Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 265, v1, 1 July 2026

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24 short stories from newspapers, magazines and other scources, all in the Life+70 yrs public domain., and amounting to a little over 100,000 words. I have included a poem by Edward Dyson under one of his many psuedonyms, the poem commenting on an item in a Melbourne newspaper about the low pay of the official hangman....

1: Face of the Drowned / Louis Arthur Cunningham
2: The Abbé's Repentance / Grant Allen
3: The Inmate of the Dungeon / W. C. Morrow
4: The Ghost that Failed / Desmond Coke
5: Howe's Masquerade / Nathaniel Hawthorne
6: A Journey of Little Profit / John Buchan
7: It Was Such A Perfect Plan / Mark Hellinger
8: The Better Wine / Mark Hellinger
9: The Fable of The Undecided Brunette &
The Two Candidates / George Ade
10: A Crimean Echo / Ernest O'Ferrall
11: Polaris / H. P. Lovecraft
12: The Hermit of Dark Harbor / Louis Arthur Cunningham
13: Who Was Peter Gourlay? / Harold Mercer
14: Quick Money / C. S. Montanye
15: Rivnac / James Norman Hall
16: The Scarlet Citadel / Robert E. Howard
17: The Second Coming of a First Husband / Irvin S. Cobb
18: The Usher of Lea House / Arthur Conan Doyle
19: Captain John Kidd / Anonymous
20: Let There Be Light / F. A. M. Webster
21: Done in Colors / Scott Campbell
22: Happy New Year! / Edward Dyson ( as by "Billy T".)
23: The Star of the Grasmere / E. W. Hornung
24: Caliban / Warwick Deeping

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