Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 258, v1, 22 Apr 2026

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22 short stories including two from authors with very unusual life stories; humour, fantasy, action... all in the Life+70 Public Domain.

1: Behind the Monocle / J. S. Fletcher
2: The Sermon on the Rocks / Randolph Bedford
3: Worms of the Earth / Robert E. Howard
4: The Piano Next Door / Elia W. Peattie
5: Too Cute for Words / F Scott Fitzgerald
6: The Everlasting Club / Arthur Gray
7: The Haunted Inheritance / Edith Nesbit
8: Eoineen of the Birds / Padraic Pearse
9: The Old Shawl / "Weeroona"
10: The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock / (novelette) Anna Katharine Green
11: Victory / Louis Arthur Cunningham
12: Water Rights / T. C. Bridges
13: The Ghost Walks / Sydney Horler
14: The Mouse / James Oliver Curwood
15: Moonbeam of Pearl / Douglas Newton
16: The Other Side / Eric Stenbock
17: The Escape / J. D. Beresford
18: A Very Old Friend / Mark Hellinger
19: The Anonymous Wiggle / Ellis Parker Butler
20: Bluff / Barry Pain
21: My Criminal Career / Harold Mercer
22: The Story of St. Vespaluus / "Saki"

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