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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, an) 1 · The Fishing Boat · Martin Armstrong · ss The Listener July 20 1939 10 · Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond · Nugent Barker · nv The Cornhill Magazine July 1939 32 · The Bridge · H. E. Bates · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art January 1940 50 · His Fortieth Birthday · T. O. Beachcroft · ss Penguin Parade #6, 1939 64 · Sympathy · Frances Bellerby · ss The Listener March 28 1940 68 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2725, July 1939 79 · The Wages of Love · Rhys Davies · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art February 1940 87 · The Black House · Margiad Evans · ss The Welsh Review June 1939 94 · He Had Been Told · Walter Gladden · ss The Manchester Guardian February 14 1940 98 · Ap Town · Geraint Goodwin · ss The Welsh Review November 1939 110 · Stained Glass · Oliver Gossman · ss The Manchester Guardian June 23 1939 113 · Room Wanted · G. F. Green · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art February 1940 119 · Time Wasted? · Leslie Halward · ss The Listener August 17 1939 127 · The Fair · Edgar Howard · ss The Welsh Review September 1939 135 · I Am Waiting · Christopher Isherwood · ss The New Yorker October 21 1939 144 · The Apple-Tree · Glyn Jones · ss Life and Letters Today March 1940 153 · The Buttercup Field · Gwyn Jones · ss The Welsh Review August 1939 163 · A Bit of a Do · Eric Knight · ss Story #63, October 1937 173 · The Apple · Elisabeth Kyle · ss The Manchester Guardian December 7 1939 176 · The Wanderers · Alun Lewis · ss The Welsh Review October 1939 191 · Stories · Ethel Mannin · ss The Adelphi January 1940 197 · First Confession · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2720, March 1 1939 204 · The Saint · V. S. Pritchett · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art April 1940 217 · The Coat · Henry Handel Richardson · ss Good Housekeeping (UK) February 1940 228 · Vi’let · Howard Spring · ss Redbook Magazine February 1940, as “An Evacuated Child” 248 · The Pedigree Pup · T. Thompson · ss Lancashire Fun by T. Thompson, Allen & Unwin, 1938 254 · Blind Man’s Buff · Robert Westerby · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 5 1940 260 · The Nawpin’ Stick · Malachi Whitaker · ss John o’ London’s Weekly April 19 1940 269 · Iron on Iron · Woodrow Wyatt · ss Kingdom Come #3, Spring 1940

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard & Company, 1922, 339pp, hc, an) 3 · Where Was Wych Street? · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 26 1921 20 · The Looking-Glass · J. D. Beresford · nv The Cornhill Magazine August 1921 44 · The Olive · Algernon Blackwood · ss Pearson’s Magazine July 1921 56 · Once a Hero · Harold Brighouse · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine July 1921 73 · “The Pensioner” · William Caine · ss The Graphic July 2 1921 78 · A Broadsheet Ballad · A. E. Coppard · ss The Dial March 1922 86 · The Christmas Present · Richmal Crompton · ss Truth December 21 1921 91 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 123 · The Reaper · Dorothy Easton · ss The English Review May 1922 128 · The Song · May Edginton · ss Lloyd’s Story Magazine June 1922 141 · A Hedonist · John Galsworthy · ss The Century Magazine July 1921 149 · The Bat and Belfry Inn · Alan Graham · ss The Story-teller May 1922 165 · The Lie · Holloway Horn · vi Harper’s Bazar May 1921 168 · A Girl in It · Rowland Kenney · ss The New Age December 15 1921 179 · The Backstairs of the Mind · Rosamond Langbridge · ss The Manchester Guardian February 7 1922 184 · The Birth of a Masterpiece · Lucas Malet · ss The Story-teller January 1922 196 · “Genius” · Elinor Mordaunt · nv The Century Magazine November 1921 219 · The Devil to Pay · Max Pemberton · ss The Story-teller March 1922 233 · Empty Arms · Roland Pertwee · ss The Ladies’ Home Journal March 1922 247 · Lena Wrace · May Sinclair · ss The Dial July 1921 261 · The Dice Thrower · Sidney Southgate · ss Yes or No April 18 1908, as by Thomas Moult [Ref. William C. Morrow]; plagarism of W.C. Morrow’s famous story “The Pale Dice-Thrower”, The Argonaut Jan 2, 1893. 270 · The Stranger Woman · G. B. Stern · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 28 1922 (+1) 285 · The Woman Who Sat Still · Parry Truscott · ss Colour November 1921 293 · Major Wilbraham · Hugh Walpole · ss The Chicago Tribune November 13 1921

The Best British Short Stories of 1923 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard & Company, 1923, 333pp, hc, an) 3 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 24 · Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Strand Magazine September 1922 41 · A Queer Fellow · Clifford Bax · ss The Beacon August 1922 47 · Melancholy Adventure · D. F. Boyd · vi The Manchester Guardian May 23 1923 49 · The Mole · Gerald Bullett · ss The London Mercury May 1923 58 · Black Country · Thomas Burke · ss Lloyd’s Story Magazine December 1922 67 · Alas, Poor Bollington! · A. E. Coppard · ss Saturday Review (UK) October 14 1922 76 · Sindbad of “Sunny Lea” · Norman Davey · ss John o’ London’s Weekly September 9 1922 85 · Death of the Jester · W. L. George · ss The Century Magazine October 1922 97 · The Stranger · Richard Hughes · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette May 26 1923 106 · Some Talk of Alexander · A. S. M. Hutchinson · nv Everybody’s Magazine November 1920 143 · Comfort · F. Tennyson Jesse · nv The London Magazine December 1922 165 · Old Gadgett · Sheila Kaye-Smith · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1922 175 · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922 194 · The Fly · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation and Athenaeum March 18 1922 200 · The Taipan · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1922 208 · Stripes · Ethel Colburn Mayne · ss The Golden Hind October 1922 216 · Another Temple Gone · C. E. Montague · ss The London Mercury December 1922 234 · The Inspired ’Busman · Elinor Mordaunt · ss Saturday Review (UK) July 1 1922 242 · The Sniper · Liam O’Flaherty · ss The New Leader January 12 1923 247 · Contrairy Mary · Edwin Pugh · ss The English Review January 1923 254 · Mayor’s Dovecote [Troytown] · Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch · ss Metropolitan Magazine June 1908 267 · The Prophetic Camera · L. de Giberne Sieveking · ss The English Review November 1922 279 · The Machine Breaks Down · Osbert Sitwell · ss The English Review December 1922 290 · The Enemy · Hugh Walpole · ss The Strand Magazine February 1923 302 · Blessed Are the Meek · Mary Webb · ss The English Review September 1922

