Author:William Sydney Porter

William Sydney Porter
(1862–1910)

William Sydney Porter

Works

Short stories

Collections

• Cabbages and Kings (1904)

  • "The Proem: By the Carpenter"
  • "Fox-in-the-Morning"
  • "The Lotus and the Bottle"
  • "Smith"
  • "Caught"
  • "Cupid's Exile Number Two"
  • "The Phonograph and the Graft"
  • "Money Maze"
  • "The Admiral"
  • "The Flag Paramount"
  • "The Shamrock and the Palm"
  • "The Remnants of the Code"
  • "Shoes"
  • "Ships"
  • "Masters of Arts"
  • "Dicky"
  • "Rouge et Noir"
  • "Two Recalls"
  • "The Vitagraphoscope"

• The Four Million (1906)

  • "Tobin's Palm"
  • "The Gift of the Magi"
  • "A Cosmopolite in a Café"
  • "Between Rounds"
  • "The Skylight Room"
  • "A Service of Love"
  • "The Coming-Out of Maggie"
  • "Man About Town"
  • "The Cop and the Anthem"
  • "An Adjustment of Nature"
  • "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog"
  • "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein"
  • "Mammon and the Archer"
  • "Springtime à la Carte"
  • "The Green Door"
  • "From the Cabby's Seat"
  • "An Unfinished Story"
  • "The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock"
  • "Sisters of the Golden Circle"
  • "The Romance of a Busy Broker"
  • "After Twenty Years"
  • "Lost on Dress Parade"
  • "By Courier"
  • "The Furnished Room"
  • "The Brief Début of Tildy"

• The Trimmed Lamp (1907)

  • "The Trimmed Lamp"
  • "A Madison Square Arabian Night"
  • "The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball"
  • "The Pendulum"
  • "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen"
  • "The Assessor of Success"
  • "The Buyer from Cactus City"
  • "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon"
  • "Brickdust Row"
  • "The Making of a New Yorker"
  • "Vanity and Some Sables"
  • "The Social Triangle"
  • "The Purple Dress"
  • "The Foreign Policy of Company 99"
  • "The Lost Blend"
  • "A Harlem Tragedy"
  • "The Guilty Party"
  • "A Midsummer Knight's Dream"
  • "According to Their Lights"
  • "The Last Leaf"
  • "The Count and the Wedding Guest"
  • "The Country of Elusion"
  • "The Ferry of Unfulfilment"
  • "The Tale of a Tainted Tenner"
  • "Elsie in New York"

• Heart of the West (1907)

  • "Hearts and Crosses"
  • "The Ransom of Mack"
  • "Telemachus, Friend"
  • "The Handbook of Hymen"
  • "The Pimienta Pancakes"
  • "Seats of the Haughty"
  • "Hygeia at the Solito"
  • "An Afternoon Miracle"
  • "The Higher Abdication"
  • "Cupid à la Carte"
  • "The Caballero's Way"
  • "The Sphinx Apple"
  • "The Missing Chord"
  • "A Call Loan"
  • "The Princess and the Puma"
  • "The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson"
  • "Christmas by Injunction"
  • "A Chaparral Prince"
  • "The Reformation of Calliope"

• The Voice of the City (1908)

  • "The Voice of the City"
  • "The Complete Life of John Hopkins"
  • "A Lickpenny Lover"
  • "Dougherty's Eye-Opener"
  • "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit"
  • "The Harbinger"
  • "While the Auto Waits"
  • "A Comedy in Rubber"
  • "One Thousand Dollars"
  • "The Defeat of the City"
  • "The Shocks of Doom"
  • "The Plutonian Fire"
  • "Nemesis and the Candy Man"
  • "Squaring the Circle"
  • "Roses, Ruses and Romance"
  • "The City of Dreadful Night"
  • "The Easter of the Soul"
  • "The Fool-Killer"
  • "Transients in Arcadia"
  • "The Rathskeller and the Rose"
  • "The Clarion Call"
  • "Extradited from Bohemia"
  • "A Philistine in Bohemia"
  • "From Each According to His Ability"
  • "The Memento"

