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

Stories, Listed by Author

HOUGH, EMERSON (1857-1923)

• * Claxton, D.D., (ss) Sunset Magazine Apr 1916
• * Claxton, O.C., (ss) Sunset Magazine Dec 1917
• * Cupid and the Car, (ss) Pictorial Review May 1915

HOUGHLAND, MASON

• * A Question of Breeding, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 25 1916

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE (1865-1959)

• * Inside-out, (ss) The Century Aug 1917

HOUSTON, MARGARET BELL (1876-1966)

• * The White Diane, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1917

HOVEY, E. VON R.

• * “I’ll Go the Reaper”, (ss) Colliers May 15 1915

HOWARD, KEBLE; pseudonym of John Keble Bell, (1875-1928)

• * Aunt Janie and the Moonlight, (ss) Pictorial Review May 1915
• * The Sword on the Hearth, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 14 1915

HOWE, EDGAR WATSON (1853-1937)

• * The Stubborn Woman, (ss)
  • Current Opinion Mar 1917

HOWE, HERBERT RILEY

• * What the Vandals Leave, (ss) Life Sep 9 1915
  • Reedy’s Mirror Sep 29 1916

HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN (1837-1920)

• * The Boarders, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1916
• * An Experience, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915
• * The Pearl, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1916
• * The Return to Favor, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1915
  • Current Opinion Jul 1916
• * The Rotational Tenants, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1916
• * Somebody’s Mother, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1915
• * A Tale Untold, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1917

HOWLAND, ARTHUR HOAG

• * The Governor and the Poet, (ss) The Forum Sep 1917

HOYT, CHARLES A.

• * The Goddess of the Griddle, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Nov 29 1917

HUARD, FRANCES WILSON (1885-?)

• * Guests from the Desert, (ss) Scribner’s Oct 1916

HUBBARD, GEORGE (Barron) (1884-1958)

• * The Coward (with Lillian Bennet-Thompson), (ss) Snappy Stories Nov 4 1917

HUBBARD, PHILIP E.

• * None But the Brave, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 1917
• * Very Temporary Captain McLean, (sl) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 3, Feb 10 1917

HUESTIS, ANNIE CAMPBELL (1885-?)

• * Flannigan, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1916

HUFFAKER, LUCY

• * Eve’s Daughters, (ss) The Forum Dec 1914
• * Money Poor, (ss) The Forum Jul 1914
• * Rowena and the Front Page, (ss) The American Magazine Jul 1915
• * With Eyes of Faith, (ss) The Delineator Feb 1915

HUGHES, ELIZABETH BURGESS

• * Floods of Valpré, (ss) Snappy Stories Jan 18 1917
• * Some Day He’ll Come, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Apr 11 1915

HUGHES, RUPERT (1872-1956)

• * Baby Talk, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 28 1914
• * The Bitterness of Sweets, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1914
• * Daughters of Shiloh, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 4 1914
• * Don’t You Care!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 31 1914
• * Except He Were a Bird, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1915
• * “The Last Rose of Summer”, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1914
• * Long Ever Ago, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1916
• * Michaeleen! Michaelawn!, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1915
• * The Oompah Oompah, (ss) Hearst’s Magazine Nov 1917
• * Sent For Out, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1915
• * The Thumb-Twiddlers, (sl) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 13, Nov 20 1915
• * You Hadn’t Ought To, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 25 1915

HUGINS, ROLAND

• * The Devil and the Deep Sea, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Nov 14 1915

HULL, ALEXANDER (1887-1953)

• * A New Generation Shall Rise, (ss) Every Week Nov 19 1917

HULL, GEORGE CHARLES

• * “Breathes There the Man—”, (ss) Scribner’s Jul 1917
• * Through the Eyes of Mary Ellen, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1917

HULL, HELEN (Rose) (1888-1971)

• * Blight, (ss) Touchstone May 1917
• * The Fire, (ss) The Century Nov 1917
• * Groping, (ss) Seven Arts Feb 1917
• * A Man’s Right, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1915
• * The Soul-Maker, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1915
• * “Till Death—”, (ss) Masses Jan 1917
• * Unclaimed, (ss) Masses May 1916
• * Usury, (ss) Masses Sep 1916
• * Yellow Hair, (ss) Masses Feb 1916

HUMPHREY, (Harriette) ZEPHINE [Mrs. Wallace Weir Fahnestock] (1874-?)

