Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/260061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pier Falls Author: Mark Haddon Narrator: Daniel Weyman, Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 5, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: 'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote.’ The Times A Spectator Book of the Year An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Count Magnus Author: M.R. James Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 21, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: "Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, mediaeval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary settings. His protagonists and plots often reflected his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". "Count Magnus" is the story of an amateur scholar travelling in a remote part of Sweden, whose researches lead him to the mausoleum where the infamous Count Magnus is interred. As he researches the history of the long dead count, and learns more about his ill deeds and the mysterious "black pilgimage" from which he returned with something or someone evil... strange and horrifying events begin to overtake him."

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ken's Mystery Author: Julian Hawthorne Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 21, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. 'Ken's Mystery' is a wonderful story blending Gaelic folklore with Gothic mystery. Kenningale - or Ken, as his friends call him - has been on an educational trip to Europe from which he has returned with a mysteriously aged and rotting banjo. While in Ireland, walking home late on Halloween, he had met a mysterious and beautiful woman in a graveyard who asked him to play his banjo for her. Later the same night, he met her again...or was it her? And again she asked him to play. But why was she so cold and pale? And why did she recover her strength and colour as he played, while he felt chilled to the bone?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/262636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Death of Halpin Frayser Author: Ambrose Bierce Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 21, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: "Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American writer famous for his dark and cynical writings, which earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce". He is famous also for his mysterious demise. He wrote a letter to a friend, which he closed by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," and then he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history. "The Death of Halpin Frayser" is a deeply disturbing tale, written with the sense of a terrible nightmare in which a man is horribly attacked in a wood by the undead animated corpse of his dead mother. "

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Author: Ken Liu Narrator: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 8, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/259354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trade Wind Author: Morgan Robertson Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 5, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Morgan Andrew Robertson (1861-1915) was a popular American author of short stories and novels who claimed to have been the inventor of the periscope. 'The Trade Wind' is the strange and unsettling story of a ship where all the crew are mysteriously struck blind after a night of drinking rum in the tropics...a condition called moon blindness, for which there is no available cure. Having lost their sight, the men must work out how to sail, navigate and negotiate bad weather at sea. But strange occurences on board suggest that not all is as it seems....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Uncommon View of it Author: W. C. Morrow Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 20, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: William Chambers Morrow (1854-1923) was an American author famed for his short stories of horror and suspense. 'An Uncommon View of It' is the story of a man who has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. He decides that one thing is clear...he must have his revenge. He will kill them both and then commit suicide. But what will he do exactly? Will he use a revolver or poison? As he sits down to plan his revenge in detail, he develops a plan of action which is really quite extraordinary!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Absolute Evil Author: Julian Hawthorne Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 21 minutes Release date: February 20, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. Absolute Evil is an extraordinary werewolf story. A young spinster goes on an adventurous summer vacation on a remote island which is rumoured to be haunted. The island is inhabited only by an old woman and a small child. Or so they think...but strange and sinister events, bizarre footprints on the beach and a strange howling at night suggest otherwise....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Six Humorous Stories by F. Anstey Author: F. Anstey Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: January 30, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) was an English novelist and journalist who wrote his comic novels and humorous short stories under the pseudonym F. Anstey. This collection presents six of his most popular and well-known tales: 'The Talking Horse' 'The Black Poodle' 'An Undergraduate's Aunt' 'The Gull' 'Caveat Emptor' 'Mrs. Brassington-Claypott's Children's Party'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Strange Thing Author: John Galsworthy Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. 'A Strange Thing' is the story of a beautiful country wedding and the poignant backstory behind it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Cat Author: William J. Wintle Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: William James Wintle (1861-1920) was a Welsh writer who established himself as an author before becoming an Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Wales. It was there that he wrote a series of horror stories for the enjoyment of eight boys who attended the abbey. Wintle noted that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore". 'The Black Cat' tells the story of a man who hates cats and finds himself haunted by a mysterious spectral black cat which gradually becomes more powerful and threatening. Before long he realizes that the cat aims to kill him and in an exceptionally horrific fashion....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadows Author: Henry S. Whitehead Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Dr Henry St Clair Whitehead ( 1882-1932) was an American clergyman and teacher who became famous for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1920s. 'The Shadows' is a tale from the West Indies about Mr. Stewart, an American who moves into an old house, locally known as Morris' House. Morris has been dead for several decades, but nobody seems keen to tell Mr. Stewart anything about the circumstances of Morris' death. But after he has been in the house for a few nights, he starts to see strange apparitions of ancient furniture in his bedroom, and he realises that he must find out what happened to Morris. As he sets out to solve the mystery, the apparitions intensify and become more and more sinister....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Rosary Author: William J. Wintle Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: William James Wintle (1861-1920) was already an established writer before he became an Oblate for the Abbey of Caldey Island in Wales. It was there that he wrote his famous ghost stories, intended for the entertainment of eight boys who attended the abbey. In the forward of this collection, Wintle states that the stories were originally told on Sunday nights while "crouching over a wood fire on a wind-swept island off the Western shore". 'The Red Rosary' is the story of Dr. Wells, a collector of religious idols who commissions a traveller to steal an oriental rosary made of roughly cut rubies, emeralds, amethyst and jade. The rosary has a finely carved snake's head at the end of it, made of green jade. Before the rosary can be delivered to Dr. Wells, the traveller who stole it for him has died in very peculiar circumstances. Once the package is delivered to its intented recipient, strange and sinister events begin to happen in Dr. Wells' life, too.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/255010 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White Cat Author: Hugh Walpole Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 10, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the '20s and '30s and remains popular to this day. "The White Cat" is the story of a young American man in Hollywood who, being at the end of his financial possibilities, conceives a plan to marry a wealthy English widow. The only difficulty is that the lady's cat does not appear to approve of the match...and it is a very peculiar and oddly sinister feline....

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tell-Tale Heart: BFV's Classics Collection Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Michael Pearl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 7, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.22 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Written in 1843, The Tell-Tale Heart is a dark and eerie tale of a man’s unhealthy obsession that leads him to commit murder. Will his paranoia get him caught? This is one of Poe's finest and most memorable short stories!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gediechte in ut Mestreechs Author: Théodore Weustenraad Narrator: Ans Wink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Verzameling van gedichten in het Maastrichts, afkomstig uit "Van de Schelde tot de Weichsel. Nederduitsche Dialecten in Dicht en Ondicht, uitgekozen en opgehelderd door Joh. A. Leopold en L. Leopold", uitgegeven in 1882. De gedichten zijn geschreven door Theodoor Weustenraad, Guillaume Franquinet en L. Polis.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 007 Author: Various Contributors Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Eine Sammlung 20 deutscher Gedichte für LibriVox.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Short Story Collection Vol. 008 Author: Various Contributors Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Librivox's Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Short Story Collection Vol. 006 Author: Various Contributors Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Librivox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature Author: Various Authors Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Nature in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Botany, geology, biology, astronomy; flowers, (meteor) showers, bugs, slugs, frogs, dogs, cats, bats -- you name it, as long as it's public domain and between 3 and 15 minutes long.(Summary by BellonaTimes)