• The Gentle Grafter (1908)

  • "The Octopus Marooned"
  • "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet"
  • "Modern Rural Sports"
  • "The Chair of Philanthromathematics"
  • "The Hand That Riles the World"
  • "The Exact Science of Matrimony"
  • "A Midsummer Masquerade"
  • "Shearing the Wolf"
  • "Innocents of Broadway"
  • "Conscience in Art"
  • "The Man Higher Up"
  • "A Tempered Wind"
  • "Hostages to Momus"
  • "The Ethics of Pig"

• Roads of Destiny (1909)

  • "Roads of Destiny"
  • "The Guardian of the Accolade"
  • "The Discounters of Money"
  • "The Enchanted Profile"
  • "Next to Reading Matter"
  • "Art and the Bronco"
  • "Phoebe"
  • "A Double-Dyed Deceiver"
  • "The Passing of Black Eagle"
  • "A Retrieved Reformation"
  • "Cherchez La Femme"
  • "Friends in San Rosario"
  • "The Fourth in Salvador"
  • "The Emancipation of Billy"
  • "The Enchanted Kiss"
  • "A Departmental Case"
  • "The Renaissance at Charleroi"
  • "On Behalf of the Management"
  • "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking"
  • "The Halberdier of the Little Rhein-Schloss"
  • "Two Renegades"
  • "The Lonesome Road"

• Options (1909) (transcription project)

  • "The Rose of Dixie"
  • "The Third Ingredient"
  • "The Hiding of Black Bill"
  • "Schools and Schools"
  • "Thimble, Thimble"
  • "Supply and Demand"
  • "Buried Treasure"
  • "To Him Who Waits"
  • "He Also Serves"
  • "The Moment of Victory"
  • "The Head-hunter"
  • "No Story"
  • "The Higher Pragmatism"
  • "Best-seller"
  • "Rus in Urbe"
  • "A Poor Rule"

• The Two Women (1910) (external scan)

  • "A Fog in Santone"
  • "Blind Man's Holiday"

• Strictly Business (1910) (external scan)

  • "Strictly Business"
  • "The Gold That Glittered"
  • "Babes in the Jungle"
  • "The Day Resurgent"
  • "The Fifth Wheel"
  • "The Poet and the Peasant"
  • "The Robe of Peace"
  • "The Girl and the Graft"
  • "The Call of the Tame"
  • "The Unknown Quantity"
  • "The Thing's the Play"
  • "A Ramble in Aphasia"
  • "A Municipal Report"
  • "Psyche and the Pskyscraper"
  • "A Bird of Bagdad"
  • "Compliments of the Season"
  • "A Night in New Arabia"
  • "The Girl and the Habit"
  • "Proof of the Pudding"
  • "Past One at Rooney's"
  • "The Venturers"
  • "The Duel"
  • "What You Want"

• Whirligigs (1910) (external scan)

  • "The World and the Door"
  • "The Theory and the Hound"
  • "The Hypotheses of Failure"
  • "Calloway's Code"
  • "A Matter of Mean Elevation"
  • "Girl"
  • "Sociology in Serge and Straw"
  • "The Ransom of Red Chief"
  • "The Marry Month of May"
  • "A Technical Error"
  • "Suite Homes and Their Romance"
  • "The Whirligig of Life"
  • "A Sacrifice Hit"
  • "The Roads We Take"
  • "A Blackjack Bargainer"
  • "The Song and the Sergeant"
  • "One Dollar's Worth"
  • "A Newspaper Story"
  • "Tommy's Burglar"
  • "A Chaparral Christmas Gift"
  • "A Little Local Colour"
  • "Georgia's Ruling"
  • "Blind Man's Holiday"
  • "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches"

• Sixes and Sevens (1911) (external scan)

