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Various: Past Masters 175, v1, 3 Sep 2024
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 This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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