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

Stories, Listed by Author

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PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW (continued)

* Mr. Possum’s Motor-Car, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1916
* Mr. ’Possum’s Sick Spell, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1915
* Mrs. Tumulty’s Hat, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1916
* The Palace of His Soul, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1914
PAINE, GUSTAVUS S.

* “Here He Is”, (ss) Colliers Dec 18 1915
PAINE, RALPH DELAHAYE (1871-?)

* As In His Youth, (ss) Scribner’s Feb 1914
* A Better Man Than His Father, (ss) Every Week Jul 5 1915
* His Code of Honor, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1916
PALEY, BEMIS J

* When the Augurs Yawned, (ss) The New Republic Aug 19 1916
PALMER, FREDERICK (1873-?)

* The Make-Good Country, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1914
PALMER, HELEN

* Old Diggums, (ss) The Bellman Jan 6 1917
PALMER, (Edward Vivian) VANCE (1885-1959)

* The Coward, (ss) The Bellman Jun 19 1915
* The Girl and the Gunboat, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 20 1916
* The Girl at Van Goyt’s, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Sep 24 1916
* The Homecoming, (ss) The Bellman Oct 14 1916
* The Island of the Dead, (ss) The Bellman Oct 13 1917
* The Law of Sanctuary, (ss) The Bellman Mar 13 1915
* The Law of the Dark, (ss) The Bellman Dec 4 1915
* Love and the Lotus, (ss) Sunset Magazine May 1917
* The Man Who Won, (ss) The Bellman Jan 30 1915
* The Marooning of Marryat, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 24 1916
* The Place of Sanctuary, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 16 1915
* The Rajah and the Rolling Stone, (ss) The Bellman Dec 8 1917
* Renunciation, (ss) The Bellman Dec 9 1916
* The Will to Live, (ss) The Bellman Jan 13 1917
PANGBORN, GEORGIA WOOD (1872-1955)

* Alice and May, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1914
* Bixby’s Bridge, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1917
* Cara, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1914
* Munnern, (ss) Scribner’s May 1914
* Out of the Question, (ss) McBride’s Sep 1915
* The Return, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916
* The Ring of the Great Wish, (ss) The Forum May 1914
* The Substitute, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1914
* The Thirty Years’ Ghost, (ss) Lippincott’s Jul 1915
* The Twilight Gardener, (ss) Touchstone Jun 1917
PAPE, LEE

* Kathleen Goes A-Sketching, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Mar 6 1915
* Night Flower, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916
* Truce for a Day, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Sep 1915
PAPINI, GIOVANNI (1881-1956)

* The Debt of a Day, (ss) International Apr 1915
* The Substitute Suicide, (ss) International May 1916
PARDY, GEORGE T.

* The Ghost of O’Toole, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 13 1916
PARKER, [Sir] (Horatio) GILBERT (1862-1932)

* Norah, (ss) Colliers Dec 25 1909

The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 30 1915
PARKER, HELEN BAKER

* For One Night, (ss) Colliers Dec 12 1914
* Her Autumn Clothes, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Oct 1916
* The Lady Behind the Iron Fence, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1916
* The Narrow Margin, (ss) Colliers Mar 13 1915
* The Window in the Wall, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Aug 1915
PARKER, MARION

* The Recoil of the Gun, (ss) Life Nov 18 1915
PARSONS, FRANCIS

* The Border-Land, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1915
PARTRIDGE, EDWARD BELLAMY

* Fate and Fifteen Hundred Dollars, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916
PATRICK, JOHN; pseudonym of John Patrick Goggan, (1905-1995)

* The King of Kanababo, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1916
PATTEE, LOUEEN

* A Muted Message, (ss) Outlook Feb 14 1917
PATTERSON, ETHEL LLOYD

* The Courage of the Conviction, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine May 1915
* On the Brink, (ss) Pictorial Review Jul 1915
PATTERSON, MARY

* The Bear and the Honey, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916
PATTON, BESS HAFER

* The Unalterable, (ss) Sunset Magazine Jul 1916
PATTULLO, GEORGE (1879-?)

* Bad Bill Bobo, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 5 1915
* Being Nice to Nellie, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27 1917
* The Blind Goddess, (ss) Sunset Magazine Aug 1915
* Blue Blazes, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 11 1915
* The Camp Follower, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 12 1914
* Charlie Mattox of Vassar, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Feb 1915
* The Cuckoo, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1916
* First Aid to M’sieu Hicks, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1917
* Going After the Inner Meaning, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 11 1917
* A Good Rooster Crows Everywhere, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 2 1916
* Half a Man, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 3 1917
* Henree Demands His Rights, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 1916
* Henree Tried, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 22 1916
* Leezie, The City Slicker, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 25 1916
* The Liberator, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 1 1914
* Little Sunbeam, (ss) Every Week Jun 18 1917
* Lucky 7, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 12 1916
* Miss Fanny, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 23 1915
* Naming the Noble Boys, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1916
* Naughty Henree, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27 1915
* Never Again!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 24 1917
* The Night Riders, (ss) Sunset Magazine Jun 1915
* The Summons, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 14 1914
* The Two Sinners, (ss) Colliers Apr 8 1916
* The Victory, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 17 1914
* The Ways of a Man, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 25 1914
* The Wrong Road, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 6 1917
* You Know What I Mean, (ss) Every Week Jul 10 1916
PAUL, DOROTHY

* From the Bottom of the Pack, (ss) Colliers Feb 5 1916
PAYNE, WILL (1865-1954)

