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

Stories, Listed by Author

DAVIS, JACOB

• * The Striker, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jul 27 1917

DAVIS, LILLIAN PERRINE

• * A Soldier of a New Day, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine May 1916

DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING (1864-1916)

• * Billy and the Big Stick, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1914
• * The Boy Scout, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1914
• * The Boy Who Cried Wolf, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1916
• * The Card Sharp, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1914
• * The Deserter, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1916
• * The Frame-Up, (nv) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1915
• * The Log of the Jolly Polly, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1915
• * The Other Woman, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1891
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jun 4 1916
• * Playing Dead, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1915
• * “Somewhere in France”, (nv) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1915

DAVIS, ROSE B.

• * Bremington’s Job, (ss) Sunset Magazine Mar 1917

DAWSON, CONINGSBY (William) (1883-1959)

• * The Invasion of Eden, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1916
• * The Little Brown Mouse, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1915
• * The Poison Word, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1914
• * The Seventh Christmas, (ss) Good Housekeeping Dec 1916
• * She Wanted to Know, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1915

DAWSON, (Francis) WARRINGTON (1878-1962)

• * The Man, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Mar 1917

DAY, CLARENCE, Jr.

• * The Back Door, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1914
• * The Owls and the Gladiator, (ss) Harper’s May 1916
• * Simply the Cooking, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916

DAY, HOLMAN F(rancis) (1865-1935)

• * The Throne of Old Tantrybogus, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 10 1914

DAY, MARY LOUISE

• * His Surrender, (ss) The Forum Apr 1915

DEAKIN; LUMLEY

• * Red Debts, (ss) Pictorial Review Jan 1916

DE FORD, MIRIAM ALLEN

• * Snapshot, (ss) Masses Jan 1916

DE JAGERS, DOROTHY

• * A Jitney Adjustment, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Aug 1916
• * Pearls vs. Pearls, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Feb 1916
• * Tommy and the Tight Place, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Apr 1916

DEKKER, EDUARD DOUWES; see pseudonym Multatuli

DELAND, MARGARET (Wade Campbell) (1857-1945)

• * Miss Clara’s Perseus, (sl) Harper’s Sep, Oct 1914
• * The Third Volume, (sl) The Delineator May, Jun 1915

DELANO, EDITH BARNARD

• * The Flaming Ramparts, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1914
• * The Gift of the Manger, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1915
• * The Social Folks Next Door, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Nov 1917
• * Spring Recurrent, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1914

de la ROCHE, MAZO (Louise) (1879-1961)

• * Buried Treasure, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1915
• * The Jilt, (ss) The Century Sep 1916

DELARUE-MADRUS, LUCIE

• * The Death of the Dead, (ss) Stratford Journal Dec 1917
• * The Godmother, (ss) New York Tribune Sep 23 1917
• * The Godmother (II), (ss) New York Tribune Oct 14 1917

DELL, FLOYD (1887-1969)

• * The Ways of Life, (ss) Masses Dec 1915

DERIEUX, SAMUEL A. (1881-1922)

• * The Destiny of Dan VI, (ss) The American Magazine Mar 1917
• * Her Sammy, (ss) Every Week Jul 10 1916
• * The Magnet, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 27 1916

DEUTSCH, HERMANN BACHER

• * Via the Milky Way, (ss) Every Week Nov 13 1916

DICKSON, HARRIS (1868-?)

• * Concerning a Quart, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 22 1916
• * The Custard Nine, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 25 1914
• * The Dark Horse, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 15 1916
• * The Jigadier Brindle, (ss) Colliers Jul 14 1917
• * The Jigadier’s Drum, (ss) Colliers Sep 29 1917
• * The Left Hind Tail, (ss) Pictorial Review Feb 1917
• * The Man in the End Room, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1916
• * Redpate the Rookie, (ss) Colliers Jul 21 1917
• * The Sole President, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 18 1916
• * The Striped Man, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1915
• * Suspicion, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 29 1915
• * The Truth and the Corpus Delicti, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 30 1916
• * The War Trailer, (ss) Colliers Sep 15 1917
• * When Pussy-Foot Came to Town, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 14 1914

DILL, MABEL MARTIN

• * The Understandy Little Girl, (ss) Pictorial Review Jan 1916

DIVINE, CHARLES (1889-?)

