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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by…
The Fables of Phaedrus
The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the "moral…
Short Story Collection
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 042: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Dooms of America
"Prophecy is not a prediction of tomorrow. It is a description of the doom contained within today."
Three stories of the end of Am…
The Stolen White Elephant
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local po…
Coffee Break Collection
A collection of short public-domain stories and essays about animals, with pieces on creatures of land, sea, and air. Each selection runs ab…
The Ghost Ship
Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…
Stolen Souls
Stolen Souls is a captivating collection of 14 mystery stories by William Le Queux, a master of early detective fiction. Each tale invites l…
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy offers a collection of sharp and witty reflections on life in the early 20th century, penned by the renowne…
Intercast
In this collection of short stories, Edward G. Talbot provides thrills, chills, laughs, and drama in abbreviated form. If you like bite-siz…
The Jovian Gate Chronicles
What happens when humans, ruled by the Catholic Church and the Confederacy, cross paths with intelligent aliens that claim to be prophets fr…
Short Story Collection
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…
Every Photo Tells...
A flight on a space cruiser turns into a nightmare for a man who has to face his future alone and come to terms with his past.
A princess fi…
The Ex-Wife Files
The eX-Wife Files Mark Forman's first sci-fi detective short story is in the vein of Philip K. Dick's BladeRunner (Do Androids Dream of Ele…
Actions And Reactions
A collection of short stories by the author of the Jungle book, Kim and Just So Stories. Each story is followed by a poem, so if you like If…
Police Operation
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his e…
The Secret Beneath the Ice
When a thoughtship and its pilot finally reach Avani, the shimmering gem of the western spiral arm, they barely have a chance to marvel at i…
Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque
A second helping of podcast fiction from 'One Among the Sleepless' author, Mike Bennett. 'Hall of Mirrors' is a short story collection featu…
Strange Tales
Tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked. Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural. Join us for S…