The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce

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Collection contains: THE WORLD OF Horror Foreword Haita the Shepherd The Secret of Macarger's Gulch [Eyes of the Panther](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084430W) The Stranger [Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W) The Applicant The Death of Halpin Frayser [Watcher by the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084267W) The Man and the Snake John Mortonson's Funeral Moxon's Master [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) The Realm of the Unreal A Fruitless Assignment A Vine on a House The Haunted Valley One of Twins Present at a Hanging A Wireless Message The Moonlit Road An Arrest A Jug of Sirup The Isle of Pines At Old Man Eckert's The Six»k House The Middle Toe of the Right F'»t The Thing at Nolan The Difficulty of Crossing a Field An Unfinished Race Charles Ashmore's Trail Staley Fleming's Hallucination The Night-Doings at "l)eadman's" A Baby Tramp A Shipwreck A Cold Greeting Beyond the Wall John Bartine's Watch The Man Out Of the Nose An Adventure at Brownville The Suitable Surroundings The Window A Lady from •ne Famous Gilson Bequest A Holy Terror A Diagnosis of Death II THE WORLD OF War One of the Missing A Baffled Ambuscade The Affair at Coulter's Notch A Son of the Gcds One Kind of Ofhcer A Tough Tussle [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) Chickamauga ne Coup de Grace One Officer, One Man The Story Of a Conscience Parker Adderson, Philosopher An Affair of Outposts Jupiter Dole, BrigadietGeneral A Horseman in the Sky The Mtxking-Bird George Thurston Killed at Resaca Three and One Are One Two Military Executions The Major's Tale A Resumed Identity A Man with Two Lives The Other A Bivouac Of the Dead III THE WORLD OP Tall Tales Foreword An Irnrxrftxt Conflagration A Bottornless Grave The City of the Gone Away Curried Cow A Revolt of the Gods Oil of Dog The Widower Turmore The Baptism Of Dobsho The Race at Left Bower The Failure of Holr & Wandel A Providential Intimation Mr. Swiddler's Flip-flap The Little Story My Favorite Murder The Hypnotist Mr. Masthead, Journalist Why 1 Am Not Editing Stinger" Corrupting the Press Bubble Reputation" A Shipwreckollection The Captain Of the "Camel* The Man Overb(Md A (hrgo of Cat

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Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.

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Other Editions

• The complete short stories of Ambrose BiercePaperbackUniversity of Nebraska Press1984-12-01
• The complete short stories of Ambrose BierceHardcoverDoubleday & Company, Inc.1970-01-01
• The complete short stories of Ambrose BierceHardcoverDoubleday & Company1970-01-01
• The complete short stories of Ambrose BierceHardcoverDoubleday & Company, Inc.1970-01-01
• The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose BierceDoubleday1970-06-01