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The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce

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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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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Ambrose Bierce, Nonconformist
THE WORLD OF Horror
Foreword
Haita the Shepherd
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
The Eyes of the Panther
The Stranger
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
The Applicant
The Death of Halpin Frayser
A Watcher by the Dead
The Man and the Snake
John Mortonson's Funeral
Moxon's Master
The Damned Thing
The Realm of the Unreal
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
The Haunted Valley
Onc 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
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

Edition Notes

"A Bison book"--Spine.

Copyright Date
1984

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1097 .A15 1984, PS1097.A15 1984

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
496 p. :
Number of pages
496

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2846468M
Internet Archive
completeshortsto0000bier
ISBN 10
0803260717
ISBN 13
9780803260719
LCCN
84008575
OCLC/WorldCat
1285476904
Library Thing
89758
Goodreads
60689136

Work Description

Collection contains:
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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