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

Stories, Listed by Title

• Jersey Lil • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Jessie Passes • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• Jessie Willard • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Jessop’s Valet • Lewis Allen • (ss)
• Jetsam • John Russell • (ss)
• The Jewel Song • Clare P. Peeler • (ss)
• The Jigadier Brindle • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Jigadier’s Drum • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Jilt • Mazo de la Roche • (ss)
• Jim • Jay Campbell • (ss)
• Jimmy Winter’s Finish • Arthur Somers Roche • (ss)
• A Jitney Adjustment • Dorothy De Jagers • (nv)
• Jitney Tactics • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• Jn the Uplands • Walter L. Myers • (ss)
• A Job at Any Price • Oscar Leonard • (ss)
• Joe Grummitt’s Ghost • H. P. Holt • (ss)
• Joe Gum • Clyde A. Bruckman • (ss)
• Joe Taylor • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• John Fairchild’s Mirror • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• John Greene and the New Woman • David Gray • (ss)
• John Jones’s Dollar • Harry Stephen Keeler • (ss)
• John Kent • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• John O’May • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (ss)
• John the XXII • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Johnny and the Red Demon • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Johnny Marsh and His Meal Ticket • W. Carey Wonderly • (ss)
• The Joke They Played on Curwen • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• A Jolt from Old Hickory • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Jonah • William Brown Meloney • (ss)
• Jonah • John Russell • (ss)
• Jones • G. C. M. • (ss)
• Jones of the Fourth Dimension • Charles Johnston • (ss)
• Jones of the Iron Grip • George C. Lane • (ss)
• Journey’s End • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• Journey’s End • Percy Adams Hutchison • (ss)
• The Joy of Living • Mabel Dwight • (ss)
• Joy Riders • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• Joy Three Flights Up • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• Joy-Joy • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• “The Joyous Coast” • Ada Jack Carver • (ss)
• Judge Jerry and the Eternal Feminine • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Judge Jerry and the Human Equation • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Judge Priest Comes Back • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Judgment of Heaven • Eugen Isolani • (ss)
• The Judgment of the Thorntons • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• Judgment Reversed • Henry Wallace Phillips • (ss)
• Judith • Richard Sexau • (ss)
• Judith’s Creed • James Branch Cabell • (ss)
• Jules of the Strong Heart • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• Julietta-Tired-of-Her-Husband • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Julius, Seizer of Opportunities • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• June 6, 2016 • George Allan England • (nv)
• Junior, of the Bathtub • Edna Tucker Muth • (ss)
• Junk • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Jupiter • Lillian Kirk Hammond • (ss)
• A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Keating Glaspell • (nv)
• The Juryman • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Just a Pack of Cards • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• Just Human • Frank Hurburt O’Hara • (ss)
• Just Love • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• A Just Man • Will Payne • (ss)
• Just Outside the Money • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• Just Potatoes • Walter Archer Frost • (ss)
• Just Thirty Days! • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Justice • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• “The Kaiser’s Masterpiece” • Malcolm B. Webster • (ss)
• Kamerad • Elizabeth Irons Folsom • (ss)
• Kamp • Oscar Graffe • (ss)
• Kate; or, Up from the Depths • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Kathleen Goes A-Sketching • Lee Pape • (ss)
• Ked’s Hand • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• “Keep Going!” • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• Keeping It Dark • Edgar Franklin • (ss)
• Keeping Watch • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• Keepsakes • Marion Pugh Read • (ss)
• Kelley of Brimstone Basin • Hamlin Garland • (ss)
• Kentucky Turns • Lowell Otus Reese • (ss)
• Kerfol • Edith Wharton • (ss)
• The Kettle of Rusty Gold • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Key to Nowhere • Benjamin Ward • (ss)
• The Key to the Church • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Ki-Ming • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Kickin’est Mule • Sloane Gordon • (ss)
• Kicking to Beat the Band • Herbert Reed • (ss)
• The Kid • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Kid • Ruth Sapinsky • (ss)
• The Kid Brother • Patrick Casey & Terence Casey • (ss)
• Kidnapped • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Kidnapping a Cook • Marion Sherrard • (ss)
• The Killer’s Son • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Killing of Different Man • Anon. • (ss)
• Kimonos and Pink Chiffon • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• A King Among Kings • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• The King of Kanababo • John Patrick • (ss)
• The King of Sorrows • John McClure • (ss)
• The King of Sports • David A. Wasson • (ss)
• The King of Two-By-Four • Hugh Wiley • (ss)
• The King Passes • Countess Barcynska • (ss)
• The King Who Wished to be Hated • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• King’s Blood • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The King’s Cup • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• The King’s Harnt • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• The King’s Test • Annie Hinrichsen • (ss)
• The Kingship of Melt Cheney • Albert Bigelow Paine • (ss)
• The Kiss • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• A Kiss for Kindness • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Kitten and the Mouse • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• A Kitten in the Market • Margaret Busbee Shipp • (ss)
• The Knife • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• The Knight’s Move • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (nv)
