Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 214, v1, 21 April 2025

[Pulpmeister]

22 stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain by including two very short stories just for variety; I usually work on a lower limit of 1,000 words on the theory that anything less is a sketch, but it's not set in concrete.

1: Glad Ghosts / D. H. Lawrence
2: The Discovery of America / Bill Nye
3: The Seven Vagabonds / Nathaniel Hawthorne
4: The Tenth Earl / Sapper
5: Out of Egypt / Charles B. Stilson
6: Shag of the North / Sumner Locke
7: The Guy From Memphis / Edgar Wallace
8: The Checkmating of Mr. Brown / Richard Dehan
9: The Story of Yung Chang / Ernest Bramah
10: The Second Generation / Algernon Blackwood
11: Mrs. Edward Ellerker's Diamonds / Edward Dyson
12: A Bit of a Banshee / Tod Robbins
13: Tchotl / Stella Benson
14: The Waterwitch / Fred M.White
15: When August the Second Was April the First /
Irvin S Cobb
16: The Montezuma Emerald / R. Ottolengui
17: Ex Oblivione / H. P. Lovecraft
18: The City of Dreadful Night / O. Henry
19: The-Water Hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt
20: The Dark Lady of The Hemlock Grange / Anonymous
21: Flirted Herself To Death / Mark Hellinger
22: The Bullion-Room / Headon Hill

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