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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Thumb Test for Kirby • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Thumb-Twiddlers • Rupert Hughes • (sl)
• A Ticket to North Carolina • Frederick Stuart Greene • (ss)
• The Ticket-of-Leave Angel • Oscar Graeve • (ss)
• The Tide • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• The Tie • Anna Alice Chapin • (ss)
• The Tie That Binds • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• “Till Death—” • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• Till the End of Time • Cosmo Hamilton • (ss)
• Tillson (Dorothy) - Reference Section • J. E. Middleton • (ss)
• Tim Coolahan and the Ladies • William Inglis • (ss)
• Time • Alice Brown • (ss)
• Time - and the Wind-Up • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Time Out for Joan • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Time to Go to Newport • Frederick Orin Bartlett • (ss)
• The Tinker’s Pack • Donal Hamilton Haines • (ss)
• Tinsel-Toes • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott • (ss)
• The Tiptoe House • Anna Blake Mezquida • (ss)
• Tish Does Her Part • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Tn the Canyon • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• “To Love, Honor, and Obey” • Lily Augusta Long • (ss)
• To Macedonia and Return • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Toad and the Jewel • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• A Toast to Dewey • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Tobacco Famine at Tamarac • Forrest Crissey • (ss)
• Tods • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Toe of Retribution • Frank R. Robinson • (ss)
• Together • Lillian Bennet-Thompson • (ss)
• Toilers in the Night • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Tol’able David • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• Told to Parson • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Tom Rockett’s Boy • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• The Tomb of Pan • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• Tommy and the Tight Place • Dorothy De Jagers • (nv)
• Tomorrow • Eugene O’Neill • (ss)
• Tony Gets Fired • Willard Connely • (ss)
• Tony Goes Gunning for a Job • Willard Connely • (ss)
• Tony Haunts the Butterfinger Building • Willard Connely • (ss)
• Too Much Efficiency • R. W. Hofflund • (ss)
• Too Much Gold • Jack London • (ss)
• Too Much Pepper • Charles E. Van Loan • (nv)
• Too Sure of Herself • Mary Alexander • (ss)
• The Top Floor Front • Stella M. During • (ss)
• The Torch • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• Torchy and Vee on the Way • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torchy Follows a Hunch • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torchy Hits the High Seas • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torchy in the Gazinkus Class • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torchy Tackles a Short Circuit • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torchy Takes a Running Jump • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Torry the Man-Maker • Maryland Allen • (ss)
• The Tortoise • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Tortoise-shell Cat • Elizabeth Robins • (ss)
• Torture • Anna Strunsky Walling • (ss)
• The Total Bewitcher • Nalbro Bartley • (ss)
• Totnboy • Eleanor Gates • (ss)
• The Touch of Pan • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• A Touch of Sun • William J. Neidig • (ss)
• Touching the Elephant • Frederick Kurtz • (ss)
• Tour Y-Io • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Toward Freedom • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• The Tower Man • Thomas Addison • (ss)
• Towing Cecil to a Smeer • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Town Mouse • Nalbro Bartley • (ss)
• The Town of His Dream • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Trade at Home • George A. Briggs • (ss)
• A Tragedy in Russian • N. Shulgovsky • (ss)
• The Tragedy in the Birdhouse • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• The Tragedy of Time • Grover Kidwell • (ss)
• The Trail from Desolation • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• The Trailing of M’sieur • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• Traitors Both • Calvin Johnston • (ss)
• Transfiguration • Emil Locha • (ss)
• The Transfiguration of Angelita Lopez • Gertrude B. Millard • (ss)
• A Transit of Venus • Marjory Morten • (ss)
• The Trap • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• The Trap • Simpson Levor • (ss)
• Traumatic Neurosis • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Trawler • James B. Connolly • (nv)
• The Trawnbeighs • Charles Macomb Flandrau • (ss)
• The Treacherous Greaser • Irwin Granich • (ss)
• The Treasure • C. Y. Harrison • (ss)
• Treasure from the Sea • Camilla E. L. Kenyon • (ss)
• The Treasure Hunter • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Treasure Maid • Edwin Lester Arnold • (ss)
• The Treasure Trail • Paul Hervey Fox • (ss)
• A Treasure Upon Earth • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• A Treeful of Owls • Henry Beach Needham • (ss)
• Trelawney Learns • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• The Trick of the Voice • Edwin W. Morse • (ss)
• The Trimmer • Douglas Newton • (ss)
• The Trio • Fleta Campbell Springer • (ss)
• The Triple Entente • Anon. • (ss)
• The Triple Entente • The Social Promoter • (ss)
• The Triple Mirror • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Triple Scarab • Stacy Aumonier • (ss)
• Trippit and Dailey Go Racing • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• Triumph • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Triumph of Night • Edith Wharton • (ss)
• The Triumph of Tristan • George Weston • (ss)
• Troop Horse Number One • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• “The Tropic Bird” • Mary Tracy Earle • (ss)
• Tropic Madness • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• The Troubadour of Little Poison • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• Trouble • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• The Trouble with Martha • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Troupin’ with Dan Cupid • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• The Trousseau • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• The Trowsers • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• The Truant Wife • Lucy Meacham Thruston • (ss)
