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

Stories, Listed by Title

• One Hundred Per Cent Efficient • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• One Man’s Story • Leo Crane • (ss)
• One Mother • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• One Night at Pap’s • Ivie A. MacCarthy • (ss)
• One of Our Luncheons • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• One of Ten Million • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• One of the Chosen • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• One of the Old Girls • Mary Synon • (ss)
• One of Them • A. E. W. Mason • (ss)
• One of Those Nice Little Evenings • Stephen Whitman • (ss)
• One Quiet Summer • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• One Rich Young Man • Newton A. Fuessle • (ss)
• One Touch of Art • Jack Lait • (ss)
• One Touch of Nature • Else Krafft • (ss)
• One Way • Montague Glass • (ss)
• One Week of Kelly • Wilbur S. Boyer • (ss)
• The One Who Stayed • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• The One with the Eye • Marie Conway Oemler • (ss)
• A One-Man Dog • Jack Hines • (ss)
• One-Thing-at-a-Time O’Day • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• The OnJy Child • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• Only Seven Days Until Christmas • Anna McClure Sholl • (ss)
• Only the Engineer • Lloyd Osbourne • (ss)
• The Only Time He Smiled • Alan Sullivan • (ss)
• Onnie • Thomas Beer • (nv)
• The Ooley-Cow • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Oompah Oompah • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• The Opal Morning • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• Opened by Censor 1762 • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• An Opium Fantasy • Knut Hamsun • (ss)
• An Optical Illusion • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• Options • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Opus 43, Number 6 • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• The Orchard • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• “Orchestra D-2” • Kate Jordan • (ss)
• Orchids • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• The Ordeal of Silence • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• Ordeal of the Ring • Michael White • (ss)
• The Order • Robert de Lezeau • (ss)
• An Order for Grape Stakes • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Order of the Day • Mabel Nelson Thurston • (ss)
• Ordered On • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• Original Bill • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Orphan No.873 • Caroline S. Bailey • (ss)
• Orpheus • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Other Burglar • Joseph Hall • (ss)
• The Other Check • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Other Dimensions • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• The Other Girl • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Other Side of the House • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• The Other Soldiers in France • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• The Other Wing • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• The Other Woman • Richard Harding Davis • (ss)
• The Other Woman • William T. Nichols • (ss)
• Otto • William B. MacHarg • (ss)
• The Oubliette • George Bronson-Howard • (ss)
• An Ounce of Loyalty • R. N. Wall • (ss)
• Our Dog • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• Our Elopement • Henry Edward Rood • (ss)
• Our Magazine Story • A. A. Milne • (ss)
• Our Painted Aunt • Rebecca Hooper Eastman • (ss)
• Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (na)
• “Our Trusty and Well-Beloved” • Hugh Clifford • (ss)
• Out in the Open Air • Holworthy Hall • (nv)
• Out of Darkness • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• Out of His Class • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Out of the Earth • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• Out of the Mist • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• Out of the Mist • Lloyd Osbourne • (ss)
• Out of the Question • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• Out of the Sky • Holworthy Hall • (nv)
• Out of Tophet • Annie G. Gale • (ss)
• Out of Touch With Life • Mary Alexander • (ss)
• Out-Maneuvering Mamma • Elizabeth Frazer • (ss)
• The Out-of-Door Janitor • Marie Manning • (ss)
• The Outlaw • Edgar Lloyd Hampton • (ss)
• The Outrage at Port Allington • R. E. Vernède • (ss)
• The Outside of the House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• Over and Back • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Over the Bar • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Over the Hills • E. Temple Thurston • (ss)
• Over the Sheer’ • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• Over There • Zona Gale • (ss)
• Over Years and Tides • Kendrick Scofield • (ss)
• Over-Reached • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• “Overture and Beginners!” • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Owls and the Gladiator • Clarence Day, Jr. • (ss)
• A P-lice-man • Lincoln Steffens • (ss)
• “P.S.-” • G. Court • (ss)
• “Pa-Jim” • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Paciflst • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Pack-Horse Bells • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Packet • Stacy Aumonier • (nv)
• A Packet of Letters • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• A Page from a Notebook • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• The Pain of Youth • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Paint • Paul West • (ss)
• The Painted Letter • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Painted Scene • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• Painting Healthy Hal • Albert W. Tolman • (ss)
• A Pair of ’Em • Karl Schmidt • (ss)
• A Pair of Lovers • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• A Pair of Shoes • Hermann Hagedorn • (ss)
• A Pair of Socks • Arthur E. McFarlane • (ss)
• Pal • Lloyd Dorsey Willis • (ss)
• The Palace of His Soul • Albert Bigelow Paine • (ss)
• The Pale Torrent • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• Palms and Parasols • William H. Hamby • (ss)
• The Pampered Fledgling • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Pan Passes • Frederic Arnold Kummer • (ss)
