Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 217, v1, 9 May 2025

[Pulpmeister]

20 short stories, several fairly long, in the Life + 70 years public domain. Arthur Leo Zagat was a master of the "weird menace" sub genre; while F Scott Fitzgerald worked with the sophisticated up-class. The others are a mix of odd, humorous, crime and the like.

1: Death's Cold Arms / Arthur Leo Zagat
2: A Double-Barrelled Ghost / Israel Zangwill
3: Passing of the Third Floor Back / Jerome K. Jerome
4: John Ovington Returns / Max Brand
5: Looney the Mutt / Don Marquis
6: The Skeleton on Round Island / Mary Hartwell Catherwood
7: The Stolen Romney / Edgar Wallace
8: Dimoussi and the Pistol / A. E. W. Mason
9: Basil and Cleopatra / F. Scott Fitzgerald
10: The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs
11: The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, The Picture-Maker / Ernest Bramah
12: Old Ben Alibi / Irvin S. Cobb
13: The Lottery Ticket / Harold Mercer
14: The Grey Lady / Anna Katharine Green
15: Promising / Anonymous
16: A Piece of String / Jacques Futrelle
17: Doomed / Ernest Favenc
18: The Beggar Man / Edward Dyson
19: "Honi Soit" / Edward Dyson
20: The Inverted Five / Baroness Orczy

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[jackm8]

Thank you. Baroness Orczy wrote Scarlet Pimpernel and some early detective fiction novels. Jerome K. Jerome is of Three Man in a Boat fame. I'll go and pick the collection for the former.