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

Stories, Listed by Title

• The Dreadful Fleece • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• The Dream Drummer • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• The Dream of King Karna-Vootra • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Drifter • Leonard Wood, Jr. • (ss)
• The Drop and the Stone • Harris Merton Lyon • (ss)
• The Drought Fighter • Arthur Haywood • (ss)
• The Druggist at Bocatown • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Dryad of Reouw Straits • William Ashley Anderson • (ss)
• The Dual Life of Ariana • Alice E. Duffy • (ss)
• The Dub • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• The Dub • Maximilian Foster • (sl)
• The Dub • George Bigelow Cheever Rugg • (ss)
• The Duel by the Bosporus • Justus Miles Forman • (ss)
• The Dumb Peterses • Mary Esther Mitchell • (ss)
• Dumb-Bell’s Check • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• Dumb-Bell’s Guest • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• A Dumb-Waiter Destiny • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• A Dungaree Superman • Charles T. Ryder • (ss)
• Dushitchka • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• Each According to His Gifts • Earl Derr Biggers • (ss)
• The Eagle • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Assists Mr. Sleed • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Creates a Belief • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Deals a Blow at Progress • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Finishes • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Gives a Treatment • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Meets the Ivory Woman • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon Ropes One • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Eagle Shannon, the Devil and the Hindmost • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The Eagle’s Claw • Isabel Ostrander • (ss)
• The Eagle’s Nest • Amy Landon Gurlitz • (ss)
• The Earthquake • Arthur C. Train • (ss)
• East and West • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, 18th Baron • (ss)
• East Lynch • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• East of Eastward • John Russell • (ss)
• East of Eden • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• East or West? • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Easy Money • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• An Easy Solution • Thomas L. Masson • (ss)
• The Ebony Dispatch Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Ebony Stick • Earl Derr Biggers • (nv)
• Ecce Homo • Benjamin Rosenblatt • (ss)
• The Echo • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Edge of the Boom • George Randolph Chester • (ss)
• The Edge of the Ripple • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• Editor Parkin’s Defeat • Elliott Flower • (ss)
• Educated Sausages • Thomas Addison • (ss)
• Educating the Binneys • Olivia Howard Dunrar • (ss)
• The Education of Popo • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• Edwy Peddie - Scientific Humanitarian • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Efficiency Edgar and the Home Circle • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Efficiency Edgar and the Second Generation • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Efficiency Edgar’s Courtship • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• The Efficient Mrs. Broderick • Louise Kennedy Mabie • (ss)
• The Efficient One • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• Egeria Substitutes • Catherine Schurman • (ss)
• Egg-Shell China • Kate Jordan • (ss)
• Eggs Chipolata • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Eggshell • Roland Pertwee • (ss)
• Egyptian Corn • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• An Egyptian Hornet • Algernon Blackwood • (ss)
• Eight Minutes from the Station • Howard Vincent O’Brien • (ss)
• The Eight Wishes • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Eighty-Third • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• The Eldest • Edna Ferber • (ss)
• The Elephant Never Forgets • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• “Elevator Stops At All Floors” • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• Elijah and the Widow’s Cruiser • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• Elijah, the Prophet • Ivan Bunin • (ss)
• Eliphaz, Late Fairfax • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Elixir • Marie Manning • (ss)
• Ella Dies • Harris Merton Lyon • (ss)
• Ellen Forth and the Painter Boy • William John Hopkins • (ss)
• Ellie • Mary Aldis • (ss)
• The Elm Tree Ghosts • Elizabeth Newport Hepburn • (ss)
• Elmira and Four-Thirteen • Algernon Tassin • (ss)
• Elsa and the Swan Boat • Katharine Metcalf Roof • (ss)
• Elsie • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Elsie Goes Aboard • George Hyde Preston • (ss)
• Elysium • R. B. Cunningham Graham • (ss)
• Emancipated • Gilbert Vivian Seldes • (ss)
• Emancipation • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Emancipation of Galatea • Kate Kelly • (ss)
• An Embarrassment of Riches • Ethel Watts Mumford • (ss)
• The Emerald Snake • Edith Ore • (ss)
• Emerson’s Christmas • Walter A. Dyer • (ss)
• The Emigration of Mary Anne • Amanda Mathews • (ss)
• An Emissary of Satan • Edward Raphael Lipsett • (ss)
• Emma • Louise Closser Hale • (ss)
• Emma Blair • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Emmy Lou’s Recruiting Day • George Madden Martin • (ss)
• The Emotions of Maria Concepción • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• The Emperor • Worth Ryder • (ss)
• The Emperor and the Little Girl • George Bernard Shaw • (ss)
• The Emperor of Elam • H. G. Dwight • (ss)
• The Empire Builders • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (ss)
• The Empire of Con O’Connel • Calvin Johnston • (ss)
• The Empty House • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Empty Pistol • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• The Empty Room • James William Fitzpatrick • (ss)
• The Empty Theater • J. D. Beresford • (ss)
• The Empty Vessel • Miriam Crittenden Carman • (ss)
• En Route • Philip Prescott Frost • (ss)
• The Enchanted Princess • Margaret Prescott Montague • (ss)