The Best British Short Stories of 1924 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard & Company, 1924, 303pp, hc, an) 3 · Mr. Franklyn’s Adventure · James Murray Allison · ss The London Mercury November 1923 12 · Mrs. Lovelace · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury March 1924 21 · Bill Grimes His Soul · Rolf Bennett · ss The English Review September 1923 27 · Deosil · Mary Butts · ss Transatlantic Review March 1924 38 · The Higgler · A. E. Coppard · nv Transatlantic Review May 1924 67 · The Appeal · E. M. Delafield · ss Eve April 9 1924 75 · The Coffin · Caradoc Evans · ss Illustrated Review July 1923 81 · Night Fears · Leslie P. Hartley · ss The Tatler April 30 1924 88 · The Old Story · Janko Lavrin · ss The New Age December 13 1923 93 · Deckers on the Coast · William McFee · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1923 109 · Lion’s Courage · G. B. Mackenzie · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1923 120 · The Samuel Josephs · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Adelphi June 1923 127 · Oakfield House · Archibald Marshall · nv The Red Book Magazine June 1923 155 · In a Strange Land · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan February 1924 159 · We Were Just Saying · Viola Meynell · ss Time and Tide May 16 1924 (+1) 168 · The Lion’s Den · Raymond Mortimer · nv The London Mercury September 1923 202 · Spring Sowing · Liam O’Flaherty · ss T.P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly March 8 1924 209 · Banished · Con O’Leary · ss The Manchester Guardian February 8 1924 213 · The Beautiful Sea · T. F. Powys · ss The New Leader May 23 1924 218 · Death · Dorothy Richardson · vi The Weekly Westminster February 9 1924 221 · Creaking Sarah and Laughing Sal · Helen Rootham · ss The Nation October 13 1923 226 · At the Mickleham Arms · Helen Simpson · ss The Weekly Westminster November 3 1923 230 · Undergrowth · Edith Sitwell · ss The Golden Hind January 1924 244 · Bible Brown · H. M. Tomlinson · ss The Adelphi January 1924 251 · The Mask of Michichiyo · W. J. Turner · ss The Winter Owl 1923 264 · Tambourin Chinois · Romer Wilson · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette August 18 1923

The Best British Short Stories of 1925 ed. Edward J. O’Brien & John Cournos (Small, Maynard & Company, 1925, 346pp, hc, an) 3 · Red Hair · Princess Elizabeth Bibesco · ss The Chicago Tribune July 27 1925 20 · Fifty Pounds · A. E. Coppard · ss Calendar March 1925 36 · Faithful Jenny Dove · Eleanor Farjeon · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine October 1924 52 · Miss Wickers · Viola Garvin · nv The London Mercury July 1924 77 · Poor Man’s Inn · Richard Hughes · ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine #15, April 1924 88 · Jimmy and the Desperate Woman · D. H. Lawrence · nv The Criterion October 1924 115 · The Redemption of Madame Fradeau · Kenneth MacNichol · ss Blackwood’s Magazine December 1924 134 · The Fox · George Manning-Sanders · ss The Dublin Magazine April 1925 142 · Picnic · John Metcalfe · ss The Adelphi April 1925 155 · The Friend in Need · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian November 12 1924 159 · The Quest · Marmaduke Pickthall · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1924 179 · The Painted Wagon · T. F. Powys · ss The Dial February 1925 184 · The Escape of Saemundr · Will Smith · ss The New Statesman July 5 1924 188 · Storm · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Golden Hind July 1924 202 · The Enemy in Ambush · Hugh Walpole · ss The Fortnightly Review March 1925 214 · While ’Zekiel Ploughed · C. Henry Warren · ss Outlook (London) February 7 1925 219 · The Diamond · E. L. Grant Watson · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1924 230 · “Chanson Triste” · A. W. Wells · ss The English Review November 1924 240 · Two Masters · Arthur Wheen · ss The London Mercury November 1924 260 · The Cage Bird · Francis Brett Young · ss The Story-teller September 1924 279 · The Rapparee · Lynn Doyle · ss The Irish Statesman July 5 1924 286 · Samhain · Dorothy Macardle · ss The Dublin Magazine October 1924 296 · The Reaping Race · Liam O’Flaherty · ss The Dublin Magazine November 1924

The Best British Short Stories of 1926 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 427pp, hc, an) 3 · The Awakening · Stella Benson · ss The Bookman December 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) November 14 1925 33 · The Dream of Ah Lum · Thomas Burke · ss The Strand Magazine October 1925 46 · The Box · Richard Carol · vi The London Daily News January 11 1926 48 · The Field of Mustard · A. E. Coppard · ss The Criterion April 1925 58 · Mr. Kempe · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury November 1925 88 · A Country House · Dorothy Edwards · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters August 1925 102 · The Aunt Sally · Constance Holme · ss The Adelphi June 1925 109 · Half Holiday · Aldous Huxley · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1925 126 · The Prevailing Ill · Humfrey Jordan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine November 1925 161 · The Woman Who Rode Away · D. H. Lawrence · nv The Dial July 1925 (+1) 202 · Step-Mother Earth · Ena Limebeer · ss The Nation December 19 1925 206 · Down and Out · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian December 18 1925 210 · Crazywell · Eden Phillpotts · nv The Pall Mall Magazine December 1906 243 · Defeat · Edward Scouller · ss The New Leader May 28 1926 255 · Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe · Jan Struther · ss G.K.’s Weekly October 24 1925 262 · Mr. Oddy · Hugh Walpole · nv Cosmopolitan March 1926 279 · Pound for Pound · Albert Richard Wetjen · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 26 1925 312 · Balalaika · Francis Brett Young · ss The Story-teller January 1926 321 · The Piper · Thomas Kelly · ss The Manchester Guardian February 18 1926 325 · The Inquisition · Liam O’Flaherty · ss The Adelphi March 1926

The Best British Short Stories of 1927 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 427pp, hc, an) 3 · The Idealist · Mary Arden · ss The Adelphi August 1926 14 · The Spoil-Sport · Stacy Aumonier · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1926 31 · Hate · H. H. Bashford · ss The Grand Magazine November 1926 44 · Fear · H. E. Bates · ss The Nation March 1926 49 · The Indomitable Mrs. Garthorne · J. D. Beresford · nv Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine February 1927 72 · “Just Imagine…” · Elizabeth Bowen · ss Eve Christmas 1926 85 · The Three Scholars · Osbert Burdett · ss The New Criterion January 1927 104 · Purl and Plain · David Garnett · ss Vogue (UK) July 1926 111 · The ’Cello · T. G. G.-A. · ss The Adelphi November 1926 116 · The Most Miserable of Men · Desmond MacCarthy · vi Land & Water December 12 1918 127 · Funeral March of a Marionette · John Metcalfe · ss The Independent January 1 1927 136 · Lost Property · R. H. Mottram · ss The English Review January 1927 148 · A Tale That Was Told · L. A. Pavey · ss The Manchester Guardian April 19 1927 153 · Tragedy in a Greek Theatre · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1927 169 · A Kind of Freedom · Anthony Richardson · ss The Royal Magazine October 1926 184 · The Lock · Edward Sackville-West · nv The Forum January 1927 210 · The Sheep · Mary Somerville · ss The Century Magazine April 1927 228 · The Emptied Sack · Daniel Corkery · ss The Dial August 1926 241 · The Informer · Shaw Desmond · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1927 255 · Getting Even · Thomas Kelly · vi The Manchester Guardian May 10 1927 258 · The Bomb-Shop · Seán O’Faoláin · ss The Dial March 1927 273 · Rebels They Were Called · K. F. Purdon · nv Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine March 1927 296 · The Quest · Lennox Robinson · ss The Dial October 1926

