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

Stories, Listed by Title

• False Colors • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• The False Stampede • Samuel Alexander White • (ss)
• Family Cares • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• The Family Friend • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (nv)
• The Family Tree • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Family Tree • Richard Matthews Hallet • (ss)
• The Far Traveller • Elizabeth Dewing Hutchinson • (ss)
• The Farewell Party • Booth Tarkington • (ss)
• Farleigh’s Farewell • Alexa Guild • (ss)
• Farmer Sleep’s Savings • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• Farmhands • Mabel Dodge • (ss)
• The Fascinating Miss Ho Hi • Edward H. Hurlbut • (ss)
• An Faster Hat • T. D. Pendleton • (ss)
• A Fat Chance • Jack Lait • (ss)
• The Fat Stranger • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Fatal Kink in Algernon • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• Fate and Fifteen Hundred Dollars • Edward Bellamy Partridge • (ss)
• The Fate of Mary Regan • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Fate’s Decree • John W. Roberts • (ss)
• Father Comes Back • John Corbin • (ss)
• Father Hippo • Katherine Lee Bates • (ss)
• Father or Fatherland • F. Roney Weir • (ss)
• The Fatherland • Harold William Fiferlik • (ss)
• Father’s Peril • Walter G. Doty • (ss)
• A Favorite of the Gods • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• The Feasting of the Cave Folk • Charles G. D. Roberts • (ss)
• The Feather-bed • Henry Dudeney, Mrs. • (ss)
• Feet of Gold • Gordon Arthur Smith • (nv)
• Felix • David Gray • (ss)
• The “Fem-in-in-ist” of Jumbo Mills • Robert Welles Ritchie • (ss)
• The Female Bandit of Burro Flats • Austin Gill • (ss)
• The Female of the Species • David A. Wasson • (ss)
• The Fence Breaker • William Bullock • (ss)
• A Ferry-boat Engagement • Henry Edward Rood • (ss)
• The Fete of M’sieur Bob • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews • (ss)
• Fetiches • Waldo Frank • (ss)
• Feud • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• Feud and Flood • Mary Lanier Magruder • (ss)
• Fibble, D.D., Takes Pen in Hand • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The Fiddler of Glory Hole • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• The Fiddling Man • James Oliver Curwood • (ss)
• Field of Honor • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• “The Field of Honour” • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Fiery Hand • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Fifer • Agnes Mary Brownell • (ss)
• Fifi • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• The Fifth Ace and Fenella • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• The Fifth Reel • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Fifty-Cent Kind • Katharine Baker • (ss)
• Fifty-fifty • Robert W. Chambers • (ss)
• A Fifty-Fifty Split with Hunk • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Fifty-Twelve • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Fight in Buddha’s Caidron • William Ashley Anderson • (ss)
• The Fighting Edge • Leigh Gordon Giltner • (ss)
• Fighting the Surf • Jane Mann • (ss)
• Fighting-Stock • Josephine Amelia Meyer • (ss)
• The Figure of a Snake • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• Figures • Ivan Bunin • (ss)
• The Final Escape • Marianne Gauss • (ss)
• “Finality” in Freeport • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ss)
• The Financier • Will Payne • (ss)
• Finding a Family • Annie Eliza Pidgeon Searing • (ss)
• A Fine Domestic Finish • George Weston • (ss)
• The Fine Old Fool • Roy Norton • (ss)
• Fingering the Buzz Saw • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Finn • Perceval Gibbon • (ss)
• Finnerty • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Finsen • Edgar Lloyd Hampton • (ss)
• The Fire • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• The Fire at Rescrugga • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• The Fire of Youth • George Weston • (ss)
• Fire or Water? • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• Fireworks • Ruth Clark • (ss)
• The Firm • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• First Aid to M’sieu Hicks • George Pattullo • (ss)
• First Corinthians: Chapter XIII, Verse 4 • Irvin S. Cobb • (ss)
• The First Courtship • Harry Kemp • (ss)
• First Hand • Holworthy Hall • (nv)
• The First Law • Vingie E. Roe • (ss)
• First Love • Mary Lanier Magruder • (ss)
• The First Night • Jessie Trimble • (ss)
• First Peter • Helen T. Miller • (ss)
• The First Shot • Reginald Wright Kauffman • (ss)
• The First-born • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• Fitting the Punishment to the Offence • Elna Harwood Wharton • (ss)
• Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks • Frank Condon • (ss)
• The Five-Dollar Gold-Piece • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Five-Mile Stretch • John McIntyre • (ss)
• A Five-Word Torpedo • James Francis Dwyer • (ss)
• Fixing the Porch Steps • Frederic Arnold Kummer • (ss)
• Fixing Up the Balkans • Frederick Lewis Allen • (ss)
• The Flag Factory • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• The Flag of Eliphalet • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• Flag-Root • Lucy Huston Sturdevant • (ss)
• The Flags on the Tower • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Flame in the Socket • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• The Flaming Ramparts • Edith Barnard Delano • (ss)
• A Flanking Movement • J. Okunev • (ss)
• Flannigan • Annie Campbell Huestis • (ss)
• Flavius Best, Pinxit • Corinne Lowe • (sl)
• The Fleet Goes By • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Fleming the Twice-Born • Will Levington Comfort • (ss)
• A Flemish Tale • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• Flesh Under Fleshings • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• A Flicketty One Looks On • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• Flies • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• The Flight • William J. Neidig • (ss)
