Short Fiction Various: Past Masters 236, v1, 23 Sep 2025

Another anthology of short fiction in the Life+70 yrs public domain. By a curious quirk this one has three vampire themed stories. The first one I didn't realise it was a vampire story at first glance; the second turned up in a random search for stories; the third when I searched specifically for "vampire" in Internet archive and found thousands of vampire stories, most from very recent times; the one I used is the first I found out of copyright and dates from 1935. Around 100,000 words as usual.

1: Cinnamon Seed and Sandy Bottom / Irvin S. Cobb
2: The Mysterious Occurrence in Piccadilly / Grant Allen
3: Preliminaries / Cornelia Atwood Comer
4: The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
5: A Catspaw / Jack Rugby
6: Bread Upon The Waters / J. S. Fletcher
7: Almost Immortal / Austin Hall
8: The Failure / Harold Ward
9: Planned by the Stars / C. S. Montanye
10: The Cat / E. F. Benson
11: The Vampire / Sydney Horler
12: The Blue-Nosed Vampire / James Francis Dwyer
Two Reviews by Terry Walker:
13: The Colossus of Arcadia (E Phillips Oppenheim) 1938
14: Wreckers Must Breathe (Hammond Innes) 1940
15: Fear / Stephen French Whitman
16: Otto Dotso's Trouble / Anonymous
17: The Afterglow / Frank Reid
18: All Gold Cañon / Jack London
19: The Fads of David Dadd / John Arthur Barry
20: The Brink of a Future / Frank H. Sweet
21: The Birthday Pearl / John Arthur Barry

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