Author:William Sydney Porter
sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item
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)
- The Two Women (1910)
- Strictly Business (1910)
- "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)
- "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) (transcription project)
- "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
- "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in McClure's Magazine, Vol. 14 (Dec 1899)
- "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)
- "The Door of Unrest" in Cosmopolitan (May 1904)
Plays
- Lo (1909)—with Franklin P. Adams, music by A. Baldwin Sloane
Complete works
- The Complete Writings of O. Henry (1917) (Doubleday, Page and Company; 14 Vols.) (external scan)
Works about Porter
- "Henry, O.," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse