Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 238, v1, 10 Oct 2025

[Pulpmeister]

27 short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from newspapers, magazines and old books.

The oldest story is by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, of "Frankenstein" fame. At No 240 I will upload an Index to Issues Nos 1-240 inclusive.

1: The Detective Who Talked / Edgar Wallace
2: Jerry Stokes / Grant Allen
3: A Party of Four / Stanley J. Weyman
4: Around the Corner / D. H. Souter
5: Coker / D. H. Souter
6: The Unbaited Trap / Albert Payson Terhune
7: Halima and the Scorpions / Robert Hichens
8: Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield
9: The Prodigal Daughter / J. Winton Heming
10: My Maiden Brief / W. S. Gilbert
11: Mr. Pettiloe Cites a Case / Sydney Horler
12: The Tall Clock / J. H. M. Abbott
13: The Bailiffs Are In / Harold Mercer
14: Legal Cruelty / John Hay Beith
15: The Nameless City / H. P. Lovecraft
16: The Time Jumpers / Phil Nowlan
17: The Blue Ushabti / Valentine Williams
18: A Game With Death / Mark Hellinger
19: The Man in the O.P. Box / Edward Dyson
20: The Strange High House in the Mist / H. P. Lovecraft
21: The Fete Night / Alice J. Muskett
22: The Sisters / James Joyce
23: The Haunted Orchard / Richard Le Gallienne
24: The Sisters of Albano / Mary Shelley
25: Tidal Moon / Stanley G. Weinbaum
26: The End of the Path / Newbold Noyes
27: The Grey Parrot / W. W. Jacobs

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