Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 242, v1, 20 Nov 2025

[Pulpmeister]

Another 100,000 word anthology of short stories, from pulp and "slick"magazines, newspapers, and other sources, all in the Life+70 yrs public domain.

1: A Slow Match / William Babington Maxwell
2: When Boob meets Bob / James H. Baker
3: Monkey-Nuts / D. H. Lawrence
4: The Patent Gas Regulator / Charles B. Lewis
5: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte
6: Double Trickery / Lemuel De Bra
7: The Dedham Mansion Case / Lemuel De Bra
8: Saturday Afternoon / Ellis Parker Butler
9: Gold Is Where You Find It / Beatrice Grimshaw
10: The Cibourne Trail / H. Bedford-Jones
11: A Bad Bit of Trouble / Bertram Atkey
12: Murder With a Smile / Clarence Herbert New
13: The Madness of William Bull / Bertram Atkey
14: The Headswoman / Kenneth Grahame
15: The Sad End of Mr. William Starr / E. Phillips Oppenheim
16: The Unholy Experiment of Martin Shenwick / Ernest Favenc
17: A Relic of the Borgias / Richard Marsh
18: The Man Who Was Pawned / Sydney Horler

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