The Best Short Stories of 1918

The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title<br></th> <th>Author<br></th> <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>A Simple Act of Piety</td> <td>Achmed Abdullah</td> <td>(All-Story Weekly Apr 20 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cruelties</td> <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td> <td>(Harper’s May 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Buster</td> <td>Katharine Holland Brown</td> <td>(Scribner’s Aug 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Open Window [Flavio Minetti]</td> <td>Charles Caldwell Dobie</td> <td>(Harper’s Aug 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Blind Vision</td> <td>Mary Mitchell Freedley</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jan 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Imagination</td> <td>Gordon Hall Gerould</td> <td>(Scribner’s Aug 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>In Maulmain Fever-Ward</td> <td>George Gilbert</td> <td>(The Green Book Magazine Oct 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Father’s Hand</td> <td>G. Humphrey</td> <td>(The Bookman Jun 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Visit of the Master</td> <td>Arthur Johnson</td> <td>(Harper’s Feb 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>In the Open Code</td> <td>Burton Kline</td> <td>(Stratford Journal Feb 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Willow Walk</td> <td>Sinclair Lewis</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post Aug 10 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie</td> <td>Katharine Prescott Moseley</td> <td>(Scribner’s Sep 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Toast to Forty-Five</td> <td>William Dudley Pelley</td> <td>(Pictorial Review May 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Extra Men</td> <td>Harrison Rhodes</td> <td>(Harper’s Jul 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Solitaire</td> <td>Fleta Campbell Springer</td> <td>(Harper’s Jan 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Dark Hour</td> <td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly May 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Bird of Serbia</td> <td>Julian Street</td> <td>(Collier’s Aug 31 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>At Isham’s</td> <td>Edward C. Venable</td> <td>(Scribner’s Jul 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>De Vilmarte’s Luck</td> <td>Mary Heaton Vorse</td> <td>(Harper’s Mar 1918)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Half-Past Ten</td> <td>Alice L. Tildesley</td> <td>(The Black Cat Aug 1916)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>