Short Fiction Various, Past Masters 216, v1, 6 May 2025

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22 Short stories, some strange, including Fitz-James O'Brien's famous "The Diamond Lens"; humor, crime, adventure, romance. As usual around 100,000 words, and all in the Life + 70 public domain

1: The Dook / J. D. Fitzgerald
2: The Honeymoon Crime / Albert Dorrington
3: The Short-cut to the Township / James Hillgrove
4: The Man They Could Not Understand / James Hillgrove
5: The Expiation of Madame De Coulevain / Rafael Sabatini
6: The Pillar of Fire / Percival Wilde
7: Behind The Door / Percival Wilde
8: The Thing from— "Outside" / George Allen England
9: The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien
10: Shorty Gets the Gun / D. H. Souter
11: The Expulsion / Randolph Bedford
12: The Bee-Man of Orn / Frank R. Stockton
13: How The Express Was Saved / Victor L Whitechurch
14: The Flambeau Bracket / Edward Lucas White
15: A Tryst with Ghosts / Edgar Wallace
16: Sir Dominick's Bargain / Sheridan Le Fanu
17: Red Fingers / Beatrice Grimshaw
18: The Deathless Miracle / Jeffery Farnol
19: The Fit-Up / Gilbert Frankau
20: Sam Small's Tyke / Eric Knight
21: New Year's Eve on Broadway / Mark Hellinger
22: The Pipe / Anonymous

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