Portal:Humour

Satirical reference works

 * The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce
 * The Jazz Webster, 1916 by Henry Louis Mencken

Humorous poetry

 * The Rape of the Lock, 1714 by Alexander Pope
 * The Diverting History of John Gilpin, 1782 by William Cowper
 * The Devil's Walk, 1798 by Robert Southey
 * The child is father to the man, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
 * The Latest Decalogue, by Arthur Hugh Clough
 * A Book of Nonsense, 1846 by Edward Lear
 * The Quangle-Wangle's Hat, by Edward Lear
 * Cobbler and Stork, by Eugene Field
 * The Gipsy Praises his Horse, by Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
 * Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871 by Edward Lear
 * More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc., 1872 by Edward Lear
 * The New Vestments, 1876 by Edward Lear
 * The Hunting of the Snark, 1876 by Lewis Carroll
 * The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò, 1877 by Edward Lear
 * Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, 1883 by Lewis Carroll (collection)
 * Two Mock Epics, 1894 by Svatopluk Čech and Walter William Strickland
 * Ben King's Verse, 1894 by Benjamin Franklin King
 * Archy and mehitabel, 1916 by Don Marquis (collection)
 * The Maiden of Kercheezer, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Kissing of Sal Snooboo, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Conversion of St. Vladimir by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Ernst Altschul (1930)
 * Tyrolean Elegies by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg (c1932)
 * The Weakling, 1986 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * A Song of Cheer, 2007 by Robert Ervin Howard

Humorous prose

 * Miss Albina McLush, by Nathaniel Parker Willis
 * Bon-Bon, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Duc de L'Omelette, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Loss of Breath, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * A Predicament, 1838 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Business Man, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Never Bet the Devil Your Head, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Three Sundays in a Week, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences, 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Angel of the Odd, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Spectacles, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Vanity Fair, 1847 by William Makepeace Thackeray
 * X-ing a Paragrab, 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Canterville Ghost, 1887 by Oscar Wilde
 * Tag or The Chien Boule Dog, 1909 by Valance J Patriarche
 * The Secretary of the American Radio Relay League Offers a Reward!, December 1915 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
 * In An American Radio Relay League Station, January 1916
 * Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, 1916 by Don Marquis
 * The Reward is Given!, February 1916 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
 * Queen Lucia, 1920 by E. F. Benson
 * Miss Mapp, 1922 by E. F. Benson
 * West Is West, 1922 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Aha! or The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Sheik, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Unhand Me, Villain, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Halt! Who Goes There?, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Ideal Girl, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Weekly Short Story, 1926 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Reformation: A Dream, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Thessalians, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Ye College Days, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Musings of a Moron, by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Road to Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Scalp Hunter, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * A Gent from Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Guns of the Mountains, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Mountain Man, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Apache Mountain War, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Cupid From Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Feud Buster, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Haunted Mountain, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Riot at Cougar Paw, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * War on Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Evil Deeds at Red Cougar, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * High Horse Rampage, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * No Cowherders Wanted, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Pilgrims to the Pecos, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Pistol Politics, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Sharp's Gun Serenade, 1937 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Texas John Alden, 1944 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * Maple and Tea, 2007 by Dmitrii Kouznetsov

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