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The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

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Famed for the mordant wit and satire of his essays and newspaper columns, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) also possessed a fascination with the macabre. His masterful tales of the supernatural bespeak an imagination generations ahead of its time, exhibiting impressionistic conceits of reality in which space and time expand and contract according to individual perception.

This stimulating and provocative collection of twelve of Bierce's finest ghost and horror stories abounds in crimes of passion, restless specters seeking revenge, haunted houses, forewarnings of doom, and sound minds deranged by contact with the spirit world. Selections include "The Eyes of the Panther," a chilling account of a young woman's supernatural link to a beast of the forest; "A Watcher by the Dead," in which a madcap wager has ghastly consequences; "The Man and the Snake," a hallucinogenic encounter between serpent and human; "Moxon's Master," a nineteenth-century caveat against the coming Machine Age; the celebrated title story; and seven other vignettes.

A feast for devotees of ghost and horror stories, this remarkable collection of intelligent and inventive tales will captivate any reader who enjoys a compelling and suspenseful narrative.
--back cover

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Publisher
Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
91

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The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
1998, Dover Publications
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Mineola, NY, USA

Table of Contents

The eyes of the panther
The moonlit road
The boarded window
The man and the snake
The secret of Macarger's Gulch
The middle toe of the right foot
A psychological shipwreck
A holy terror
John Bartine's watch
Beyond the wall
A watcher by the dead
Moxon's master.

Edition Notes

"A new collection of short stories by Ambrose Bierce, selected from The collected works of Ambrose Bierce, published by the Neale Publishing Company beteween 1909 and 1912"--T.p. verso.
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Series
Dover Thrift Editions
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1097 .A6 1998

Contributors

Editor
John Grafton

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
iv, 91 p. ;
Number of pages
91

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL343742M
Internet Archive
moonlitroadother0000bier
ISBN 10
0486400565
ISBN 13
9780486400563
LCCN
98002677
OCLC/WorldCat
959968739
Library Thing
81469
Goodreads
427734

Work Description

Contains:

Eyes of the Panther
The moonlit road
The boarded window
The man and the snake
The secret of Macarger's Gulch
The middle toe of the right foot
A psychological shipwreck
A holy terror
John Bartine's watch
Beyond the wall
Watcher by the Dead
Moxon's master.

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