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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Awakening of John Walters • Sapper • (ss)
• An Awkward Turn • Phyllis Bottome • (ss)
• Babanchik • Christina Krysto • (ss)
• Bab’s Burglar • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Baby Talk • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• The Babylonish One • Elmore E. Peake • (ss)
• A Baby’s Place • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• A Bachelor of Hearts • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• Back a Ways with Gertie • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Back Door • Clarence Day, Jr. • (ss)
• Back from the Border • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Back Home • Edith Sessions Tupper • (ss)
• Back to the Land • Will Payne • (ss)
• Back to the Water World • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• Back to the White Paint • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Back with Clara Belle • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Backing Baxy in a Split • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Bad Bill Bobo • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Badge • John Russell • (ss)
• The Badge Horse • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Badinage at Breakfast • Frankun James • (ss)
• Bagatelle • Madame Leandre • (ss)
• A Balance for the Boss • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Balance of Might • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Ball-a-Hole • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Balm for Lovers • George Weston • (ss)
• The Bamboo Forest • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• The Band • Edwina Stanton Babcock • (ss)
• A Bank Where the Wild Thyme Blows • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Bantry • Elmore E. Peake • (ss)
• The Baptism • Marie Van Vorst • (ss)
• The Bar and the Bard • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• Barbara Buys a Bonnet • Eloise Robinson • (ss)
• The Barber of Lille • John S. Reed • (ss)
• The Bargain • Wilson Woodrow, Mrs. • (ss)
• A Bargain in a Baby • Eloise Robinson • (ss)
• A Bargain of Bargains • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• The Barnacle Goose • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Barney Has a Hunch • Harvey J. O’Higgins • (ss)
• The Baron Starkheim • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Bart Brown • Ralph Stuart • (ss)
• The Baseball Mascot • W. Kee Maxwell • (ss)
• “The Bat” Comes To Her Own • Molly Elliot Seawell • (ss)
• The Battle of Frogtown Harbor • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Battle Royal • Laurence La Tourette Driggs • (ss)
• Battle Royal • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Battle-Film • Herman George Scheffauer • (ss)
• The Battle-Prayer of Parson Small • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Bayard Ducks His Past • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Baytop • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• Beal Pulls a Blinger • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Bear and the Honey • Mary Patterson • (ss)
• The Bear Who Thought He Was a Dog • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• “Beat the Franchise” • Charles T. Heaslip • (ss)
• Beating the Barrier • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Beautiful as the Morning • Eloise Robinson • (ss)
• The Beautiful Thing • Annie Hamilton Donnell • (ss)
• Beauty Instead of Pep • Marian Bruntlett Powell • (ss)
• Beckie Hears Her Mother’s Voice • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Beckie’s Job • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Beefsteak vs Bankruptcy • John Amid • (ss)
• The Bees • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Before I Come for You • Vera Edmondson • (ss)
• Before the Mast • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• Beginner’s Luck • Wellesley Pain • (ss)
• Behind the Veil • Andrew Soutar • (ss)
• Being a Public Character • Don Marquis • (ss)
• Being Like Nita • Fannie Kilbourne • (ss)
• Being Nice to Nellie • George Pattullo • (ss)
• “Being Wicked” • Leila Burton Wells • (ss)
• A Belated Christmas Gift • Julian Rothery • (ss)
• The Belated Tears of Marcel • Perley Poore Sheehan • (ss)
• The Belgian • Alden Brooks • (ss)
• “Belgium” • John Berry • (ss)
• Belhs Cavaliers • James Branch Cabell • (nv)
• Believe It or Not • George Weston • (ss)
• The Bell • William Gunn Shepherd • (ss)
• “Belle Air” • Thomas Whitby • (ss)
• Bellows Routs the Demon Rum • Edward Lyell Fox • (ss)
• The Bells • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Bells of Cullam • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• The Beloved Boy • Edward Lyell Fox • (ss)
• The Beloved Maverick • Maria Thompson Daviess • (ss)
• The Beloved Meddler • Floy Tolbert Barnard • (ss)
• The Bend of the Stair • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• Benedict & Company • Nalbro Bartley • (ss)
• A Benefactor - Net • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• A Benefactor in Bohemia • Anon. • (ss)
• The Benevolent Exploitation • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• Benjamin McNeil Murdock • Harvey J. O’Higgins • (ss)
• Bennie-Boy • Marion Hill • (ss)
• Benson’s Day • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• Bentley’s Adventure in New York • Mary M. Finn • (ss)
• Berenice’s First Dance • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• Bert, the Scamp • Bernard Lev • (ss)
• The Best Bait for Mosquitoes • Henry Seidel Canby • (ss)
• The Best Christmas Ever • Harriet Prescott Spofford • (ss)
• Best Man • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• The Best-Seller • Gordon Hall Gerould • (ss)
• La Bête Noire • David A. Wasson • (ss)
• The Betrayal • James Hay, Jr. • (ss)
• Betsy’s Holiday Mush • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Better Man • Louise Rand Bascom • (ss)
• A Better Man Than His Father • Ralph Delahaye Paine • (ss)
• Better See the Doctor • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• Bettina Loved a Soldier • Molly Elliot Seawell • (ss)
• Betting on Shorty • Will Adams • (ss)
• Betty Bell and Love • Fannie Kilbourne • (ss)
• Between Friends • Holworthy Hall • (nv)
• Between the Lines • Frank Leon Smith • (ss)
• Between Trains • Marie Louise Van Saanen • (ss)
• Beyond the Foot of the Hill • Beth Slater Whitson • (ss)
