Author:Ernest William Hornung

Ernest William Hornung
(1866–1921)

Ernest William Hornung

Works

Fiction

• A Bride from the Bush (1890)
• Under Two Skies: a collection of stories (1892)
  • Jim-of-the-Whim — Nettleship's Score — The Luckiest Man in the Colony — The Notorious Miss Anstruther — Strong-Minded Miss Methuen — An Idle Singer — Sergeant Seth
• Tiny Luttrell (1893) Project Gutenberg
• The Boss of Taroomba (1894) Project Gutenberg
• The Unbidden Guest (1894) Project Gutenberg
• The Rogue's March: A Romance (1896) (transcription project)
• My Lord Duke (1897) Project Gutenberg
• Some Persons Unknown (1898) Project Gutenberg
• Young Blood (1898) Project Gutenberg
• Dead Men Tell No Tales (1899) Project Gutenberg
• The Belle of Toorak. US title: The Shadow of a Man: (1900) Project Gutenberg
• Peccavi (1900) Project Gutenberg
• At Large (1902) Project Gutenberg
• The Shadow of the Rope (1902) Project Gutenberg
• Denis Dent: A Novel (1903) Project Gutenberg
• No Hero (1903) Project Gutenberg
• The Camera Fiend (1911) Project Gutenberg
• Fathers of Men (1912)
• The Thousandth Woman (1913) Project Gutenberg
• Witching Hill (1913) Illustrated by F. C. Yohn
  • Unhallowed Ground — The House With Red Blinds — A Vicious Circle — The Local Colour — The Angel of Life — Under Arms — The Locked Room — The Temple of Bacchus
• The Crime Doctor (1914) frontispiece by Frederic Dorr Steele (No index)
  • The Physician Who Healed Himself — The Life-Preserver — A Hopeless Case — The Golden Key — A Schoolmaster Abroad — One Possessed — The Doctor's Assistant — The Second Murderer

Raffles series

Wikipedia article on A. J. Raffles

• The Amateur Cracksman (1899). illustrated by F. C. Yohn

The Ides of March — A Costume Piece — Gentlemen and Players — Le Premier Pas — Wilful Murder — Nine Points of the Law — The Return Match — The Gift of the Emperor

• The Black Mask. US title: Raffles (1901). Illustrated by F. C. Yohn
  • No Sinecure — A Jubilee Present — The Fate of Faustina — The Last Laugh — To Catch a Thief — An Old Flame — The Wrong House — The Knees of the Gods
• A Thief in the Night (1905) (No scan)
  • Out of Paradise — The Chest of Silver — The Rest Cure — The Criminologists' Club — The Field of Phillipi — A Bad Night — A Trap to Catch a Cracksman — The Spoils of Sacrilege — The Raffles Relics — The Last Word
• Mr. Justice Raffles (1909) Project Gutenberg

Stingaree books

(Also see "Posthumous publications" below)

1. Irralie's Bushranger (1896)
2. Stingaree (1905)^[1]. Illustrated by George Washington Lambert

Non-fiction

• 'Trusty and Well Beloved', The Little Record of Arthur Oscar Hornung (Privately published, 1915)
• Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front (1919) (Commons file) Project Gutenberg

Poetry

• Ballad of Ensign Joy (1917)
• Wooden Cross (1918)
• The Young Guard (1919) Project Gutenberg

Posthumous publications

• Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores (1923) Short story collection.
• Raffles and E. W. Hornung (1999) (a biography of Hornung; revised and updated edition planned for 2017.) by Peter Rowland
• His Brother's Blood (2015), last unfinished novel
• Tall Tales (2015), a Hornung compilation
• The Graven Image, (2016), unfinished novel
• Stingaree Rides Again (2016), short stories [Stingaree #3]

More details on the above books can be found on [Peter Rowland's site]

Individual short stories

• "The Luckiest Man in the Colony", (1891) from The Strand Magazine, Volume I, April 1891 ^[2] (Included in Under Two Skies.)
• "The Notorious Miss Anstruther" (1891) from The Strand Magazine, Volume I, June 1891 (Included in Under Two Skies.)
• "Strong-Minded Miss Methuen" in The Strand Magazine, 3 (15) (1892) (Included in Under Two Skies)
• "Author! Author!" in The Strand Magazine, 5 (27) (1893).
• "Literary Coincidence" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (36) (1893).
• "The Star of the "Grasmere"" in The Strand Magazine, 8 (48) (1894).
• "The Widow of Piper's Point" (1895) in Windsor magazine, Vol. 2
• "At the Pistol's Point" (1897, Strand) (ss)
• "The Crimean Shirt" (1898 May 14, Toronto Saturday Night) (ss)
• "Chrystal's Century" (1903 June, Strand & Atlantic Monthly) (ss)
• "My Double" (1904 Aug 30, Harper's Weekly) (ss)
• "The Lady of the Lift" in Scribner's Magazine, August 1909
• "The Man at the Wheel" (1910) in Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1910
• "The Poet of Jumping Sandhills" (1910) in Scribner's Magazine, Mar 1911
• "The Christmas Story" (1911 Dec, Pall Mall) (ss)
• "The Voice of the Charmer" (1913 Apr, Ainslee's) (ss)

The Crime Doctor

• "The 'Life Preserver'" (1913 June, Everybody's) (ss)
• "Croucher—Hopeless Case" (1913 Aug, Everybody's) (ss)
• "One Possessed" (1914 Feb, Everybody's) (ss)
• "Lady Vera, Semi-Militant" (1914 March, Everybody's) (ss)
• "The Second Murderer" (1914, Everybody's) (ss)

A complete list of his works can be found on Wikipedia

Works about Hornung

• "Hornung, Ernest William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

References

1. Stingaree, the Bushranger was also written as a play, first performed at the Queen's Theatre, London, 1908
2. Credited to S. W. Hornung.