Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 262, v1, 27 May 2026

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22 short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, ranging from romance to strange to humour, collected from newspapers, magazines, and other sources.

1: A Tale of the Coral Sea / Randolph Bedford
2: Outside the Door / E. F. Benson
3: The Islington Mystery / Arthur Machen
4: A Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant
5: The Yellow Moth / Fred Merrick White
6: The Hypnotized Township / Henry Lawson
7: Get That Man / Louis Arthur Cunningham
8: The Master Microbe / Ethel Lina White
9: An Episode / Boyd Cable
10: The Dance on the Hill / Achmed Abdullah
11: Clan / E. F. Benson
12: The Cave of the Invisible / James Francis Dwyer
13: For Valor! / Richard Dehan
14: The Missing Mortgagee / R. Austin Freeman
15: Flowers for Miss Riordan / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
16: The Curate of Poltons / Anthony Hope
17: The Governess at Greenbush / E. W. Hornung
16: The Case of the Vacant Office / Scott Campbell
19: One Chance in a Million / H. D. Umbstaetter
20: Hunting-Cap / Katharine Tynan
21: The Guinea Pig's Tail / William Le Queux
22: Lieutenant Lapenotière/ Arthur Quiller-Couch

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