24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near...
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Ambrose Bierce
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"The Damned Thing" is a short story written by Ambrose Bierce. This story focuses on how the human race takes their views of nature for granted, and how there may be things in the natural world that the human eye cannot see or the human ear cannot hear. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Four grotesque short stories about murder within the family, seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members … usually the murderer himself.
For fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz.
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A story about a father and son on different sides of the Civil War
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Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives – entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed.
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Ambrose Bierce, satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behavior. In the Devil’s Dictionary, he let his sense of humor and his cynical outlook on life color a collection of...
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Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist stands bound at the bridge's edge. It is later revealed that after...
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Ambrose Bierce, satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behavior.
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Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life.
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These stories (In the Midst of Life, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.
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