Index of Short Stories from
Edward J. O'Brien's
THE BEST SHORT STORIES (1915 - 1917)

Stories, Listed by Title

• “1915?” • Austin T. Wright • (ss)
• 771 • Mabel Nelson Thurston • (ss)
• The 9:15 • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• A. V. Laider • Max Brerbohm • (ss)
• Abandoned • Scholem Asch • (ss)
• The Abandoned Telephone • M. Alfred Manns • (ss)
• Abigail Stone’s Independence • Bertha Helen Crabbe • (ss)
• Aboard the Floating Wall Street • Alexander Costello • (ss)
• About the Weeping Annie and What Followed • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• Above the Clouds • August Strindberg • (ss)
• The Absentee • Jeffery Farnol • (ss)
• An Academic Question • Alan Reid • (ss)
• The Accident of War • Albert Kinross • (ss)
• The Accidental • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• According to Specifications • Stewart Wells • (ss)
• According to the Code • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Accounting • George Van Schaick • (ss)
• Achilles the Butler • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• The Acid Test • Myra Sawhill • (ss)
• Acknowledged with Thanks • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• Across the Border • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• An Act of God • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Act Three • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Active Director • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Adabee and Creation • Maude Sperry Turner • (ss)
• Addie Erb and Her Girl Lottie • Francis Buzzell • (ss)
• Adelaide • Norval Richardson • (ss)
• The Admirable Tortoise • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Admiral • John Amid • (ss)
• The Admiral of the Ooze • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• The Admiral’s Birthday • Harriet Welles • (ss)
• Adolescence • Hetty Lawrence Hemenway • (ss)
• Adolphus and the Rough Diamond • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Adopted Daughter • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Adrienne Gascoyne • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• The Advantage • Mabel Abbott • (ss)
• The Advent of Woolly Billy • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• An Adventure in Duplicity • Viola Burhans • (ss)
• An Adventure in Paleontology • Alan Sullivan • (ss)
• An Adventure in Respectability • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Adventure of the Clothes-Line • Carolyn Wells • (ss)
• The Adventurer • Nelson Lloyd • (ss)
• The Advertising Star • Viola Roseboro’ • (ss)
• Affair of Ha-Ha Shallow • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Affections of Lucile • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• After All • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• After All • Elizabeth Herrick • (ss)
• After Fifty Years • Royal Robbins • (ss)
• After Long Years • Lucy Stone Terrill • (ss)
• After Many Days • Edward H. Hurlbut • (ss)
• After Millet • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• After the Flash • Albert W. Tolman • (ss)
• After the War • Maurice Level • (ss)
• After Thirty Years • John Amid • (ss)
• The After Well of “Thirty-One” • George Bigelow Cheever Rugg • (ss)
• The Afternoon Ride of Paul Revere Columbus Dobbs • Virginia Ellen Baker • (ss)
• Afterwards • Fred C. Smale • (ss)
• The Age of Mirades • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Aggie • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• Agnes of Cape’s End • Susan Keating Glaspell • (nv)
• Ah-Lee-Bung • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• Al-Issa - (A Legend) • Alexander I. Kuprin • (ss)
• Alan of Lesley • Brian Hooker • (ss)
• An Alaskan World Series • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• The Alchemists • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• The Alchemy of the Lady • Robeht A. Gilmore • (ss)
• The Alethephone • David Gray • (ss)
• Alex Comes Up Smiling • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Alex the Great • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Alfalfa • Lyman Bryson • (ss)
• Alibi • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Alibi Ike • Ring W. Lardner • (nv)
• Alice and May • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• Alice’s Child • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• Alicia and Little Moses • George Weston • (ss)
• An Alien Son • John Amid • (ss)
• Alimony • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• All Around the Hickory Tree • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• All at Sea • Isabel Ostrander • (ss)
• All for Patricia • Eugene P. Lyle • (ss)
• All Front and No Back • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• All Paid in Advance • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• All the Way with Anna • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• All Under One Roof • Leon Kelley • (ss)
• An All-Star Cast • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• An Alley of Flashing Spears • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Allez • Alexander I. Kuprin • (sl)
• The Ally • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Ally • Richard Barker Shelton • (ss)
• Almanzar’s Perfect Day • J. Frank Davis • (ss)
• Alms and the Man • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Alone • John Amid • (ss)
• Alone • Thomas Jeffries Betts • (ss)
• Along Came George • Franklin Kent Gifford • (ss)
• Aloysius - Better Baby • Ernest K. Coulter • (ss)
• Altitude • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• The Amachure Grafter • Will Irwin • (ss)
• The Amateur Bridegroom • Eleanor Hoyt Beainerd • (ss)
• The Amateur Jew • E. R. Lipsety • (ss)
• The Amazing Event That Caused Miss Qegg to Disappear for Good • Anne Warner • (ss)
• Amber • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• The American • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• The American • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• American Horses • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The American Passenger • John Bartram Kelley • (ss)
• The American Savage • Edith Orr • (ss)
• The Amethyst Comb • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• Amongst All Them City People • David Gibson • (ss)