  • "The Last of the Troubadours"
  • "The Sleuths"
  • "Witches' Loaves"
  • "The Pride of the Cities"
  • "Holding Up a Train"
  • "Ulysses and the Dogman"
  • "The Champion of the Weather"
  • "Makes the Whole World Kin"
  • "At Arms with Morpheus"
  • "A Ghost of a Chance"
  • "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel"
  • "The Door of Unrest"
  • "The Duplicity of Hargraves"
  • "Let Me Feel Your Pulse"
  • "October and June"
  • "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel"
  • "New York by Camp Fire Light"
  • "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes"
  • "The Lady Higher Up"
  • "The Greater Coney"
  • "Law and Order"
  • "Transformation of Martin Burney"
  • "The Caliph and the Cad"
  • "The Diamond of Kali"
  • "The Day We Celebrate"

• Rolling Stones (1912) (external scan)

  • "The Dream"
  • "A Ruler of Men"
  • "The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear"
  • "Helping the Other Fellow"
  • "The Marionettes"
  • "The Marquis and Miss Sally"
  • "A Fog in Santone"
  • "The Friendly Call"
  • "A Dinner at ———"
  • "Sound and Fury"
  • "Tictocq"
  • "Tracked to Doom"
  • "A Snapshot at the President"
  • "An Unfinished Christmas Story"
  • "The Unprofitable Servant"
  • "Aristocracy Versus Hash"
  • "The Prisoner of Zembla"
  • "A Strange Story"
  • "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled"
  • "An Apology"
  • "Lord Oakhurst's Curse"
  • "Bexar Scrip No. 2692."
  • "Queries and Answers"
  • "The Pewee"
  • "Nothing to say"
  • "The Murderer"
  • "Two Portraits"
  • "A Contribution"
  • "The Old Farm"
  • "Vanity"
  • "The Lullaby Boy"
  • "Chanson de Bohême"
  • "Hard to Forget"
  • "Drop a Tear in This Slot"
  • "Tamales"
  • "Some Letters"

• Waifs and Strays (1917) (external scan)

  • "The Red Roses of Tonia"
  • "Round The Circle"
  • "The Rubber Plant's Story"
  • "Out of Nazareth"
  • "Confessions of a Humorist"
  • "The Sparrows in Madison Square"
  • "Hearts and Hands"
  • "The Cactus"
  • "The Detective Detector"
  • "The Dog and the Playlet"
  • "A Little Talk About Mobs"
  • "The Snow Man"

• O. Henryana (1920) (external scan)

  • "The Crucible"
  • "A Lunar Episode"
  • "Three Paragraphs"
  • "Bulger's Friend"
  • "A Professional Secret"
  • "The Elusive Tenderloin"
  • "The Struggle of the Outliers"

• The ransom of Red Chief and other O. Henry stories for boys (1921) (transcription project)

  • "The Ransom Of Red Chief"
  • "Jimmie Hayes and Muriel"
  • "A Technical Error"
  • "The Reformation of Calliope"
  • "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet"
  • "One Dollar’s Worth"
  • "A Chaparral Christmas Gift"
  • "The Roads We Take"
  • "New York By Camp Fire Light"
  • "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes"
  • "The Sleuths"
  • "The Cop and the Anthem"
  • "The Foreign Policy of Co. 99"
  • "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog"
  • "Lost on Dress Parade"
  • "The Love-Philtre Of Ikey Schoenstein"
  • "The Girl and the Habit"
  • "After Twenty Years"
  • "What You Want"
  • "The Clarion Call"
  • "A Retrieved Reformation"
  • "A Double-Dyed Deceiver"
  • "The Theory and the Hound"
  • "A Blackjack Bargainer"

• Postscripts (1923) (external scan)