• The Big Adventure of Peter Mullins • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• The Big Doe • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• The Big Fat Lummox • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Big Fellow • Frank E. Evans • (ss)
• Big Game • Frederick Lewis Allen • (ss)
• The Big Laugh • Tarleton Collier • (ss)
• The Big Rich Feller • Charles Tenney Jackson • (sl)
• The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights • Albert DuVerney Pentz • (ss)
• Big Things • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Big-Game Hut on Kenai • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Biggest Thing in the World • Ceylon E. Hollingsworth • (ss)
• Biggs’s Bread and Butter • David A. Wasson • (ss)
• “Bill, the Bloodhound” • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Billy and the Big Stick • Richard Harding Davis • (ss)
• Billy Boy • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and That Dead Broke Feeling • Louis Duryea Lighton & William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Besetting Sin • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Gee-Whizzer • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Hard Proposition • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Lady Who Spoke Her Mind • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Man Who Didn’t Care • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Spice of Life • Louis Duryea Lighton & William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Ten-Cent Limit • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune and the Way Things Happen • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy Fortune’s Christmas • Louis Duryea Lighton & William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• Billy’s Cashier • Brevard Mays Connor • (ss)
• “Bing!” • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• Bingles and Black Magic • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• The Biography of Mary According to Martha • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• Biplane No. 2 • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• A Bird in the Hand • Ruth Sapinsky • (ss)
• The Bird of Paradise • John Russell • (ss)
• The Bird-Cage • Marjorie Benton Cooke • (ss)
• The Bird-Man’s Bombardment • Ralph Goddard • (ss)
• A Birdie in the House • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Birdie the Strikebreaker • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• Birdie’s Mixed Motives • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• Birdie’s Sane Christmas • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• Birds of a Feather • H. G. Wells • (ss)
• The Birth of the Flowers • José Echegaray • (ss)
• The Birth of the God of War • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• The Bitterest Pill • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Bitterness of Sweets • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• Bixby’s Bridge • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• The Black Boar of Lonesome Water • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• The Black Chapel • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Black Disc • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• The Black Door • Gordon Seagrove • (ss)
• Black Flies • Edna Kenton • (ss)
• The Black Frock Coat • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• Black Jitney • Lawton Mackall • (ss)
• Black Lily • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Black Magic • Margaret Widdemer • (ss)
• The Black Patch • Randolph Hartley • (ss)
• The Black Prince and Miriam • Philip Chesney • (ss)
• Black Snow and Orange Sky • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• The Black Star • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• BlaCk Swamp • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• Black Thunder • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• Black Waters • Edith Sessions Tupper • (ss)
• The Black Widow’s Mercy • Jack Bechdolt • (ss)
• Blacker than Sin • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Blackfoot’s Masterpiece • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• A Bleecker Street Bleecker • W. B. Trites • (ss)
• A Blending of the Parables • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Blight • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• The Blind Goddess • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Blizzard in Lone Valley • Walter Ferris • (ss)
• Blood Brothers • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• The Blood Charivari • Herbert Coolidge • (ss)
• The Blood of Admirals • Percy Adams Hutchison • (ss)
• The Blood of the Fathers • Marie Louise Van Saanen • (ss)
• Blood Will Tell • Don Marquis • (ss)
• The Blot of Ink • Aleksei Tolstoi • (ss)
• Blue Blazes • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Blue Bob Comes Home • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Blue Bonnet • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Blue Dimity Dress • Victor Rousseau • (ss)
• Blue Lock, the Queen • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• Blue Monday • Henry Rucker • (ss)
• Blue Motors • Edgar Franklin • (ss)
• Blue Reefers • Elizabeth Ashe • (ss)
• Blue Roses • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• The Blue Tattooing • Kenneth B. Clarke • (ss)
• The Bluffer • Fannie Kilbourne • (ss)
• The Bluffer • Virginia Terhune van de Water • (ss)
• The Bluffs of Jordan • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• A Board Meeting • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Boarder • Maurice Lazar • (ss)
• The Boarders • William Dean Howells • (ss)
• The Boarding-House • James Joyce • (ss)
• Bobby Junior • George Frederic Stratton • (ss)
• Bobby Liscum’s Mother • Louise Forsslund • (ss)
• Boggybrae • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• The Bohemians • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• The Bolivar • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• The Bomb • Alice Woods • (ss)
• Bon Voyaging the Burglar • Don Herold • (ss)
• Bondage • Leila Burton Wells • (ss)
• The Bone Doctor • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Bones and a Lady • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• Bones and the Wireless • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• Bones Changes His Religion • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• “Bones” • Edgar Wallace • (ss)