Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 259, v1, 29 April 2026

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20 stories gathered from newspapers, magazines and other sources, all in the Life+70 years public domain. There are a few unusual items: a Beatrice Grimshaw story set, not in her beloved Papua, but her native Ireland; Stacpoole's story is away from the South Seas, and strays into Weird Tales country; there is a rare tale from a genuine Countess; and of course, to use the phrase from the movie "Casablanca", tales from "the usual suspects"... More than 100,000 words of short fiction, although the first story is more a novelette.

1: Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady / Vernon Lee (novelette)
2: The Keyboard of Silence / Clinton H. Stagg
3: The King of the Foxes / Arthur Conan Doyle
4: "Babs" / Baroness de Bertouch
5: A Little Girl in Tears / Ellis Parker Butler
6: The Orange Kid / Peter Cheyney
7: The Lily Wedding / Beatrice Grimshaw
8: His Last Appearance / H. Bedford-Jones
9: "Spontaneous Combustion" / Arthur B. Reeve
10: The Unknown Man / Frederick Irving Anderson
11: Useless Charlie / Mark Hellinger
12: The Shocks of Doom / O. Henry
13: The Fairy Godmother / Harold Mercer
14: Castle Innis / Henry de Vere Stacpoole
15: How The Line Was Cleared / "Lyn Ridge"
16: From Beyond / H. P. Lovecraft
17: The Four Organists / "Kodak"
18: A Tale of a Dog / Edward Dyson (as by "Ward Edson")
19: Dr. Feldman / Algernon Blackwood
20: The Book of Worlds / Miles J. Breuer

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