Short Fiction Various: Past Masters Fifty-Three, v1, 11 Dec 2021

[Pulpmeister]

Another batch of short stories from newspaper and magazine sources that are in the Life + 70 public domain. I included the Willa Cather story, undoubtedly antholgised somewhere, for no other reason than my older sister's middle name is Willa, and was named after Ms Cather. There is a mixture of humour, horror, crime, and literary stories, including a story about the end of all human life, narrated by someone who is dead...

1: The Vampire Maid / Hume Nisbet
2: Devil Fish / Louis Becke
3: George, The Docker / Louis Becke
4. The Affair of the Shuteye Medium / H Bedford-Jones
5: Grear's Dam / Morley Roberts
6: The Ugly Bronze and the Beautiful Wife / Anonymous
7: Cleverly Caught / John Arthur Berry
8: Four Friends and Death / C. St. John Sprigg
9: A Stranger in Arcady / J S Fletcher
10: The End of All / Nym Crinkle
11: The Best Bet / Albert Richard Wetjen
12: Very Still Waters / F A M Webster
13: Floating Bones / F A M Webster
14: The Nomad / Robert Hichens
15: Double Birthday / Willa Cather
16: The Horror Horn / E. F. Benson
17: The Door / Henry S Whitehead
18: The Legacy Hounds / Hulbert Footner

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[Jellby]

Alfred Richard Wetjen?

[Pulpmeister]

Ouch! Albert.