• * The Last Aristocrat, (ss) The Smart Set Apr 1917
• * Mrs. Smythe’s Artistic Crisis, (ss) The Smart Set Mar 1917

DIX, BEULAH MARIE; [Mrs. George H. Fiebbe] (1876-1970)

• * Across the Border, (ss) Good Housekeeping Feb 1915
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 16 1916
• * The Bend of the Stair, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Mar 1915
• * Fool of Fate, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Jun 1916
• * Journey’s End, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Jan 1916
• * The One Who Stayed, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Sep 1917
• * “Pussy-Cat! Pussy-Cat!”, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar May 1916
• * The Thing That Couldn’t Happen, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Oct 1915
• * Where Thomas Bailey Aldrich Wrote “The Story of a Bad Boy”, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Feb 1916

DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL (1881-1943)

• * The Empty Pistol, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1917
• * The Failure, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Apr 1916
• * The Figure of a Snake, (ss) The Smart Set May 1916
• * Four Saturdays, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916
• * The Gift, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917
• * Laughter, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1917
• * Our Dog, (ss) Pictorial Review Nov 1917
• * The Road from Potterville, (ss) Scribner’s May 1916
• * The Sign Language, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1917
• * Where the Road Forked, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1917

DODGE, HENRY IRVING

• * Skinner’s Big Idea, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 15 1917
• * Skinner’s Dress Suit, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 1916

DODGE, LOUIS (1870-?)

• * Wilder’s Ride, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1917

DODGE, MABEL

• * Farmhands, (ss) Seven Arts Sep 1917

DODGE, MARGARET

• * The Damaged-Dogs Man, (ss) The Century Sep 1914
• * The Oasis, (ss) The Century Aug 1914
• * Whispering Mary, (ss) Munsey’s Nov 1916

DONAHEY, MARY DICKERSON

• * The Collector of Cinderellas, (ss) The Smart Set Jan 1916

DONN-BYRNE, BRYAN OSWALD (1889-1928); see pseudonym Donn Byrne

DONNELL, ANNIE HAMILTON (1862-?)

• * The Beautiful Thing, (ss) Colliers Oct 17 1914
• * The Glory, (ss) Colliers Feb 27 1915

DORING, WINFIELD

• * A Boy’s Night, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jan 1917

DOTY, MADELEINE ZABRISKIE

• * Mutter, Die, (ss)
  • Current Opinion May 1917

DOTY, WALTER G.

• * Father’s Peril, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Mar 26 1916

DOUGLAS, DAVID

• * Casey, (ss) McClure’s Oct 1915
• * Casey Gets a Surprise, (ss) McClure’s Feb 1917
• * Casey Makes a Governor, (ss) McClure’s Dec 1915
• * Casey Plays ’Possum, (ss) McClure’s Nov 1915

DOUNCE, HARRY ESTY

• * The Garden of Proserpine, (ss) The Century Aug 1917

DOWNIE, VALE

• * The Confidential Doll Insurance Co, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1914
• * Prester Jim, (ss) Every Week Oct 25 1915
• * Robin the Bobbin, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1914

DOWST, HENRY PAYSON (1876-?)

• * The Tempter and Maria, (ss) Colliers Jan 10 1914

DOYLE, [Sir] ARTHUR (Ignatius) CONAN (1859-1930)

• * His Last Bow [Sherlock Holmes], (ss) The Strand Sep 1917
  • Colliers Sep 22 1917
• * The Prisoner’s Defense, (ss) Colliers Jan 8 1916

DOYLE, LYNN; pseudonym of Leslie Alexander Montgomery

• * Compulsory Service in Ballygullion, (ss) The Century Apr 1917

DRAPER, JOHN W.

