The Best British Short Stories of 1922 was complied by. Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos. Stories included in this collection are as follows. Where was Wych Street? -- The looking-glass -- The olive -- Once a hero -- "The pensioner" -- Broadsheet ballad -- The Christmas present -- Seaton's aunt -- The reaper -- The song -- A hedonist -- The Bat and Belfry Inn -- The lie -- A girl in it -- The backstairs of the mind -- The birth of a masterpiece -- "Genius" -- The devil to pay -- Empty arms -- Lena Wrace -- The dice thrower -- The stranger woman -- The woman who sat still -- Major Wilbraham.