Short Fiction Various: Short Stories Sampler 5. V1. 15 Feb 2012

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Short Stories Magazine
Short Stories Magazine was one of the most important, and most successful, of the pulp magazines, running for a massive 1114 issues over a period of 70 years, although the last six of those years saw it first shrink to a digest and then expand, briefly, to a slick "men's magazine".
A British reprint edition was published from 1920 to 1955, and then briefly revived in 1958/59. There were also an unknown number of a Canadian reprint edition.

DANGEROUS GROUND—HAPSURG LIEBE

.....a Lot Of Folks Have Died Because They Knew Too Much

THE HUNGRY MANDARIN—WALTER C. BROWN

A Sixty-Four Dollar Question — Who Can Figure Out What a Chinaman Will Do

CARGO OF SHOW BUSINESS—GEORGE ARMIN SHAFTEL

Whenever the Legit Goes Sour and Grand Opera Nosedives, Show Business Just Yells for Vodvil (Vaudeville)

DRY ROT—JAMES B. HENDRYX

We Wonder If a Little Dry Rot Didn’t Get into Black John’s Theory About Neither Helpin’ Nor Hinderin’ the Police

FROM THE NECK UP—WILLIAM R. COX

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Pugilists—! Fighting Not With Hands and Feet, But . . . . . .

IN THE DEVIL'S WIGWAM—GEORGE BRUCE MARQUIS

Bat Jennison and Pegleg Found Themselves Hard Put to It To Carry Out Their Pledge to a Dead Man

THE MAN WITH THE GLASS EYE—JAMES B. HENDRYX

Black John Thought There Should Be Certain Ethics Observed on Halfaday; Cush, Said He Would Not Know an Ethic If He Saw One

VENGEANCE IN A BOTTLE—HAPSBURG LIEBE

Dingdong Bell Had a Reputation for Tellin’ the Truth, Even When He Was on the Owlhoot

OLD BLACK MAGIC—BERT DAVID ROSS

Up North They Don’t Ask Anything for Doing Something for a Friend

DEAD END—WILBUR S. PEACOCK

. . . . Still a Rookie Detective Whose Time Was of so Little Value, Anyone Could Command It