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

Stories, Listed by Title

• A Cathedral Singer • James Lane Allen • (ss)
• Cather • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Cat’s-Paw • Lee Foster Hartman • (ss)
• A Cavalry Charge • F. Roney Weir • (ss)
• Cceur de Lion • Anon. • (ss)
• Celebrating Father • Katharine Martin • (ss)
• The Cellini Saltcellar • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• The Celluloid Hero • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• A Certain Recipient • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• “A Certain Rich Man—” • Lawrence Perry • (nv)
• The Chain of Events • Newton A. Fuessle • (ss)
• Chains • Alice Cowdery • (ss)
• The Chair That Whispered • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• The Chalk Game • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• The Challenge • Virginia Tracy • (ss)
• The Challenger • Albert Kinross • (ss)
• The Chameleon • Paul Hervey Fox • (ss)
• Champion • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• A Change of Pace • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• A Change of Venue • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• The Changeling • Anne Hard • (ss)
• The Changeling Pearls • Isabel Ostrander • (ss)
• The Changing Pierrot • Sara Hamilton Birchall • (ss)
• Chaperoning Mother • Catherine Van Dyke • (ss)
• A Chapter from the Life of an Ant • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Character Woman • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The Charge • Douglas Newton • (ss)
• Charity • Mabel Wood Martin • (ss)
• “Charity” • Josephine P. Simrall • (ss)
• Charley • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• Charley the Chorus Boy • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• Charlie Mattox of Vassar • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Charmed Life • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Chasing a Holiday • Lewis Worthington Smith • (ss)
• The Chasm • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Chasm of a Night • Rose Naomi Scott • (ss)
• The Chateau d’Ausperge • Hartenau. Gert • (ss)
• Chautonville • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• Chavero • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• Cheap • Marjorie L. C. Pickthall • (ss)
• The Chechako Wife • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Checked Trousers • Phyllis Wyatt Brown • (ss)
• Checking Up on Larsen • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Checkmate • Harold H. Scott • (ss)
• Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber • (ss)
• The Chest of Cedar • L. P. Jacks • (ss)
• The Chevalier • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• Chicago Charlie Lancelot • Edison Marshall • (ss)
• The Chicken Fighter • Minnie Barbour Adams • (ss)
• The Child in the Street • Eric A. Darling • (ss)
• The Child Who Died on Eysos • Margaret Adelaide Wilson • (ss)
• The Children • Zona Gale • (ss)
• The Children • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• Children of Apollo • William Drayham • (ss)
• Children of Omen • James Nelson Ramsey • (ss)
• Children Wanted • Lucy Pratt • (ss)
• A Child’s Heart • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• Ching, Ching, Chinaman • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (nv)
• The Chink • Raymond Richards • (ss)
• Chivalry • Elizabeth Hines Hanley • (ss)
• Chivalry at Goldenbridge • Gorton Veeder Carruth • (ss)
• The Chocolate Mouse • Neith Boyce • (ss)
• A Choice of Romeos • Marie Manning • (ss)
• Christmas “Bunk”. The • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Christmas Angel • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Christmas at Sage Brush • A. M. Giebler • (ss)
• A Christmas Cynic • Martyn Johnson • (ss)
• Christmas Day in the Morning • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Christmas Fight of X 157 • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• A Christmas for Tony • Zona Gale • (ss)
• Christmas in High Places • George Lee Burton • (ss)
• Christmas in the Trenches • Sigmund Henschen • (ss)
• A Christmas Medley • Nancy Gunter Boykin • (ss)
• A Christmas on Russian Hill • Louis J. Stellmann • (ss)
• The Christmas Rush • J. J. Bell • (ss)
• The Christmas Treasure • Anatole Le Braz • (ss)
• Christopher’s Cure • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Church for Honest Sinners • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Church-Grim • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• The Chute • Aleister Crowley • (ss)
• The Cinderella Stuff • Oscar Graeve • (ss)
• Cinnamon Seed and Sandy Bottom • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Circumventing Wilhelm • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Citizen • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• A Citizen and His Wife • Alice Brown • (ss)
• City of Lights • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• The Claim-Jumper • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• A Clandestine Career • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• Clapsaddle’s Girl • Elmore E. Peake • (ss)
• Clara’s Little Escapade • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (nv)
• The Class of 19— • Peter Minuit • (ss)
• A Clause for Santa Claus • Jack Lait • (ss)
• Claxton, D.D. • Emerson Hough • (ss)
• Claxton, O.C. • Emerson Hough • (ss)
• Clay • Reynolds Knight • (ss)
• Clay-Shattered Doors • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Clean Competition • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Cleansing • Norman Conway • (ss)
• The Cleansing Tears • Eugene A. Clancy • (ss)
• The Clearest Voice • Margaret Sherwood • (ss)
• The Clever Cockatoo • Edmund C. Bentley • (ss)
• Cline’s Injunction • Roy Beach • (ss)
• The Cloak Also • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Clock That Went Backward • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• The Clod • John Berry • (ss)
• Closed Doors • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (ss)
• Clothes • Gustav Kobbé • (ss)
• Clothes and the Man • Clotilde Graves • (ss)