The Best British Short Stories of 1928 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 360pp, hc, an) 3 · Old Beetle’s Crime · Alex. Barber · ss The Queen May 30 1928 10 · The Cornet-Player · Arnold Bennett · ss The Strand Magazine August 1927 24 · The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub [Kai Lung] · Ernest Bramah · nv The London Mercury September 1927 55 · Dick’s Hatband · Dora M. Broome · ss The Manchester Guardian August 2 1927 58 · Fine Feathers · A. E. Coppard · nv Bermondsey Book December 1927 (+1) 84 · Furniture · Anne Corner · ss The Manchester Guardian October 3 1927 88 · “Le Petit Rabbin” · Louis Golding · ss Bermondsey Book September/November 1927 98 · “Every Twenty Years” · Ray Coryton Hutchinson · ss The Empire Review January 1928 111 · A Wedding Morn · Sheila Kaye-Smith · nv The Story-teller December 1927 140 · Pascoe’s Song · Charles Lee · ss The English Review March 1928 146 · Brotherhood · H. A. Manhood · ss John o’ London’s Weekly June 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 Premier Magazine #5, February 1927 184 · Travellers · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Dial February 1928 198 · The Heller · Henry Williamson · ss The 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) October 15 1927 227 · Blind Justice · Ethelreda Lewis · ss The Outspan June 24 1927 241 · Of Their Kin · J. Bernard MacCarthy · ss The Manchester Guardian January 23 1928 245 · The Lamplighter · A. W. Wells · ss The Outspan May 6 1927

The Best British Short Stories of 1929 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 363pp, hc, an) 3 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929 23 · Whessoe · Nugent Barker · ss Life and Letters December 1928 35 · The Child · H. E. Bates · ss The Criterion January 1929 40 · The Man Who Missed the ’Bus · Stella Benson · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1929 58 · A Russian Story · David Garnett · ss Life and Letters November 1928 72 · The Derelict · Eleanor Gaukroger · vi The Manchester Guardian April 18 1929 75 · Egyptian Nocturne · E. D. Goitein · ss The New Statesman November 10 1928 80 · The Door in the Attic · Dorothy Johnson · ss The English Review August 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 August 1928 131 · A Man of Letters · Sir Squire Sprigge, M.D. · nv The Cornhill Magazine October 1928 170 · “Prongs” · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly March 30 1929 178 · The Escape · E. H. Lacon Watson · ss The London Mercury November 1928 192 · Frost in April · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi March/May 1929 202 · The Raid · George A. Birmingham · ss The Forum September 1928 217 · The Ruining of Dromacurrig · Daniel Corkery · ss Columbia Journal 1928 230 · The Smiling Faces · Brinsley MacNamara · ss The Dublin Magazine #1, January/March 1929 240 · Lai John · Alfred H. Mendes & Algernon Wharton · ss The London Mercury January 1929 250 · After Fourteen Years · Frank O’Connor · ss The Dublin Magazine #2, April/June 1929 256 · Fugue · Seán O’Faoláin · ss The Hound and Horn September 1928 274 · Mated · Margaret O’Leary · ss The Dial April 1929 287 · Desolation · Pauline Smith · ss Woman’s Journal July 1928

The Best British Short Stories of 1930 with an Irish and Colonial Supplement ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 284pp, hc, an) 3 · Love to the Angels · Mary Arden · ss The New Adelphi June/August 1929 13 · Stays · G. M. Attenborough · ss The Cornhill Magazine December 1929 24 · The Comic Actor · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman June 29 1929 33 · Tam McWhirker’s Elephant · Richard Carol · ss The Strand Magazine January 1930 44 · The Journey · Padraic Colum · ss The Dial June 1929 58 · The Miracle · Lily Anne Coppard · ss The Manchester Guardian January 15 1930 62 · The Vocation · Kathleen Coyle · ss Bermondsey Book June/August 1929 72 · “The Mother” · Richmal Crompton · ss Woman July 5 1929 92 · Revelation · Rhys Davies · ss This Quarter October/November/December 1929 104 · The Way He Went · Norah Holt · ss This Quarter January/March 1930 120 · Why Adonis Laughed · Sarah Gertrude Millin · ss The New Adelphi June/August 1929 126 · Happy Ending? · Naomi Mitchison · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1930 141 · Culpability · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian April 15 1930 145 · Miss Naseby’s Life · Florida Pier · ss The Fortnightly Review October 1929 163 · The Corsican Inn · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Fortnightly Review February 1930 171 · The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth · Lorna Rea · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine December 1929 179 · First Blood · Herbert Read · ss This Quarter July/September 1929 183 · The Bath · Henry Handel Richardson · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1929 187 · Hellmut Lies in the Sun · Edward Sackville-West · nv The London Mercury June 1929 213 · Orpheus · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Century Magazine July 1927 220 · Stay, Corydon, Thou Swain · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1929 231 · The Secret · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi June/August 1929 234 · I Met a Man Going to St. Neots · Romer Wilson · ss (r)

The Best British Short Stories of 1931 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1931, 324pp, hc, an) 3 · On the Road · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman February 28 1931 9 · A Story Without a Plot · Norman R. Collins · ss The London Mercury July 1930 20 · The Limit · Kathleen Coyle · ss This Quarter April/June 1930 33 · Blodwen · Rhys Davies · ss This Quarter April/May/June 1931 49 · Panic · Daphne du Maurier · ss Saturday Review (UK) March 1 1931 59 · In the Know · Arnold Edmondson · ss The Manchester Guardian October 2 1930 64 · A Night at Sligo’s · A. E. Fisher · ss The Midland January/February 1931 75 · Right of Way · H. W. Freeman · ss The London Mercury May 1930 83 · Penny Whistle · Oliver Gossman · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 89 · Seductio Ad Absurdum · Malcolm Lowry · ss Experiment Spring 1931 108 · Lonely Camp · H. A. Manhood · nv Blackwood’s Magazine March 1931 136 · Ugliness · Ethel Colburn Mayne · ss The New Statesman September 27 1930 142 · Judas · John Metcalfe · ss The London Mercury October 1930 159 · Treasure in the Dune · E. R. Morrough · ss The London Mercury October 1930 173 · Liars · Florida Pier · ss This Quarter April/May/June 1931, as “Bigger and Worse Lies” 183 · Ordeal · Dorothy M. Richardson · ss The Window. A Quarterly Magazine October 1930 190 · The Poet · V. Sackville-West · ss Life and Letters April 1931 199 · Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The London Mercury March 1931 213 · Death of the Gardener · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly November 8 1930 226 · A Wedding Present · W. A. Ward-Jackson · ss The London Mercury January 1931 233 · The Silence Returns · Oliver Warner · ss The New Statesman November 15 1930 238 · The Son · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1931 251 · Postal Order · Malachi Whitaker · ss The New Adelphi October 1930 261 · An Idyll · Orlo Williams · nv The Criterion July 1930 282 · Intimations of Immortality · Romer Wilson · ss The Adelphi November 1930

