Miscellaneous Anthologies Index

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The Best British Short Stories 1940 & The Yearbook of the British and Irish Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1940, 294pp, hc) 1 · The Fishing Boat · Martin Armstrong · ss The Listener Jul 20 1939 10 · Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond · Nugent Barker · nv The Cornhill Magazine Jul 1939 32 · The Bridge · H. E. Bates · ss Horizon Jan 1940 50 · His Fortieth Birthday · T. O. Beachcroft · ss Story Jan/Feb 1940 64 · Sympathy · Frances Bellerby · ss The Listener Mar 28 1940 68 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1939; Harper’s Bazaar (UK) Sep 1939 79 · The Wages of Love · Rhys Davies · ss Horizon Feb 1940 87 · The Black House · Margiad Evans · ss The Welsh Review Jun 1939 94 · He Had Been Told · Walter Gladden · ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 14 1940 98 · Ap Town · Geraint Goodwin · ss The Welsh Review Nov 1939 110 · Stained Glass · Oliver Gossman · ss The Manchester Guardian Jun 23 1939 113 · Room Wanted · G. F. Green · ss Horizon Feb 1940 119 · Time Wasted? · Leslie Halward · ss The Listener Aug 17 1939 127 · The Fair · Edgar Howard · ss The Welsh Review Sep 1939 135 · I Am Waiting · Christopher Isherwood · ss The New Yorker Oct 21 1939 144 · The Apple-Tree · Glyn Jones · ss Life and Letters Today Mar 1940 153 · The Buttercup Field · Gwyn Jones · ss The Welsh Review Aug 1939 163 · A Bit of a Do · Eric Knight · ss The Listener Feb 1 1940 173 · The Apple · Elisabeth Kyle · ss The Manchester Guardian Dec 7 1939 176 · The Wanderers · Alun Lewis · ss The Welsh Review Oct 1939 191 · Stories · Ethel Mannin · ss Adelphi Jan 1940 197 · First Confession · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul 1939 204 · The Saint · V. S. Pritchett · ss Horizon Apr 1940 217 · The Coat · Henry Handel Richardson · ss Good Housekeeping (UK) Feb 1940 228 · Vi’let · Howard Spring · ss The Red Book Magazine Feb 1940 248 · The Pedigree Pup · T. Thompson · ss The Listener Nov 23 1939 254 · Blind Man’s Buff · Robert Westerby · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jan 5 1940 260 · The Nawpin’ Stick · Malachi Whitaker · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Apr 19 1940 269 · Iron on Iron · Woodrow Wyatt · ss Kingdom Come Spr 1940

The Best British Short Stories of 1926 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 427pp, hc) 3 · The Awakening · Stella Benson · ss The Bookman Dec 1925 12 · The Devil’s Own Luck · John D. Beresford · ss The Century Magazine May 1926 24 · The Mousetrap · Gerald Bullett · ss Saturday Review (UK) Nov 14 1925 33 · The Dream of Ah Lum · Thomas Burke · ss Cosmopolitan Oct 1925 46 · The Box · Richard Carol · vi The London Daily News Jan 11 1926 48 · The Field of Mustard · A. E. Coppard · ss The Criterion Apr 1925 58 · Mr. Kempe · Walter de la Mare · nv Harper’s Nov 1925 88 · A Country House · Dorothy Edwards · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters Aug 1925 102 · The Aunt Sally · Constance Holme · ss Adelphi Jun 1925 109 · Half Holiday · Aldous Huxley · ss Harper’s Sep 1925 126 · The Prevailing Ill · Humfrey Jordan · nv Blackwood’s Nov 1925 161 · The Woman Who Rode Away · D. H. Lawrence · nv The Dial Jul-Aug 1925 202 · Step-Mother Earth · Ena Limebeer · ss The Nation Dec 19 1925 206 · Down and Out · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian Dec 18 1925 210 · Crazywell · Eden Phillpotts · nv The Pall Mall Magazine Dec 1906; The Graphic Christmas 1925 243 · Defeat · Edward Scouller · ss The New Leader May 28 1926 255 · Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe · Jan Struther · ss G.K.’s Weekly Oct 24 1925 262 · Mr. Oddy · Hugh Walpole · ss Cosmopolitan Mar 1926 279 · Pound for Pound · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 26 1925 312 · Balalaika · Francis Brett Young · ss Story-Teller Jan 1926 321 · The Piper · Thomas Kelly · ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 18 1926 325 · The Inquisition · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Adelphi Mar 1926

