Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 271, v1, 1 Sep 2026

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Twenty short stories in the Life+70 yrs public domain, collected from newspapers, magazines and other sources. The Chekhov and the P C Wren stories are quite long. As usual, this issue totals around 100,000 words.

1: Skulls in the Stars / Robert E. Howard
2: A Girl's Stratagem / Katharine Tynan
3: Flowers for the Bride / Beatrice Grimshaw
4: The City of the Demons / William Maginn
5: The Late Mr. Taylor / George Barr McCutcheon
6: When the World was Wide / Roderic Quinn
7: Your Money or Your Life / William Wilkie Collins
8: The Golden Cup / Evelyn Everett-Green
9: "Down Pens" / Saki (H. H. Munro)
10: The Man in the Burberry / Louis Arthur Cunningham
11: The Horse Dealers / Harold Mercer
12: The Strange Hallucination of Mr. Jackerson / D.H. Souter
13: The Vampyre / John William Polidori
14: Something in his Face / William Babington Maxwell
15: Blue Skies / Beatrice Redpath
16: The Intolerable / J. H. M. Abbott
17: A Drama in the Air / Jules Verne
18: The Black Monk / Anton Chekhov
19: E Tenebris / P. C. Wren
20: Gretna Greenhorns / Richard Connell

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