The Best British Short Stories of 1932 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 311pp, hc, an) 3 · The Tale of a Child · Josef Bard · nv The New English Weekly April 28 1932 (+2) 24 · A Flower Piece · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman October 10 1931 30 · The Albatross · Hector Bolitho · ss Life and Letters August 1931 44 · The Returned · Neville Brand · ss This Quarter March 1932 59 · A Great Bunch of White Lilac · Edward Charles · ss The Adelphi November 1931 63 · Green Thoughts · John Collier · ss 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. Mulger · Lord Dunsany · ss The Manchester Guardian March 17 1932 113 · Neighbors · Oliver Gossman · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 118 · The End of the Party · Graham Greene · ss The London Mercury January 1932 129 · The Saint Who Lost His Halo · Charles Hodges · ss The London Mercury November 1931 149 · The Last Rose of Summer · Eiluned Lewis · nv The London Mercury September 1931 170 · Self-Expression · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian October 13 1931 174 · The Escape from Fairyland · J. B. Morton · ss The London Mercury February 1932 181 · The Shutters · R. H. Mottram · ss The Windsor Magazine #442, October 1931 190 · Lovers · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1931 199 · The Maid · L. A. Pavey · ss The Adelphi June 1931 209 · Woolly Gloves · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Fortnightly Review June 1931 223 · The Fairy Hill · Edward Shanks · nv The London Mercury December 1931 248 · Nowell · Margaret Southern · ss The Manchester Guardian December 24 1931 253 · Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow · L. A. G. Strong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly and The Outline July 11 1931 262 · The Saint · Antonia White · ss Life and Letters November 1931 270 · On with the Dance · Romer Wilson · ss This Quarter December 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1915 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1916, hc, an) 15 · The Water-Hole · Maxwell Struthers Burt · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1915 35 · The Wake · Donn Byrne · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1915 46 · Chautonville · Will Levington Comfort · ss The Masses August 1915 55 · La Derniere Mobilisation · W. A. Dwiggins · vi The Fabulist #1, Autumn 1915 57 · The Citizen · James Francis Dwyer · ss Collier’s November 20 1915 77 · Whose Dog—? · Frances Gregg · ss The Forum December 1915 80 · Life · Ben Hecht · ss The Little Review November 1915 84 · T.B. · Fannie Hurst · nv The Saturday Evening Post January 9 1915 118 · Mr. Eberdeen’s House · Arthur Johnson · nv The Century Magazine September 1915 145 · Vengeance Is Mine! · Virgil Jordan · ss Everybody’s Magazine April 1915 153 · The Weaver Who Clad the Summer · Harris Merton Lyon · ss Illustrated Sunday Magazine August 8 1915 172 · Heart of Youth · Walter J. Muilenburg · ss The Midland November 1915 184 · The End of the Path · Newbold Noyes · ss Every Week July 12 1915 189 · The Whale and the Grasshopper · Seumas O’Brien · ss Illustrated Sunday Magazine October 10 1915 196 · In Berlin · Mary Boyle O’Reilly · vi Boston Daily Advertiser December 22 1915 197 · The Waiting Years · Katharine Metcalf Roof · nv The Century Magazine May 1915 219 · Zelig · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #476, August 28 1915 226 · The Survivors · Elsie Singmaster · ss The Outlook May 26 1915 235 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1915 257 · The Bounty-Jumper · Mary Synon · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1915

The Best Short Stories of 1916 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1917, 472pp, hc, an) 7 · The Sacrificial Altar · Gertrude Atherton · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1916 37 · Miss Willett · Barry Benefield · ss The Century Magazine September 1916 52 · Supers · Frederick Booth · ss Seven Arts December 1916 58 · Fog · Dana Burnet · ss McBride’s Magazine February 1916 75 · Ma’s Pretties · Francis Buzzell · ss Pictorial Review August 1916 85 · The Great Auk · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1916 115 · The Lost Phoebe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916 133 · The Silent Infare · Armistead C. Gordon · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1916 149 · The Cat of the Cane-Brake · Frederick Stuart Greene · ss Metropolitan August 1916 162 · Making Port · Richard Matthews Hallet · ss Every Week March 20 1916 181 · “Ice Water, Pl—!” · Fannie Hurst · nv Collier’s October 21 1916 212 · Little Selves · Mary Lerner · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1916 226 · The Sun Chaser · Jeannette Marks · nv Pictorial Review November 1916 262 · At the End of the Road · Walter J. Muilenburg · ss The Forum May 1916 272 · The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights · Albert DuVerney Pentz · vi Boston Evening Transcript November 7 1916 275 · The Menorah · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #512, May 6 1916 282 · Penance · Elsie Singmaster · ss Pictorial Review October 1916 294 · Feet of Gold · Gordon Arthur Smith · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1916 322 · Down on Their Knees · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1916 349 · Half-Past Ten · Alice L. Tildesley · ss The Black Cat August 1916

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1918, 600pp, hc, an) 1 · The Excursion · Edwina Stanton Babcock · ss Pictorial Review October 1917 20 · Onnie · Thomas Beer · nv The Century Magazine May 1917 45 · A Cup of Tea · Maxwell Struthers Burt · nv Scribner’s Magazine July 1917 70 · Lonely Places · Francis Buzzell · ss Pictorial Review December 1917 86 · Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 20 1917 128 · Laughter · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1917 147 · The Emperor of Elam · H. G. Dwight · nv The Century Magazine July 1917 208 · The Gay Old Dog · Edna Ferber · nv Metropolitan October 1917 234 · The Knight’s Move · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv The Atlantic Monthly February 1917 256 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. 283 · The Bunker Mouse · Frederick Stuart Greene · nv The Century Magazine March 1917 307 · Rainbow Pete · Richard Matthews Hallet · ss Pictorial Review October 1917 326 · Get Ready the Wreaths · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan September 1917 361 · The Strange-Looking Man · Fanny Kemble Johnson · ss The Pagan December 1917 365 · The Caller in the Night · Burton Kline · ss The Stratford Journal December 1917 383 · The Interval · Vincent O’Sullivan · ss Boston Evening Transcript September 8 1917 391 · “A Certain Rich Man—” · Lawrence Perry · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1917 412 · The Path of Glory · Mary Brecht Pulver · nv The Saturday Evening Post March 10 1917 441 · Ching, Ching, Chinaman · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review June 1917 468 · None So Blind · Mary Synon · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1917

