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

Stories, Listed by Title

• Criss-Cross • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Crisscross • Guy W. Norton • (ss)
• Crooks All • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• A Crop Failure in Sullivan • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• The Crosbys’ Rest Cure • Elizabeth Jordan • (ss)
• Cross Patch • Horace Holley • (ss)
• Cross Purposes • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Cross-Roads • Amy Lowell • (ss)
• Crossed Wires • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Crostlethwait • Mabel Nelson Thurston • (ss)
• Crotty • Harvey Wickham • (ss)
• The Crowning • Katharine Kingsley Crosby • (ss)
• The Crowning Joy in the Life of Theodore Floque • Roger Regis • (ss)
• The Crow’s Nest • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Crucible of Peace • Thomas H. Uzzell • (ss)
• Crumbs of Conservation • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Crusader • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Cry of the Nighthawk • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• Cuckoo • Robert W. Chambers • (ss)
• The Cuckoo • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Culprit • Florence Converse • (ss)
• The Cunning of Harvey Grimm • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Cup and the Lip • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Cup as Planned • John Amid • (ss)
• The Cup of Calamity • Samuel Alexander White • (ss)
• A Cup of Tea • Maxwell Struthers Burt • (nv)
• The Cup That Queers • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Cupid and the Car • Emerson Hough • (ss)
• Cupid in High Finance • William Armstrong • (ss)
• Cupid in the Laboratory • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• Cupid’s Goose • George Gilbert • (ss)
• The Cure for Lonesomeness • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• A Cure for Lumbago • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Cure of Mr. Boyer • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Curls, Caesar—Maternal Instinct • Marie Manning • (ss)
• Curly Locks • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Curse • Margaret Varney Van Horne • (ss)
• Curtis Capitulates • Rita Weiman • (ss)
• The Custard Nine • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Customary Two Weeks • Freeman Tilden • (sl)
• Cutey and the Beast • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• Cutting Out Skirts • Eleanor Hoyt Beainerd • (ss)
• The Cyclone • Mary Gaunt • (sl)
• Cynthia Spillings and the Spider • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• Dad • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Dagger • Charles D. Stewart • (ss)
• The Dago • B. F. Lindas • (ss)
• A Daguerreotype • Will Payne • (ss)
• Dalhousie’s Lady of the Morning • David Gray • (ss)
• The Dallying of Celia May • Anna Stahl Allendorf • (ss)
• The Damaged-Dogs Man • Margaret Dodge • (ss)
• The Dance • Grant Showerman • (ss)
• The Dance Before Augustus • Patience Worth • (ss)
• Dance-Mad Billy • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• The Dancing Carnival • Helen Green Van Campen • (ss)
• The Danger of Safety • George Kibbe Turner • (ss)
• Daniel and Little Dan’l • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• Darby and Joan • Louise Connolly • (ss)
• Darby and Joan, Limited • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• Dare’s Gift • Ellen Glasgow • (sl)
• Darius and Alexander • Abbie Carter Goodloe • (ss)
• The Dark Compartment • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• The Dark Horse • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Dark Hour • Countess Barcynska • (ss)
• The Dark Man of Red Ant • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• The Dark Night • Lewis Frank Tooker • (ss)
• Dark Places • Duffield Osborne • (ss)
• The Dark-Brown Liquid • Everett Rhodes Castle • (ss)
• The Darkest Hour • Boyce Storey • (ss)
• A Daughter of Nish • Charlotte Holmes Crawford • (ss)
• A Daughter of the Revolution • John S. Reed • (ss)
• Daughters of Shiloh • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• David’s Birthright • Edna Wahlert McCourt • (ss)
• “A Dawg Done It” • Warner Wells • (ss)
• Dawn • Alice Woods • (ss)
• Day After Tomorrow • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• The Day of the Dog • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Day of Wrath • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Day’s Work • Lida Hervey Spence • (ss)
• De-Luxe Annie • Scammon Lockwood • (ss)
• Dea ex Machina • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• The Deacon Falls • Peter Clark MacFarlane • (ss)
• The Dead Book • Harold Hersey • (sl)
• The Dead Canary • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Dead Letter • T. P. Moore • (ss)
• The Dead Line • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales • Arthur Schnitzler • (ss)
• Dead or Alive • Edward S. O’Reilly • (ss)
• Dead Yesterday • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Dead-Game Sport • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• The Deal • Zona Gale • (ss)
• “Death in Both Pockets” • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• Death Island • Beatrice Grimshaw • (ss)
• The Death of Anton Tarasovich • Florence Kiper Frank • (sl)
• The Death of the Dead • Lucie Delarue-Madrus • (ss)
• The Death of the Ensign • Paul Busson • (ss)
• The Deathbed • William Drayham • (ss)
• The Deathless Orchid • Henry E. Stillman • (ss)
• Deborah: A Detective • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Debt • Kathleen Carman • (ss)
• The Debt of a Day • Giovanni Papini • (ss)
• Debutanting • Barnard Powers • (ss)
• The Decision • Arthur Crabb • (ss)
• The Deeper Diagnosis • Eleanor Stuart • (ss)
• Defeat • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• A Delicate Matter • Charles Stokes Wayne • (ss)
• Délieur, Le • Curt Hansen • (ss)
• A Delightful Legend • Maurice Relonde • (ss)
• Delilah Jane—Detective • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• Delivering the Goods • Berton Braley • (ss)
• The Demigod • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• Demonstrating That War Is War • Raoul Auernheimer • (ss)