  • "The Sensitive Colonel Jay"
  • "Taking No Chances"
  • "A Matter of Loyalty"
  • "The Other Side of It"
  • "Journalistically Impossible"
  • "The Power of Reputation"
  • "The Distraction of Grief"
  • "A Sporting Interest"
  • "Had A Use for It"
  • "The Old Landmark"
  • "A Personal Insult"
  • "Toddlekins"
  • "Reconciliation"
  • "Buying a Piano"
  • "Too Late"
  • "Nothing to say"
  • ¨, "Goin Home fur Christmas"
  • "Just a Little Damp"
  • "Her Mysterious Charm"
  • "Convinced"
  • "His Dilemma"
  • "Something for Baby"
  • "Some Day"
  • "A Green Hand"
  • "A Righteous Outburst"
  • "Getting at the Facts"
  • "Just for a Change"
  • "Too Wise"
  • "A Fatal Error"
  • "Prompt"
  • "An Opportunity Declined"
  • "Correcting a Great Injustice"
  • "A Startling Demonstration"
  • "Leap Year Advice"
  • "After Supper"
  • "His Only Opportunity"
  • "Getting Acquainted"
  • "Answers to Inquiries"
  • "City Peril"
  • "Hush Money"
  • "Relieved"
  • "No Time to Lose"
  • "A Villainous Trick"
  • "A Forced March"
  • "Book Review"
  • "A Conditional Pardon"
  • "Inconsistency"
  • "Bill Nye"
  • "To a Portrait"
  • "A Guarded Secret"
  • "A Pastel"
  • "Jim"
  • "Board and Ancestors"
  • "An X-Ray Fable"
  • "A Universal Favorite"
  • "Spring"
  • "The Sporting Editor on Culture"
  • "A Question of Direction"
  • "The Old Farm"
  • "Willing to Compromise"
  • "Ridiculous"
  • "Guessed Everything Else"
  • "The Prisoner of Zembla"
  • "Lucky Either Way"
  • "The Bad Man"
  • "Slight Mistake"
  • "Delayed"
  • "A Good Story Spoiled"
  • "Revenge"
  • "No Help for It"
  • "Riley's Luck"
  • "Not So Much a Tam Fool"
  • "A Guess-Proof Mystery Story"
  • "Futility"
  • "Wounded Veteran"
  • "Her Ruse"
  • "Why Conductors Are Morose"
  • "The Pewee"
  • "Only to Lie"
  • "The Sunday Excursionist"
  • "Decoration Day"
  • "Charge of the White Brigade"
  • "An Inspiration"
  • "Coming To Him"
  • "His Pension"
  • "Winner"
  • "Hungry Henry's Ruse"
  • "A Proof Of Love"
  • "One Consolation"
  • "An Unsuccessful Experiment"
  • "Superlatrives"
  • "By Easy Stages"
  • "Even Worse"
  • "The Shock"
  • "The Cynic"
  • "Speaking of Big Winds"
  • "An Original Idea"
  • "Calculations"
  • "A Valedictory"
  • "Solemn Thoughts"
  • "Explaining It"
  • "Her Failing"
  • "A Disagreement"
  • "An E for a Knee"
  • "The Unconquerable"
  • "An Expensive Veracity"
  • "Grounds for Uneasiness"
  • "It Covers Errors"
  • "Recognition"
  • "His Doubt"
  • "A Cheering Thought"
  • "What It Was"
  • "Vanity"
  • "Identified"
  • "The Apple"
  • "How It Started"
  • "How Red Conlin Told the Widow"
  • "Why He Hesitated"
  • "Turkish Questions"
  • "Somebody Lied"
  • "Marvelous"
  • "The Confession of a Murderer"
  • "Get Off the Earth"
  • "The Stranger's Appeal"
  • "The Good Boy"
  • "The Colonel's Romance"
  • "A Narrow Escape"
  • "A Year's Supply"
  • "Eugene Field"
  • "Slightly Mixed"
  • "Knew What Was Needed"
  • "Some Ancient News Notes"
  • "A Sure Method"

• Selected Stories 1922 (Ed. By Alphonse Smith)
• Letters To Lithopolis From O. Henry To Mabel Wagnalls, 1922

Individual stories

• "The Passing of Black Eagle" in Ainslee's Magazine (1902) (start transcription)
• "The Phonograph and the Graft" in McClure's Magazine (February, 1903)
• "Calloway's Code" in Munsey's Magazine (1906)
• "The World and the Door" in The American Magazine (August, 1907)
• "He Also Serves" in Collier's Magazine (October 18, 1908)
• "To Him Who Waits" in Collier's Magazine (January 23, 1909)

Plays

• Lo (1909)—with Franklin P. Adams, music by A. Baldwin Sloane

Complete works

• The Complete Writing of O. Henry (1918) (14 Vols.)

Works about Porter

• "Henry, O.," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)