Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 269, v1, 11 Aug 2026

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22 short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from magazines, newspapers, and other sources. Authors range from the well known to the unknown, and from fantasy through south seas adventures, to hardboiled.

1: The Telephone Bureau / Max Afford
2: "And Behold a White Horse" / C. A. Dawson Scot
3: The Thing on the Roof / Robert E. Howard
4: Waters of Destruction / Ardern Beaman
5: A Fortune in Bergonite / J. J. Bell
6: Movie Blackmail / Charles Kingston
7: Pizen / Richard Washburn Child
8: Blood in B Flat / Max Afford
9: The Plot / Leslie Thomas
10: A Bottle of Perrier / Edith Wharton
11: The Rector's Duty / Richard Dehan
12: In Nauvoo / Robert W. Chambers
13: The Bad Man / Gilbert Munro Turnbull
14: Softy / E. Clinch
15: The Fate of the Alida / Louis Becke
16: Review: Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious / Terry Walker
17: Man in Distress / Mark Hellinger
18: Fortune's Fool / Jeffery Farnol
19: O'Sheen Sees Red / Leroy Yerxa
20: The Story of Saddler's Croft / E. and H. Heron
21: The Naturalist at Law / R. Austin Freeman
22: The Bligsby Diamonds / Granville Sedley

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