The Best British Short Stories of 1927 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 427pp, hc) 3 · The Idealist · Mary Arden · ss Adelphi Aug 1926 14 · The Spoil-Sport · Stacy Aumonier · ss Pearson’s Magazine Sep 1926 31 · Hate · H. H. Bashford · ss The Grand Magazine Nov 1926 44 · Fear · H. E. Bates · ss The Nation Mar 1926 49 · The Indomitable Mrs. Garthorne · J. D. Beresford · nv Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Feb 1927 72 · “Just Imagine...” · Elizabeth Bowen · ss Eve Magazine Christmas 1926 85 · The Three Scholars · Osbert Burdett · ss New Criterion Jan 1927 104 · Purl and Plain · David Garnett · ss Vogue (UK) Jul 1926 111 · The ’Cello · T. G. G.-A. · ss Adelphi Nov 1926 116 · The Most Miserable of Men · Desmond MacCarthy · ss The Empire Review May 1926 127 · Funeral March of a Marionette · John Metcalfe · ss The Independent Jan 1 1927 136 · Lost Property · R. H. Mottram · ss The English Review Jan 1927 148 · A Tale That Was Told · L. A. Pavey · ss The Manchester Guardian Apr 19 1927 153 · Tragedy in a Greek Theatre · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Cornhill Magazine Jan 1927 169 · A Kind of Freedom · Anthony Richardson · ss The Royal Magazine Oct 1926 184 · The Lock · Edward Sackville-West · nv The Forum Jan 1927 210 · The Sheep · Mary Somerville · ss The Century Magazine Apr 1927 228 · The Emptied Sack · Daniel Corkery · ss The Dial Aug 1926 241 · The Informer · Shaw Desmond · ss Scribner’s Jan 1927 255 · Getting Even · Thomas Kelly · vi The Manchester Guardian May 10 1927 258 · The Bomb-Shop · Seán O’Faoláin · ss The Dial Mar 1927 273 · Rebels They Were Called · K. F. Purdon · nv Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Mar 1927 296 · The Quest · Lennox Robinson · ss The Dial Oct 1926

The Best British Short Stories of 1928 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 360pp, hc) 3 · Old Beetle’s Crime · Alex. Barber · ss The Queen May 30 1928 10 · The Cornet-Player · Arnold Bennett · ss The Strand Aug 1927 24 · The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub · Ernest Bramah · nv The London Mercury Sep 1927 55 · Dick’s Hatband · Dora M. Broome · ss The Manchester Guardian Aug 2 1927 58 · Fine Feathers · A. E. Coppard · nv Bermondsey Book Dec-Jan ’28 1927 84 · Furniture · Anne Corner · ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 3 1927 88 · “Le Petit Rabbin” · Louis Golding · ss Bermondsey Book Sep-Nov 1927 98 · “Every Twenty Years” · Ray Coryton Hutchinson · ss The Empire Review Jan 1928 111 · A Wedding Morn · Sheila Kaye-Smith · nv Story-Teller Dec 1927 140 · Pascoe’s Song · Charles Lee · ss The English Review Mar 1928 146 · Brotherhood · H. A. Manhood · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 11 1927 151 · The Bride’s Dream · Adelaide Eden Phillpotts · ss Good Housekeeping (UK) May 1928 168 · The Man Who Didn’t Laugh · Herbert Shaw · ss The Century Magazine Nov 1927 184 · Travellers · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Dial Feb 1928 198 · The Heller · Henry Williamson · ss Atlantic Monthly May 1928 211 · Poultry, 2s 6d. · Margaret Fane & Hilary Lofting · ss The Bulletin Christmas 1927 222 · La Divina Pastora · C. L. R. James · ss Saturday Review (UK) Oct 15 1927 227 · Blind Justice · Ethelreda Lewis · ss Outspan Jun 24 1927 241 · Of Their Kin · J. Bernard MacCarthy · ss The Manchester Guardian Jan 23 1928 245 · The Lamplighter · A. W. Wells · ss Outspan May 6 1927