• Le Panache • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (ss)
• Pandora Intervenes • A. C. Allenson • (ss)
• Pandora the Resolute • A. C. Allenson • (ss)
• Pansies • Anne Douglas Sedgwick • (ss)
• Pants, Pegasus, and Patricia • Stewart Wells • (ss)
• Papa Popineau • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Paper Windmill • Amy Lowell • (ss)
• The Papered Door • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• The Parable of the Red Hag • Anon. • (ss)
• Paradis Polishes the Boots • Henri Barbusse • (ss)
• Paradise Alley • Louise Elizabeth Dutton • (ss)
• The Paradise Trail • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Paragon • Ethel Train • (ss)
• Parallel Street • Oscar Grarve • (ss)
• The Pariah • Lowell Otus Reese • (ss)
• Parimban’s Daughter • Henry Milner Rideout • (ss)
• The Parisian • Alden Brooks • (ss)
• The Parson of Panamint • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Parted Ways • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Parties of Maygie • Louise Closser Hale • (ss)
• The Parting • Anon. • (ss)
• Partners • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Partners • Ralph Stock • (ss)
• Partners for a Day • Hamlin Garland • (ss)
• Partners of the Night • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Party Lines • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Pasear of Doña Carmel • Marar Ellis Ryan • (ss)
• Pasqual and the Puncher • William MacLeod Raine • (ss)
• A Passage for Archangel • Henry Leverage • (ss)
• Passengers • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• Passing It Along • Frederick Orin Bartlett • (ss)
• The Passing of Pan • Edward Thomas • (ss)
• The Passing of the Grouch • Katharine Terry • (ss)
• A Passing Princess • William Ashley Anderson • (ss)
• Passing the Joke Buck • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Passport of a Wolf • G. B. Lancaster • (ss)
• The Past • Evgeniy Chirikov • (ss)
• Paternité Oblige • Cyrus Wood • (ss)
• The Path of Glory • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Paths of Memory • North Witherbee • (ss)
• Patience and Shuffle the Cards • Madge Jenison • (ss)
• The Patrician • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Patriot • Tarleton Coluer • (ss)
• Patriots • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• Patsy Durgan’s Love Affair • Charles Belmont Davis • (ss)
• Paul and the Playwright • Lizzie Allen Harker • (ss)
• Paula of the Housetop • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Pavilion of Saint Merci • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Pay-Roll Clerk • Adelaide Lund • (ss)
• Paying Off • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• Paying Off the Swede • Thomas McMorrow • (ss)
• The Paying Teller • Philip Prescott Frost • (ss)
• Paying the Price • Ford Tarpley • (ss)
• The Peace Advocate • Arthur L. Buzzell • (ss)
• Peace and War • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• Peace on Earth • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• The Peace Was Broken • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• The Peacemaker of Tolley’s Ledge • Viola Roseboro’ • (ss)
• Peaches and Cream • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Pearl • William Dean Howells • (ss)
• Pearls • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Pearls Before Klein • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Pearls Before Swine • Cornelia Throop Geer • (ss)
• The Pearls of Moku Pilau • H. D. Couzens • (ss)
• Pearls vs. Pearls • Dorothy De Jagers • (ss)
• A Peasant’s Revolt • Rose L. Ellerbe • (ss)
• The Pecos Kid • Frederick R. Bechdolt • (ss)
• The Pedigree Plug • John Crowfoot • (ss)
• Pedro • J. Gamble Reighard • (ss)
• Peewee Peters • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• Peggitt Pays the Freight • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• The Pelt of the Silver Fox • Edward Lyell Fox • (ss)
• The Penalties of Artemis • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Penance • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Penny Wise • Juliet Wilbor Tompkins • (ss)
• Penrod—Zoölogist • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• Penrod’s Busy Day • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Pensioner • Arthur P. Hankins • (ss)
• The Pensloners • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• People and Things • Mabel Dunham Thayer • (ss)
• Pep • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• Pepe • William Caine • (ss)
• The Perfect Failure • John Chapman Hilder • (ss)
• A Perfect Gentleman • George Weston • (ss)
• Perfectly Neuter • Montague Glass • (ss)
• A Permanent Intruder • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• The Persistent Lady • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Persistent Little Fool • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• Persona au Gratin • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Personality, Etc • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Personally Conducted • Mary S. Watts • (ss)
• Persons of Rank • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Pestimus • Ceylon E. Hollingsworth • (ss)
• The Pet of the Public • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• Pete the Gump • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• Peter and Paul on Olympus • Henryk Sienkiewicz • (ss)
• Peter and the Prescription • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Peter Stops Ashore • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• Peter Winchester, Star Maker • Leon Rutledge Whipple • (ss)
• Peter-Peter • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• Pete’s Bother-in-Law • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Petit Jean • Ian Hay • (nv)
• “Petit Popo” • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• Petronella • Temple Bailey • (ss)
• The Pflumpadink • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Phantom Circuit • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Pharzy • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• Philip’s “Furnis Man” • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• The Philosopher • Sherwood Anderson • (sl)
• The Phoenix • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Phoenix • Olivia Howard Dunrar • (ss)