Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 206, v1, 11 March 2025

[Pulpmeister]

Another 100,000 word anthology of short fiction in the Life+70 years public domain, collected from magazines, newspapers, and books. My usual criterion for a short story is 1,000 words or more, as I consider anything shorter to be a sketch or item; but Tod Robbins is an exception in this issue with a very short-short story.

1: The Ghost's Touch / Fergus Hume
2: Mrs Brown at the Royal Academy / Arthur Sketchley
3: Some Women and a Rotter / Thomas Bailey Clegg
4: No Flowers / Gordon Arthur Smith
5: The Mad Hatter / Ernest Favenc
6: The Demon / Christopher Blayre
7: The Motor Boat / Jacques Futrelle
8: The Chronic Argonauts / H. G. Wells
9: Luck / Edward Dyson
10: A Yellow Dog / Bret Harte
11: According To His Lights / John Galsworthy
12: The Shadows on the Wall / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
13: The Coin of Dionysius / Ernest Brahmah
14: Pausodyne / Grant Allen
15: Crimson Flowers / Tod Robbins
16: Rosemonde / H. de Vere Stacpoole
17: The Dead That Wept / Edgar Jepson
18: The Splendid Quest / Edward Dyson
19: The Reformation / Mark Hellinger
20: The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson / O. Henry
21: White Feathers / F. A. M. Webster
22: Unlighted Lamps / Sherwood Anderson
23: Dreadful Night / Edwin L. Arnold
25: Symptoms of Being 35 / Ring Lardner
26: The Man With a Grouch / H. De Vere Stacpoole
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