Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 221, v1, 29 May 2025

An interesting collection: a weird almost sf story from Edgar Wallace, with its carnivorous orchid; wacky humour from "Colonel Stoopnagle"; weird based on an historic US earthquake by Irvin S Cobb; Lemmy Caution tough private eye from Peter Cheyney; distant future by Stephen Vincent Benét; and more

1: Hatteras / A. E. W Mason
2: The Human Element / Arthur Train
3: The Vanishing Prince / G. K. Chesterton
4: Nice Work / Peter Cheyney
5: Fishhead / Irvin S. Cobb
6: A Black Cat For Luck / Erle Cox
7: Phalaenopsis Gloriosa / Edgar Wallace
8: An Easy Errand / Carolyn Wells
9: Altitude / Leland S. Jamieson
10: Vengeance in the Fog / Douglas Newton
11: The Ivory Leg and the Twenty-Four Diamonds / Fergus Hume
12: By the Waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét
13: Big-Nose Charley and Madey-line / Charles W. Tyler
14: The Unseen Made Visible / Ernest Favenc
15: The Voice in the Night / William Hope Hodgson
16: The Wicked Widow / Colonel Stoopnagle
17: A London Love Story / J. M. Barrie
18: Which? / Erle Cox
19: Pâkía / Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
20: The Secret of the Growing Gold / Bram Stoker
21: Picket-Wire / J. M. Walsh
22: Novel of the Iron Maid / Arthur Machen
23: The Dining-Room Fireplace / R. H. Malden
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