Sources

All the stories are in the public domain. Here are the sources I copied them from for the sorted word puzzles:

• The Beggars by Lord Dunsany
• Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick
• Christmas Presents, 1914 from Punch Magazine
• The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
• The Failure of Hope & Wandel by Ambrose Bierce
• The Feast of Nemesis by Saki
• The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain
• The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop
• The Funny Young Gentleman by Charles Dickens
• The Kiss by Kate Chopin
• Luck by Mark Twain
• Nyarlathotep by H.P. Lovecraft
• The Talking-Out of Tarrington by Saki

Here are the sources for the shuffled pages puzzles:

• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Advocate’s Wedding-Day by Catherine Crowe
• The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France
• The Owl’s Ear by Erckmann-Chatrian
• The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

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