Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 142, v1, 15 Oct 2023

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Just over 100,000 words of short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, gathered from newspapers, magazines, and other dusty sources. Some famous names such as Ethel M Dell, queen of romance, Max Brand, king of the Western; American Irvin S Cobb, Australian Harold Mercer, British E F Benson... the usual eclectic mix of authors typical of this series of anthologies.

1: The Amber Formula / Norman Blois Shalders
2: A Water-Nymph / Maud Shields
3: The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh / "Saki"
4: The Murder at Jex Farm / Oswald Crawfurd
5: The Ghost at Laburnum Villa / Anonymous
6: A Christmas Ghost Story / Ida Deahl
7: Discharging Martha / Carroll Watson Rankin
8: The Allard Burglars / George Hibbard
9: The Eyes / Edith Wharton
10: The Magic Circle / Ethel M. Dell
11: The Curse of True Love / Harold Mercer
12: A Schoolmaster Abroad / E. W. Hornung
13: Jack's as Good as His Master / Sumner Locke
14: And the Dead Spake / E. F. Benson
15: The Ghost / Max Brand
16: "Seven, Seven, Seven— City" / Julius Chambers
17: The Mystery Of King's Bench Walk / Britiffe Constable Skottowe
18: Blue Mountain Blue / D. H. Souter
19: John J. Coincidence / Irvin S. Cobb

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