Author:Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

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Ambrose Bierce

Works

• In the midst of life (book scan)
• The cynic's word book (book scan)

Non-Fiction

• The Devil's Dictionary

Anthologies

• Fantastic Fables[1] (book scan)
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891 (book scan)

Short Stories

• Can Such Things Be?, 1893 collection of short stories (book scan)
  • 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)
• The Way of Ghosts (1909)
• Oil of Dog (The Parenticide Club, 1911)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch
• A Bivouac of the Dead
• 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
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1874
  • Black Beetles in Amber (book scan)
  • Can Such Things Be?
  • The Dance of Death (book scan)
  • Fantastic Fables
  • The Fiend's Delight
  • Nuggets and Dust
  • The Shadow on the Dial
  • Shapes of Clay (book scan)
  • The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

• Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
  • Present at a Hanging
  • A Cold Greeting
  • A Wireless Message
  • An Arrest
  • A Man with Two Lives
  • Three and One Are One
  • A Baffled Ambuscade
  • Two Military Executions
  • The Isle of Pines
  • A Fruitless Assignment
  • A Vine on a House (1905)
  • At Old Man Eckert’s
  • The Spook House
  • The Other Lodgers
  • The Thing at Nolan
  • The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
  • An Unfinished Race
  • Charles Ashmore’s Trail
  • Science to the Front

About

• “Bierce, Ambrose,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

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.