Sweet Freedom: Short Story Wednesday plus: links to the reviews: week of 7 August 2024

Patricia Abbott: a reading of W. Somerset Maugham's "A Friend in Need" from Cosmopolitan April 1925, as "The Man Who Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly"

Frank Babics: "Passengers" by Robert SIlverberg, from Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1968

Jerry House: "Pigs is Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler, from American Illustrated Magazine September 1905 and widely reprinted in magazines as well as other sites; issues of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine edited by Janet Hutchings and Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology edited by Cathleen Jordan

Tracy K: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

George Kelley: Cream of the Crop: Best Mystery and Suspense Stories of Bill Pronzini edited by Bill Pronzini; Murder Most Medieval edited by John Helfers and Martin H. Greenberg

Todd Mason: World Literature Review, July 2024, International Horror in Translation, edited by Rachel Cordasco and Daniel Simon; Cordasco's website, Speculative Fiction in Translation;

Jeff Meyerson (in comments): "The Room with Something Wrong" by Cornell Woolrich from Detective Fiction Weekly (as "Mystery in Room 913"), 4 June 1938, edited by ?Kendell Foster Johnson; "The Skeleton Rides a Horse" by Toni Kelner (as by Leigh Perry), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022, edited by Janet Hutchings

Kevin Tipple: "Girl's Night Out" by J. A. Jance (e-chapbook)

Plus:

Tony Baer: 3 Tales of Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

Ben Boulden: Cream of the Crop: Best Mystery and Suspense Stories of Bill Pronzini, edited by Bill Pronzini; "Death and the Dancing Shadows" by James Reasoner, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, March 1980, edited by Charles Fritch

Brian Busby: "Murder at Expo '67" (a novella-length excerpt "condensed" from Too Long at the Fair) by Janet Gregory Vernandel, as published in Cosmopolitan, October 1967, edited by Helen Gurley Brown, can be read here.

Paul Fraser: "A Thing of Beauty" by Norman Spinrad, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1973, edited by Ben Bova

Mina and Jeff Houghton: Analog Science Fact & Fiction edited by Trevor Quachri

Kate Jackson: The Problemist: The Complete Adventures of Thornley Colton, Blind Detective by Clinton H. Stagg

Steve Lewis: Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1967, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

"M Porcius": stories from Weird Tales, October 1939, edited by Farmsworth Wright; stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Ralph Milne Farley, a reprint by Robert E. Howard, and Kenneth Sterling and H. P. Lovecraft; four stories from Weird Tales by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

James Reasoner: Witchery Plus: A Weird Tales Trilogy by Keith Chapman; Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction 1860-1960 by Christine Bold; Texas Rangers, May 1949, edited by ?Samuel Merwin (a guess); North•West Romances, Fall 1945; Lariat Story Magazine, August 1934, edited by J. F. Byne; Super-Detective Stories, May 1935, edited by Fred Armer; Thrilling Adventures, November 1943, edited by J. S. Williams