• The Anarchist • Edith Orr • (ss)
• Anathema • Alexander I. Kuprin • (ss)
• Anchors Aweigh • Harriet Welles • (ss)
• The Ancient Courage • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• “And Forsaking All Others” • Fannie Kilbourne • (ss)
• And Mary Married • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• And Tezla Laughed • Robert E. Rinehart • (ss)
• And the Forest Burned • Skitalets • (ss)
• And There Was Light • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• “And They Lived Happily ————” • Avery Abbott • (ss)
• And Thus He Came • Cyrus Townsend Brady • (ss)
• And Wilt Thou, Torchy? • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• And Your Neighbor As Yourself • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• Andy of the Timothy Quartet • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• Anent a Biscuit-Shooter • Francis Hill • (ss)
• The Angel • Leonid Andreyev • (ss)
• The Angel Fish • Joseph Ernest • (ss)
• The Angel from Viper • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Angela • Clarence Hawkes • (ss)
• The Angle of Refraction • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• Animal Stuff • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Ann Eliza Weatherby’s Trip to Town • Muriel Campbell Dyar • (ss)
• Annabel’s Goose • Walter A. Dyer • (ss)
• Ann’s New Set • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Annye’s Ma • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Anonymous • G. Charles Hodges • (ss)
• Another Woman • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• The Answer • Inez Lopez • (ss)
• The Answer • Mabel Nelson Thurston • (ss)
• Anton the Terrible • Thomas H. Uzzell • (ss)
• The Antwerp Road • Henry Van Dyke • (ss)
• Anybody Want This Little Boy? • Marie Conway Oemler • (ss)
• Apartment No. 3 • Florence Ryerson • (ss)
• The Apparition • Anon. • (ss)
• An Apple Blossom Pilgrimage • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas • John Oskison • (ss)
• Apples of Oregon • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Applied Hydraulics • Cipriano Andrade, Jr. • (ss)
• Appraisement • Elizabeth Ashe • (ss)
• Apprenticeship • Josephine Amelia Meyer • (ss)
• April in the Skylight • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• An April Night’s Mischief • Gertrude M. Winter • (ss)
• Arabella’s House Party • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• Araki Mataemon (The Fencing Master) • C. M. Cady & Keiseki Matsumura • (ss)
• The Arch-Rogue • Knut Hamsun • (ss)
• Archaeology for Amateurs • Richard Matthews Hallet • (ss)
• An Arctic Adventure • Leo Crane • (ss)
• Ardena Prefers Sewing • Ella Waterbury Gardner • (ss)
• “Are We Downhearted? No!” • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• The Argonauts: Sonny • George A. Birmingham • (ss)
• Aridity • Henry Blake Fuller • (ss)
• The Army of Jeanne-Marie • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• Arpeggio Courts • Zona Gale • (ss)
• Art for Art’s Sake • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Art of Singin’ Kid • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Art Triumphant • Alan Sullivan • (ss)
• Arthur McQuaid, American • Herman Schneider • (ss)
• Arthur Orton’s Career • George Hibbard • (ss)
• Artichokes to Herbs • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• Artistic Temperament • Peter F. O’Shea • (ss)
• Artistic Temperament • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• As a Boy Thinks • Jack Lait • (ss)
• As a Man To His Friend • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• As He Reaped • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• As In His Youth • Ralph Delahaye Paine • (ss)
• As It Happened • Derek Vane • (ss)
• As Lochinvar • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• “As Long As Yo’s Single Dere’s Hope” • Una Hunt • (ss)
• As Seen by His Bride • George Lee Burton • (ss)
• As Usual • Burton Kline • (ss)
• The Ascetic • Ovro’om Raisin • (ss)
• Ashamed of Her Parents • Mary Alexander • (ss)
• The Asher Pride • Mary Esther Mitchell • (ss)
• Asphodel • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• The Assignation • Lord Dunsany • (vi)
• The Assistant Secretary • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• Astor Place • Ferdinand M. Reyher • (ss)
• At Chimney Butte • Leo Crane • (ss)
• At Ellis Island • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• At Home To His Friends • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• At La Haye Farm • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• At the Call of Chance • Evelyn Schuyler ScHaeffer • (ss)
• At the Ebb Tide • Charles Johnson Post • (ss)
• At the End of the Rainbow • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• At the End of the Road • Walter J. Muilenburg • (ss)
• At the Gate • Myra Jo Closser • (ss)
• At the Hippodrome • Edna Wahlert McCourt • (ss)
• At the Movies • Maurice Level • (ss)
• At the Top of Sourwood • Emma Bell Miles • (ss)
• At the Turn with Wilfred • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• At Twilight • Gwendolen Overton • (ss)
• Atalanta and Meleager • Allan Updegraff • (ss)
• Atavism • Karl Remer • (ss)
• Atrocltles • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• “Attaboy!” • Jerome Beatty • (ss)
• The Attendant’s Confession • Machado de Assis • (ss)
• Augusta’s Bridge • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• The Aunt and the Sluggard • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Aunt Elizabeth • Owen Oliver • (ss)
• Aunt Janie and the Moonlight • Keble Howard • (ss)
• Aunt Lavender’s Meeting Bonnet • Mary Imlay Taylor • (ss)
• Aunt Mary, Preferred • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• Aunt Seliny • Roy Norton • (ss)
• Aunt Virginia’s Box • Alice F. Daly • (ss)
• Auntie Takes a Night Off • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Aunts Redundant • Mary Boardman Sheldon • (ss)
• The Author of “Pillars” • Remy Brunel • (ss)
• Author! Author! • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Ave Maria • L. Zarechnaya • (ss)
• The Avenue Mystery • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Awakening of Archimedes • Mary E. Hansell • (ss)