Author:Richard Connell

Richard Connell
(1893–1949)

Richard Connell, circa 1923

Works

• The Most Dangerous Game (1924) in O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1924 (1925)
• The Mad Lover (1927)

Short story collections

• The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Humorous Tales (1922) a.k.a. Mister Braddy's Bottle and Other Humorous Tales (transcription project)
  • The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon — Mr. Pottle and the South-Sea Cannibals — Mr. Pottle and Culture — Mr. Pottle and the One Man Dog — Mr. Pottle and Pageantry — The Cage Man • (1920) — Where is the Tropic of Capricorn? — Mr. Braddy's Bottle — Gretna Greenhorns — Terrible Epps — Honor among Sportsmen — The $25,000 Jaw • (1921)
• Apes and Angels (1924)
  • A Friend of Napoleon • (1923) — A Reputation • (1922) — Son of a Sloganeer — The Wronging of Edwin Dell — The Unfamiliar • (1924) — A House in the Country — Shoes — The Prince Has the Mumps • (1922) — The Battle of Washington Square • (1923) — The Last of the Flatfeet • (1923) — The Man Who Could Imitate a Bee
• Variety (1925)
  • Big Lord Fauntleroy • (1924) — Sssssssssshhhh! • (1924) — Spring Flow'rets; or — The Most Dangerous Game • (1924) — And the Night Shall Be Filled with Music — Neighbors — All Wrong — The Second Egg — Pieces of Silver — The Hero of The Devil's Kitchen — The Great American Game — Isles of Romance — Six Reasons Why
• Ironies (1930)
  • Material — All in the Day's Work — King Carney — The Law Beaters — The Wolf and the Lamb — A Half Dollar Story — The Impossible Pratts • (1925) — Innocent Bystander — A New York Knight • (1923) — In Society — A Week-End in Atlantic City — The D Box — The First Gentleman of the Land — A Lover — Moral Tale

Works from periodicals

• "The Cage Man" (1920 Nov 6, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "Tiger Syrup" (1920 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
• "Grim House" (1921 May 28, Detective Story) (novelette)
• "A Reputation" (1922, The Century Magazine Vol 82) (ss)
• "A Nose for News" (1922 Aug 12, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "A Friend of Napoleon" (1923 June 30, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss) Also in Apes and Angels and O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1923
• "Her Arabian Knight" (1923 May, Everybody's) (ss)
• "Reverend Pendlebury's Past" (1923 July 29, Sunday Star) (ss)
• "The Prince Has the Mumps" (1923 Sept 8, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "The Last of the Flatfeet" (1923 Sept 29, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "The Heart of a Sloganeer" (1923 Oct 27, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "The Stolen Crime" (1923 Dec 2, Sunday Star) (ss)
• "The Unfamiliar" (1924 Sept 21, Sunday Star) (ss)
• "The Golden Bum" (1924 March, Everybody's Magazine) (ss)
• "Sssssssssshhhh!" (1924 Dec 13, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "The Law's an Ass" (1924 Dec, Red Book) (ss)
• "The Coils of Chance" (1925 Jan, Red Book) (ss)
• "The D Box" (1925 Nov, Red Book) (ss)
• "Unbeatable Bettle" (1925 Sept 5, Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "The Gypsy Look" (1926 Dec, The Rotarian) (ss)