The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1919, 441pp, hc, an) 3 · A Simple Act of Piety · Achmed Abdullah · nv All-Story Weekly April 20 1918 24 · Cruelties · Edwina Stanton Babcock · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1918 43 · Buster · Katharine Holland Brown · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1918 61 · The Open Window [Flavio Minetti] · Charles Caldwell Dobie · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1918 85 · Blind Vision · Mary Mitchell Freedley · ss The Century Magazine January 1918 92 · Imagination · Gordon Hall Gerould · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1918 109 · In Maulmain Fever-Ward · George Gilbert · ss The Green Book Magazine October 1918 125 · The Father’s Hand · G. Humphrey · ss The Bookman June 1918 131 · The Visit of the Master · Arthur Johnson · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1918 149 · In the Open Code · Burton Kline · ss The Stratford Journal February 1918 154 · The Willow Walk · Sinclair Lewis · nv The Saturday Evening Post August 10 1918 191 · The Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie · Katharine Prescott Moseley · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1918 200 · The Toast to Forty-Five · William Dudley Pelley · nv Pictorial Review May 1918 223 · Extra Men · Harrison Rhodes · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1918 232 · Solitaire · Fleta Campbell Springer · nv Harper’s Magazine January 1918 258 · The Dark Hour · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1918 268 · The Bird of Serbia · Julian Street · nv Collier’s August 31 1918 293 · At Isham’s · Edward C. Venable · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1918 305 · De Vilmarte’s Luck · Mary Heaton Vorse · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1918 325 · The White Battalion · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss The Bookman May 1918

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1920, 414pp, hc, an) 3 · The Kitchen Gods · G. F. Alsop · nv The Century Magazine September 1919 24 · An Awakening [Winesburg] · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Little Review December 1918 34 · Willum’s Vanilla · Edwina Stanton Babcock · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1919 65 · A Night Among the Horses · Djuna Barnes · ss The Little Review December 1918 74 · Long, Long Ago · Frederick Orin Bartlett · ss The Bellman #652, January 11 1919 82 · Dishes · Agnes Mary Brownell · ss Pictorial Review April 1919 96 · The Blood-Red One · Maxwell Struthers Burt · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1918 108 · The Wedding-Jest [Poictesme] · James Branch Cabell · ss The Century Magazine September 1919 123 · The Wrists on the Door · Horace Fish · nv Everybody’s Magazine May 1919 147 · “Government Goat” · Susan Glaspell · ss Pictorial Review April 1919 167 · The Stone · Henry Goodman · ss Pictorial Review February 1919 178 · To the Bitter End · Richard Matthews Hallet · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1919 200 · The Meeker Ritual · Joseph Hergesheimer · nv The Century Magazine June 1919 (+1) 225 · The Centenarian · Will E. Ingersoll · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1919 237 · Messengers · Calvin Johnston · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1919 269 · Mrs. Drainger’s Veil · Howard Mumford Jones · nv The Smart Set December 1918 297 · Under a Wine-Glass · Ellen N. La Motte · ss The Century Magazine December 1918 305 · A Thing of Beauty · Elias Lieberman · ss The American Hebrew June 27 1919 312 · The Other Room · Mary Heaton Vorse · ss McCall’s Magazine April 1919 326 · “The Fat of the Land” · Anzia Yezierska · nv The Century Magazine August 1919

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1921, 500pp, hc, an) 3 · The Other Woman · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Little Review May/June 1920 12 · Gargoyle · Edwina Stanton Babcock · nv Harper’s Magazine September 1920 36 · Ghitza · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Dial February 1920 49 · The Life of Five Points · Edna Clare Bryner · ss The Dial September 1920 66 · The Signal Tower · Wadsworth Camp · ss Metropolitan May 1920 83 · The Parting Genius · Helen Coale Crew · ss The Midland July 1920 90 · Habakkuk · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1919 116 · The Judgment of Vulcan · Lee Foster Hartman · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1920 148 · The Stick-in-the-Muds · Rupert Hughes · nv Collier’s September 25 1920 169 · His Job · Grace Sartwell Mason · nv Scribner’s Magazine April 1920 187 · The Rending · James Oppenheim · ss The Dial July 1920 198 · The Dummy-Chucker · Arthur Somers Roche · ss Cosmopolitan June 1920 214 · Butterflies · Rose Sidney · nv Pictorial Review September 1920 236 · The Rotter · Fleta Campbell Springer · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1920 266 · Out of Exile · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review November 1919 293 · The Three Telegrams · Ethel Storm · ss Ladies’ Home Journal October 1919 312 · The Roman Bath · John T. Wheelwright · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1920 320 · Amazement · Stephen French Whitman · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1919 348 · Sheener · Ben Ames Williams · ss Collier’s July 10 1920 359 · Turkey Red · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Pictorial Review November 1919

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1922, 506pp, hc, an) 3 · Brothers · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Bookman April 1921 13 · Fanutza · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Dial May 1921 28 · Experiment · Maxwell Struthers Burt · nv Pictorial Review June 1921 52 · Darkness · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post August 20 1921 82 · An Instrument of the Gods [Lee Fu Chang] · Lincoln Colcord · nv The American Magazine April 1921 (+1) 109 · The Lizard God · Charles J. Finger · nv All’s Well, or The Mirror Repolished December 1920 130 · Under the Dome · Waldo Frank · ss The Dial October 1920 142 · French Eva · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1920 168 · The Past · Ellen Glasgow · nv Good Housekeeping October 1920 194 · His Smile · Susan Glaspell · ss Pictorial Review January 1921 207 · The Harbor Master · Richard Matthews Hallet · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1921 (+1) 240 · Green Gardens · Frances Noyes Hart · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1921 253 · She Walks in Beauty · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan August 1921 288 · The Little Master of the Sky · Manuel Komroff · ss The Dial April 1921 300 · The Man with the Good Face · Frank Luther Mott · nv The Midland December 1920 321 · Master of Fallen Years · Vincent O’Sullivan · ss The Smart Set August 1921 337 · The Shame Dance · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine December 1920 362 · Kindred · Harriet Maxon Thayer · nv The Midland July 1921, as by Harriet Maxon 386 · Shelby · Charles Hanson Towne · ss The Smart Set October 1920 401 · The Wallow of the Sea · Mary Heaton Vorse · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1921