• The Demonstration • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• Dempsey • A. C. Allenson • (ss)
• A Denatured Christmas • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• Denis • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• Depths • Ben Hecht • (ss)
• Der Tag for Us • Samuel George Blythe • (ss)
• The Desert Rose • Brevard Mays Connor • (ss)
• The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis • (ss)
• The Desire of the Moth • Eugene Manlove Rhodes • (sl)
• The Desk Job • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Desperado • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• Destiny • Carl M. Chapin • (ss)
• The Destiny of Dan VI • Samuel A. Derieux • (ss)
• The Destroying Angel • Emma Bell Miles • (ss)
• The “Destroying Angel” • Olivia Howard Dunrar • (ss)
• The Destroying Splendor • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• The Detour • F. Gregory Hartswick • (ss)
• The Devastation of Dennisport • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Devil and the Deep Sea • Roland Hugins • (ss)
• Devil Bannon’s Girl • Hugh Pendexter • (ss)
• The Devil Drives • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• A Devil of a Fellow • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Devil’s Joke-Box • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• The Devil’s Tools • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Devil’s Whirlpool • Jennie Harris Oliver • (ss)
• Devoted to Art • C. Courtenay Savage • (ss)
• The Devouring Demon and the Don • Henry Wallace Phillips • (ss)
• The Diamond Collar • Claude M. Girardeau • (ss)
• The Diamond Jester • Frank E. Evans • (ss)
• The Diamond Mine • Willa Cather • (ss)
• The Diamond Ring • A. C. Chesley • (ss)
• The Diamond Ring • George Kibbe Turner • (ss)
• The Diary • Frederick F. Schrader • (ss)
• Dick • Ralph Stuart • (ss)
• Dick Decker’s Most Glorious Christmas Party • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• Difficult Travel • S. Gusev- Orenburgsky • (ss)
• The Diffident Mr. Kyle • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Digging Out a Nobleman • Ceylon E. Hollingsworth • (ss)
• Digging Up Sam • Maria Thompson Daviess • (ss)
• Digging Up the Future • William H. Hamby • (ss)
• Dilettante, Dip, and Mary Jane • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• Diogenes in Our Village • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• Diplomacy • Achmed Abdullah & Thomas H. Uzzell • (ss)
• The Diplomat • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• A Disappearing Bridegroom • George Weston • (ss)
• Disappointment • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Discards • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The Disciple • Oscar Wilde • (vi)
• Disciplined • William Leavity Stoddard • (ss)
• The Discoverer • V. H. Friedlaender • (ss)
• Discovery • Heide Schroeder • (ss)
• The Discovery of Pouce-Long • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• The Disengaged • Caroline King Duer • (ss)
• The Dishwasher • James William Fitzpatrick • (ss)
• The Disintegrator • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Dismal Optimist • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• A Dispensation • Will Payne • (ss)
• Distant Firing • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Distinctions • Waldo Frank • (ss)
• Distinguished Service • Frederick Simpich • (ss)
• The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Divided Spoils • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• “Divided We Fall” • Dana Gatlin & Arthur Hately • (ss)
• Dividing Up • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Divine Atrocity • Grace G. Bostwick • (ss)
• A Doctor Goes North • Mary Katharine Reely • (ss)
• The Doctor of Afternoon Arm • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Doctor’s Wife • Wadsworth Camp • (ss)
• The Dog Fight • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• The Dog Harvey • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• The Dog That Saved the Bridge • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• The Dogs of Joe Gone • Allan Nevins • (ss)
• Doing Her Bit • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• The Doll • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Doll Baby • Gertrude Brooke Hamilton • (ss)
• The Dollar Bill • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• Dolliver’s Devil • Margaret Cameron • (ss)
• The Dominant Male • Edward S. O’Reilly • (ss)
• The Dominant Strain • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Dominie Dean • Ellis Parker Butler & James B. Dare • (ss)
• Dominie Dean. Although He Won Without Losing, Yet He Won by Losing • Ellis Parker Butler & James B. Dare • (ss)
• Dominie Dean. He Discovers That Life and Love Run None Too Smoothly in Riverbank • Ellis Parker Butler & James B. Dare • (ss)
• Doña Rita’s Rivals • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• Don’t You Care! • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• The Doomdorf Mystery • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• ’The Dopters • Aileen Cleveland Higgins • (ss)
• Dora Was Different • Harold Melbourne • (ss)
• Dormie One • Holworthy Hall • (nv)
• Dorothea’s Diary of Life • Evelyn Van Buren • (ss)
• Dorothy “Comes Back” • Maravene Kennedy Thompson • (ss)
• Dorothy for the Day • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• Dorothy Speaks in Meeting • Maravene Kennedy Thompson • (ss)
• Doub1e-Barreled Justice • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Double Cross • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• “Double Stamps” • Leonard Hinton • (ss)
• Doubled Stakes • William Rheem Lighton • (sl)
• Doubloon Gold • John Russell • (ss)
• Doubtful Dollars • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• Dove, the Undesired • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Dovecote • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Doves of Aphrodite • T. Everett Harré • (ss)
• Down Happy Valley • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• Down on Their Knees • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (nv)
• Down River • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• Dracula’s Guest • Bram Stoker • (ss)