Ambrose Bierce

American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is one of the most famous and fascinating figures in all of American literature. He led an adventurous and eventful life, beginning with his birth in a log cabin, to his time as a Civil War soldier, followed by his career as an author and journalist, to finally his mysterious disappearance during the Mexican Revolution at age 71. Bierce is perhaps best known for his short stories about the American Civil War, which influenced authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. He was also an accomplished horror story writer, whose work inspired the tales of H. P. Lovecraft. Bierce's gift for story-telling is exemplified by his famous "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", which is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to die by hanging upon the Owl Creek Bridge. It is one of the most anthologized of American short stories and showcases his cutting wit and talent for irony and surprise. This story, along with numerous others, is collected in this representative edition of "The Collected Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

This chilling collection of ghost stories includes "Rats" by M. R. James, "The Raven" and "Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde, "A Tough Tussle" by Ambrose Bierce, and "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens.

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The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tales of the Unexpected, Hammer House of Horror, The Pan Book of Ghost Stories, The Fontana Book of Horror Stories, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, The Outer Limits ... the list goes on and on. Anthologies They've been here forever, it seems. Whether in comic books, radio dramas, movies, in book-form or TV Show; they're like a perfect appetiser. This is a new anthology series of stories old and new to send shivers down your spine and make you shudder when you turn off the light. Each story is preceded with a mini biography of the author and an illustration.

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic’s Word Book.One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devil’s Dictionary – here published in its most complete 1911 version – brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce’s contemporary Mark Twain.