Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 210, v1, 26 March 2025

Some interesting items here: Bram Stoker's first ever published story, when he was in his mid 20s. Also an unexpected collaboration between M P Shiel and John Galsworthy (!); and the O Henry short story featuring "The Cisco Kid" which was the origin of all those TV episodes and even movies. (The Kid's character had to be modified drastically for TV!).

20 stories, 100,000 words, all in the Life+70 years public domain.

1: At The Café Dundee / Albert Dorrington
2: The Revenge of Sydney Wilkens / Mark Hellinger
3: The Caballero's Way / O. Henry
4: The Thrush in the Hedge / Joseph Hergesheimer
5: Our Last Walk / Hugh Conway
6: The Old Place / "Weeroona"
7: Evicting a Tenant / Val Jameson
8: The Baronets of Mertonbridge Hall / Sapper
9: The Crystal Cup / Bram Stoker
10: The Other Twin / Edwin Pugh
11: The Thing That Wept / Charles Fulton Oursler
12: A Case For Deduction / M. P. Shiel & John Galsworthy
13: At Dead Dingo / Henry Lawson
14: The Derelict / C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
15: Longstaff's Marriage / Henry James
16: The Goddess' Legacy / Malcolm Jameson
17: The White Cat of Drumgunniol / Sheridan Le Fanu
18: A Dream of Murder / William Crawford Honeyman
(as by "James McGovan")
19: The Man in the Train / Max Afford
20: The Melbourne Cup Mystery / Harold Mercer

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