The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1923, 389pp, hc, an) 3 · The Dark City · Conrad Aiken · ss The Dial April 1922 13 · I’m a Fool · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial February 1922 25 · The Death of Murdo · Konrad Bercovici · ss Pictorial Review July 1922 42 · An Unknown Warrior · Susan M. Boogher · ss The Junior League Bulletin January 1922 49 · The Helpless Ones · Frederick Booth · nv Broom December 1921 70 · Forest Cover · Edna Bryner · ss The Bookman January 1922 83 · Natalka’s Portion · Rose Gollup Cohen · ss Pictorial Review January 1922 100 · The Shame of Gold · Charles J. Finger · ss The Century Magazine March 1922 115 · Two for a Cent · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Metropolitan April 1922 132 · John the Baptist · Waldo Frank · ss The Dial September 1922 151 · Mendel Marantz—Housewife · David Freedman · ss Pictorial Review April 1922 171 · Belshazzar’s Letter · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Metropolitan June 1922 195 · Winkelburg · Ben Hecht · ss The Smart Set March 1922 203 · The Token · Joseph Hergesheimer · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 22 1921 232 · The Resurrection and the Life · William Jitro · ss The Little Review Spring 1922 242 · The Golden Honeymoon · Ring W. Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922 260 · He Laughed at the Gods · James Oppenheim · ss Broom November 1921 270 · In the Metropolis · Benjamin Rosenblatt · vi Brief Stories December 1921 273 · From the Other Side of the South · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss Pictorial Review August 1922 293 · The Coffin · Clement Wood · ss The Pagan December 1921/January 1922

The Best Short Stories of 1923 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1924, 544pp, hc, an) 3 · Way for a Sailor · Bill Adams · nv Pictorial Review April 1923 30 · The Man’s Story · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Dial September 1923 50 · Mr. Cardeezer · Edwina Stanton Babcock · nv Harper’s Magazine May 1923 81 · Seed · Konrad Bercovici · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1923 98 · Beyond the Cross · Dana Burnet · nv Pictorial Review February 1923 125 · Ignition · Valma Clark · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1923 144 · The Chocolate Hyena · Irvin S. Cobb · nv Cosmopolitan July 1923 170 · The Samovar · John Cournos · ss The Dial June 1923 183 · Reina · Theodore Dreiser · nv The Century Magazine September 1923 216 · Home Girl · Edna Ferber · nv Pictorial Review November 1922 240 · Button · Henry Goodman · nv Clay Summer 1923 263 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923; given as by Ernest Hemenway. 277 · Seven Candles · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan September 1923 307 · The Today Tomorrow · Margaret Prescott Montague · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1923 322 · The Contract of Corporal Twing · Solon K. Stewart · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1923 339 · By Due Process of Law · F. J. Stimson · nv Scribner’s Magazine April 1923 362 · Renters · Ruth Suckow · nv The Century Magazine August 1923 385 · Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923 394 · The Promise · Mary Heaton Vorse · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1923 414 · Flora and Fauna [Ma Pettengill] · Harry Leon Wilson · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 30 1922

The Best Short Stories of 1924 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1925, 367pp, hc, an) 3 · Champlin · Morgan Burke · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1924 19 · Billy · Mildred Cram · ss Harper’s Bazar September 1924, as “The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips” 39 · Phantom Adventure · Floyd Dell · ss The Century Magazine December 1923 53 · The Cracked Teapot · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1924 70 · The Last Dive · Carlos Drake · ss Transatlantic Review July 1924 74 · Adventures of Andrew Lang · Charles J. Finger · nv The Century Magazine July 1924 95 · The Biography of Blade · Zona Gale · ss The Century Magazine July 1924 100 · Corputt · Tupper Greenwald · ss The Midland October 1923 110 · The Young Men Go Down · Harry Hervey · ss The Nation January 30 1924 119 · The Lesser Gift · Leonard L. Hess · ss Phantasmus June 1924 137 · Grudges · Rupert Hughes · ss Liberty July 12 1924 155 · A Postscript to Divorce · Gouverneur Morris · ss Hearst’s International September 1924 167 · Forgiveness · Lizette Woodworth Reese · ss The Outlook July 16 1924 175 · Nocturne: A Red Shawl · Roger Sergel · ss Phantasmus May 1924 191 · The Black Laugh · A. B. Shiffrin · ss The American Hebrew August 8 1924 198 · Four Generations · Ruth Suckow · ss The American Mercury January 1924 211 · Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge · Melvin Van Den Bark · ss The Midland June/August 1924 228 · The Poet · Warren L. Van Dine · ss The Midland January 1924 240 · In a Thicket · Glenway Wescott · ss The Dial June 1924 248 · Shoes · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1923

The Best Short Stories of 1925 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1926, 449pp, hc, an) 1 · The Gift · Sandra Alexander · ss The Reviewer April 1925 21 · The Return · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Century Magazine May 1925 39 · Gertrude Donovan · Nathan Asch · ss Transatlantic Review December 1924 53 · Guard of Honor · Barry Benefield · ss Pictorial Review July 1925 64 · The Beggar of Alcazar · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Century Magazine February 1925 81 · The Laugh · Bella Cohen · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters July 1925 85 · The Hands of the Enemy · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1925 105 · The City of Refuge · Rudolph Fisher · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1925 122 · An Army with Banners · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1925 148 · Coward’s Castle · Walter Gilkyson · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1924 167 · How Does It Feel to Be Free? · Manuel Komroff · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1925 174 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 186 · The Ill Wind · Robert Robinson · ss Collier’s August 29 1925 195 · The Old Lady · Evelyn Scott · ss The Dial May 1925 207 · Old Man Ledge · May Stanley · nv Pictorial Review June 1925 228 · Six Dollars · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review March 1925 253 · The Home Town · Milton Waldman · ss The London Mercury December 1924 270 · Fire and Water · Glenway Wescott · ss Collier’s July 4 1925, as “This Way Out” 287 · The Devil Drum · Barrett Willoughby · nv The Century Magazine January 1925 311 · Gideon’s Revenge · Elinor Wylie · ss The Century Magazine January 1925

The Best Short Stories of 1926 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 464pp, hc, an) 1 · Carrie Snyder · Barry Benefield · ss Woman’s Home Companion May 1926, as “With Banners Blowing” 19 · Maudie · Ada Jack Carver · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1926 36 · The Glass Eye of Throgmorton · Donald Corley · ss Pictorial Review June 1926 56 · Take the Stand, Please · Chester T. Crowell · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 28 1926 71 · Bound for the Rio Grande · A. E. Dingle · ss Liberty December 20 1924 90 · Query · Henry Walbridge Dudley · ss The Midland January 1926 98 · Symphonesque · Arthur Huff Fauset · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #42, June 1926 114 · Evening · Zona Gale · ss The Bookman December 1925 120 · Wheels · Tupper Greenwald · ss The Midland February 1926 127 · The Undefeated · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925 156 · The Christian Bite · Manuel Komroff · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1926 171 · Then Christs Fought Hard · Milutin Krunich · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1925 185 · Travelogue · Ring W. Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan May 1926 197 · The First Stone · Grace Sartwell Mason · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1926 210 · Grimaldi · Susan Meriwether · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine October 1921, as by Susan M. Boogher 220 · A Tale from the Grave · Ira V. Morris, Jr. · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters February 1926 237 · Extra! Extra! · Robert E. Sherwood · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1926 244 · Out of the Wind · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss Pictorial Review October 1925 264 · The Other Road · Edward L. Strater · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1926 282 · The Giant’s Thunder · Virginia Tracy · ss Pictorial Review October 1925

