1. Primary Texts

Munro, Hector Hugh. The Penguin Complete Saki. London: Penguin, 1982.

Munro, Ethel M. "Biography of Saki", The Square Egg. London: John Lane, 1924, pp.3-120. [Contains letters and drawings by Saki].

Langguth, Arthur John. Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro. With Six Short Stories Never Before Collected. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

"The Almanack". Morning Post, June 17, 1913, p.5.

"The Dalmeny Cat That Walked By Itself". Westminster Gazette, October 31, 1902, p.3.

"The Elk: A Christmastide Tragedy". Bystander Annual, November 17, 1913, pp.35-36.

"Esmé". Westminster Gazette, December 17, 1910, p.3.

"A Housing Problem: The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma". Bystander, July 9, 1913, pp.60, 62.

"The Man of the Parcels". Westminster Gazette, October 29, 1902, p.3.

'Saki': "The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists". Methuen's Annual. Ed. Edward Verrall Lucas. London: Methuen, 1914, pp.39-45.

"The Seven Cream Jugs: A Light-Fingered Trifle". Bystander, December 6, 1911, pp.523-24, 526.

"The Woman Who Never Should". Westminster Gazette, July 22, 1902, pp.1-2.

2. Secondary Texts

Critical Introductions

Aiken, Joan. Introduction, The Unbearable Bassington. London: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp.5-11.

Baring, Maurice. Introduction, The Unbearable Bassington. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.ix-xxii.

Benson, Geoffrey Rathbone, Baron Charnwood. Introduction, When William Came. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.vii-xiii.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Introduction, The Toys of Peace. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.xi-xiv.

Coward, Noel. Introduction, The Penguin Complete Saki. London: Penguin, 1982, pp.xi-xiv.

Haining, Peter. Preface, Saki: Short Stories 2. London: Dent, 1983, pp.vii-xvii.

Knox, Edmund George Valpy. Introduction, Seventy Six Short Stories by Saki. London: Collins, 1986, pp.11-16.

Lambert, J.W. Introduction, The Bodley Head Saki. London: Bodley Head, 1963, pp.7-62.

Letts, John. Introduction, Saki: Short Stories. London: Folio Society, 1976, pp.9-18.

Maine, George Frederick. "Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)", Seventy Six Short Stories by Saki. London: Collins, 1986, pp.5-8.

Milne, Alan Alexander. Introduction, The Chronicles of Clovis. London: John Lane, 1931, pp.ix-xiii.

Morley, Christopher. Introduction, The Short Stories of Saki. London: John Lane, 1930, pp.v-vii.

Nevinson, Henry Woodd. Introduction, Beasts and Superbeasts. London; John Lane, 1926, pp.vii-xii.

Reynolds, Rothay. "Hector Hugh Munro", The Toys of Peace. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.xv-xxvii.

Sharpe, Tom. Introduction, The Best of Saki. London: Picador, 1976, pp.7-14.

Spender, John Alfred. Foreword, The Westminster Alice. London: John Lane, 1927, pp.vii-xvi.

Squire, John Collings. Introduction, The Square Egg. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.xi-xvi.

Walpole, Hugh. Preface, Reginald and Reginald in Russia. London: John Lane, 1926, pp.vii-xiii.

Waugh, Auberon. Introduction, The Chronicles of Clovis. London: Penguin, 1986, pp.vii-xii.

Waugh, Evelyn. Introduction, The Unbearable Bassington. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1947, pp.v-viii.

Williams, Emlyn. Saki: Short Stories 1. London: Dent, 1988, pp.11-13.

Books

Baring, Maurice. The Puppet Show of Memory. London: Heinemann, 1922.

Bates, Herbert Ernest. The Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey. London: Thomas Nelson, 1943.

Blamires, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1984.

Chew, Samuel. "The Nineteenth Century and After" (1789-1939). A Literary History of England. Ed. Albert C. Baugh. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948.