• * A Literary Accident, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jul 1916
• * Nothing, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Oct 1915

HUNEKER, JAMES G(ibbons) (1860-1921)

• * The Cardinal’s Fiddle, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916
• * His Best Friend, (ss) The Smart Set Mar 1915
• * The Husband of Madame, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1916
• * A Modern Montsalvat, (ss) The Smart Set Feb 1917
• * The Supreme Sin, (ss) The Forum Mar 1916

HUNT, EDWARD EYRE

• * Atrocltles, (ss) The New Republic Sep 2 1916
• * A Flemish Tale, (ss) Outlook Apr 4 1917
• * Ghosts, (ss) The New Republic Jan 13 1917
• * In the Street of the Spy, (ss) Outlook Oct 10 1917
• * Micr9cosm, (ss) Outlook Aug 8 1917
• * The Pensloners, (ss) Outlook Feb 7 1917
• * Saint Dympna’s Miracle, (ss) Atlantic Monthly May 1917
  • Current Opinion Jul 1917
• * The White Island, (ss) Outlook Jan 17 1917

HUNT, FRAZIER

• * Little Prince, (ss) Today’s Magazine Nov 1916

HUNT, UNA

• * “As Long As Yo’s Single Dere’s Hope”, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1915
• * Her First Marrying, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1915

HURD, BURTON

• * The Waters of Marah, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Mar 28 1915

HURLBUT, EDWARD H. (1881-1954)

• * After Many Days, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jun 13 1915
• * The Fascinating Miss Ho Hi, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 3 1915
• * Greater Love Than This, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 11 1915
• * A Mother from the Crucible, (ss) McBride’s Dec 1915
• * The Prodigal Son, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 23 1915
• * Sad-Eyed Casey, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 4 1915
• * The Sinking of Submarine S-3, (sl) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 18, Jul 25 1915

HURST, FANNIE (1889-1968)

• * A Birdie in the House, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1916
• * Brunt, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1916
• * The Character Woman, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 12 1914
• * Ever Ever Green, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1915
• * Get Ready the Wreaths, (nv) Cosmopolitan Sep 1917
• * Golden Fleece, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jul 1917
• * The Good Provider, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 15 1914
• * “Home Grown”, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1914
• * “Ice Water, Pl—!”, (nv) Colliers Oct 21 1916
• * In Memoriam, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 1916
• * Mind-Cat!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 26 1914
• * Mr. Hochenheimer of Cincinnati, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 1915
• * The Name and the Game, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1915
• * The New Commandment, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 5 1914
• * Oats for the Woman, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jun 1917
• * On the Heights, (ss) Cosmopolitan Dec 1917
• * The Other Check, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 11 1914
• * The Paradise Trail, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 5 1914
• * Rolling Stock, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1915
• * Sea-Gullibles, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 4 1915
• * Sieve of Fulfilment, (ss) Cosmopolitan Oct 1917
• * Sob Sister, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1916
• * Solitary Reaper, (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1917
• * The Spring Song, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 23 1914
• * Superman, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 20 1914
• * T.B, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 9 1915
• * Thine Is Not Mine, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1916
• * Through a Glass Darkly, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1916
• * White Goods, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1915
• * WoDld You?, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1917
• * The Wrong Pew, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 6 1917

HUSBAND, JOSEPH (1885-?)

• * The Helmet Men, (ss)
  • The Bellman Jul 1 1916

HUTCHINSON, ELIZABETH (Bartol) DEWING

• * The Far Traveller, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1916

HUTCHISON, PERCY ADAMS

• * The Blood of Admirals, (ss) Colliers Apr 24 1915
• * Journey’s End, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1917

HYDEMAN, SIDNEY L.

