Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 210, v2, 9 April 2025

[Pulpmeister]

Some interesting items here: Bram Stoker's first ever published story, when he was in his mid 20s, and the O Henry short story featuring "The Cisco Kid" which was the origin of all those TV episodes and even movies. (The Kid's character had to be modified drastically for TV!).

19 stories, 95,000 words, all in the Life+70 years public domain.

This is V2; one story in v1 was not yet in the public domain and has been deleted. (and a TOC glitch now fixed; call it Version 2.1)

1: At The Café Dundee / Albert Dorrington
2: The Revenge of Sydney Wilkens / Mark Hellinger
3: The Caballero's Way / O. Henry
4: The Thrush in the Hedge / Joseph Hergesheimer
5: Our Last Walk / Hugh Conway
6: The Old Place / "Weeroona"
7: Evicting a Tenant / Val Jameson
8: The Baronets of Mertonbridge Hall / Sapper
9: The Crystal Cup / Bram Stoker
10: The Other Twin / Edwin Pugh
11: The Thing That Wept / Charles Fulton Oursler
12: At Dead Dingo / Henry Lawson
13: The Derelict / C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
14: Longstaff's Marriage / Henry James
15: The Goddess' Legacy / Malcolm Jameson
16: The White Cat of Drumgunniol / Sheridan Le Fanu
17: A Dream of Murder / William Crawford Honeyman
(as by "James McGovan")
18: The Man in the Train / Max Afford
19: The Melbourne Cup Mystery / Harold Mercer

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