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The Best Short Stories of 1916 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1917, 472pp, hc)

7 • The Sacrificial Altar • Gertrude Atherton • nv Harper’s Monthly Aug ’16
37 • Miss Willett • Barry Benefield • ss The Century Sep ’16
52 • Supers • Frederick Booth • ss Seven Arts Dec ’16
58 • Fog • Dana Burnet • ss McBride’s Feb ’16
75 • Ma’s Pretties • Francis Buzzell • ss Pictorial Review Aug ’16
85 • The Great Auk • Irvin S. Cobb • nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 ’16
115 • The Lost Phoebe • Theodore Dreiser • ss The Century Apr ’16
133 • The Silent Infare • Armistead C. Gordon • ss Scribner’s Mar ’16
149 • The Cat of the Cane-Brake • Frederick Stuart Greene • ss Metropolitan Magazine Aug ’16
162 • Making Port • Richard Matthews Hallet • ss Every Week Mar 20 ’16
181 • “Ice Water, Pl—!” • Fannie Hurst • nv Colliers Oct 21 ’16
212 • Little Selves • Mary Lerner • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’16
226 • The Sun Chaser • Jeannette Marks • nv Pictorial Review Nov ’16
262 • At the End of the Road • Walter J. Muilenburg • ss The Forum May ’16
272 • The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights • Albert Du Verney Pentz • vi Boston Evening Transcript Nov 7 ’16
275 • The Menorah • Benjamin Rosenblatt • ss The Bellman May 6 ’16
282 • Penance • Elsie Singmaster • ss Pictorial Review Oct ’16
294 • Feet of Gold • Gordon Arthur Smith • nv Scribner’s Aug ’16
322 • Down on Their Knees • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Harper’s Jul ’16
349 • Half-Past Ten • Alice L. Tildesley • ss The Black Cat Aug ’16
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1918, 600pp, hc)

1 • The Excursion • Edwina Stanton Babcock • ss Pictorial Review Oct ’17
20 • Onnie • Thomas Beer • nv The Century May ’17
45 • A Cup of Tea • Maxwell Struthers Burt • nv Scribner’s Jul ’17
70 • Lonely Places • Francis Buzzell • ss Pictorial Review Dec ’17
86 • Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest] • Irvin S. Cobb • nv The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 ’17
128 • Laughter • Charles Caldwell Dobie • ss Harper’s Apr ’17
147 • The Emperor of Elam • H. G. Dwight • nv The Century Jul ’17
208 • The Gay Old Dog • Edna Ferber • nv Metropolitan Magazine Oct ’17
234 • The Knight’s Move • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Atlantic Monthly Feb ’17
256 • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
283 • The Bunker Mouse • Frederick Stuart Greene • nv The Century Mar ’17
307 • Rainbow Pete • Richard Matthews Hallet • ss Pictorial Review Oct ’17
326 • Get Ready the Wreaths • Fannie Hurst • nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’17
361 • The Strange-Looking Man • Fanny Kemble Johnson • ss The Pagan Dec ’17
365 • The Caller in the Night • Burton Kline • ss Stratford Journal Dec ’17
383 • The Interval • Vincent O’Sullivan • ss Boston Evening Transcript Sep 8 ’17
391 • “A Certain Rich Man—” • Lawrence Perry • nv Scribner’s Nov ’17
412 • The Path of Glory • Mary Brecht Pulver • nv The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 ’17
441 • Ching, Ching, Chinaman • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Pictorial Review Jun ’17
468 • None So Blind • Mary Synon • ss Harper’s Oct ’17
The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1919, 441pp, hc)

