Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 231, v1, 5 Aug 2025

[Pulpmeister]

We have a story from Charlotte Bronte, then 14; plus Gilbert Frankau, de Vere Stacpoole, A E W Mason and other past masters of the short story. All in the Life+70 yrs public domain, and a little over 100,000 words.

1: Sixteen Years Without a Birthday / Brander Matthews
2: The Moth and the Star / Gilbert Frankau
3: The Jester / H. de Vere Stacpoole
4: The Adventures of Ernest Alembert / Charlotte Brontë
5: The Bottle Imp / Robert Louis Stevenson
6: Strolling Freddie / Mark Hellinger
7: The Golden Honeymoon / Ring Lardner
8: Reardon's Rhapsodies / Harold Mercer
9: The Spectral Mortgage / Frank R. Stockton
10: "Madam, I'm Adam!" / Holman Day
11: The Feast of Nemesis / "Saki"
12: The Dogs of War / Harold Mercer
13: The First Foot / Robert Barr
14: The Officer in Charge / John Arthur Barry
15: The Mystery at Styles Court / "Sapper"
16: The Kidnapping of Lieut. Wally / Sumner Locke
17: The Rescue of Pluffles / Rudyard Kipling
18: Glamour / Louis Arthur Cunningham
19: The Panacea Boom / Ladbroke Black
20: The Senator's Laundry / James De Mille
21: The Crossed Gloves / A. E. W. Mason
22: Shocks / Algernon Blackwood

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