Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 277, v1, 23 Oct 2026

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A little over 100,000 words this issue, 22 short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain. Fantasy from L Frank Baum of Wizard of Oz fame; tragedy in the South seas from Beatrice Grimshaw; ghost from Richard Dehan (Clotilde Graves); detective from "Sapper"; plus humour, romance, weird and adventure.

1: At Nature's Whisper / Roderic Quinn
2: Jeanette / Ed. Ward
3: The Rich Young Man / Beatrice Heron-Maxwell
4: The Enchanted Buffalo / L. Frank Baum
5: The Boss's Son / Louis Esson
6: A Practical Joke / Harriet Lummis Smith
7: The Beast with Five Fingers / W. F. Harvey
8: The Fourth Bottle / "Sapper"
9: Because of the Dollars / Joseph Conrad
10: Elan Comes to Weedalong / Charles Shaw
11: Black Hound of Death / Robert E. Howard
12: How the Mistress Came Home / Richard Dehan
13: The Trappist's Vow / Baroness Orczy
14: A Ghost of a Chance / O. Henry
15: Direct Wire / David Wright O'Brien
16: The Namesake / Willa Cather
17: The Curious Luck of the Earl of Pugwash / H. Bedford-Jones
18: The Tattooed Man / William J. Makin
19: Who Dealt? / Ring W. Lardner
20: The Story of Mr. Flaxman Low / E. and H. Heron
21: The Elopers / Jacques Futrelle
22: The Isles of Peace / Beatrice Grimshaw

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