-selling series....

The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing.....

Tempt Me is a collection of five full-length novels from best-selling authors. Listen to find out more....

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls....

Experience 10 brand-new stories from the infamous Sabbat Worlds Crusade, written by a selection of your favourite Black Library authors and edited by Dan Abnett....

Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published....

Penguin Sleep Tales are 10 specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and relax before you drift off....

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman....

The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award....

Boasting the biggest beats in the world - some as large as France - Australia's outback police have seen it all....

If you like spirited heroines and strong heroes, dive into the Bachelor Brides Collection - a series of traditional Regency romances....

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) may be considered the Canadian counterpart to Mark Twain....

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive at a cultural divide....

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love - the best and worst thing in the universe....

From the author of science-fiction classics such as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? comes a collection of 13 short stories of dystopic visions performed in a vividly dramatic narration by Andy Harrington....

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil....

From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them....

Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen....

This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released....

Now in audio for the first time, Without Feathers is narrated by Woody Allen himself. Here they are: 16 of the funniest tales and ruminations ever recorded....

Listen to Woody Allen revenge himself on such significant subjects as death, obesity, organized crime, the invention of the sandwich, and much more...

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Sometimes we want to be a little scared when we hear a story. Our nerves to tingle, the hair on our necks to gradually stand up. We can suspend our own reality for a while as authors lay out their wares of anxiety, worry, tension, and then increase the levels one by one until we are gripped by forces that make us afraid. It’s a real feeling. In this volume story after story assault our senses with mere words, with thoughts and descriptions that twist and deceive, with outcomes that we dread and shudder at the thought of.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Top 10 Short Stories - Christmas today.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Fantastisch, merkwürdig und nicht ganz ungefährlich ist das Leben mit einem wundersamen Haustier. In 16 Geschichten erzählen uns die Geschichtenweber von den Haustieren unserer Träume und Albträume, ihren Besitzern und deren Leben miteinander. Chaos ist vorprogrammiert – da macht es keinen Unterschied, ob sie auf unserer Welt in unserer Zeit gehalten werden oder in einer anderen Galaxie, Jahrhunderte in der Zukunft. In einer kleinen Taschendimension findet der, der einen Eingang entdeckt, ein Areal mit einer riesigen Auswahl an Tieren.

Blood is soaking the streets of Shawville this festive season. Residents are getting more than they bargained for at Laymon's Lot tree farm. Horror writers D.J. Doyle and Lee Franklin invite you into the darkest depths of their twisted psyches. With 12 gruesome short stories, from horny snowmen to flesh-eating elves, and the body count soaring, we encourage you to sit down, put your feet up, and allow us to disgust you with our depraved minds. Countdown twelve days to a very bloody Xmas.

Plongez dans l'univers des contes italiens avec les conteuses Emanuela BONINI et Stéphanie RONDOT, et la complicité du pétillant Giovanni, venu de Toscane. En écoutant Giricoccola, rendez-vous à Bologne pour rejoindre justement la belle Giricoccola et ses sœurs jalouses. Ces dernières n'hésiteront pas à recourir à de vils moyens, jusqu'aux sortilèges de la strega – la sorcière – pour s'en débarrasser ! Puis, avec L'anneau magique, grimpez dans les montagnes Dolomiti pour suivre les aventures d'un jeune homme dont la vie va être bouleversée par un étrange cadeau.

44 Brick St is a house with a terrible past built on the site of a plague pit. In the 1600s a woman accused of being a witch was tortured to death just yards away. In 1973 work on building a school uncovered 5631 coffins piled 16 deep in a 40meter square. The coffins were unnamed and the mass grave unmarked.