Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 241, v1, 13 Nov 2025

[Pulpmeister]

21 stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain. I have included an unusual double: a popular ghost short story from 1888, and a parody of it from 1890.

1: Stripper Sal / Evan Slyter
2: Modern Melodrama / Hubert Crackanthorpe
3: Will You Walk Into My Parlour? / Ian Hay
4: The Pigeons of Wong Foo / J. Allan Dunn
5: Dark Laughter / J. Allan Dunn
6: The Crime Master / J. Allan Dunn
7: The Stepping Stone / Alice C. Tomholt
8: What a Handsome Pair! / F. Scott Fitzgerald
9: "Secret Service" / Arthur Gask
10: Tom Silver's Bus / Warwick Deeping
11: Amos Kilbright / Frank R. Stockton
12: Dematerialization / C. Mason
13: The Cataleptic / Ernest Favenc
14: The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft
15: The Deposition / Luigi Capuana
16: The Shot / R. S. Warren Bell
17: The Mystery of Pinkham's Diamond Stud / John Kendrick Bangs
18: The Cave / Beatrice Grimshaw
19: The Coffin Merchant / Richard Middleton
20: In the Boat of the Sarah Bligh / John Arthur Barry
21: "Page 189" / Stacy Aumonier

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