Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 179, v1, 3 Oct 2024

[Pulpmeister]

There is one long short story in this issue, "Typhoon", by Joseph Conrad; and two very short stories with the same name, both by Mark Hellinger. Hellinger became a Broadway producer and later a movie producer, but beforre then he was a columnist on a New York daily; he chose to write his daily columns in the form of short-short stories, usually with a twist in the tail, and he wrote so many (several thousand) that I suppose it's no surprise that two finished up with the same title. A few years ago I collected 200 of the stories into 2 volumes, "Mark Hellinger's Broadway: 1930s" and "Mark Hellinger's Broadway: 1940s", (100 stories each) which are in the MobileRead library.

There is a story by G K Chesterton's "other detective" Horne Fisher; and one or two "strange" tales.

1: The Man Who Went Too Far / E. F. Benson
2: Typhoon / Joseph Conrad
3: The Everlasting Club / Stacy Aumonier
4: The Fad of the Fisherman / G.K. Chesterton
5: The Empty Theatre / J. D. Beresford
6: The Former Passengers / B. M. Croker
7: "Freddy & Cie" / Richard Dehan
8: Footfalls in the Desert / Roderic Quinn
9: The Biter Bit / Peter Cheyney
10: The Gallowsmith / Irvin S. Cobb
11: The Greater Sin (1937) / Mark Hellinger
12: The Greater Sin (1941) / Mark Hellinger
13: The Painter’s Bargain / William Makepeace Thackeray
14: The Fortune-Teller's Sign / Valentine Fredericks
15: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime / Oscar Wilde
16: The House of the Nightmare / Edward Lucas White

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