The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 460pp, hc, an) 1 · The Right Honorable the Strawberries · Owen Wister · nv Cosmopolitan November 1926 40 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 50 · Another Wife · Sherwood Anderson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1926 59 · Vienna Roast · Harold W. Brecht · vi Brief Stories April 1922 72 · Child of God · Roark Bradford · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1927 86 · Minstrels of the Mist · Ben Lucien Burman · ss Pictorial Review April 1927 103 · Mademoiselle · Elisabeth Finley-Thomas · ss The Century Magazine April 1927 118 · Three Lumps of Sugar · Amory Hare · ss Cosmopolitan May 1927 123 · Triall by Armes · Joseph Hergesheimer · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 142 · The Half Pint Flask · DuBose Heyward · ss The Bookman May 1927 158 · When It Happens · James Hopper · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1927 169 · North Is Black · Oliver La Farge, 2nd · ss The Dial January 1927 181 · Yarbwoman · Rose Wilder Lane · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1927 202 · Persephone · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Dial May 1927 213 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 240 · Cane River · Lyle Saxon · ss The Dial March 1926 255 · The Pawnshop · John S. Sexton · ss The Catholic World December 1926 259 · Little Dombey · Frank Shay · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1927 279 · In Portofino · Alan Sullivan · ss The English Review 1927 289 · The Hound-Tuner of Callaway · Raymond Weeks · ss The Midland December 1926

The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 429pp, hc, an) 1 · The Guardeen Angel · Frederick Hazlitt Brennan · ss Cosmopolitan December 1927 13 · The Cat That Lived at the Ritz · Louis Bromfield · ss Harper’s Bazar October 1927 31 · Seven Blocks Apart · Katharine Brush · ss Cosmopolitan January 1928 51 · A Country Passion · Morley Callaghan · ss Transition March 1928 60 · At the Sign of the Three Daughters · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Delineator May 1928 77 · John of God, the Water Carrier · María Cristina Chambers · ss The Monthly Criterion October 1927 94 · No Dam’ Yankee · Irvin S. Cobb · ss Cosmopolitan November 1927 113 · The First of Mr. Blue · Myles Connolly · ss Columbia March 1928 125 · The Swamper · Walter D. Edmonds · nv The Dial March 1928 150 · Home to Mother’s · Eleanor E. Harris · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1927 166 · Lady Wipers—of Ypres · Llewellyn Hughes · ss The Century Magazine January 1928 180 · Give This Little Girl a Hand · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan February 1928 211 · Battered Armor · Edward L. McKenna · ss McClure’s December 1927 222 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 228 · Fences · L. Paul · ss Adventure December 15 1927 246 · On the Mountain-Side · Elizabeth Madox Roberts · ss The American Mercury August 1927 258 · The Jew · Edwin Seaver · ss The New Republic January 25 1928 262 · The Romantic Sailor · James Stevens · ss The Frontier May 1928 267 · Midwestern Primitive · Ruth Suckow · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1928 285 · So-Long, Oldtimer · Edmund Ware · ss Ladies’ Home Journal August 1927

The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 399pp, hc, an) 1 · “Hound of Heaven” · Sarah Addington · ss The Forum March 1929 20 · The Lost Novel · Sherwood Anderson · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1928 26 · The Country Doctor · Ivan Beede · ss Transition February 1929 38 · “There’s Money in Poetry” · Konrad Bercovici · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1928 48 · Soldier Harmon · Morley Callaghan · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1928 60 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 86 · Wild Plums · Grace Stone Coates · ss The Frontier March 1929 92 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 104 · First Oboe · James Webber Glover · ss The Forum January 1929 112 · Fame for Mr. Beatty · James Norman Hall · ss The Tanager May 1929 123 · Power of Horizon · Leon Serabian Herald · ss The Dial April 1929 130 · Alcantara · MacGregor Jenkins · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1929 146 · Manicure · Margaret Leech · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1928 159 · Potato Picking · Robert McAlmon · ss Transition February 1929 169 · His Friend the Pig · Wilson McCarty · ss The Dial January 1929 181 · I Have Letters for Marjorie · Edward L. McKenna · ss McClure’s June 1928 193 · Light Without Heat · Robert Mullen · ss The Dial May 1929 206 · “Cunjur” · Pernet Patterson · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1928 (+1) 239 · A Guilty Woman · Glenway Wescott · ss The Century Magazine August 1928 256 · The Venus · William Carlos Williams · ss The Dial June 1928

The Best Short Stories of 1930 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 322pp, hc, an) 1 · Along a Sandy Road · Ellen Bishop · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1930 6 · Suffer Little Children · Clifford Bragdon · ss The Midland March/April 1930 21 · Two Men Free · Whit Burnett · ss Transition Spring/Summer 1929 34 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 39 · The Way of the Transgressor · Grace Stone Coates · ss The Frontier November 1929 46 · The Voice of the Turtle · Edythe Squier Draper · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1929 54 · Answer · Ruth Pine Furniss · ss Transition Fall 1929 59 · Blue Sky · Walter Gilkyson · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1929 74 · Summer Dust · Caroline Gordon · ss The Gyroscope November 1929 87 · Adventure · Emily Hahn · ss The New Yorker February 22 1930 91 · Happiness Up the River · Harry Hartwick · ss The Frontier November 1929 104 · September Sailing · Eleanor Hayden Kittredge · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1929 124 · A Red Coat for Night · Manuel Komroff · ss The Yale Review March 1930 135 · At the Swamp · Janet Lewis · ss The Bookman October 1929 142 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 154 · The Cradle of Civilization · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 21 1929 158 · The White Pigeon · Gouverneur Paulding · ss Commonweal March 26 1930 162 · The Patriot · William Polk · ss The Hound and Horn January/March 1930 171 · Theft · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Gyroscope November 1929 177 · The Vineyard at Schloss Ramsburg [Alexander Botts; Earthworm Tractors] · William Hazlett Upson · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 19 1930