The Best British Short Stories of 1929 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 363pp, hc) 3 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury Feb 1929 23 · Whessoe · Nugent Barker · ss Life and Letters Dec 1928 35 · The Child · H. E. Bates · ss The Criterion Jan 1929 40 · The Man Who Missed the ’Bus · Stella Benson · ss Harper’s Monthly Mar 1929 58 · A Russian Story · David Garnett · ss Life and Letters Nov 1928 72 · The Derelict · Eleanor Gaukroger · vi The Manchester Guardian Apr 18 1929 75 · Egyptian Nocturne · E. D. Goitein · ss The New Statesman Nov 10 1928 80 · The Door in the Attic · Dorothy Johnson · ss The English Review Aug 1928 92 · The Dancers · Eric Linklater · ss The London Mercury May 1929 112 · The Hag of Auvergne · J. B. Morton · ss The New Statesman May 25 1929 117 · “John Gladwin Says...” · Oliver Onions · ss The London Magazine Aug 1928 131 · A Man of Letters · Sir Squire Sprigge, M.D. · nv The Cornhill Magazine Oct 1928 170 · “Prongs” · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Mar 30 1929 178 · The Escape · E. H. Lacon Watson · ss The London Mercury Nov 1928 192 · Frost in April · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi Mar-May 1929 202 · The Raid · George A. Birmingham · ss The Forum Sep 1928 217 · The Ruining of Dromacurrig · Daniel Corkery · ss Columbia 1928 230 · The Smiling Faces · Brinsley MacNamara · ss The Dublin Magazine Jan-Mar 1929 240 · Lai John · Alfred H. Mendes & Algernon Wharton · ss The London Mercury Jan 1929 250 · After Fourteen Years · Frank O’Connor · ss The Dublin Magazine Apr-Jun 1928 256 · Fugue · Seán O’Faoláin · ss The Hound and Horn Sep 1928 274 · Mated · Margaret O’Leary · ss The Dial Apr 1929 287 · Desolation · Pauline Smith · ss Woman’s Journal Jul 1928

The Best British Short Stories of 1930 with an Irish and Colonial Supplement ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 284pp, hc) 3 · Love to the Angels · Mary Arden · ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug 1929 13 · Stays · G. M. Attenborough · ss The Cornhill Magazine Dec 1929; Vanity Fair Mar 1930 24 · The Comic Actor · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman Jun 1929 33 · Tam McWhirker’s Elephant · Richard Carol · ss The Strand Jan 1930 44 · The Journey · Padraic Colum · ss The Dial Jun 1929 58 · The Miracle · Lily Anne Coppard · ss The Manchester Guardian Jan 15 1930 62 · The Vocation · Kathleen Coyle · ss Bermondsey Book Jun-Aug 1929 72 · “The Mother · Richmal Crompton · ss Woman Jul 5 1929 92 · Revelation · Rhys Davies · ss This Quarter Oct-Dec 1929 104 · The Way He Went · Norah Holt · ss This Quarter Jan-Mar 1930 120 · Why Adonis Laughed · Sarah Gertrude Millin · ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug 1929; The Forum Jul 1929 126 · Happy Ending? · Naomi Mitchison · ss The Cornhill Magazine Apr 1930 141 · Culpability · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian Apr 15 1930 145 · Miss Naseby’s Life · Florida Pier · ss The Fortnightly Review Oct 1929 163 · The Corsican Inn · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Fortnightly Review Feb 1930 171 · The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth · Lorna Rea · ss Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Dec 1929 179 · First Blood · Herbert Read · ss This Quarter Jul-Sep 1929 183 · The Bath · Henry Handel Richardson · ss Harper’s Oct 1929 187 · Hellmut Lies in the Sun · Edward Sackville-West · ss The London Mercury Jun 1929 213 · Orpheus · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Century Magazine Jul 1927; John o’ London’s Weekly Aug 24 1929 220 · Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss Atlantic Monthly Jul 1929 231 · The Secret · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi Jun-Aug 1929 234 · I Met a Man Going to St. Neots · Romer Wilson · ss

The Best British Short Stories of 1931 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1931, 324pp, hc) 3 · On the Road · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman Feb 28 1931 9 · A Story without a Plot · Norman R. Collins · ss The London Mercury Jul 1930 20 · The Limit · Kathleen Coyle · ss This Quarter Apr-Jun 1930 33 · Blodwen · Rhys Davies · ss This Quarter Apr-Jun 1931 49 · Panic · Daphne du Maurier · ss Saturday Review (UK) Feb 28 1931 59 · In the Know · Arnold Edmondson · ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 2 1930 64 · A Night at Sligo’s · A. E. Fisher · ss The Midland Jan-Feb 1931 75 · Right of Way · H. W. Freeman · ss The London Mercury May 1930 83 · Penny Whistle · Oliver Gossman · ss Story Apr/May 1931 89 · Seductio Ad Absurdum · Malcolm Lowry · ss Experiment Spr 1931 108 · Lonely Camp · H. A. Manhood · ss Blackwood’s Mar 1931 136 · Ugliness · Ethel Colburn Mayne · ss The New Statesman Sep 27 1930 142 · Judas · John Metcalfe · ss The London Mercury Oct 1930 159 · Treasure in the Dune · E. R. Morrough · ss The London Mercury Oct 1930 173 · Liars · Florida Pier · ss This Quarter Apr-Jun 1931 183 · Ordeal · Dorothy M. Richardson · ss The Window Oct 1930 190 · The Poet · V. Sackville-West · ss Life and Letters Apr 1931 199 · Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The London Mercury Mar 1931 213 · Death of the Gardener · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Nov 8 1930; The Bookman Mar 1931 226 · A Wedding Present · W. A. Ward-Jackson · ss The London Magazine Jan 1931 233 · The Silence Returns · Oliver Warner · ss The New Statesman Nov 15 1930 238 · The Son · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss Atlantic Monthly Feb 1931 251 · Postal Order · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi Oct 1930 261 · An Idyll · Orlo Williams · ss The Criterion Jul 1930 282 · Intimations of Immortality · Romer Wilson · ss Adelphi Nov 1930

