Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 264, v1, 15 June 2026

[Pulpmeister]

Another two dozen short stories in the Life+70 years public domain, with the oldest tale first published nearly 200 years ago. Comedy, pulp, humour (not the same as comedy), literary, weird, fantasy.... a bit of everything.

1: The Fortress of Saguntum / William Harrison Ainsworth
2: The Hapless Campers / Edward Dyson
3: Pa Howdy Mans a Tank / Laurence Donovan
4: Murder Magic / "Robert Wallace"
5: In Her Own Net / Scott Campbell
6: The Girl with the Ruby / Melville Davisson Post
7: Regina C—— / Theodore Dreiser
8: Killing to Music / Raymond Spears
9: Give Me Your Soul! / Mindret Lord
10: Spring Heels / Parkhurst Whitney
11: The Breaking-in of Daniel Palmer / Edward Dyson
12: The Most Popular Book of the Month / Robert Benchley
13: An Inhabitant of Carcosa / Ambrose Bierce
14: The Garden Lodge / Willa Cather
15: Review: Bulldog Drummond, 1920 ("Sapper") / Terry Walker
16: Mrs. Stoot and Her Ear-Rings / Sir Basil Thomson
17: The Transferred Ghost / Frank R. Stockton
18: Widdershins / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
19: The Desert Queen / Ernest Favenc
20: The Beefer / Mark Hellinger
21: The Curious Case of Claudius / Sydney Horler
22: The Valley of the Sword / H De Vere Stacpoole
23: Fintale the Merman / Bertram Atkey
24: Uncle Christian's Inheritance / Erckmann-Chatrian

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