Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 250, v1, 16 Feb 2026

[Pulpmeister]

The 250th issue of this digital short story magazine. As usual, all the stories are in the Life+70 yrs public domain, and the authors range from the famous to the unknown.

A cumulative index of stories to issue 250 is also uploaded with this issue.

1: Inches and Ells / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
2: Last Request / Mark Hellinger
3: "Moo-oo-oo-oo!" / Laurence Donovan
4: Justly Due / Jeffery Farnol
5: Beyond the Violet / J.U. Giesy
6: Eight Stone Six / Randolph Bedford
7: The Perfect Way / Achmed Abdullah
8: The Affair of Mrs. Lotus Leaf / Peter Cheyney
9: The House by the River / Capel Boake
10: O'Callaghan-O'Brien's Secret / Richard Dowling
11: The Black Poodle / F. Anstey
12: The Murder Hole / Catherine Sinclair
13: The Scandal Detectives / F. Scott Fitzgerald
14: The Romance of Captain Duffy / H. de Vere Stacpoole
15: Shanghai Explosive / William J. Makin
16: The Blue Scarab / R. Austin Freeman
17: The Bron's Bog Debating Society / Edward Dyson
18: His Last Ship / Vernon Ralston
19: On the Brighton Road / Richard Middleton
20: Things / Alice Duer Miller
21: The Lenton Croft Robberies / Arthur Morrison
22: At 9.30 Precisely / C. S. Montanye
23: The Waters of Death / Erckman-Chatrian
24: "The Giggle" Newspaper Company / Ernest O'Ferrall
25: The Mystery of the Dog's Tooth Cliff / Baroness Orczy

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[YuryYursky]

Thank you for the 250th !



(as Enthusiast)
I love Erckmann and Chatrian, but...they finally quarreled during the mid-1880s, after which they did not produce any more stories jointly...

[Martinoptic]

Another milestone! Well done and thank you.