3 • A Simple Act of Piety • Achmed Abdullah • ss All-Story Weekly Apr 20 ’18
24 • Cruelties • Edwina Stanton Babcock • ss Harper’s May ’18
43 • Buster • Katharine Holland Brown • ss Scribner’s Aug ’18
61 • The Open Window [Flavio Minetti] • Charles Caldwell Dobie • nv Harper’s Aug ’18
85 • Blind Vision • Mary Mitchell Freedley • ss The Century Jan ’18
92 • Imagination • Gordon Hall Gerould • ss Scribner’s Aug ’18
109 • In Maulmain Fever-Ward • George Gilbert • ss The Green Book Magazine Oct ’18
125 • The Father’s Hand • G. Humphrey • ss The Bookman Jun ’18
131 • The Visit of the Master • Arthur Johnson • ss Harper’s Feb ’18
149 • In the Open Code • Burton Kline • ss Stratford Journal Feb ’18
154 • The Willow Walk • Sinclair Lewis • nv The Saturday Evening Post Aug 10 ’18
191 • The Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie • Katharine Prescott Moseley • ss Scribner’s Sep ’18
200 • The Toast to Forty-Five • William Dudley Pelley • nv Pictorial Review May ’18
223 • Extra Men • Harrison Rhodes • ss Harper’s Jul ’18
232 • Solitaire • Fleta Campbell Springer • nv Harper’s Jan ’18
258 • The Dark Hour • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Atlantic Monthly May ’18
268 • The Bird of Serbia • Julian Street • nv Colliers Aug 31 ’18
293 • At Isham’s • Edward C. Venable • ss Scribner’s Jul ’18
305 • De Vilmarte’s Luck • Mary Heaton Vorse • ss Harper’s Mar ’18
325 • The White Battalion • Frances Gilchrist Wood • ss The Bookman May ’18
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1920, 414pp, hc)

3 • The Kitchen Gods • G. F. Alsop • nv The Century Sep ’19
24 • An Awakening • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Little Review Dec ’18
34 • Willum’s Vanilla • Edwina Stanton Babcock • nv Harper’s Apr ’19
65 • A Night Among the Horses • Djuna Barnes • ss The Little Review Dec ’18
74 • Long, Long Ago • Frederick Orin Bartlett • ss The Bellman Jan 11 ’19
82 • Dishes • Agnes Mary Brownell • ss Pictorial Review Apr ’19
96 • The Blood-Red One • Maxwell Struthers Burt • ss Scribner’s Nov ’18
108 • The Wedding-Jest • James Branch Cabell • ss The Century Sep ’19
123 • The Wrists on the Door • Horace Fish • nv Everybody’s Magazine May ’19
147 • “Government Goat” • Susan Glaspell • ss Pictorial Review Apr ’19
167 • The Stone • Henry Goodman • ss Pictorial Review Feb ’19
178 • To the Bitter End • Richard Matthews Hallet • nv The Saturday Evening Post May 31 ’19
200 • The Meeker Ritual • Joseph Hergesheimer • nv The Century Jun ’19
225 • The Centenarian • Will E. Ingersoll • ss Harper’s May ’19
237 • Messengers • Calvin Johnson • nv The Saturday Evening Post May 31 ’19
269 • Mrs. Drainger’s Veil • Howard Mumford Jones • nv The Smart Set Dec ’18
297 • Under a Wine-Glass • Ellen N. La Motte • ss The Century Dec ’18
305 • A Thing of Beauty • Elias Lieberman • ss The American Hebrew Jun 27 ’19
312 • Other Room • Mary Heaton Vorse • ss McCall’s Apr ’19
326 • “The Fat of the Land” • Anzia Yezierska • nv The Century Aug ’19
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1921, 500pp, hc)