• The Flight of Mr. Perkins and the Jagwar • Henry Wallace Phillips • (ss)
• Flint and Fire • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• Floating the Dundee Lassie • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Flood-Tide • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• Floods of Valpré • Elizabeth Burgess Hughes • (ss)
• The Floodtide of Fortune • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Flotsam and Jetsam • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Flower of Silence • Sax Rohmer • (ss)
• The Flower of Spain • Joseph Hergesheimer • (ss)
• The Flowering Stone • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Fluttering Wisp • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• The Fly in the Ointment • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• The Flyer Without a Heart • Ret Marnt • (ss)
• Flyer, The: A Parable • Arthur Huntington Gleason • (ss)
• The Flying Man • Bernard Capes • (ss)
• The Flying Teuton • Alice Brown • (ss)
• An Fngineer’s Report • Will Payne • (ss)
• Fog • Dana Burnet • (ss)
• Fog • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Fog Voices • Morgan Robertson • (ss)
• The Follies of Mrs. Joe • Kennett Harris • (ss)
• Followers of the Star • Isabel Ostrander • (ss)
• The Folly of Being Foolish • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• The Fool • Edward J. O’Brien • (ss)
• The Fool Maker • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• Fool of Fate • Beulah Marie Dix • (ss)
• Foolish Pride • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• Fools • Anon. • (ss)
• Fool’s Gold • G. Charles Hodges • (ss)
• The Fool’s Heart • Eugene Manlove Rhodes • (nv)
• The Foot on the Staircase • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• The Foppishness of Armistead • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• For Better and For Worse • Ruth Sapinsky • (ss)
• For Distinguished Conduct • Katharine Baker • (ss)
• For Freedom • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• For I’m To Be Queen of the May • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• For Love or Money • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• For Old Sake’s Sake • Katharine J. Murray • (ss)
• For One Night • Helen Baker Parker • (ss)
• For Revenue Only • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• For the Great Father • George T. Marsh • (ss)
• For the Zelda Bunch • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• Forced Labor • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• The Ford • Henrik Ulmann • (ss)
• Foreladies • Adriana Spadoni • (ss)
• The Foreman of Talulla • Elmore E. Peake • (ss)
• Forever and Ever • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Forsaking All Others • Mary Lerner • (ss)
• The Fortunes of Lucky Lounsberry • Rennold Wolf • (ss)
• Fortune’s Wheel • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• Forty Years Hence • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Forty-Niner • Ward Peck • (ss)
• The Fossils • Anthony Hope • (ss)
• Found—A Thousand Dollar Bill • William Hamilton Osborne • (ss)
• The Foundling • Gunnar Cederschiöld • (ss)
• Four Aces and the Joker • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Four—and Patricia • Eugene P. Lyle • (ss)
• Four Cylinders and Twelve • Leon Kelley • (ss)
• Four Days • Hetty Lawrence Hemenway • (ss)
• Four Dollars and Ninety-five Cents • Guido Bruno • (ss)
• Four Little Soldiers • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Four of ’Em • R. Canby Hall • (ss)
• Four on the Beach • Horatio Winslow • (ss)
• Four Saturdays • Charles Caldwell Dobie • (ss)
• The Four-Square Man • William Dudley Pelley • (ss)
• Fourteen • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Fourth Man • John Russell • (ss)
• The Fowler’s Snare • Will Adams • (ss)
• The Frame • Anatole Le Braz • (ss)
• The Frame-Up • Richard Harding Davis • (nv)
• François’ Journey • Archibald D. Turnbull • (ss)
• Frazee • Lee Foster Hartman • (ss)
• Free • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Free Agent • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• The Free Vacation House • Anzia Yeziersiia • (ss)
• The Free Woman • Berthe Knatvold Mellett • (ss)
• Freedom and Robbie May • Mary Arbuckle • (ss)
• The Freedom of Edith • Mary Guerin • (ss)
• The Freeze • John Amid • (ss)
• Friday • Zona Gale • (ss)
• Fried Onions • Elizabeth Anderson • (ss)
• A Friend of Napoleon • Earl H. Taylor • (ss)
• A Friend of the People • Gordon Arthur Smith • (ss)
• Friendly Brook • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• A Friendly Game • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• The Friends • Stacy Aumonier • (nv)
• Friends • Marjorie L. C. Pickthall • (ss)
• Friends • S. Tonjoroff • (ss)
• The Fright Cure • Charles Somerville • (ss)
• The Frog Who Traveled • Vsevolod Garshin • (ss)
• From Daybreak to Breakfast • W. Edson Smith • (ss)
• From Him That Hath Not • James Barlow • (ss)
• From Hungary • John Breck • (ss)
• From Marie-Anne to Anne-Marie • John N. Raphael • (ss)
• From Out the Centuries • Charles J. Sullivan • (ss)
• From the Bottom of the Pack • Dorothy Paul • (ss)
• From the Brink • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• From the Life: Sir Watson Tyler • Harvey J. O’Higgins • (ss)
• From the Life: Thomas Wales Warren, • Harvey J. O’Higgins • (ss)
• From the Teeth of the Rocks • Ernest Winchfield • (ss)
• From Wimbleton to Wambleton • Helen T. Miller • (ss)
• Frost Blossoms • Helen T. Miller • (ss)
• Fruit of the Tree • Ella W. Prattle • (ss)
• The Fruit of the Tree • William Merriam Rouse • (ss)
• Fruits of Repentance • William Holloway • (ss)
• The Fugitive • Charles Trethewey • (ss)
• The Fugitive and His Judas • Marianne Gauss • (ss)
• A Fugitive from Injustice • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• Full and Bye • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Full Measure of Devotion • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• Fundamental Justice • George Randolph Chester • (ss)
• The Funeral Pyre • Kurt Kuechler • (ss)
• Funerals • Neith Boyce • (ss)