Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 230, 24 July 2025

[Pulpmeister]

Damon Runyon is best known for his "Broadway" short stories but he also wrote hard-boiled pulp stories, and one is in this issue. Another rare story is by Anthony Abbott, real name Fulton Oursler, from a shortlived magazine which specialised in photo-stories with the photos posed by the celebrities involved; this one features Jean Harlow, Fulton Oursler (!), and several other well-known celebs of the era; unfortunately I couldn't include the photos. The remaining stories are more conventional, all in the Life+70 public domain.

1: One of the Heads / Arthur H. Adams
2: The Diary of a Madman / Guy de Maupassant
3: A Gipsy Prophecy / Bram Stoker
4: The Perfect Crime / Mark Hellinger
5: Peak of the Moon / Beatrice Grimshaw
6: The Prevision / Edward Dyson
7: The Righteous Lie / Sumner Locke
8: Brickett Bottom / Amyas Northcote
9: The Red Carnation / Baroness Orczy
10: The Great Staircase at Landover Hall / Frank R. Stockton
11: The Fakir / Harold Mercer
12: Stellar Showboat / Malcolm Jameson
13: Shivering in the Dark / Anthony Abbot
14: The Hound / H. P. Lovecraft
15: The Red Ring / William Le Queux
16: The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew/ Damon Runyon
17: The Ivory Boxes / Percy J. Brebner
18: The Ultra-Elixir of Youth / A. Hyatt Verrill
19: The Ash-Tree / M. R. James
20: The Gold Squid / Albert Dorrington
21: The Lord of Chateau Noir / Arthur Conan Doyle

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