3 • The Other Woman • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Little Review May-Jun ’20
12 • Gargoyle • Edwina Stanton Babcock • nv Harper’s Sep ’20
36 • Ghitza • Konrad Bercovici • ss The Dial Feb ’20
49 • The Life of Five Points • Edna Clare Bryner • ss The Dial, 1920
66 • The Signal Tower • Wadsworth Camp • ss Metropolitan Magazine May ’20
83 • The Parting Genius • Helen Coale Crew • ss The Midland Jul ’20
90 • Habakkuk • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Scribner’s Nov ’19
116 • The Judgment of Vulcan • Lee Foster Hartman • nv Harper’s Mar ’20
148 • The Stick-in-the-Muds • Rupert Hughes • nv Colliers Sep 25 ’20
169 • His Job • Grace Sartwell Mason • nv Scribner’s Apr ’20
187 • The Rending • James Oppenheim • ss The Dial Jul ’20
198 • The Dummy-Chucker • Arthur Somers Roche • ss Cosmopolitan Jun ’20
214 • Butterflies • Rose Sidney • nv Pictorial Review Sep ’20
236 • The Rotter • Fleta Campbell Springer • nv Harper’s Jul ’20
266 • Out of Exile • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Pictorial Review Nov ’19
293 • The Three Telegrams • Ethel Storm • ss Ladies Home Journal Oct ’19
312 • The Roman Bath • John T. Wheelwright • ss Scribner’s Jan ’20
320 • Amazement • Stephen French Whitman • nv Harper’s Oct ’19
348 • Sheener • Ben Ames Williams • ss Colliers Jul 10 ’20
359 • Turkey Red • Frances Gilchrist Wood • ss Pictorial Review Nov ’19
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1922, 506pp, hc)

3 • Brothers • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Bookman Apr ’21
13 • Fanutza • Konrad Bercovici • ss The Dial May ’21
28 • Experiment • Maxwell Struthers Burt • nv Pictorial Review Jun ’21
52 • Darkness • Irvin S. Cobb • nv The Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 ’21
82 • An Instrument of the Gods • Lincoln Colcord • nv The American Magazine Apr ’21
109 • The Lizard God • Charles J. Finger • nv All’s Well Dec ’20
130 • Under the Dome • Waldo Frank • ss The Dial Oct ’20
142 • French Eva • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Scribner’s Nov ’20
168 • The Past • Ellen Glasgow • nv Good Housekeeping Oct ’20
194 • His Smile • Susan Glaspell • ss Pictorial Review Jan ’21
207 • The Harbor Master • Richard Matthews Hallet • nv Harper’s Jun ’21
240 • Green Gardens • Frances Noyes Hart • ss Scribner’s Jul ’21
253 • She Walks in Beauty • Fannie Hurst • nv Cosmopolitan Aug ’21
288 • The Little Master of the Sky • Manuel Komroff • ss The Dial Apr ’21
300 • The Man with the Good Face • Frank Luther Mott • nv The Midland Dec ’20
321 • Master of Fallen Years • Vincent O’Sullivan • ss The Smart Set Aug ’21
337 • The Shame Dance • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Harper’s Dec ’20
362 • Kindred • Harriet Maxon Thayer • nv The Midland Jul ’21
386 • Shelby • Charles Hanson Towne • ss The Smart Set Oct ’20
401 • The Wallow of the Sea • Mary Heaton Vorse • ss Harper’s Aug ’21
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1923, 389pp, hc)

3 • The Dark City • Conrad Aiken • ss The Dial Apr ’22
13 • I’m a Fool • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Feb ’22
25 • The Death of Murdo • Konrad Bercovici • ss Pictorial Review Jul ’22
42 • An Unknown Warrior • Susan M. Boogher • ss The Junior League Bulletin Jan ’22
49 • The Helpless Ones • Frederick Booth • ss Broom Dec ’21
70 • Forest Cover • Edna Bryner • ss The Bookman Jan ’22
83 • Natalka’s Portion • Rose Gollup Cohen • ss Pictorial Review Jan ’22
100 • The Shame of Gold • Charles J. Finger • ss The Century Mar ’22
115 • Two for a Cent • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Metropolitan Magazine Apr ’22
132 • John the Baptist • Waldo Frank • ss The Dial Sep ’22
151 • Mendel Marantz—Housewife • David Freedman • ss Pictorial Review Apr ’22
171 • Belshazzar’s Letter • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Metropolitan Magazine Jun ’22
195 • Winkelburg • Ben Hecht • ss The Smart Set Mar ’22
203 • The Token • Joseph Hergesheimer • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 22 ’21
232 • The Resurrection and the Life • William Jitro • ss The Literary Review Spr ’22
242 • The Golden Honeymoon • Ring W. Lardner • ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’22
260 • He Laughed at the Gods • James Oppenheim • ss Broom Nov ’21
270 • In the Metropolis • Benjamin Rosenblatt • vi Brief Stories Dec ’21
273 • From the Other Side of the South • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Pictorial Review Aug ’22
293 • The Coffin • Clement Wood • ss The Pagan Dec-Jan ’22
The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1924, 544pp, hc)

