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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Unknown Goddess • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• The Unknown Masterpiece • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• The Unknown Woman at the Nativity • William S. Waleley • (ss)
• The Unlovely Sin • Ben Hecht • (ss)
• An Unlucky Rehearsal • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• An Unmelancholy Dane • Burges Johnson • (ss)
• The Unscrambling • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Until Six O’Clock • Beatrice Washburn • (ss)
• Until the End • Raymond Browne • (ss)
• Until To-morrow • Leonard Wood, Jr. • (ss)
• “Unto the Least of These” • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• The Untold Lie • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• Untrammelled • Laurence Vail • (ss)
• Unveiling Brenda • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ss)
• Unwanted • Olive Higgins Prouty • (ss)
• The Unwrit Dogma • William Ashley Anderson • (ss)
• Up on the Mountain • Alice Brown • (ss)
• Up There • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Up—Through the Garden • Frederick Halsey • (ss)
• “Up, Dead!” • Maurice Barrès • (ss)
• Uplift • Charlotte Fitzhugh Morris • (ss)
• The Uplifted Latch • Burton Kline • (ss)
• Uplifting Father • C. Hilton-Turvey • (ss)
• The Usurper • R. N. Wall • (ss)
• Usury • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• The Uttermost Farthing • Eleanor Ferris • (ss)
• A Vacancy at Todds • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Vacation • Rabindranath Tagore • (ss)
• Vagabond or Gentleman? • Edison Marshall • (ss)
• Valcourt’s Grin • Clotilde Graves • (ss)
• The Valley of the Just • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Valley of the Windigo • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• The Valor of Ignorance • Earl Derr Biggers • (ss)
• Value Received • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Vampire • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Vampire • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• Vanilla • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• Vanities • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• Vari San • John Luther Long • (ss)
• Vee Goes Over the Top • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Vee with Variations • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• The Veil • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• Veiled Island • Marjory Morten • (ss)
• The Veiled Woman • Wadsworth Camp • (ss)
• The Velvet Black • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Vendetta of Bogue Grenouille • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Vendor of Learning • George Soule • (ss)
• Vengeance is Mine! • Virgil Jordan • (ss)
• “Vengeance Is Mine!” • Frederick Stuart Greene • (ss)
• The Vengeance of Felix • José de Madeiros e Albuquerque • (ss)
• The Vengeance of the She-Wolf • Anon. • (ss)
• The Very Lilac One • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• A Very Smart Young Man • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Very Temporary Captain McLean • Philip E. Hubbard • (sl)
• Very Truly Yours • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Via the Milky Way • Hermann Bacher Deutsch • (ss)
• Vibrant Life • Sherwood Anderson • (ss)
• “Vic” • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• Victor, the Victor • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• A Victoria Cross for Horses • Alfred Ollivant • (ss)
• The Victory • Mildred Cram • (ss)
• The Victory • George Pattullo • (ss)
• A Victory Retrieved • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• The Vigil • Muna Lee • (ss)
• The Vigil of Little Antone • Oscar Lewis • (ss)
• The Village Dressmaker • May Isabel Fisk • (ss)
• The Village Orator • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• The Vindication of Tom McPhail • Roy Norton • (ss)
• The Vine-Leaf • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• The Vintage • Sylvia Chatfield Bates • (ss)
• The Violet • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Violet Book • A. E. W. Mason • (ss)
• The Virtue of Neils Hansen • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• The Vision • Anselma Heine • (ss)
• A Vision of Revolution • Stephen Vincent Benét • (ss)
• The Visitor • Maryland Allen • (ss)
• The Visitor • G. P. Helm • (ss)
• The Voice of Spring • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• The Voice of the Church Bell • Anon. • (ss)
• The Voice of the Clock • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• Voices • Travis Hoke • (ss)
• Volcano-Mad • Earl Derr Biggers • (ss)
• Von Edelstein’s Mistake • George A. Birmingham • (ss)
• The Vortex • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• The Wage-Earners • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• Wages of Virtue • Mary Lerner • (ss)
• The Waif Woman • Robert Louis Stevenson • (ss)
• The Waiting Soul • Eleanor Gates • (ss)
• The Waiting Years • Katharine Metcalf Roof • (ss)
• The Wake • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• The Wall of the House of Ryland • Conrad Richter • (ss)
• A Wall Street Puzzle • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Wallaby Track • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Walter-John • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• “Wamble: His Day Out” • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• Wander • Gino C. Speranza • (ss)
• Wanted—A Pussy-Mew • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• War • Arkadyi Averchenko • (ss)
• War • W. B. Trites • (ss)
• War Against War • Anon. • (sl)
• The War Beast • William Holloway • (ss)
• The War for the Succession • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• The War Medal • Maud Christian Aymar • (ss)
• War the Creator • Gelett Burgess • (sl)
• The War Trailer • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• A Wardrobe in Jeopardy • Eugene P. Lyle • (ss)
• Warm Dollars • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• Warming Up Luke • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• Warriors All • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• The Warrior’s Soul • Joseph Conrad • (ss)
• The Wash of Driven Waters • Joseph Gray • (ss)
