Running from 12 to 18 November, National Short Story Week is an annual event which celebrates short stories and short story writers with literary events and publications. The official website includes reading lists and short stories to download for free, including audio versions.
Selection of short stories available from RNIB
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An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge and other stories by Ambrose Bierce. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Beyond the wall - An adventure at Brownville - The damned thing - One of the missing - The stranger. Braille 1v.
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The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Some of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories in which Dr. Watson assists in the solution of crime. TB 137. Braille 5v. Giant Print 3v.
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Apple tree by Daphne du Maurier.
A collection of six short stories full of romance and mystery, including a tale about a young man's search for his beautiful wife. She has climbed the awe inspiring Monte Verita to join a mysterious closed sect who live in one of its forbidding hollows. TB 6114.
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Dancing girls and other stories by Margaret Atwood.
A collection of twelve stories about everyday people who are confronted by unexpected happenings. These include trying to survive at sea after an aircrash, and discovering the harsh reality of childbirth. Braille 5v. TB 5371.
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The Mammoth book of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories.
This anthology contains the cream from the golden age of the ghost story, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up to the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910. Many of literature's greatest names are in this collection, and these masters promise delicious - and chilling - entertainment. Braille 12v. TB 10953.
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The Oxford book of English short stories
The 37 stories featured here are selected from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. There are exuberant stories by Saki and Waugh, Wodehouse and Firbank. They pack together comedy and tragedy, farce and delicacy, elegance and the grotesque, with language as various as the subject matter. TB 17280.