Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 175, v1, 3 Sep 2024

[Pulpmeister]

23 short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, from well-known and unknown authors, collected from newspapers, magazines and forgotten books. There's sentiment from Temple Bailey, "spicy" adventures from the 30s (about as daring as the pulps got), a lesser-known G K Chesterton detective, a ghost story or two, vintage SF from Stanley G Weinbaum, plus stories by Dylan Thomas, Robert E Howard and more.

As usual, my notional target is 100,000 words; this issue has 106,000

1: A Legend of Welly Legrave / Duncan Campbell Scott
2: Murder Magic / Edwin Truett Long
3: The Mother Stone / John Galsworthy
4: Dr. Haselton's Theory / Anonymous
5: Dr. Deadshot and His Little Consignment / Walter Thornbury
6: Count Magnus / M. R. James
7: The Heart's Desire / E. Everett-Green
8: Rogues' Reward / W. E. Figgis
9: The Dragon of Kao Tsu / Robert E. Howard
10: Six Gun Nurse / Laurence Donovan
11: A Samaritan of the Riverine / Randolph Bedford
12: The Voice of the Mountain / Stephen Crane.
13: A Flaw in the Organization / A. E. W. Mason
14: Getting Rid of Pongo / Harold Mercer
15: The Wolves of Cernogratz / "Saki" (H. H. Munro)
16: The Ship in the Desert / Harry Hale
17: The Judge and the Cur / Temple Bailey
18: Number 17 / Edith Nesbit
19: Extraordinary Little Cough / Dylan Thomas
20: The Circle of Zero / Stanley G. Weinbaum
21: The Affair of the Corridor Express / Victor L. Whitechurch
22: The Chronicle of the Yellow Girl / Fred Merrick White
23: The Hole In The Wall / G. K. Chesterton

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