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Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs by Ambrose Bierce; S. T. Joshi (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldi ...Show more
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is, perhaps, the most famous story by an American writer Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, the admitted author of "horror stories". "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, ...Show more
Flight or Fright by Stephen King; Cody Goodfellow; John Varley; Joe Hill; David Schow; Ray Bradbury; Roald Dahl; Peter Treemayne; James L. Dickey; Bev Vincent; Michael Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard Matheson; Ambrose Bierce; E. c. Tubb; Tom Bissell; Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up ...Show more
The Damned Thing - Weird and Ghostly Tales by Ambrose Bierce
Category: Fiction
A bone-chilling hardback collection of uncanny tales from one of the great masters of the ghost story ‘The genuineness and artistry of his dark imitations are always unmistakable, so that his greatness is in no danger of eclipse’ H.P. LOVECRAFT ‘[‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ is] the greatest Am ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Category: Fiction
Initial reception of the book versions was mixed. In the decades following, however, the stature of The Devil's Dictionary increased. It has been widely quoted, frequently translated, and often imitated, earning a global reputation. In the 1970s, The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Great ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce; John Simpson
Category: Reference
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons All things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded ...Show more
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