Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 213, v1, 15 April 2025

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As usual around 100,000 words, all stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain. There's a rare short piece by Charlotte Bronte (written when she was 17), obscure stories by well-known writers, and obscure stories by obscure writers.

1: A Night's Adventure in Rome / William Harrison Ainsworth
2: The Stolen Necklace / Victor L. Whitechurch
3: The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
4: The Misanthrope / J. D. Beresford
5: The Door in the Wall / H. G. Wells
6: Miggles / Bret Harte
7: Napoleon and the Spectre / Charlotte Bronte
8: "And Behold a White Horse" / C. A. Dawson Scott
9: The Capitulation of Jean Jacques / John Galsworthy
10: The Wings of a Butterfly / Alice C. Tomholt
11: Hairy Carey's Son / Stella Benson
12: Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure / Nathaniel Hawthorne
13: The Man Who Eventually Did / Edward Dyson
14: My Astral Body / Anthony Hope
15: Silent, White and Beautiful / Tod Robbins
16: That Ever-Loving Wife of Hymie's / Damon Runyon
17: The Risen Dead / Max Pemberton
18: Wireless Confusion / Algernon Blackwood
19: The Benefit of the Doubt / L. Maxwell Pyke
20: The Haunted Camp / C. J. Dennis
21: In the Era of the Wireless / M. E. J. Pitt
22: The Haunted Shanty / Bayard Taylor

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