Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 256, v1, 12 Apr 2026

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23 short stories by past masters and unknowns, all in the Life+70 public domain. Two writers new to this series: Frank Morton and Adam McCay; a particularly sharp short-short by Mark Hellinger, while Henry S Whitehead is again in the Caribbean, home of the zombie (jumbee) and the weird. Kipling takes us into the mythical jungle of India and Conan Doyle's tale is another of his non-Sherlock stories, of which there were many, overshadowed by his tales of the Great Detective.

1: The Mutiny / William Harrison Ainsworth
2: Simpson and Delilah / Louis Arthur Cunningham
3: The Return / Alice C. Tomholt
4: The Uses of Adversity / Alice C. Tomholt
5: Down from Gunyah / Edward Dyson
6: The Undertakers / Rudyard Kipling
7: The Devil Doctor / Edgar Wallace
8: The Shadows / Henry S. Whitehead
9: The Place With The Baboons / Bertram Atkey
10: Leatherbee's Luck / George Allan England
11: The Gambler Hated Rats / J. Jefferson Farjeon
12: Shalabala / Anonymous
13: Harold Norbey's Great Burglar / Adam McCay
14: The Adventuress / Arthur Gask
15: The Governor of St. Kitt's / Arthur Conan Doyle
16: The Wood Devil Thing / Gordon MacCreagh
17: Dolly / Frank Morton
18: The Merrye Mayde / J. H. M. Abbott
19: The Perfect Life / F. Scott Fitzgerald
20: The Old Doll's House / Damon Runyon
21: Ask Miss Mott / E. Phillips Oppenheim
22: The Door of the Trap / Sherwood Anderson
23: Broadway Attorney / Mark Hellinger

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