Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 257, v1, 22 Apr 2026

[Pulpmeister]

20 short stories, some of them fairly long, in the Life+70 yrs public domain, extracted from newspapers, magazines and other sources. Crime, romance, adventure, sf, horror...

* somehow uploaded the kindle and pdf versions of this but not epub; probably forgot to hit the submit button...

1: The Story of Lafont / Ernest Favenc
2: The Haunted Rectory / "Sapper"
3: The Daunt Diana / Edith Wharton
4: Mill of the Gods / Malcolm Jameson
5: Easy Money / W. W. Jacobs
6: The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel /
L. T Meade and Robert Eustace
7: The Nose of Napoo / Bertram Atkey
8: The Actor Man at Bullswool / Ward Edson
9: A Cargo of Champagne / H. de Vere Stacpoole
10: Inter-Office Memo / Robert Benchley
11: Wanted— A Short Story / Emanuel Julius
12: The Cruise of the "Willing Mind" / A. E. W. Mason
13: The Lock-Keeper / W. B. Maxwell
14: A Dagger of Glass / Sir Gilbert Campbell
15: Wild Oats / "Tauwarra"
17: A Ward of Colonel Starbottle's / Bret Harte
18: The Romance of a Landlady / Katharine Tynan
19: The Inmost Light / Arthur Machen
20: The Flowering of the Strange Orchid / H. G. Wells

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[YuryYursky]

you are a wizard indeed, thanks