• Clothes and the Man • P. B. Oyler • (ss)
• Clothes Make the Man • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Cloud-Ring • Frederic Booth • (ss)
• The Clown • Leo Crane • (ss)
• Clown’s Rue • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Clutch of Circumstance • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• Coals of Fire • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• Coats Is In • Everett Rhodes Castle • (ss)
• Cobb’s Neutrality • Ralph Stock • (ss)
• The Cock and Bull Story of Captain Burgoyne • Donn Byrne • (sl)
• The Cockatrice Den • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• A Cockney Cavalier • Eye-Witness • (ss)
• Cocoa and Zwieback • James William Fitzpatrick • (ss)
• Code No. 2 • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Code of the Hills • Lawrence Duvaine • (ss)
• The Coffin • David S. Levy • (ss)
• Cogged Dice • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• “Coggie” • John R. Spears • (ss)
• Cold Comfort • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• A Cold in the Head • Edwin L. Sabin • (ss)
• Colin McCabe: Renegade • Anita Fitch • (ss)
• The Collaborators • Albert Kinross • (ss)
• The Collector • May Sinclair • (ss)
• The Collector of Cinderellas • Mary Dickerson Donahey • (ss)
• Collusion • Lincoln Steffens • (ss)
• The Colonel Volunteers • Philip Everett Curtiss • (ss)
• The Colors • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• Colors • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• The Colors of Our Battalion • Donald Francis McGrew • (ss)
• The Colyum Conductor • Arthur Chapman • (ss)
• Come and Be Saved • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• “Come Hither” • Ann Hard • (ss)
• The Comforter • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• The Coming • Hughes Cornell • (ss)
• Coming Home • Edith Wharton • (ss)
• The Coming of Müller • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Coming of the Lord • S. N. Behrman • (ss)
• The Coming of the Terror • Arthur Machen • (ss)
• Commutation: $9.17 • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• The Compact • Frederick Stuart Greene • (ss)
• The Compact • Alma G. Madden • (ss)
• The Compact of Christopher • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• The Company Dinner • Margaret Cameron & Jessie Leach Rector • (ss)
• The Compleat Waggoner • A. Neil Lyons • (ss)
• Complete Romance • Minnie McIntire Wallace • (ss)
• Compulsory Service in Ballygullion • Lynn Doyle • (ss)
• Comrades in Arms • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• Comrades in the Making • Will Bishop • (ss)
• Concealed Art • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Concerning a Legacy • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Concerning a Quart • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• Conchita • Florence Ryerson • (ss)
• Condemned • Joseph K. Opotawshu • (ss)
• The Confidence Game • Charles Trethewey • (ss)
• The Confidential Doll Insurance Co • Vale Downie • (ss)
• Congo • Courtney Ryley Cooper • (nv)
• Connie Cuts a Wisdom-Tooth • Vesta Tharp • (ss)
• The Conqueror • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• The Conqueror • Knut Hamsun • (ss)
• The Conscript Mother • Robert Herrick • (ss)
• Consequences • Willa Cather • (ss)
• “Consider the Lilies” • Ernestine Johnson • (ss)
• Consider the Oath of M’Taga • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• “Consolation” • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Conspiracy • Justus Miles Forman • (ss)
• The Constable of Copper Sky • Lowell Otus Reese • (ss)
• Constance the Parasite • Alice Cowdery • (ss)
• The Consul at Paraminta • Lee Foster Hartman • (ss)
• The Contagion of Honour • Lizzie Allen Harker • (ss)
• Contra Bonos Mores • Austin Lewis • (ss)
• Contraband of War • Constance Lindsay Skinner • (ss)
• Contrary Daniel • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Convalescent’s Return • Frederic Boutet • (ss)
• The Conversion of Lucia Bragg • Algernon Tassin • (ss)
• The Conversion of Lysistrate • Hugo Wittman • (ss)
• A Convert • R. B. Cunningham Graham • (ss)
• The Convert • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• The Conviction of Sin • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• The Cook and the Captain Bold • John S. Reed • (ss)
• Cormac O’Brien, Piper • Amanda Mathews • (ss)
• The Cormorant • H. de Vere Stacpoole • (ss)
• Corn on the Cob • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Corona Keffordi • Ralph Stock • (ss)
• Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th Baron • (ss)
• Corporal Billy’s Come-Back • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Cottage Cheese • Zona Gale • (ss)
• Cotton-Wool • Juliet Wilbor Tompkins • (ss)
• The Coughing Horror • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• Counsel Fees • P. A. Murray, Jr. • (ss)
• The Countess’ Reincarnation • May Emery Hall • (ss)
• The Country Beyond • Randolph Edgar • (ss)
• A Country Christmas • Grant Showerman • (ss)
• Coup de Grace • Eleanor Ferris • (ss)
• Courage • Lyman Bryson • (ss)
• The Courage of the Conviction • Ethel Lloyd Patterson • (ss)
• Couriers of Chance • Samuel Alexander White • (ss)
• The Court of Last Appeal • Arthur Collard • (ss)
• The Court of the Four Seasons • Nita Pierson • (ss)
• Courtin’ Calamity • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• The Courting Candle • Mary Lanier Magruder • (ss)
• The Courtship of Allaphair • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Cousin Paul • Victor Rousseau • (ss)
• The Coward • Henry Adler • (ss)
• The Coward • Lillian Bennet-Thompson & George Hubbard • (ss)
• The Coward • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• A Coward of Sorts • Herbert Jenkins • (ss)
• The Crack Marksman • Cullen A. Cain • (ss)
• Cragmire Tower • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Crater • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• The Creeping Fingers • Lawton Mackall • (ss)
• The Crime at Pribbles • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Criminal Shop • Mary Rider • (ss)