Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 253, v1, 16 March 2026

[Pulpmeister]

21 Short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from magazines, newspapers and other sources. Three authors have not appeared in Past Masters before: Florence Blair, Bartlett Adamson and John P. Dalley.

1: St. George and the Dragon / Katherine Tynan
2: Roughing it With Reggie / Sydney Horler
3: Samoan Bogies / Florence Blair
4: House Enchanted / Beatrice Grimshaw
5: Her Last Curious Case / Edward Dyson
6: Somebody Waiting / Louis Arthur Cunningham
7: He Didn't Believe in Fairies / William Almon Wolff
8: The Extra Man and the Milk-fed Lion / Charles E. Van Loan
9: Betty's Bracelet / William Crawford Honeyman
10: Hercules in Hell / Bertram Atkey
11: A Square Deal / John Arthur Barry
12: The Libertine / John B. Dalley
13: "Floating" / Arthur J. Rees
14: The Covenant of the Craddocks / Albert Richard Wetjen
15: Beyond the Sunset / Margaret Cox Taylor
16: My Interrupted Demise / Bartlett Adamson
17: The Philosopher / Peter Cheyney
18: Button, Button / Arthur Somers Roche
19: Hoop-te-do! / Booth Tarkington
20: The Open Door / Rafael Sabatini
21: The Purple Emperor / Robert W. Chambers

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[YuryYursky]

'The open door,' says the Castilian proverb, 'will tempt a I saint,' which is only the Spanish way of saying that opportunity makes the thief.

SabatinisOpen Door is known by PG Australia
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks17/1700451h.html

many thanks for the unknown, he, he