Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 243, v1, 2 Dec 2025

[Pulpmeister]

18 short stories totalling over 100,000 words. They include pulp crime, weird, humour, pathos. From UK, South Pacific, Australia, USA... All in Life+70 yrs public domain.

1: The Ship That Saw a Ghost / Frank Norris
2: The Golden Bean / Beatrice Grimshaw
3: The Fairy Godmother / Edward Dyson
4: That Parson / A. E. Dingle
5: The Crime of Miss Wilks / Capel Boake
6: Old Man Murtrie / Don Marquis
7: A Game With Death / Mark Hellinger
8: The Crime Trust / Edgar Wallace
9: The Return / Sherwood Anderson
10: The Dreams in the Witch-House / H. P. Lovecraft
11: Too Far South / John Arthur Barry
12: Golden Bars / Max Pemberton
13: Daphne / Guy Boothby
14: The Land Where There is no Death / Stephen Vincent Benét
15: Cool Air / H. P. Lovecraft
16: The Predicament of De Plonville / Robert Barr
17: The Ideal / Stanley G. Weinbaum
18: Egging on Esmond / Sydney Horler

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