• * Guilleford Errant, (ss) Colonnade Mar 1917

DRAYHAM, WILLIAM; pseudonym of H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956)

• * Children of Apollo, (ss) The Smart Set Dec 1915
• * The Deathbed, (ss) The Smart Set May 1916

DREISER, THEODORE (1871-1945)

• * The Lost Phoebe, (ss) The Century Apr 1916
• * Married, (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1917

DRIGGS, LAURENCE LA TOURETTE (1876-1945)

• * The Battle Royal, (ss) Outlook Nov 21 1917
• * The Bridge on the Oise, (ss) Outlook Oct 31 1917
• * My First Submarine, (ss) Outlook Nov 7 1917
• * Strafing Jack Johnson, (ss) Outlook Dec 5 1917
• * A Zeppelin Raid over Paris, (ss) Outlook Oct 17 1917

DRISCOLL, LOUISE

• * A Lear of the Tenements, (ss) Colliers Oct 10 1914

DUCEY, LILIAN

• * “I’m Going to Marry Peggy”, (ss) Every Week Jun 28 1915

DUDENEY, HENRY, Mrs.; [i.e., Alice Whittier Dudeney] (1866-1945)

• * The Feather-bed, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1917
• * Great-Grandfather’s Landscape, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1916
• * On Truly Hill, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1914
• * The Plum-Pudding Dog, (ss) Harper’s May 1916
• * The Royal Way, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1915
• * A Worker in Fine Flax, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1916

DUER, CAROLINE KING (1865-?)

• * The Disengaged, (ss) The Century Dec 1914
• * The Man Who Was Too Good, (ss) The Century Feb 1915
• * What a Woman Wants, (ss) The Century Feb 1914

DUFFY, ALICE E.

• * The Dual Life of Ariana, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1916
• * Love in a Mask, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1914

DUNBLANE, NORA

• * Jasmine’s Decision, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 19 1915
• * The Sweet White Gardenia, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 21 1915

DUNCAN, NORMAN (1871-1916)

• * Affair of Ha-Ha Shallow, (ss) Red Book Magazine Dec 1916
• * Battle Royal, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 3 1915
• * A Certain Recipient, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1915
• * The Doctor of Afternoon Arm, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Apr 1916
• * Huskie Dog, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1916
• * A Hypothetical Case, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1915
• * The Last Lucifer, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 8 1916
• * The Last Shot in the Locker, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 25 1916
• * The Law in His Own Hands, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 2 1916
• * The Little Fiddler of Amen Island, (ss) Every Week Apr 24 1916
• * A Little Nipper o’ Hide-an’-Seek Harbor, (ss) Pictorial Review May 1917
• * Madman’s Luck, (ss) Every Week Oct 16 1916
• * Mohammed of the Lion Heart, (ss) The Delineator Aug 1917
• * A Nice Little Morsel o’ Dog Meat, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 16 1915
• * A Point of Honor, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915
• * The Red Koran, (ss) The Delineator Dec 1916
• * The Siren of Scalawag Run, (ss) The Delineator Nov 1916
• * Snow-Blind, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 16 1916
• * Two Men of Linger Tickle, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jul 1916
• * White Water, (ss) Red Book Magazine Aug 1916
• * The Wreck of the Rough-an’-Tumble, (ss) Red Book Magazine Jul 1916

DUNN, J(oseph) ALLAN (Elphinstone) (1872-1941)

• * The Island of the Four M’s, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 20 1915
• * Tamatan of Totulu, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 3 1914

DUNNING, HAROLD WOLCOTT

• * The Little Captain, (ss) Pictorial Review Jun 1915

DUNRAR, OLIVIA HOWARD

• * The “Destroying Angel”, (ss) McBride’s Dec 1915
• * Educating the Binneys, (ss) Scribner’s Jul 1915
• * The Long Chamber, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1914
• * The Phoenix, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1915
• * Whose Is This Image?, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915

DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th Baron

• * Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Mar 10 1916
• * East and West, (ss) The Fabulist Spr 1916
  • Reedy’s Mirror Jan 19 1917
• * The Gifts of the Gods, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Oct 5 1917