Dold, Bernard E. Edwardian Fall-Out: The Ironic School. Messina: Peloritana Editrice, 1972.

Fiedler, Leslie A. No! in Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960.

Fogle, Richard Harter. "Saki and Wodehouse". The English Short Story 1880-1945: A Critical Study. Ed. Joseph M. Flora. New York: Twayne, 1985, pp.83-111.

Gillen, Charles H. H.H. Munro (Saki). New York: Twayne, 1969.

Gore, John. "Saki". English Wits. Ed. Leonard Russell. London: Hutchinson, 1940, pp.309-26.

Gordon, Giles. English Short Stories 1900 to the Present. London: Dent, 1988.

Greene, Graham. "The Burden of Childhood". The Lost Childhood and Other Essays. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951, pp.74-76.

Hynes, Samuel. The Edwardian Turn of Mind. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

May, James Lewis. John Lane and the Nineties. London: Bodley Head, 1936.

Phelps, Barry. P.G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth. London: Constable, 1992.

Powell, Anthony. "Saki (H.H.Munro)". Under Review: Further Writings on Writers 1946-1989. London: Heinemann, 1991, pp.284-86.

Spears, George J. The Satire of Saki: A Study of the Satiric Art of H.H.Munro. New York: Exposition Press, 1963.

Wilson, Colin. The Craft of the Novel. London: Ashgrove, 1990.

Articles

Anon. "Beasts and Superbeasts". Bookman, 46 (August 1914), 225.

Anon. "Beasts and Superbeasts". Spectator, 113 (July 11, 1914), 60-61.

Anon. "The Complete Works of Saki". Punch, 282 (January 6, 1982), 36.

Anon. "Rise of the Russian Empire". Athenaeum, 1 (March 31, 1900), 398.

Anon. "The Toys of Peace". Spectator, 122 (March 22, 1919), 367.

Bailey, Roger Blackwell. "Saki's Short Stories: An Interpretation." Indiana English Journal, 6:2 (1971), 17-21.

Beaty, Frederick L. "Mrs Packletide and Tartarin". Nineteenth Century Fiction, 5 (December 1952), 219-20.

Bilton, Peter. "Salute to an N.C.O.". English Studies, University of Oslo, 47 (December 1966), 439-42.

Carter, Vivian. "'Saki' Stories: a Delightful Author". Review of "The Chronicles of Clovis". Bystander, October 18, 1911,p.134.

Cheikin, Miriam Quen. "Saki: Practical Jokes as a Clue to Comedy". English Literature in Transition, 21 (1978), 121-33.

Cobley, W.D. "The Tales of Saki". Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, 47 (1921), 221-35.

Coolidge, Archibald Cary. Review of "The Rise of the Russian Empire". American Historical Review, 7 (1901-02), 138-40.

Drake, Robert. "Manners Anyone: or Who Killed the Butler?". South Atlantic Quarterly, 63 (Winter 1964), 75-84.

Drake, Robert. "Saki's Ironic Stories". Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 5 (Autumn 1963), 374-88.

Drake, Robert. "Saki: Some Problems and a Bibliography". English Fiction in Transition, 5 (September 1962), 6-26.

Drake, Robert. "The Sauce for the Asparagus". The Saturday Book, 20 (1960), 61-73.

Drew, Elizabeth. "Saki". Atlantic Monthly, 166 (July 1940), 96-8.

Gould, Gerald. "Saki". New Statesman, 10 (November 17, 1917), 159-60.

Green, Benny. "Paper-Thin". Spectator, 245 (November 22, 1980), 24.

Hartley, Leslie Poles. "Saki". Bookman, 71 (January 1927), 214-17.

Hartwell, Ronald. "Fallen Timbers - a Death Trap: A Comparison of Bierce and Munro". Research Studies of Washington State University, 49:1 (March 1981), 61-66.

Hudson, Derek. "A Little Master". Spectator, 188 (May 30, 1952), 720, 722.

Inglis, Brian. "The Lumber Room", Spectator, 197 (December 21, 1956), 907.

