Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 278, v1, 2 Nov 2026

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20 short stories, 100,000 words. All in the Life+70 yrs public domain. Nostalgia, humour, strange, crime, historic...

1: Out of the Earth / Arthur Machen
2: Sophia / Ed. Ward
3: The Apostles Spoons / Mrs L. T. Meade
4: A Tale of Two Fogs / M. P. Shiel
5: The Society of Bright Young People / Edgar Wallace
6: Ship of the Golden Ghoul / Lazar Levi
7: A Vulgar Fraction / Gilbert Parker
8: The Worm and the Elephant / Frank Condon
9: The Little Ghost / Katharine Tynan
10: When the World Was Wide / Roderic Quinn
11: Confessions of a Super Extra-Criminal / Stephen Leacock
12: Asleep at Lone Mountain / H. D. Umbstaetter
13: The Feathered Detective / A. Hyatt Verrill
14: The Lips / Henry S. Whitehead
15: Jasper Railton / Jeffery Farnol
16: The Case of the Missing Magnate / Scott Campbell
17: The Touchstone / R. Austin Freeman
18: A Western Ocean Christmas Box / C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
19: A Boy And His Dog / Booth Tarkington
20: The Duplicate Harlequin / R. Ottolengui

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