The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Enigma · Louis Adamic · ss The American Mercury May 1930 · The Sound That Frost Makes · Solon R. Barber · ss The Agora April 1931 · Only We Are Barren · Alvah C. Bessie · ss The Hound and Horn January/March 1931 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 · Tabloid News · Louis Bromfield · ss Random House, 1930 · A Day in the Country · Whit Burnett · nv Story #1, April/May 1931 · Dorothy · Erskine Caldwell · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1931 · The Young Priest · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker September 27 1930 · Water Never Hurt a Man · Walter D. Edmonds · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1930 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 · The Flaming Chariot [Colin Glencannon] · Guy Gilpatric · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 27 1930 · Fiddlers of Moon Mountain · Emmett Gowen · ss Pictorial Review September 1930 · I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown · Josephine Herbst · ss This Quarter April/May/June 1931 · Other Side of the Street · Paul Horgan · ss The Yale Review Winter 1931 · Fifteen from Company K · William March · ss The Midland November/December 1930 · The Other Room · Don Marquis · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1930 · A Pretty Cute Little Stunt · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury February 1931 · Here We Are · Dorothy Parker · ss Cosmopolitan March 1931 · Rhodes Scholar · Allen Read · ss (r) · The Great Hunter of the Woods · James Stevens · ss The Frontier January 1931 · The Model House [Alexander Botts] · William Hazlett Upson · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 10 1931 · The Threshing Ring · Leo L. Ward · ss The Midland July/August 1930 · The Miracle · Anne Elizabeth Wilson · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1930 · White Man’s Town · Lowry Charles Wimberly · ss Forum and Century March 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 352pp, hc, an) 3 · The Foreigner · Bill Adams · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1932 16 · Horizon · Alvah C. Bessie · ss The Criterion July 1931 25 · Love’s So Many Things · Clifford Bragdon · ss The Midland July 1931 34 · Poisoner in Motley · Louis Brennan · ss Script June 1931 44 · Sand · Wanda Burnett · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 54 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 62 · Warm River · Erskine Caldwell · ss Pagany January/March 1932 70 · The Red Hat · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker October 31 1931 76 · The Honest Wine Merchant · Helena LeFroy Caperton · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 30 1932 80 · The Story of the Stranger · John Cournos · ss John o’ London’s Weekly December 19 1931 90 · So Tall the Corn · David Cornel De Jong · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1932 101 · Hansel · Andra Diefenthaler · ss New Copy 1932, Columbia University Press, 1932 108 · Smoke [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1932 134 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 138 · Spring Story · Meridel Le Sueur · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1931 153 · An Arrival at Carthage · Scammon Lockwood · ss The Frontier November 1931 165 · Mist on the Meadow · William March · ss The Midland October 1931 177 · Heel, Toe and A 1, 2, 3, 4 · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury April 1932 187 · The Kimono · Ira V. Morris · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 198 · Shepherd of the Lord · Peter Neagoe · nv Story #4, November/December 1931 216 · Load · Dudley Schnabel · ss The Midland May 1931 231 · Gentleman in Blue · Laurence Stallings · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 20 1932 243 · The Family Chronicle · Bernhard Johann Tüting · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1931 253 · Untitled Story · José Garcia Villa · ss Clay Autumn 1931 264 · The Quarrel · Leo L. Ward · ss Story #3, September/October 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1933, 365pp, hc, an) 3 · Fame Takes the J Car · George Albee · ss Story #10, December 1932 14 · A Little Walk · Alvah C. Bessie · ss Story #7, May/June 1932 21 · Toadstools Are Poison · John Peale Bishop · ss North American Review June 1932 30 · Elmer · Albert Truman Boyd · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1932 42 · Serenade · Whit Burnett · ss Story #9, October 1932 54 · The First Autumn · Erskine Caldwell · ss Pagany July/September 1932 60 · A Sick Call · Morley Callaghan · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1932 68 · The Land of Plenty · Robert Cantwell · ss The New Republic October 12 1932 77 · The Honey Pot · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1932 91 · Black Wolf · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 18 1932 108 · Helen, I Love You! · James T. Farrell · ss The American Mercury July 1932 115 · Crazy Sunday · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss The American Mercury October 1932 133 · What Was Truly Mine · Grace Flandrau · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1932 140 · Martyr · Martha Foley · ss Story #8, August 1932 145 · Fisherman’s Luck · Emmett Gowen · ss The New English Weekly September 22 1932 157 · Simple Aveu · Nancy Hale · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1932 161 · Going to Market · Albert Halper · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1932 170 · In the Park · Eugene Joffe · vi The New Republic October 5 1932 173 · Sleet Storm · Louise Lambertson · ss The Country Gentleman January 1932 187 · The Facts in the Case · Grant Leenhouts · ss The American Mercury May 1932 202 · The Apostate · George Milburn · ss The New Yorker June 4 1932 208 · The Sampler · Ira V. Morris · vi Story #10, December 1932 210 · Footnote to a Life · Lloyd Morris · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1932 223 · The Cracked Looking-Glass · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Scribner’s Magazine May 1932 254 · Episode at the Pawpaws · Louis Reed · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1932 266 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 280 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932 301 · The Joybell · Dorothy Thomas · ss The American Mercury November 1932 314 · The Fence · José Garcia Villa · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1932

The Best Short Stories of 1934 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1934, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Winter Meeting · Benjamin Appel · ss (r) · No Final Word · Alvah C. Bessie · ss Story #16, November 1933 · The Cats Which Cried · Whit Burnett · ss Story #13, June 1933 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 · Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks · Morley Callaghan · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1933 · The Woman on the Shore · Marquis W. Childs · ss Story #16, November 1933 · Amethyst · Edwin Corle · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1933 · Crossroads Woman · Howard McKinley Corning · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1933 · Beyond · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1933 · Miss Cynthie · Rudolph Fisher · ss Story #13, June 1933 · She Walks in Beauty · Martha Foley · ss Story #12, April 1933 · My Dead Brother Comes to America · Alexander Godin · ss The Windsor Quarterly 1934 · Tom Rivers · Caroline Gordon · ss (r) · The Broken Wheel · Sirak Goryan · ss Hairenik 1933 · Lord of Marutea · James Norman Hall · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1933 · Cora Unashamed · Langston Hughes · ss The American Mercury September 1933 · Siege of Love · Eugene Joffe · ss The American Mercury December 1933 · Hamlet’s Dagger · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #12, April 1933 · Mother Tanner · John Lineaweaver · ss North American Review January 1933 · Winter · Dorothy McCleary · nv Story #17, December 1933 · The Pension · Louis Mamet · ss (r) · This Heavy Load · William March · ss Forum and Century December 1933 · Death and Transfiguration · Alan Marshall · ss Story #15, October 1933 · The Sacred Thing · Paul Ryan · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1933 · In a Park · Nahum Sabsay · ss Commonweal November 10 1933 · The Hemlock Tree · Vincent Sheean · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1933 · Now There Is Peace · Richard Sherman · ss Vanity Fair (US) December 1933 · The Immortal Woman · Allen Tate · ss The Hound and Horn July/September 1933 · Money at Home · Upton Terrell · ss North American Review June 1933 · Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood · Leane Zugsmith · ss Story #17, December 1933