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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Safety-Pin • Nina Sutherland Purdy • (ss)
• The Saint • Harrison G. Rhodes • (ss)
• Saint Dympna’s Miracle • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• Saint Patrick’s Day in the Morning • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Saints of San Atoll • Allen Upward • (ss)
• Saleratus Smith • Ceylon E. Hollingsworth • (ss)
• Sally Domesticates Sam • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• Salt of the Earth • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Salt of the Sea • Henry Leverage • (ss)
• Salt-Water Diplomacy • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Salted Show • Will Payne • (ss)
• Salvage • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Salvage • Fleta Campbell Springer • (ss)
• Sam and I • George Fitch • (ss)
• Sam Bagg of the Gabriel Group • Talbot Mundy • (ss)
• Same Old Circle • Earl Derr Biggers • (ss)
• Sam’s Beau • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• Sam’s Ghost • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• The San Bernardino Meridian • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• The Sandals of His Youth • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Sandwich-Man • John Luther Long • (ss)
• Sanguinary Jeremiah • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Santa Claus by Special Delivery • E. Albert Apple • (ss)
• The Sapphire Necklace • Claude M. Girardeau • (ss)
• Sappho • Hildegarde Hawthorne • (ss)
• Sarah Edgewater • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Sardonic Adventure of Simeon Small • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Sargasso Sea • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Saturday at Six • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Satyr, The (R) • Björnstjerne Björnson • (ss)
• Sauce for the Gander • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (nv)
• Savages • Peter F. O’Shea • (ss)
• Saving Grace • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Saving It For Dad • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• The Saving of Hiram Sessions • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Saving Sense • John Fleming Wilson • (sl)
• Scally • Ian Hay • (nv)
• The Scar • Elizabeth Stead Taber • (ss)
• The Scar that Tripled • William Gunn Shepherd • (ss)
• The Scarlet Flower • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• The Scarlet Sign • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• Scattergood Baines—Invader • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Scattergood Kicks Up the Dust • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Scene Two-Fifty-Two • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Scent of Apple Blossoms • Arthur Somers Roche • (ss)
• The Schoolma’am’s Little Lamp • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Scientific Social Service of Mr. Small • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Scotch Ann • May Belleville Brown • (ss)
• The Scourge • Herman George Scheffauer • (ss)
• Scratch-Cat • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• The Screen • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• A Scropper Patcher • George Randolph Chester • (ss)
• Scum • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Scum of the Earth • William M. McCoy • (ss)
• The Sea Adventurer • Richard Matthews Hallet • (ss)
• The Sea Call • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Sea Constables • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• Sea Power • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Sea-Green • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Sea-Gullibles • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Sea-Turn • Clement Jones • (ss)
• Sealed Orders • Roy Irving Murray • (ss)
• The Seas That Mourn • Harold MacGrath • (ss)
• Second from the End • Jack Lait • (ss)
• The Second Man • Vera Edmondson • (ss)
• The Second Name for Vreedersburgh • Booth Tarkington • (nv)
• The Second Rescue • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• The Second Sight of Hepsey McLean • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• The Second Voice • Harriet Lewis Bradley • (ss)
• The Second Wife • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Second Wife • Jeanne Olive Loizeaux • (ss)
• The Second Youth of Austin Service • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• Second-Chance Lidcote • A. C. Allenson • (ss)
• The Secret House • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Secrets of the Writing of “Don Quixote” • Don José Bermudez de Castro • (ss)
• Sekhet: A Dream • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Selysette • Laurence Vail • (ss)
• A Senator in Pelham Bay Park • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• The Senator’s Son • Katherine G. Busbey • (ss)
• Sent For Out • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• A Sentimental Adventure • Will Payne • (ss)
• Seppel • O. Baillie-Groeman • (ss)
• The Septagon • Jack Lait • (ss)
• The Serenade • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• Serena’s “Mary and Martha” Hands • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• The Serious Baby • Margretta Scott • (ss)
• Sermon on the Mountain • Multatuli • (ss)
• The Serpent • Barry Benefield • (ss)
• A Serpent in Eden • May McHenry • (ss)
• Seth Miles and the Sacred Fire • Cornelia Atwood Comer • (ss)
• Settled Out of Court • Will Payne • (ss)
• Settling Ophelia • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Seven Kang-He Vases • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• Seventeen • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Seventeen-Year Locusts • Marie Manning • (ss)
• The Seventh Christmas • Coningsby Dawson • (ss)
• The Seventh Glass • Frederic Arnold Kummer • (ss)
• Seventy Times Seven • Royal Brown • (ss)
• A Severe Attack of the Gerties • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• The Shadow Line • Joseph Conrad • (sl)
• Shadows • George Bronson-Howard • (ss)
• The Shadowy Third • Ellen Glasgow • (nv)
• Shad’s Windfall • Ramsey Benson • (ss)
• A Shaft of Light • Herman Schneider • (ss)
• The Sham Girl • Frank Hurburt O’Hara • (ss)
• Shanghaied • Charles Moreau Harger • (ss)
