Author:William Sydney Porter

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 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)
 * "A Fog in Santone" · "Blind Man's Holiday"
 * 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)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "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)
 * "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

Complete works

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