Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 247, v1, 18 Jan 2026

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Eighteen short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, collected from magazines, newspapers, and other sources.

1: Bachelor Girls / Louis Esson
2: Runaway Cargo / Nat Schachner
3: Callaghan's Miracle / A. E. Martin
4: The Worst Joke in the World / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
5: A Prince of Gamblers / E. Phillips Oppenheim
6: Daylight Murder / Valentine Gregory
7: The Stalking Horse / R. Austin Freeman
8: The Earl of Nowhere / Edgar Wallace
9: Drama In The Dolls' House / E Phillips Oppenheim
10: The Subletting of the Mansion / Dion Fortune
11: A Thousand Berries a Week / C. S. Montanye
12: The Philosopher / Peter Cheyney
13: A Suspicious Gift / Algernon Blackwood
14: The Birds of the Air / Ernest Favenc
15: The Nebraska Loadstone / Anthony Hope
16: The Immigration of Souls / Harold Mercer
17: The Tea Caddy / Fergus Hume
18: The Senior Proctor's Wooing / Grant Allen

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