Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 248, v1, 27 Jan 2026

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Twenty-four short stories by authors ranging from the well-known to the unknown, all in the Life+70 yrs public domain.

1: The Dust-Cloud / E. F. Benson
2: The Clutching Shadow / Wilson Collison
3: Pirates / E. F. Benson
4: The Double Pursuit / Edward Dyson
5: The Retirement of Signor Lambert / Arthur Conan Doyle
6: The Widow's Clock / Bernard Capes
7: August Heat / William Fryer Harvey
8: "Vengeance is Mine..." / P. C. Wren
9: Review: Jade of Destiny, 1931 (Jeffery Farnol)
10: The Gray Wolf / H. Bedford-Jones
11: The Mountaineer / Georges Surdez
12: Beyond Words / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
13: Madame La Gimp / Damon Runyon
14: The Great Magor Diamond / "Sapper"
15: Dog's Tale / Mark Twain
16: Mrs. Steel's Jewellery / Ward Edson
17: A Voice From the Fog / Ben Ames Williams
18: The Weird Violin / Anonymous
19: The Sundial / R. H. Malden
20: The Journey to Bruges / Katherine Mansfield
21: The Haunted Burglar / W. C. Morrow
22: A Cup of Cold Water / Ernest Favenc
23: Irony De Luxe / Mark Hellinger
24: The Miller of Ostend / Melville Davisson Post
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