• * Prose Libre, (ss) The Smart Set Jun 1916

HYNE, C(harles) J(ohn) CUTCLIFFE (Wright) (1865-1944)

• * The Mine Layer, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21 1914

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• * The Bread Line, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 1 1915
• * Portrait of a Mexican General, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 29 1915

INGE, CHARLES

• * Understanding, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Aug 28 1915

INGLIS, WILLIAM

• * Tim Coolahan and the Ladies, (ss) Colliers Oct 24 1914

IRISH, MARSHALL HUGH

• * The Girl and the Giant, (ss) The Smart Set Jan 1916

IRWIN, INEZ HAYNES (1873-1970); see pseudonym Inez Haynes Gillmore

• * The Bundles, (ss) Colliers May 27 1916
• * The Crater, (ss) Every Week Oct 9 1916
• * Ladies, (ss) The Century Mar 1916
• * The Night Before, (ss) The Century Apr 1916
• * The President’s Nephew, (ss) Ladies Home Journal May 1916
• * The Sixth Canvasser, (ss) The Century Jan 1916
• * When Mother and Father Got Going, (ss) Ladies Home Journal May 1917
• * When Mrs. Warburton Met Mrs. Connors, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Apr 1916
• * The Woman Across the Street, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Sep 1916

IRWIN, WALLACE (Admah) (1876-1959)

• * Act Three, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1916
• * Ah-Lee-Bung, (ss) The Delineator Jul 1917
• * All Front and No Back, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1917
• * The Echo, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27 1917
• * Eternal Youth, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 21 1917
• * Faith, (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1916
• * The Goat, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1916
• * He Shot the Bird of Paradise, (ss) McClure’s Sep 1915
• * Hole-in-the-Ground, (ss) Colliers Oct 27 1917
• * Monkey on a Stick, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 29 1917
• * Old Red Rambler, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 16 1917
• * One of Ten Million, (ss) McClure’s Dec 1917
• * Peaches and Cream, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 10 1917
• * Silence, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1917
• * Starch and Gasolene, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1917
• * What Became of Deegan Folk, (ss) McClure’s Feb 1915
• * Wings, (ss) Colliers Apr 7 1917

IRWIN, WILL(iam Henry) (1873-1948)

• * The Amachure Grafter, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 22 1914
• * An Evening in Society, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 28 1917
• * The Liar, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 10 1914
• * The Practical Joker, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 8 1916

ISAACSOHN, EUGEN (1860-?); see pseudonym Eugen Isolani

ISOLANI, EUGEN; pseudonym of Eugen Isaacsohn, (1860-?)

• * The Judgment of Heaven, (ss) New York Tribune Oct 22 1916

JACKS, L(awrence) P(earsall) (1860-1955)

• * The Chest of Cedar, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jun 1915

JACKSON, CHARLES TENNEY (1874-195?)

• * The Big Rich Feller, (sl) American Sunday Magazine Jan 2, Jan 9 1916

JACOBS, W(illiam) W(ymark) (1863-1943)

• * The Convert, (ss) The Strand Aug 1912
  • Hearst’s Magazine Sep 1917
• * Easy Money, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1914
• * Family Cares, (ss) The Strand Aug 1915
  • Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1916
• * Keeping Watch, (ss) The Strand Dec 1913
  • Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1914
• * Made to Measure, (ss) The Strand Apr 1915
  • Metropolitan Magazine May 1915
• * Paying Off, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1914
• * Sam’s Ghost, (ss) The Strand Dec 1915
  • Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1916
• * Stepping Backward, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1914
• * The Substitute, (ss) Hearst’s Magazine Dec 1917
• * The Understudy, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1914

JAKOBI, PAULA

• * The Lecture, (ss) Craftsman Dec 1916

JAMES, E. O.

• * In the Visitor’s Room, (ss) Colliers Sep 4 1915