• The End of a Perfect Day • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• The End of a Ribbon • Thomas H. Uzzell • (ss)
• The End of Anna • Thyra Samter Winslow • (ss)
• The End of His Rope • Willis Boyd Allen • (ss)
• The End of the Argument • Harry Golden • (ss)
• The End of the Dream • Elizabeth Maury Coomes • (ss)
• The End of the Lane • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• The End of the Line • Willard Kenneth Bassett • (ss)
• The End of the Path • Newbold Noyes • (ss)
• The End of the Road • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• The End of the Underground • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Ends of Ambition • Leighton Graves Osmun • (ss)
• Endymion, or On the Border • John S. Reed • (ss)
• The Enemy in the House • S. Walkey • (ss)
• Enemy Wanted • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• Enemy’s Child • Charlotte Holmes Crawford • (ss)
• Enfranchised • Grace Torrey • (ss)
• England, My England • D. H. Lawrence • (ss)
• Enoch Soames • Max Brerbohm • (ss)
• Enoch’s Great Temptation • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• Enough for a Million Meals • William L. Gaylord • (ss)
• Enter Charity • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• Enter the Villain • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Entirely Irregular • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Entrances and Exits • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• Epheimer • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• The Epic of Old Cark • Horace J. Simpson • (ss)
• The Epidemic • Ethel May Kelley • (ss)
• An Epidemic of Philanthropy • Harvey Wickham • (ss)
• An Epilogue • Gertrude Hall • (ss)
• An Episode • Roger Wray • (ss)
• The Episode of the Financial Napoleon • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Episode of the Hired Past • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Episode of the Landlady’s Daughter • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Episode of the Live Weekly The • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Episode of the Theatrical Venture • C. H. Boville & P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• An Episode of War • Stephen Crane • (ss)
• Epsie of Blue Sky • Corra May Harris • (ss)
• An Equine Equation • Elmore E. Peake • (ss)
• Ernest, or Parent for a Day • Randolph Bourne • (ss)
• Esau’s Daughter • Mary Synon • (ss)
• The Escape • J. D. Beresford • (ss)
• The Escape • Euzabeth G. Rowe • (ss)
• An Escape from Freedom • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Escape of Cyrus • Elvera Foote • (ss)
• The Escape of Tommy Waite • Arthur Bullard • (ss)
• The Eskimo Messenger • Theodore Seixas Solomons • (ss)
• Eternal Youth • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• Ethics • Charles Belmont Davis • (ss)
• Eunice May and the New Thought • Caroline Lockhart • (ss)
• Euphemia Miller • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• Europe • Karl Remer • (ss)
• Evangeline • Hildegarde Hawthorne • (ss)
• Eve and the Gopher • Donn Byrne • (ss)
• Eve. with Adam’s Assistance • Kay Cleaver Strahan • (ss)
• An Even Break with Bradley • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Even in the Backwoods • Jane Burr • (ss)
• “Even Unto Bethlehem” • Alice M. Colter • (ss)
• An Evening in Society • Will Irwin • (ss)
• Ever Ever Green • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Everett, Commissioner of Justice • Gordon MacCreagh • (ss)
• The Everlasting Miracle • William Brown Meloney • (ss)
• Every Move • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• “Every Summer” • Keene Abbott • (ss)
• Everything You Want to Plant • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ss)
• Eve’s Daughters • Lucy Huffaker • (ss)
• Eve’s Uncle Arkady • Kay Cleaver Strahan • (ss)
• The Evocation • Anon. • (ss)
• Ex-Fightin’ Billy • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• Except He Were a Bird • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• The Exception • Owen Oliver • (ss)
• The Excursion • Edwina Stanton Babcock • (ss)
• An Excursion in Memory • Albert Bigelow Paine • (ss)
• The Exiles’ Club • Lord Dunsany • (ss)
• The Exit Finder • Edwin Lefèvre • (ss)
• Exit Madame • George Weston • (ss)
• Expectations • Mary Sears • (ss)
• Experience • Gordon Hall Gerould • (ss)
• An Experience • William Dean Howells • (ss)
• An Experiment in Gentility • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• An Experiment in Journalism • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Expert Husband • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Expiation • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• The Exploration of Boov • Alexander Harvey • (ss)
• The Explorer • Wyndham Martyn • (ss)
• The Extra Chop • Phyllis Wyatt Brown • (ss)
• Extricating Young Gussie • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• An Eye for an Eye • Isabel Ostrander • (ss)
• The Eye of Youth • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Eye to Eye • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• The Eyes of the Blind • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The Eyes of the Past • Owen Johnson • (ss)
• The Eyes of the Soul • Anon. • (ss)
• The Eyes of the World • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Face of the Medusa • Reinhold Ortmann • (ss)
• The Facts • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• The Failure • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• The Fainting Finish • Bozeman Bulger • (ss)
• Fair Play • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Fairfield’s Criminal • Margaret E. Sangster • (ss)
• The Fairy Coronet • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Fairy Father • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• The Fairy Princess • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (nv)
• Fairyland • Hanns Heinz Ewers • (ss)
• The Fairyland Heart • Margaret Widdemer • (ss)
• Faith • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Faith • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Faith of a Woman • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Faithful Wife • Neith Boyce • (ss)
• The Fall of Enderson • David A. Wasson • (ss)
• The Fall of Newport • John Crowfoot • (ss)
• The False Alarm • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)