Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 185, pdf, v1, 7 Nov 2024

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An interesting asortment of short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, including a very early wer-wolf story from 1838. Several famous authors, plus two stories from a virtually unknown New Zealand author, E. Mary Gurney, who was a well-known figure in the NZ equestrian world. She had the extreme bad luck to be kicked by a horse, and didn't survive.

1: The Forged Letter / Harvey J. O'Higgins
2: The Blue Tulip / Warwick Deeping
3: Crazy Rhythm / Max Brand
4: The Tiger's Luck-Bone / Alice Perrin
5: The Isle of Pines / Ambrose Bierce
6: The Lost Novel / Sherwood Anderson
7: The Smile / John Galsworthy
8: The Schartz-Metterklume Method / Saki
9: The Novelist / Gilbert Dayle
10: The Interpreter / Frank Harris
11: A Bewitched Ship / W. Clark Russell
12: Experience / Albert Richard Wetjen
13: A Comedy of Dullness / J. J. Bell
14: "J. & J. Merriman" / J. J. Bell
15: Pride and Poverty / Val Jameson
16: Safety First / E. Mary Gurney
17: The Golden Hound / E. Mary Gurney
18: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment / Nathaniel Hawthorne
19: By Courier / O. Henry
20: He Had an Alibi / Anonymous
21: Symptoms / L. C. Douthwaite
22: The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes / Rudyard Kipling
23: Man Not Overboard / Ring Lardner
24: The Man who Held the Wires / Randolph Bedford
25: The Little Green Man / Edgar Wallace
26: Hugues, The Wer-Wolf / Sutherland Menzies

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