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    Short Stories (US, 1890):   (about)
    Short Stories—USA; Jun. 1890-Aug. 1959; Fred M. Somers, Harold Godwin (1904-1910), Doubleday, Page (1910-1937); monthly; smaller than standard format, initially 25 cents, converted to a standard pulp in Mar. 1910; editors Harry Peyton Steger (?-1912), Harry E. Maule (1912-1936); at first most of the stories—“25 stories for 25 cents”—were reprints, including translations; from 1910 it was transformed into a pulp adventure magazine.

    Short Stories [v1 #1, Whole No. 1, June 1890] (The Current Literature Publishing Co., 25¢, 126pp, smaller than standard)
    Details supplied by Denny Lien.
    • 1 · An Introduction and Explanation · [uncredited] · ed
    • 3 · An Odd Sort of Spectre · E. P. Mitchell · ss The Sun March 30 1879, as “An Uncommon Sort of Spectre”
    • 12 · The First Continued Story · [uncredited] · vi
      translated from the Persian.
    • 14 · To the Hilt: A Case in Surgery · W. W. Morrow · ss The Argonaut
    • 23 · A Vision of Heaven · [uncredited] · vi Scottish American Magazine
    • 24 · The Shoemaker’s Nightmare · Rudolph Baumbach; translated by Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole · ss
    • 30 · The Dead Ship · William Laird Clowes · ss Louisville Courier-Journal
    • 39 · Mirrored Revenge · [uncredited] · vi The Washington Post
    • 40 · The Fakir of Batignolles · R. M. Denig · ss Paris Figaro
    • 45 · Joe Rogers’s Death-Bed · [uncredited] · ss Detroit Free Press
    • 48 · The Tale of a Toll-Bridge · Patience Stapleton · ss Drake’s Magazine
    • 59 · Dead and Gone · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888
    • 60 · The Story of the May Bug · J. H. Rosny; translated by Alice Ballard-Macdonald · ss (r)
      translated from the French (La Revue de Paris).
    • 69 · Direct Providential Aid · [uncredited] · vi Lewiston Journal
    • 70 · The Sign of the Golden Swan · John Ernest McCann · ss Once a Week
    • 79 · The Two Tear Drops · [uncredited] · vi San Francisco Chronicle
    • 80 · Doctor Gabriel’s Experiment · [uncredited] · ss Temple Bar
    • 89 · Bill Hempsey’s Recital · Opie P. Read · ss The Arkansaw Traveler
    • 94 · Doing-Up Caesar · [uncredited] · vi The Philadelphia Inquirer; given as “Doing Up Julius Caesar” in the Table of Contents.
    • 95 · Bleuette’s Looking Glass · Aurélien Scholl · ss The Boston Transcript
    • 98 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell
    • 107 · An’ de Squinch Owel Squinched · A Carthaginian · vi Texas Siftings
    • 108 · Sir Toby’s Disappearance · [uncredited] · ss London Truth
    • 116 · The Toad’s Jewel Necklace · Mary Kyle Dallas · ss Fireside Companion
    • 119 · Truth in Death · [uncredited] · vi The Sun
    • 120 · Married for Both Worlds · Edmund Spencer · ss New York World

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