Author:Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

See biography, media, quotes. An American satirist, critic, poet, short story (horror) writer, editor, and journalist. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Non-Fiction 1.2 Anthologies 1.3 Short Stories

[edit] Works

[edit] Non-Fiction

• The Devil's Dictionary

[edit] Anthologies

• Fantastic Fables[1]
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891

[edit] Short Stories

• Can Such Things Be?, 1893 collection of short stories
  • The Death of Halpin Frayser
  • The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
  • One Summer Night
  • The Moonlit Road
  • Moxon's Master
  • A Diagnosis of Death
  • A Tough Tussle
  • One of Twins
  • The Haunted Valley
  • Jo. Dunfer. Done for.
  • A Jug of Sirup
  • Staley Fleming's Hallucination
  • A Resumed Identity
  • A Baby Tramp
  • The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"
  • Beyond the Wall
  • A Psychological Shipwreck
  • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, (written 1891)
  • John Mortonson's Funeral
  • The Realm of the Unreal
  • John Bartine's Watch
  • The Damned Thing
  • Haïta the Shepherd, (written 1891)
  • An Inhabitant of Carcosa, (written 1887)
  • The Stranger
• One of the Missing (1888)
• The Boarded Window (1891)
• Chickamauga (1891)
• The Eyes of the Panther (1891)
• The Man and the Snake (1891)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
• The Suitable Surroundings (1891)
• A Watcher by the Dead (1891)
• An Adventure at Brownville (1893)
• Bodies of the Dead (1893)
• The Famous Gilson Bequest (1893)
• A Vine on a House (1905)
• The Way of Ghosts (1909)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch
• A Baffled Ambuscade
• A Bivouac of the Dead
• A Cold Greeting
• A Little of Chickamauga
• A Resumed Identity
• An Affair of Outposts
• An Heiress from Redhorse
• Four Days in Dixie
• George Thurston
• My Favourite Murder
• On a Mountain
• One Officer, One Man
• Three and One Are One
• Two Military Executions
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1874
  • Black Beetles in Amber
  • Can Such Things Be?
  • The Dance of Death
  • Fantastic Fables
  • The Fiend's Delight
  • Nuggets and Dust
  • The Shadow on the Dial
  • Shapes of Clay
  • The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
• Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1914, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.