Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 209, v1, 22 March 2025

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The first four stories are by authors who died in 1954 and whose work entered the Life+70 years public domain on 1 January 2025. Maxwell Bodenheim's prose fiction is slim; he is best known for poetry and his shocking murder (look him up on the web.)

1: The Silent Guest / E. Nesbit and Oswald Barron
2: Psychic Phenomena / Maxwell Bodenheim
3: Round Trip / Jack McLaren
4: The Voice from the Inner World / A. Hyatt Verrill
5: The Story of Malachi / Henry Lawson
6: The Story of Lee Ping / Guy Boothby
7: The Ghost's Violin / Erckman-Chatrian
8: The Crystal Egg / H. G. Wells
9: The Cub Reporter / Rex Beach
10: The Black Coat / John Galsworthy
11: The Landlord of "The Love-a-Duck" / Stacy Aumonier
12: The Abduction of the House-Boat / Arthur H. Adams
13: The Humorist / J. H. M. Abbott
14: Bubbles / Don Marquis
15: The Mayor's Lamps / John Kendrick Bangs
16: The Secret of the Gorge / Ernest Favenc
17: The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
18: A Vision of Venus / Otis Adelbert Kline
19: Louis XIV and the Bodger / Ernest O'Ferrall
20: The Gloaming Ghosts / George Barr McCutcheon
21: The Umbrosa Burglary / R. C. Lehmann
22: The Italian / A. E. W. Mason

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