3 • Way for a Sailor • Bill Adams • nv Pictorial Review Apr ’23
30 • The Man’s Story • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Dial Sep ’23
50 • Mr. Cardeezer • Edwina Stanton Babcock • nv Harper’s May ’23
81 • Seed • Konrad Bercovici • ss Harper’s Aug ’23
98 • Beyond the Cross • Dana Burnet • nv Pictorial Review Feb ’23
125 • Ignition • Valma Clark • ss Scribner’s Jan ’23
144 • The Chocolate Hyena • Irvin S. Cobb • nv Cosmopolitan Jul ’23
170 • The Samovar • John Cournos • ss The Dial Jun ’23
183 • Reina • Theodore Dreiser • nv The Century Sep ’23
216 • Home Girl • Edna Ferber • nv Pictorial Review Nov ’22
240 • Button • Henry Goodman • nv Clay Sum ’23
263 • My Old Man • Ernest Hemingway • ss Three Stories and Ten Poems, McAlman’s Contract Publishing Co., 1923; given as by Ernest Hemenway.
277 • Seven Candles • Fannie Hurst • nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’23
307 • The Today Tomorrow • Margaret Prescott Montague • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’23
322 • The Contract of Corporal Twing • Solon K. Stewart • ss Harper’s Feb ’23
339 • By Due Process of Law • F. J. Stimson • nv Scribner’s Apr ’23
362 • Renters • Ruth Suckow • nv The Century Aug ’23
385 • Blood-Burning Moon • Jean Toomer • ss Prairie Mar-Apr ’23
394 • The Promise • Mary Heaton Vorse • ss Harper’s Jul ’23
414 • Flora and Fauna [Ma Pettengill] • Harry Leon Wilson • nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 30 ’22
The Best Short Stories of 1924 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1925, 367pp, hc)

3 • Champlin • Morgan Burke • ss Blue Book Aug ’24
19 • Billy [“The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips”] • Mildred Cram • ss Harper’s Sep ’24
39 • Phantom Adventure • Floyd Dell • ss The Century Dec ’23
53 • The Cracked Teapot • Charles Caldwell Dobie • ss Harper’s Jan ’24
70 • The Last Dive • Carlos Drake • ss Transatlantic Review Jul ’24
74 • Adventures of Andrew Lang • Charles J. Finger • nv The Century Jul ’24
95 • The Biography of Blade • Zona Gale • ss The Century Jul ’24
100 • Corputt • Tupper Greenwald • ss The Midland Oct ’23
110 • The Young Men Go Down • Harry Hervey • ss The Nation Jan 30 ’24
119 • The Lesser Gift • Leonard L. Hess • ss Phantasmus Jun ’24
137 • Grudges • Rupert Hughes • ss Liberty Magazine Jul 12 ’24
155 • A Postscript to Divorce • Gouverneur Morris • ss Hearst’s International Sep ’24
167 • Forgiveness • Lizette Woodworth Reese • ss Outlook Jul 16 ’24
175 • Nocturne: A Red Shawl • Roger Sergel • ss Phantasmus May ’24
191 • The Black Laugh • A. B. Shiffrin • ss The American Hebrew Aug 8 ’24
198 • Four Generations • Ruth Suckow • ss The American Mercury Jan ’24
211 • Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge • Melvin Van Den Bark • ss The Midland Jun-Aug ’24
228 • The Poet • Warren L. Van Dine • ss The Midland Jan ’24
240 • In a Thicket • Glenway Wescott • ss The Dial Jun ’24
248 • Shoes • Frances Gilchrist Wood • ss Harper’s Dec ’23
The Best Short Stories of 1925 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1926, 449pp, hc)

