Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 237, v1, 1 Oct 2025

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Another 100,000 word anthology of stories in the Life+70 years public domain. Included is a wonderfully nostalgic example of 1920's "scientifiction" by A. Hyatt Verrill, a modern horse-racing story by western writer Max Brand, and a western story by hardboiled crime writer Cleve F Adams.

1: The Valley of Death / Margaret Cox Taylor
2: The Tiger / Booth Tarkington
3: The Grain in the Husk / Sumner Locke
4: A Tale of a Dry Plate / W. S. Gilbert
5: Madam Crowl's Ghost / Sheridan Le Fanu
6: Across The Gulf / Henry S. Whitehead
7: The Man Who Could Vanish / A. Hyatt Verrill
8: The Lady in Green / Peter Cheyney
9: Beyond the Veil / E.Mary Gurney
10: The Queen's Necklace / H. de Vere Stacpoole
11: Out of the Air / Fred MacIsaac
12: The Fatal Fishing Line / W. L. Alden
13: The Secret of Zogra Island / William J. Makin
14: The Pipes of Snow / Randolph Bedford
15: The Pay-Off / Cleve F. Adams
16: The Little Steel Coils / Anna Katharine Green
17: The Owl's Ear / Erckman-Chatrian
18: Challenger! / Max Brand
19: Fifinella / Anonymous
20: Skule Skerry / John Buchan

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