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

Stories, Listed by Title

• Sub-Marine, A Peaceful Tale • Elizabeth Warren • (ss)
• The Substitute • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• The Substitute • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• A Substitute Courtship • Elizabeth Gaines Wilcoxson • (ss)
• The Substitute Suicide • Giovanni Papini • (ss)
• A Successful Woman • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• Such a Little House • Anne Warner • (sl)
• Suggested Simon (A New York Evolution) • John Crowfoot • (ss)
• The Suit-Case • Alan Sullivan • (ss)
• Suite Number Nineteen • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• Sully Gets the Jump on Pomp • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• A Summer Day with Ramona • Hildegarde Hawthorne • (ss)
• Summer Wives • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• Summertime • Grant Showerman • (ss)
• Summons • Mary Lerner • (ss)
• The Summons • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Sun Chaser • Jeannette A. Marks • (nv)
• The Sun-Dials df Civilization • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Sunday Afternoon • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• The Sunday Night Before Tuesday • Frederick Pierce • (ss)
• The Sunny Door • Lucy Pratt • (ss)
• Sunset • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Superdirigible “Gamma-I” • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Superman • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Superparents • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• Supers • Frederic Booth • (ss)
• Superstructure • Fleta Campbell Springer • (ss)
• Suppose the Emperor Had— • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• The Supreme Sin • James G. Huneker • (ss)
• The Sure Thing • Conrad Richter • (ss)
• A Surprise in Perspective • Floy Tolbert Barnard • (ss)
• The Survivors • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Susan Develops New Troubles: Her Imagination Begins to Work • Anne Warner • (ss)
• Susan Goes Boarding • Anne Warner • (ss)
• Susan Has Her Troubles with the New House, and Jathrop Coming Home • Anne Warner • (ss)
• Susan Moves and Finds Even Worse Troubles than Before • Anne Warner • (ss)
• Susanna and Her Elders • Clotilde Graves • (ss)
• Susie, Sans Souci • Henry Wallace Phillips • (ss)
• The Suspense Account • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• Suspicion • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Suspicious Husband • Rabindranath Tagore • (ss)
• The Swan-Song of Jane Meakin • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Swanker • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Swatty • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• The Swedish Reporter’s Encounter with Sarah Bernhardt • A. P. Johnson • (ss)
• The Sweet White Gardenia • Nora Dunblane • (ss)
• Sweet-Flowering Perennial • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• Sweet-Pea • Rodman Gilder • (ss)
• “Swept and Garnished” • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• The Swimmer • Elizabeth Frazer • (ss)
• A Switchboard to Berlin • Thomas H. Uzzell • (ss)
• Switching Arts on Leon • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Switching the Line • Berton Braley • (ss)
• A Sword of France • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Sword on the Hearth • Keble Howard • (ss)
• The Sword-Maker • Helen Van Valkenburgh • (ss)
• The Swords of Her Neighbors • Viola Burhans • (ss)
• Sylvia of the Letters • Jerome K. Jerome • (ss)
• A Sympathetic Strike • Alvin Saunders Johnson • (ss)
• The Symphony • Albert Kinross • (ss)
• T. Geiseuheimer’s • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• T.B • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Tack-Hammer Instinct • Viola Burhans • (ss)
• “Take ’Im Out!” • Jerome Beatty • (ss)
• Taken From Life • Katherine Cecil Thurston • (ss)
• Taking a Reef in Tadpole • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• Taking It Standing • Grace S. Richmond • (ss)
• Taking of Spitzendorf • Chauncey C. Hotchkiss • (ss)
• A Tale of London • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Tale of the Beautiful Barmaid • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Tale of the Celebes Rubber Queen • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Tale of the Dangerous Town • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Tale of the Golden Nutmeg of Banda • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Tale of the Pink Beast • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• A Tale Untold • William Dean Howells • (ss)
• The Talisman • Peter Newton • (ss)
• Talismans • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Tall Hustling • Frank Goewey Jones • (sl)
• Tam o’ the Scoots • Edgar Wallace • (sl)
• Tamatan of Totulu • J. Allan Dunn • (ss)
• The Tame Cat • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• A Tame Hero • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Taming of Aunt Maria • Thomas Addison • (ss)
• Tammas • Emma Mauritz Larson • (ss)
• Tango Taught in Ten Teachings • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• The Taotaomona • Mack Kilty • (ss)
• A Tardy Rebellion • Lillian Bennet-Thompson • (ss)
• Tares • E. Temple Thurston • (ss)
• The Tasters • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• “Tazmun” • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• Tbe Low-Burned Candle • George T. Buffum • (ss)
• Tbe Motto Over the Mantelpiece • Harold Begbie • (ss)
• Tbe Requital • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• The Teacher • Teffie • (ss)
• Teacher Sylvia • Mary G. Chawner • (ss)
• Teacher’s Pet • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Teamwork with Aunty • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Teenie an’ Aggie Take an Outing • Caryl B. Stores • (ss)
• The Teeth of Famine • Samuel Alexander White • (ss)
• The Telegraph Trail • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• The Telegraphist • Douglas Newton • (ss)
• The Telephone • Arkadyi Averchenko • (ss)
• Temperament • John W. N. Sullivan • (ss)
• A Temperament to Discipline • Roy R. Gardner • (ss)
• The Temple of the Countless Gods • John Luther Long • (ss)
• The Temporary Receiver • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Temptation • S. J. Hope • (ss)
• The Tempter and Maria • Henry Payson Dowst • (ss)
• The Tempting of Anthony • Anon. • (ss)