Lambert, J.W. "Jungle Boy in the Drawing Room". Listener, 55 (February 9, 1956), 211-12.

Mais, Stuart Petre Brodie. "A Great Humourist", Bookman, 56 (April 1919), 20-21.

Overmyer, Janet. "Turn Down an Empty Glass". Texas Quarterly, 7 (Autumn 1964), 171-75.

Porterfield, Alexander. "Saki". London Mercury, 12 (August 1925), 385-94.

Pritchett, Victor Sawdon. "The Performing Lynx". New Statesman and Nation, 53 (January 5, 1957), 18-19.

Pritchett, Victor. Sawdon. "Saki". New Statesman, 66 (November 1, 1963), 614-15.

Redfern, James. Review of "The Watched Pot". Spectator, 171 (August 27, 1943), 194.

Reynolds, Stanley. "Playboy of the Weekend World". Punch, 282 (January 6, 1982), 36-37.

Roberts, R. Ellis. "Saki": Review of "Reginald". "Beasts and Superbeasts" and "The Chronicles of Clovis". New Statesman, 27 (July 24, 1926), 416-17.

Seabrook, Alex. "'Saki' on Shaw". Independent Shavian, 15 (1977), 20-21.

Stevick, Philip. "Saki's Beasts". English Literature in Transition, 9 (September 1966), 33-37.

Theroux, Paul. "Recalling Saki on his 100th Birthday". Chicago Tribune [Book World] (December 20, 1970), 1,3,9.

Thrane, James R. "Two New Stories by 'Saki' with an Introduction". Modern Fiction Studies, 19 (1973), 139-44.

Dissertations

Bilton, Peter. 'Saki and his Stories'. Unpublished dissertation. University of Oslo, 1959.

Chapman, William E. 'Aspects of Literary Dandyism from 1881: Wilde, Beerbohm and Saki.' Unpublished B.Litt. dissertation. Oxford,1978.

Drake, Robert. 'Theme and Rationale in the Short Stories of Saki'. Unpublished M.A. dissertation. Vanderbilt University, 1953.

Katrakis, Maria. 'The Satiric Art of H.H. Munro (Saki)'. Unpublished M.A. dissertation. University of South Africa, 1980.

Loganbill, Dean. 'Saki: a Literary and Critical Study'. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Denver, 1973.

Otto, Don Henry. 'Development of Method and Meaning in the Fiction of Saki'. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Southern California, 1969.

Background Reading

Belloc, Hilaire. "Matilda", The Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Ed. Iona and Peter Opie. London: Oxford University Press, 1973, pp.314-15.

Bleiler, Everett F. The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. London: Paladin, 1988.

Dangerfield, George. The Strange Death of Liberal England. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935.

Davies, Robertson. A Voice from the Attic. London: Penguin, 1990.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: Penguin, 1981.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Penguin, 1982.

Ellmann, Richard. Edwardians and Late Victorians. English Institute Essays, 1959. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.

Frazer, James George. Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. London: Macmillan, 1923.

Hawkins, Anthony Hope. The Dolly Dialogues. London: Methuen, 1904.

Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London: Penguin,1989.

Maurois, Andre. King Edward and his Times. Translated by Hamish Miles. London: Cassell, 1933.

MacQueen Pope, Walter James. Back Numbers. London: Hutchinson, 1954.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate. London: Penguin, 1990.

Scarborough, Dorothy. The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. London: Penguin, 1985.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Heinemann, 1931.

Thomson, David. England in the Nineteenth Century (1815- 1914). The Pelican History of England, 8. London: Penguin, 1963.

Wells, Herbert George. The Island of Dr Moreau. London: Heinemann, 1974.

Wells, Herbert George. The War of the Worlds. London: Pan, 1983.

Whitmore, Charles Edward. The Supernatural in Tragedy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1915.

Wilde, Oscar. Plays, Prose Writings and Poems. London: Dent, 1961.