1 • The Gift • Sandra Alexander • ss The Reviewer Apr ’25
21 • The Return • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Century May ’25
39 • Gertrude Donovan • Nathan Asch • ss Transatlantic Review Dec ’24
53 • Guard of Honor • Barry Benefield • ss Pictorial Review Jul ’25
64 • The Beggar of Alcazar • Konrad Bercovici • ss The Century Feb ’25
81 • The Laugh • Bella Cohen • ss The Calendar of Modern Letters Jul ’25
85 • The Hands of the Enemy • Charles Caldwell Dobie • ss Harper’s Mar ’25
105 • The City of Refuge • Rudolph Fisher • ss Atlantic Monthly Feb ’25
122 • An Army with Banners • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • nv Harper’s Aug ’25
148 • Coward’s Castle • Walter Gilkyson • ss Atlantic Monthly Oct ’24
167 • How Does It Feel to Be Free? • Manuel Komroff • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’25
174 • Haircut • Ring Lardner • ss Liberty Magazine Mar 28 ’25
186 • The Ill Wind • Robert Robinson • ss Colliers Aug 29 ’25
195 • The Old Lady • Evelyn Scott • ss The Dial May ’25
207 • Old Man Ledge • May Stanley • nv Pictorial Review Jun ’25
228 • Six Dollars • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Pictorial Review Mar ’25
253 • The Home Town • Milton Waldman • ss The London Mercury Dec ’24
270 • Fire and Water • Glenway Wescott • ss Colliers Jul 4 ’25
287 • The Devil Drum • Barrett Willoughby • nv The Century Jan ’25
311 • Gideon’s Revenge • Elinor Wylie • ss The Century Jan ’25
The Best Short Stories of 1926 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 464pp, hc)

1 • Carrie Snyder [“With Banners Blowing”] • Barry Benefield • ss Woman’s Home Companion May ’26
19 • Maudie • Ada Jack Carver • ss Harper’s Jul ’26
36 • The Glass Eye of Throgmorton • Donald Corley • ss Pictorial Review Jun ’26
56 • Take the Stand, Please • Chester T. Crowell • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 28 ’26
71 • Bound for the Rio Grande • A. E. Dingle • ss Liberty Magazine Dec 20 ’24
90 • Query • Henry Walbridge Dudley • ss The Midland Jan ’26
98 • Symphonesque • Arthur Huff Fauset • ss Opportunity Jun ’26
114 • Evening • Zona Gale • ss The Bookman Dec ’25
120 • Wheels • Tupper Greenwald • ss The Midland Feb ’26
127 • The Undefeated • Ernest Hemingway • nv This Quarter Fll ’25
156 • The Christian Bite • Manuel Komroff • ss Atlantic Monthly Mar ’26
171 • Then Christs Fought Hard • Milutin Krunich • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’25
185 • Travelogue • Ring W. Lardner • ss Cosmopolitan May ’26
197 • The First Stone • Grace Sartwell Mason • ss Harper’s Aug ’26
210 • Grimaldi • Susan Meriwether • ss The Junior League Bulletin Jan ’26
220 • A Tale from the Grave • Ira V. Morris, Jr. • ss The Calendar of Modern Letters Feb ’26
237 • Extra! Extra! • Robert E. Sherwood • ss Scribner’s Jul ’26
244 • Out of the Wind • Wilbur Daniel Steele • ss Pictorial Review Oct ’25
264 • The Other Road • Edward L. Strater • ss Scribner’s Mar ’26
282 • The Giant’s Thunder • Virginia Tracy • ss Pictorial Review Oct ’25

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