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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
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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Having murdered his brother-in-law, Orrin Brower of Kentucky was a fugitive from justice. From the county jail where he had been confined to await his trial he had escaped by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and, opening the outer door, walking out into the night. The jailer being unarmed, Brower got no weapon with which to defend his recovered liberty. As soon as he was out of the town he had the folly to enter a forest; this was many years ago, when that region was wilder than it is now.
The night was pretty dark, with neither moon nor stars visible, and as Brower had never dwelt thereabout, and knew nothing of the lay of the land, he was, naturally, not long in losing himself. He could not have said if he were getting farther away from the town or going back to it - a most important matter to Orrin Brower. He knew that in either case a posse of citizens with a pack of bloodhounds wo. . . Read More
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While not a book that would be of interest to everyone, I found Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories to be a wonderfully delightful collection of spooky stories set around the Civil War era. Each story was short and to the point, not relying on a lot of convoluted and unnecessary details and
These read more like collected tales. Like someone interviewed people about their ghostly experiences, and these stories are what they told him. There's just not much effort, I guess.
Some of them are really creepy though.
A peddler probably was murdered at a remote farm. How did the reverend find this out? What was Old Baker's role? A short but very creepy Bierce story with a nice twist. Recommended!
2 αστεράκια με το ζόρι. Πολλές προσδοκίες δημιούργησε η περίληψη του συγκεκριμένου βιβλίου, νομίζω, για να αποδειχτεί τελικά "μάπα το καρπούζι". Έψαχνα στο κάθε διήγημα να βρω τον τρόμο που θα με κρατούσε ξάγρυπνη τα βράδια, αλλά δεν τον βρήκα πουθενά. Βέβαια οπωσδήποτε με βοήθησε χθες βράδυ να κοιμ
This collection was full of some very good stories. They are good for a small scare, but not ones that will give nightmares.