LitReading - Short Stories and Timeless Tales

Don McDonald

Topics: Fiction

No. 156 in Fiction▲27

LitReading: Great Short Stories Read Aloud Great stories deserve to be heard. LitReading brings you a complete short stories, unabridged and narrated by veteran broadcaster and voice actor Don McDonald. Hear the masters of the form, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, Stephen Crane, Saki, Bret Harte and Virginia Woolf. Along with them come overlooked gems from the golden age of American, British and Russian literature that deserve a second hearing. Each episode is one full story, from a few minutes to a deeply immersive hour. Think of it as a free audiobook of short fiction, performed with warmth...

Latest episodeThe Black Cat — A Classic Tale of Human Horror by Edgar Allan PoeOctober 31, 2026 · 26 min

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Latest episodes

1. The Black Cat — A Classic Tale of Human Horror by Edgar Allan PoeOctober 31, 2026 · 26 min
2. The Hanging Stranger — A Classic Sci-Fi Horror Tale by Philip K. DickOctober 31, 2026 · 38 min
3. Murder of Crows – an Original Short Story by Don McDonaldOctober 31, 2026 · 26 min
4. The Willow Walk — A Classic Tale by Sinclair LewisOctober 31, 2026 · 79 min
5. August Heat — A Classic Tale by W.F. HarveyOctober 31, 2026 · 12 min
6. The Rips — An Original Story by Don McDonaldOctober 31, 2026 · 32 min
7. The Diary of a Madman – A Classic Tale of Terror by Guy de MaupassantOctober 31, 2026 · 15 min
8. The Tell-Tale Heart – A Classic Tale of Terror by Edgar Allan PoeOctober 31, 2026 · 15 min
9. A Haunted House–a Classic Ghost Story by Virginia WoolfOctober 31, 2026 · 8 min
10. The Damned Thing–a Classic Scary Story by Ambrose BierceOctober 31, 2026 · 20 min

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