• Knights of Hooptown • Albert deFord Pitney • (ss)
• The Knitter of Liège • Beth Slater Whitson • (ss)
• Knives and Forks • L. Brooke • (ss)
• The Knock at the Door • Philip Gibbs • (ss)
• A Knowledge of Beans • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• Kolinsky • Berthe Knatvold Mellett • (ss)
• Kotow de Luxe • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• Krujer Hobbs • Marjory Morten • (ss)
• La Croix • Albert deFord Pitney • (ss)
• La Derniere Mobilisation • William Addison Dwiggins • (ss)
• La Revanche • George Ethelbert Walsh • (ss)
• The Label • Constance Lindsay Skinner • (ss)
• The Lace Shawl • Elizabeth Myers • (ss)
• The Lad From Dixie • Hapsburg Liebe • (ss)
• A Lad from Nowhere • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• The Ladder Gal • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• The Ladder Leaning on a Cloud • Cosmo Hamilton • (ss)
• Ladies • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• Ladies First • Richard Burton • (ss)
• Ladies in Lavender • William J. Locke • (ss)
• Ladislav Saves the Day • Elizabeth Brady • (ss)
• The Lady and the Veil • Lewis Allen • (ss)
• The Lady Behind the Iron Fence • Helen Baker Parker • (ss)
• The Lady Bountiful • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Lady from Ah-high-ah • Augustus Carlton • (ss)
• The Lady of Landor Lane • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Lady Who Couldn’t Grow Up—and the Man Who Had Never Been Young • Juliet Wilbor Tompkins • (ss)
• The Lady Who Wore the Willow • Ethel May Kelley • (ss)
• The Lady with the Comic Sense • Grace Sartwell Mason • (nv)
• The Lady’s Lost Lover • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• Lainey and the Eternal Masculine • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Lainey’s Gift • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• The Lame Duck • Brand Whitlock • (ss)
• Lame Hands of Faith • Amelia Josephine Burr • (ss)
• The Land Just Over Yonder • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Land of Peace and Plenty • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• Land of the Pilgrims’ Pride • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• The Landlubbers • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Landon’s Legacy • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• Land’s End • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Lantescane Roses • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• A Lark with a Broken Wing • E. Temple Thurston • (ss)
• Larry McSanta Claus • Charlton Lawrence Edholm • (ss)
• Lars the Unthinking • Harold Titus • (ss)
• Lasca • Edward C. Venable • (ss)
• The Lascar • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• The Last Aristocrat • Charles Divine • (ss)
• The Last Bullet • Thea von Puttkamer • (ss)
• The Last Bulletin • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• The Last Chance • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Last Charge of Forrest’s Cavalry • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Last Clinch • John S. Reed • (ss)
• The Last Cruise of the John L • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• The Last Dance • Charles J. Sullivan • (ss)
• The Last Dime • Frank Hurburt O’Hara • (ss)
• The Last Enterprise • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Last Flash • Sarah Barnwell Elliott • (ss)
• The Last Fletcher • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Last Flight • Siegfried Reinke • (ss)
• The Last Greeting • Anna Gade • (ss)
• The Last Hunt • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• The Last Hurdle • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• The Last Laugh • James William Fitzpatrick • (ss)
• The Last Link • Henry Leverage • (ss)
• Last Love • Anna Alice Chapin • (ss)
• The Last Lucifer • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Last Make-Believe • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Last of the Family • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Last of the Kings • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Last of the Line • Bernice Brown • (ss)
• The Last Phase of the Great War • Ray Stannard Baker • (ss)
• The Last Ray • Vladimir G. Korolenko • (ss)
• The Last Rivet • Owen B. Winters • (ss)
• “The Last Rose of Summer” • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• The Last Round • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Last Shot in the Locker • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Last Survivor • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Last Throw • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• The Late Betsy Baker • May Futrelle • (ss)
• A Late Flop by Hicks • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Late Mr. Krein • Montague Glass • (ss)
• A Late Transplanting • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• A Latter-Day Cyrano • Dudley Burrows • (ss)
• The Laugh • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Laughing Anne • Joseph Conrad • (ss)
• Laughter • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• Laughter • Ford Tarpley • (ss)
• The Laughter of Allah • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Laughter of Leen • Conrad Richter • (ss)
• Laura Intervenes • Elna Harwood Wharton • (ss)
• Lavender Satin • Bertha Helen Crabbe • (ss)
• The Law and the Lady • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• The Law in His Own Hands • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Law of Sanctuary • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Law of the Abalone • Chart Pitt • (ss)
• The Law of the Dark • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Law-Breaker • Edgar Lloyd Hampton • (ss)
• Lay Off, Macduff • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Lazarus • Leonid Andreyev • (ss)
• “Le Châtelet de Madame” • Friedrich Freksa • (ss)
• Le Rabonin—Soldier of France • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Leaden Hours • Nellie Cravey Gillmore • (ss)
• A Leaf in the Wind • Katherine Terry • (ss)
• The Leak • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• A Lear of the Tenements • Louise Driscoll • (ss)
• Leave It to Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Leavening of St. Rupert • Anna Stahl Allendorf • (ss)
• Leaves of Graft • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• Leavings • Nancy Gunter Boykin • (ss)