• Ten Dollar Corsets • Arnold Fredericks • (ss)
• “Ten Thousand Horses” • George Hibbard • (ss)
• The Tenant • B. F. Lindas • (ss)
• Tents of the Mighty • Nina Wilcox Putnam • (ss)
• The Terrible Brink • Archibald H. Rutledge • (ss)
• The Terrors of the Dark • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• The Test • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• The Test • Chauncey C. Hotchkiss • (ss)
• The Test Case • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Testing of Mary Regan • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Texas Awake • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• A Texas Marathon • Willett Stockard • (ss)
• Thankful • Rosalie M. Cody & Jacquette H. Eaton • (ss)
• A Thankless Child • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• Thanks to the Cape Cod Finn • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• Thanksgiving Crossroads • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• Thanksgiving Lost and Found • Walter J. Muilenburg • (ss)
• That Movie Queen Notion • Joseph Ernest • (ss)
• That Night • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• That Vague Something • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• That’s Good • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Their Child • Catalina V. Paez • (ss)
• Their Children • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• Their Deferred Moment • Edna M. Owings • (ss)
• Their House of Love • Annette Thackwell Johnson • (ss)
• Their Mother • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• Their Piece of Art • Louis Schneider • (ss)
• Their Second Meeting • Rebecca Hooper Eastman • (ss)
• Their Way to Friendship • Elaine Mary Jameson • (sl)
• “Them Others” • Stacy Aumonier • (ss)
• Theme: The Celebrity • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Then Along Came Sukey • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• “Then Came David” • Mary Esther Mitchell • (ss)
• There’s Many a Slip • Wilbur S. Boyer • (ss)
• Thermopylæ • Mariel Brady • (ss)
• They Also Serve • Thomas Edgelow • (ss)
• They Both Needed It • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• Thibault’s Luck • John N. Raphael • (vi)
• Thicker Than Water • R. H. B. & G. R. O. • (ss)
• Thicker Than Water • R. H. Barbour & George Ralph Osborne • (ss)
• The Thickest Hide • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• Thief in Khaki • Henry Beach Needham • (ss)
• The Thief in the Night • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• Thief of the World • Patrick Casey • (ss)
• The Thimble • D. H. Lawrence • (ss)
• Thine Is Not Mine • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Thing • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Thing That Couldn’t Happen • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• The Thing That He Did • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• The Things That Are Caesar’s • Fleta Campbell Springer • (ss)
• The Things We Hope For • Linda Buntyn Willie • (ss)
• The Thinker • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• The Third Encounter • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• The Third Light • Harry Stillwell Edwards & Jackson Lane Edwards, E.E • (ss)
• The Third Man • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Third Old Man • Eugene P. Lyle • (ss)
• The Third Person • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• The Third Volume • Margaret Deland • (sl)
• The Third Watchman • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• The Third Woman • Arthur Crabb • (ss)
• The Third Wreck • Herman Whitaker • (ss)
• The Thirty Thousand Dollar Beauty • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Thirty Years • Neith Boyce • (ss)
• The Thirty Years’ Ghost • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• The Thirty-Ninth Pearl • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• “Thirty-Threed” • Lincoln Steffens • (nv)
• “This Aims to be a Dog-Country” • Jack Hines • (ss)
• “This Is the Life” • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• This Matter of Marriage • Wilson Woodrow, Mrs. • (ss)
• This Way Out • Frank Condon • (ss)
• Thomas Talbot’s Time • Jessie E. Henderson • (ss)
• Those Things Which Are Mine • Berthe Knatvold Mellett • (ss)
• Those Twin Easter Hats • Edna A. Collamore • (ss)
• “Thou Shalt Not Kill” • Edward Lyell Fox • (ss)
• Thoughts on Pedestrians • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• A Thousand Deaths • Jack London • (ss)
• The $1,000 Check • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• A Thousand for Incidentals • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Thrashing He Deserved • Katharine Hill • (ss)
• Three Bachelor Birds • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Three Boats that the Two Men Saw • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• Three Dollars and Sixty Cents • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• The Three Infernal Jokes • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Three Kings and a Pair • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Three Modern Musketeers • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Three Rousing Cheers • Berton Braley • (ss)
• The Three Sailors’ Gambit • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th Baron • (ss)
• The Three Slavs • Alden Brooks • (ss)
• The Three Things • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (sl)
• Three Without, Doubled • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Three Women • Richard Elsner • (ss)
• Three-Alarm Casey • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Three-Penny Piece • James Stephens • (ss)
• The Threefold Admonishment • Arthur Schnitzler • (ss)
• Three’s Company • V. H. Friedlaender • (ss)
• Threshold of Eden • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Thrift of Martha • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• The Thrill Shooter • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Throne of Old Tantrybogus • Holman F. Day • (ss)
• Through a Glass Darkly • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Through Fire • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Through the Dark • Wadsworth Camp • (ss)
• Through the Eyes of Mary Ellen • George Charles Hull • (ss)
• Through the Rain • Dermot O’Byrne • (ss)
• “Through” • E. F. Benson • (ss)
• The Thrush In the Hedge • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)