The Best British Short Stories of 1932 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 311pp, hc) 3 · The Tale of a Child · Josef Bard · nv The New English Weekly Apr 28 1932 (+2) 24 · A Flower Piece · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman Oct 10 1931 30 · The Albatross · Hector Bolitho · ss Life and Letters Aug 1931 44 · The Returned · Neville Brand · ss This Quarter Mar 1932 59 · A Great Bunch of White Lilac · Edward Charles · ss Adelphi Nov 1931 63 · Green Thoughts · John Collier · ss Harper’s May 1931; The London Mercury May 1931 81 · The Provost’s Tale · A. J. Cronin · ss The Graphic Christmas 1931 98 · The Vanishing Trick · Charles Davy · ss The English Review May 1931 110 · Mrs. Mulgar · Lord Dunsany · ss The Manchester Guardian Mar 17 1932 113 · Neighbors · Oliver Gossman · ss Story Jun/Jul 1931 118 · The End of the Party · Graham Greene · ss The London Mercury Jan 1932 129 · The Saint Who Lost His Halo · Charles Hodges · ss The London Mercury Nov 1931 149 · The Last Rose of Summer · Eiluned Lewis · ss The London Mercury Sep 1931 170 · Self-Expression · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 13 1931 174 · The Escape from Fairyland · J. B. Morton · ss The London Mercury Feb 1932 181 · The Shutters · R. H. Mottram · ss The Windsor Magazine Oct 1931 190 · Lovers · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Harper’s Apr 1931 199 · The Maid · L. A. Pavey · ss Adelphi Jun 1931 209 · Woolly Gloves · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Fortnightly Review Jun 1931 223 · The Fairy Hill · Edward Shanks · ss The London Mercury Dec 1931 248 · Nowell · Margaret Southern · ss The Manchester Guardian Dec 24 1931 253 · Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jul 11 1931; The Yale Review Mar 1932 262 · The Saint · Antonia White · ss Life and Letters Nov 1931 270 · On with the Dance · Romer Wilson · ss This Quarter Dec 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1915 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1916, hc) 15 · The Water-Hole · Maxwell Struthers Burt · ss Scribner’s Jul 1915 35 · The Wake · Donn Byrne · ss Harper’s Oct 1915 46 · Chautonville · Will Levington Comfort · ss Masses Aug 1915 55 · La Derniere Mobilisation · W. A. Dwiggins · vi The Fabulist Aut 1915 57 · The Citizen · James Francis Dwyer · ss Collier’s Nov 20 1915 77 · Whose Dog—? · Frances Gregg · ss The Forum Dec 1915 80 · Life · Ben Hecht · ss The Little Review Nov 1915 84 · T.B. · Fannie Hurst · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 9 1915 118 · Mr. Eberdeen’s House · Arthur Johnson · ss The Century Magazine Sep 1915 145 · Vengeance Is Mine! · Virgil Jordan · ss Everybody’s Magazine Apr 1915 153 · The Weaver Who Clad the Summer · Harris Merton Lyon · ss The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 8 1915 172 · Heart of Youth · Walter J. Muilenburg · ss The Midland Nov 1915 184 · The End of the Path · Newbold Noyes · ss Every Week Jul 12 1915 189 · The Whale and the Grasshopper · Seumas O’Brien · ss The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 10 1915 196 · In Berlin · Mary Boyle O’Reilly · vi Boston Daily Advertiser Dec 22 1915 197 · The Waiting Years · Katharine Metcalf Roof · ss The Century Magazine May 1915 219 · Zelig · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman Aug 28 1915 226 · The Survivors · Elsie Singmaster · ss Outlook May 26 1915 235 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Mar 1915 257 · The Bounty-Jumper · Mary Synon · ss Scribner’s Feb 1915