• The Shanghaied Millionaire • William MacLeod Raine • (ss)
• The Shark • Eugene P. Lyle • (ss)
• The Shawl of Kassim • H. F. Molt • (ss)
• She of the U.J. • Evelyn Gill Klahr • (ss)
• She Wanted to Know • Coningsby Dawson • (ss)
• She Who Sowed the Seed • Demetra Vaka • (ss)
• Sheba • A. K. Hillhouse • (ss)
• The Sheep-Woman • Sarah Comstock • (ss)
• The Sheik’s Bondswoman • T. S. Gurr • (ss)
• Sheila • Norval Richardson • (ss)
• Shelley • G. C. M. • (ss)
• The Shepherd Man • Bernice Bicknell • (ss)
• The Shepherd’s Idyll • Francis Hill • (ss)
• Sherlocking the Tango King • Berton Braley • (ss)
• She’s “Only a Woman” • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• The Shielding Wing • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• The Ship Comes In • Courtney Ryley Cooper • (ss)
• A Ship in Distress • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Ship’s Spirit • Dyer George • (ss)
• The Shirker • Helen B. Campbell • (ss)
• Shoes • Stella Wynne Herron • (ss)
• The Shoes that Danced • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Shoestrings • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• Shorty’s Victorious Maneuvers • Will Adams • (ss)
• The Shoulders of Atlas • Corrinne Tsanoff & Radoslav A. Tsanoff • (ss)
• The Show-down • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Show-Down • Wilson Woodrow, Mrs. • (ss)
• Showing Up Brick Hartley • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Shrine of Seven Lamps • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Shunway • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• The Shuttle • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Shy • Max Eastman • (ss)
• Shylock Semple • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• “Si, Señor!” • Torrey Connor • (ss)
• Sick ’Em • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Sieve of Fulfilment • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Sifting Out Uncle Bill • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Sight of Blood • Paul Greer • (ss)
• The Sign Language • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• The Sign Painter • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• Signalled • R. B. Cunningham Graham • (ss)
• Signor • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• Silence • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Silence • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• Silent Battle • Keene Abbott • (ss)
• “Silent Brown” • Katharine Adams • (ss)
• Silent Footsteps • Ovro’om Raisin • (ss)
• The Silent Infare • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• Silver and Gold • Patrick Scarlet • (ss)
• The Silver Buddha • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Silver Ship • A. E. W. Mason • (ss)
• Silver Threads Among the Gold • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Silvia the Incomparable • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• Simeon Small—Dress Reformer • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Simeon Small—Peacemaker • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Simeon Small, Compromise Candidate • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Simeon Small’s Business Career • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Simone • Count Eduard Keyserling • (ss)
• A Simple Tale • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Simply a Streak of Luck • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Simply Sugar Pie • Barry Benefield • (ss)
• Simply the Cooking • Clarence Day, Jr. • (ss)
• Sim’s Sudden Sotness • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Sincere Salad-Dresser • Burges Johnson • (ss)
• The Sinews of Peace • Mollie Best • (ss)
• Sinews of War • Annie Eliot Trumbull • (ss)
• The Singing Angel • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• The Sinking of Submarine S-3 • Edward H. Hurlbut • (sl)
• The Sins of Sataux Syntax • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• Sir Edward’s Dream • R. L. Orchelle • (ss)
• Sir Isaac’s Ragamuffins • George A. Birmingham • (ss)
• The Siren • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Siren of Scalawag Run • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• Sister • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• Sister Agnes • Karin Michaelis Stangeland • (ss)
• The Sisters • Gunnar Gunnarsson • (ss)
• Sit on a Cushion and Sew a Fine Seam • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• The Six Gates • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Six-Day Sharp-Shooter • William Gilmore Beymer • (ss)
• Six-Feet-Four • Edward C. Venable • (ss)
• Sixpence • J. Jefferson Farjeon • (ss)
• Sixteen • Mary Lerner • (ss)
• The Sixth Canvasser • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• The Sixth Notch • Frank Owen • (ss)
• The Skaters • Caroline Ticknor • (ss)
• Skin Deep • Bozeman Bulger • (nv)
• Skinner’s Big Idea • Henry Irving Dodge • (ss)
• Skinner’s Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge • (ss)
• The Skipper of Mine-Sweeper 1113 • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• Skippy Limited • Edgar Lloyd Hampton • (ss)
• The Skirt of His Robe • Paul Triem • (ss)
• The Slacker • W. B. Trites • (ss)
• A Slacker with a Soul • Anon. • (ss)
• The Slackers • William Almon Wolff • (nv)
• A Slate Blossom Soiree • Charles T. Ryder • (ss)
• A Slave of Eros • Frank H. Shaw • (ss)
• “The Sleep of the Spinning Top” • Kate L. McLaurin • (ss)
• Sleeping Out • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• The Sleuth of the Stars • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Slicker • Corinne Lowe • (ss)
• Slim Finnegan • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Slimmy’s Chance • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Slipper Tongue • William J. Neidig • (ss)
• Small Talk • Frederick Lewis Allen • (ss)
• The Small-Time Soul • W. Carey Wonderly • (ss)
• The Smaller Craft • Mary Esther Mitchell • (ss)
• The Smart Aleck • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Smash in the Ear • George Randolph Chester • (ss)
• The Smell of the Sawdust • Raymond Leslie Goldman • (ss)
• The Smile Factory • George Kibbe Turner • (ss)
• Smoky Face • Vingie E. Roe • (nv)
• The Smooth Course of Justice • Cyrus Townsend Brady • (ss)
• Smooth Crossing • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)