• Truce for a Day • Lee Pape • (ss)
• The Truce of God • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• True Blood • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• The True from the False • Margaret Burrows Martin • (ss)
• True Sportsmen • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• True-Bred • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The Truly Mother • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• The Truth • Burt Harris • (ss)
• The Truth - For Once • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• The Truth and the Corpus Delicti • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Truthful Liar • Roy Norton • (ss)
• A Tryst in Heaven • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Tsubosaka • Madame Yukio Ozaki • (ss)
• Tuesday • Camilla E. L. Kenyon • (ss)
• The Tug-of-War • Clotilde Graves • (ss)
• Tumblings and Raisings of Rudy • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Tune That Came Out of the Fiddle • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• Turkey-Yard Napoleon • John Amid • (ss)
• Turn About • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Turn and Turn About • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Turning of Joe • Frank A. Halverson • (ss)
• The Turtlers • Henry Christopher Christie • (ss)
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee • Lewis Allen • (ss)
• Tweedy’s Tryout • Walter Dundore Brenner • (ss)
• Twelve Dollars • Anon. • (ss)
• Twelve Years with Alcohol • Anon. • (ss)
• A Twentieth Century Lear • Virginia Terhune van de Water • (sl)
• Twenty-Four Hours • Maurice Joy • (ss)
• Twenty-Four Hours in June • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• Twenty-three Dollars • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• Twenty-Two • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Twice in the Same Place • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• A Twihght Adventure • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Twilight • Wladyslaw Rejmont • (ss)
• A Twilight Adventure • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Twilight Gardener • Georgia Wood Pangborn • (ss)
• The Twisted Inn • Hugh Walpole • (ss)
• The Twisted Thread • Elinor Mordaunt • (ss)
• ’Twixt Capricorn and Cancer • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Two Acorns • Edwin Lefèvre • (ss)
• The Two Admirals • Lewis Frank Tooker • (ss)
• The Two Bad Men • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• The Two Brothers • Frances Gregg • (ss)
• “Two Children” • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• Two Dead Soldiers • Arthur Ransome • (ss)
• The Two Doctors • Jennette Lee • (ss)
• Two Fathers • Eugen Kalkschmidt • (ss)
• The Two Fears • Robert S. Hichens • (ss)
• Two Fists and a Heart • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Two Fools and a Frolic • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• Two Hands • Kate Jordan • (ss)
• Two in a Tent • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Two Little Boys: An Allegory • Stephen Leacock • (ss)
• Two Men and a Dog • John Berry • (sl)
• Two Men of Linger Tickle • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• Two Old Men and Christmastime • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• The Two Rembrandts • Justus Miles Forman • (ss)
• Two Shots at “Carson’s” • Leo Crane • (ss)
• The Two Sinners • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Two Who Waited • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• Two-Bit Seats • Gladys Johnson • (ss)
• A Two-Cylinder Lochinvar • Edward S. O’Reilly • (ss)
• Two-Fingered Alec • Howe Williams • (ss)
• A Typical Westerner • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• The U.S. Harem Association, Ltd. • John Alfred Taylor • (ss)
• Uguisu. (A Japanese Nightingale) • K. Koizumi • (ss)
• Ultima Thule • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• The “Ultra-Violet Madonna” • Ralph Beegengren • (ss)
• The Unalterable • Bess Hafer Patton • (ss)
• The Unbroken Dynasty • Alice Brown • (ss)
• Unclaimed • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• Uncle Al • Esther Frederick • (ss)
• Uncle ’Bial’s Bonds • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• Uncle Joe’s Romance • Lee Shippey • (ss)
• Uncle Jules • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Uncle Moses Plays Cupid • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• The Undecided Woman • Frank Owen • (ss)
• Under a Roof • Lyman Bryson • (ss)
• Under False Pretenses • Frederick M. Smith • (ss)
• Under Messines Ridge • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Under New Management • Montague Glass • (ss)
• The Under Side • Lucia Chamberlain • (ss)
• Under Silken Skies • Maria Thompson Daviess • (ss)
• Under the Arch • H. G. Dwight • (ss)
• Under the Blue Star Flag • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Under the Doctor’s Care • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• Under the Pitcher’s Wing • Peter F. O’Shea • (ss)
• Under the Skin • Owen Oliver • (ss)
• Under Three Steeples • John Seymour Wood • (ss)
• Under-Seas • Aleksei Tolstoi • (ss)
• Underseaboat F-33 • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Understanding • Charles Inge • (ss)
• The Understandy Little Girl • Mabel Martin Dill • (ss)
• The Understudy • Countess Barcynska • (ss)
• The Understudy • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Understudy • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• The Understudy • Johnson Morton • (ss)
• Undesirables • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Undoing of Stonewall Jackson Bugg • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Unearned Increment • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• The Unexpected • Chauncey C. Hotchkiss • (ss)
• The Unflawed Friendship • Ward Muir • (ss)
• Unforbidden • Hugh MacNair Kahler • (ss)
• The Unfortunate Miss De Noyelles • Madge Jenison • (ss)
• The Ungiven Kiss • Viola Burhans • (ss)
• The Unhappy Medium • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• An Uninteresting Case • Ferdinand M. Reyher • (ss)
• The Unit • Elizabeth Herrick • (ss)
• The Unit • Cornelia Sterrety Penfield • (ss)