• Wasted Effort • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• The Watch • F. Berkeley Smith • (ss)
• Watchful Washing • Mary Doty Alden • (ss)
• Water • W. L. George • (ss)
• The Water Cure • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Water on the Side • Frank Condon • (ss)
• The Water-Hole • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (ss)
• Water-Wings • Ruth Sapinsky • (ss)
• The Water-Witch • Gertrude Blair • (ss)
• The Waters of Madness • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Waters of Marah • Burton Hurd • (ss)
• The Wax Beauty • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• The Wax Bust • Marie Scherr • (ss)
• The Wax Doll • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Wax Works • Minnie McIntire Wallace • (ss)
• The Way a Man Marries • David Gray • (ss)
• The Way of Peace • John McClure • (ss)
• The Way of Success • W. Carey Wonderly • (ss)
• The Way of the Heathen • John Russell • (ss)
• The Way of the Reformer • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Way of the West • Jean Brooke Burt • (ss)
• The Way of the Worker • Austin Lewis • (ss)
• The Way to Tipperary • Edgar Jepson • (ss)
• The Ways of a Man • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Ways of Life • Floyd Dell • (ss)
• We Gregory Girls • Eleanor Colby • (ss)
• We Visit the Zoo • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• The Wealth of Timmy Zimmerman • Cornelia Atwood Comer • (ss)
• The Weapon That Cut • Mabel Abbott • (ss)
• The Weaver Who Clad the Summer • Harris Merton Lyon • (ss)
• The Web • Virginia Tracy • (ss)
• The Web They Wove • Margaret Cameron & Jessie Leach Rector • (ss)
• The Wedding Dress • Bliss Muir • (ss)
• The Wedding Film • Robert Emmet MacAlarney • (ss)
• Wedding-gifts • Alice Brown • (ss)
• Wednesday Madness • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Wee Lad on the Road to Arden • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• The Wee Road to Bethlehem • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• The Weeping Chamber • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Weight Above the Eyes • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Welcher • Estanya Lloyd Logan • (ss)
• The Well Digger • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• Well, What Do You Think You Will Die For? • Francis Powell • (ss)
• “Weltfried” • Kurt Muenzer • (ss)
• West Wind • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Westover’s Luck • John Amid • (ss)
• The Wetmore Clothes • Marie Manning • (ss)
• The Whale and the Grasshopper • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• What a Woman Wants • Caroline King Duer • (ss)
• What Barnum Said • Elliott Flower • (ss)
• What Became of Deegan Folk • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• What Every Man Should Know • Alice Duer Miller • (ss)
• What Everyone Else Knew • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• What Happened Afterward • Charles Loomis • (ss)
• What Happened at El Rancho Verde • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• What Happened at Revere’s • Will Payne • (ss)
• What Have You Got? • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• What in the World Do You Want? • Irving R. Allen • (ss)
• What Is “Life”? • Louis Baury • (ss)
• What Milo Needed Most • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• What Mr. Grey Said • Margaret Prescott Montague • (ss)
• What Really Happened • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• What the Baroness Forgot • Tudor Jenks • (ss)
• What the Siren Shrieked • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• What the Vandals Leave • Herbert Riley Howe • (ss)
• What They Seem • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• What Worried Him • Mollie Best • (ss)
• The Wheat Harvest • Grant Showerman • (ss)
• When a Man’s Scared • Raymond Ward Offlund • (ss)
• When Auntie Crashes In • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• When Aunty Got the News • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• When Bear Met Ram • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• When Did You Write Your Mother Last? • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• When Ella May Came By • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• When Grandma Took to Tangoing • Eleanor H. Porter • (ss)
• When is a Promise Not a Promise? • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• When John Fixed the Cuckoo Clock • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Charles Belmont Davis • (ss)
• When Lulu Made Trouble • Anon. • (ss)
• When Maisie Passed Your House • Mabel Nelson Thurston • (ss)
• When Mother and Father Got Going • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• When Mother Woke Up • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• When Mrs. Adney Died • Alma Estabrook • (ss)
• When Mrs. Warburton Met Mrs. Connors • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• When Our Flag Came to Paris • Archibald D. Turnbull • (ss)
• When Pussy-Foot Came to Town • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• When She Runs After the Boys • Mary Alexander • (ss)
• When Silas Turned Wage-Earner • Louise Elizabeth Dutton • (ss)
• When Stuff Put It Over • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• When the Augurs Yawned • Bemis J Paley • (ss)
• When the Devil Drives • Elizabeth Irons Folsom • (sl)
• When the Devil Was Better • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• When the Gods Sneer • Leo Crane • (ss)
• When the Half-Gods Go • Louise Elizabeth Dutton • (ss)
• When the Ice Goes Out • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• When the Jitney Came to Enderby • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• When the Navy Horned In • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• When the Prince Came Home • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• When the Princess Wakens • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• When They Knew the Real Each Other • Zona Gale • (ss)
• When Time Ran Backward • Harry Stephen Keeler • (ss)
• When Torchy Got the Call • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Where Do You Get That Noise? • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Where Herm Belonged to Be • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Where Love Comes From • James Oppenheim • (ss)