Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 219, v1, 17 May 2025

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21 stories, just over 100,000 words, all in the Life + 70 public domain. Some famous authors, some obscure, one or two virtually unknown, collected from magazines, newspapers, and out-of-copyright anthologies and collections.

1: The Retroactive Existence of Mr. Juggins / Stephen Leacock
2: A Journey in Search of Nothing / Wilkie Collins
3: Make Believe / "Weeroona"
4: In a Cellar / Harriet Elizabeth Spofford
5: De Profundis / Robert Coutts Armour
6: The Vitagraphoscope / O. Henry
7: A Little Dinner at Timmins's / William Thackeray
8: The Cinema Murder / E. Phillips Oppenheim
9: The She-Wolf / "Saki"
10: The Pest Year of 1905 / Ernest Favenc
11: A Horseman In The Sky / Ambrose Bierce
12: A Little Masquerade / Gilbert Parker
13: The Missing Pullman Car / W. L. Alden
14: The Friend in Need / George Gissing
15: A Tale of Three Lions / H. Rider Haggard
16: Werewolf of the Sahara / G. G. Pendarves
17: In the Land of Dreadful Night / John Arthur Barry
18: The Country Doctor / Don Marquis
19: A North Queensland Temperance Story / Ernest Favenc
20: My Elephant / Harold Mercer
21: The Tin Box / Herbert Keen
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