The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
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Collected here, for the first time in a single volume, are all the 93 short stories written by Ambrose Bierce. This brilliant, witty, and often outrageous satirist's talent and stature among American authors are only now becoming fully appreciated; his sometimes bitter cynicism and uncompromising individualism seem even more appropriate to our time than to his own.
The stories, written between 1882 and 1896, when the mature Bierce was at the peak of his narrative powers, fall into three groups:
Tales of the macabre and the supernatural, which use the element of horror to make the satiric point.
Grimly realistic stories of war, emphasizing its brutality and human waste; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamagua" are two well-known works in this vein.
Wildly exaggerated "tall tales" of the type told and retold in the old West, delivering a sharp satiric barb with their free-swinging comedy.
To complete this treasury of Bierce's work, Professor Ernest J. Hopkins has written forewords for each group of stories and an illuminating critical and biographical introduction which shows the remarkable originality, insight, and enduring pertinence of Ambrose Bierce.
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Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, literature, American literature, first-person narrative, lynx, owls, werepanthers, spirit possession, panthers, Fiction, generalPeople
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THE WORLD OF Horror
Foreword
Haita the Shepherd
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
Eyes of the Panther
The Stranger
Inhabitant of Carcosa
The Applicant
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Watcher by the Dead
The Man and the Snake
John Mortonson's Funeral
Moxon's Master
Damned Thing
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
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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