Flowering Judas and Other Stories


Flowering Judas and Other Stories is a collection of ten works of short fiction by Katherine Anne Porter, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1935. The volume is an amalgamation of four previously uncollected works and the six stories comprising Porter's first collection, Flowering Judas, also published by Harcourt and Brace. All of these stories appear in The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.

Stories

The original year of publication is listed below after the titles. The publishers include: The Century Magazine, Transition, New Masses, Gyroscope, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hound & Horn, Harrison of Paris, Scribner's Magazine and The Caravan
The first four stories in this list, along with the seventh and the eighth, comprise the contents of the 1930 collection Flowering Judas. The other four were first collected in Flowering Judas and Other Stories.
"María Concepción"

"Magic"

"Rope"

"He"

"Theft"

"That Tree"

"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

"Flowering Judas"

"The Cracked Looking-Glass"

"Hacienda"

Reception

With reference to the six stories in the volume first collected in 1930, John Chamberlain of The New York Times wrote: "After five years, the intensity of these stories seems just as important as it did when they were originally published." Commenting on the earliest stories in the collection, Yvor Winters in Hound & Horn wrote: "I can think of no living American who has written short stories at once so fine in detail, so powerful as units, and so mature and intelligent in outlook..."
Critic Eleanor Clark, writing in The New Republic, offered qualified praise for the works in the collection:
Clark selects three of the stories for special praise—"Flowering Judas", "Maria Concepción" and "The Cracked Looking Glass"—considering these "almost perfect by any standard understatement, rigid selection and sympathetic music in the words..." Regarding "Hacienda", Clark deems the work "superficial...not pointed enough to give contour to any of the people involved."
William Troy of The Nation provided this measured appraisal of the collection: