10 Story Book, December 1921

10 Story Book Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 13 (December 1921)

This monthly pulp magazine presents ten short stories spanning contemporary drama, adventure, and mystery. The issue opens with Harold Ward's "The Undelivered Sermon," a moral-crisis narrative in which Reverend Dr. Joshua Williams Butler, a prominent minister preparing a condemnatory sermon on "the Social Evil," is mugged while sleepwalking through the city. A street-working woman named Daisy, revealed as the English-born daughter of a preacher and former nurse, aids him in her room. As their physical attraction intensifies, she abruptly halts their embrace, helping him escape before dawn to avoid scandal. Butler later learns her tragic backstory from a police officer and lies to protect her. Other stories include "On the Road to Jericho" by Capt. W. P. Barron, "Golden Silence" by J. R. Ward, "Music's Charms" by H. Allan Perrill, and "The Woman Next Door" by Carl Glick. The issue also features a serial story and brief comic sketches. The magazine solicits original fiction emphasizing "emphatic sex interests, realism, humor, or satire."