* Back to the Land, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 16 1915
* A Board Meeting, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13 1915
* A Business Man, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 1916
* The Crime at Pribbles, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 10 1917
* The Crow’s Nest, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 2 1915
* A Daguerreotype, (ss) Every Week Jan 3 1916
* A Dispensation, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 12 1915
* The Druggist at Bocatown, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1916
* The Fat Stranger, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 19 1916
* The Financier, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 28 1916
* An Fngineer’s Report, (ss) Every Week Aug 7 1916
* The Gas War, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 16 1915
* In Fine Feathers, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 13 1915
* In Strict Confidence, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 15 1916
* An International Affair, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 30 1915
* A Just Man, (ss) McClure’s Mar 1915
* The Memorandum Book, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1914
* The Narrow House, (ss) Every Week Jun 5 1916
* A Natural Oversight, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1917
* The Nick of Time, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 22 1916
* On the Pirate Ship, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 11 1915
* On the Swamp Road, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1915
* The Quail Call, (ss) Every Week Feb 14 1916
* A Question of Character, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 6 1915
* A Ridiculous Affair, (ss) Every Week Dec 13 1915
* The Salted Show, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 25 1915
* A Sentimental Adventure, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27 1915
* Settled Out of Court, (ss) Every Week Jul 17 1916
* Stubborn Man. The, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 9 1916
* What Happened at Revere’s, (ss) McClure’s Apr 1915
* Wind and Water, (ss) McClure’s Jan 1915
PEAKE, ELMORE E(lliott) (1871-?)

* The Babylonish One, (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1915
* Bantry, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 20 1914
* Clapsaddle’s Girl, (ss) Every Week Nov 1 1915
* An Equine Equation, (ss) Every Week Jul 31 1916
* The Foreman of Talulla, (ss) The Delineator Jun 1917
* The House of Hoblitzell, (ss) Every Week Jun 11 1917
* Still Waters, (ss) Every Week Nov 6 1916
* The Wrath of Elihu, (ss) Every Week May 7 1917
PEARL, JEANETTE D.

* Pride, (ss) Masses Jun 1917
PEATTIE, ELIA W(ilkinson) (1862-1935)

* The Lion Light, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Nov 1 1917
PECK, WARD

* The Forty-Niner, (ss) Sunset Magazine Jun 1917
PEDERSEN, KNUT (1859-1952); see pseudonym Knut Hamsun
PEELER, CLARE P.

* The Jewel Song, (ss) Every Week Jul 2 1917
* Maggie, (ss) Every Week Dec 18 1916
* The Ninth Circle, (ss) Every Week Feb 7 1916
* The Prince Enchanted, (ss) Every Week Jan 29 1917
PELLEY, WILLIAM DUDLEY (1890-1965)

* Courtin’ Calamity, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 21 1917
* The Four-Square Man, (ss) The American Magazine Oct 1917
* Jerry Out-o’-My-Way, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 3 1917
* Little Son of a Gun, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 4 1916
* One-Thing-at-a-Time O’Day, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 19 1917
* Russet and Gold, (ss) The American Magazine Dec 1917
* She’s “Only a Woman”, (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1917
* Their Mother, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1917
PENDEXTER, HUGH (1875-1940)

* The Boss, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 10 1915
* A Brand from the Burning, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Nov 11 1917
* Cynthia Spillings and the Spider, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1915
* The Dark Man of Red Ant, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Mar 21 1915
* Devil Bannon’s Girl, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 29 1915
* In the Shadow of the Big Misery, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 19 1916
* Lost and Found, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 2 1917
* Miss McCann, Heart Mender, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 10 1916
* Miss Phubrick’s Change of Pew, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Feb 1915
* The Sins of Sataux Syntax, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Dec 26 1915
* The Spurs of the Lark, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 13 1916
* The Trailing of M’sieur, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 7 1916
PENDLETON, T. D.; pseudonym of T. D. Pendleton Cummins

* An Faster Hat, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Apr 6 1916
* The Life Belt, (ss) The Bellman Jul 10 1915
* The Locket, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jul 28 1916
* The Stacher, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Apr 14 1916
PENFIELD, CORNELIA STERRETY

* The Unit, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Sep 11 1915
PENNEY, RAY D.

* In the Lions’ Den, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1916
PENTZ, ALBERT DuVERNEY

* The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Nov 7 1916
PEPI, EUG. S.

* A Night in June, (ss) The Pagan Jun 1916
PERRY, LAWRENCE (1875-1954)

* “A Certain Rich Man—”, (nv) Scribner’s Nov 1917
* The Diffident Mr. Kyle, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1917
* The Golf Cure, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1917
* The Human Equation, (ss) Scribner’s Feb 1916
* Julius, Seizer of Opportunities, (ss) McBride’s Jan 1916
* The King’s Cup, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1917
* The Landlubbers, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1916
* A Man of Action, (ss) The Century Oct 1914
* “Mother”, (ss) The Century Feb 1914
* A Question of Bigness, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1915
* The Sea Call, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1917
* Through Fire, (ss) The Century May 1916
PERTWEE, ROLAND (1885-1963)

* Camouflage, (ss) The Century May 1917
* The Cellini Saltcellar, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 10 1916
* Eggshell [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 4 1916
* The Gautama Buddha [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 22 1916
* A Little Pressure [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1 1916
* A Page from a Notebook, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 8 1917
* Red and White, (ss) The Century Aug 1917
* The Reynolds Group [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 15 1916
* Seven Kang-He Vases [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 21 1916
* The Third Encounter [Louis Lewis], (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 1917

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