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Ambrose Bierce

(Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce)

(1842 - 1914)
aka
Mrs J Milton Bowers, Dod Grile, William Herman

About Ambrose Bierce

A veteran of the American Civil War who fought at Shiloh and Chickamauga in the Union ranks, Bierce became one of America's best-known writers and journalists, admired for his insolent, entertaining and sometimes courageous columns. In 1913 he set off for Mexico, then in the throes of evolution, and was never seen again.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Novels

The Fiend's Delight (1872) (writing as Dod Grile)
Nuggets and Dust (1872) (writing as Dod Grile)
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874) (writing as Dod Grile)
The Dance of Death (1877) (writing as William Herman) (with Thomas A Harcourt)
The Dance of Life: An Answer to the Dance of Death (1877) (writing as Mrs J Milton Bowers)
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892)
Black Beetles In Amber (1892)
A Vision of Doom (1980)

Collections

Non fiction

The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
aka The Cynic's Word Book
Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922)
A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography (1998)
The Devils Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary (2004) (with Chaz Bufe)
The Illustrated Devil's Directory (2004)

Anthologies containing stories by Ambrose Bierce

A Second Round of Tales (1926)
American Ghost Stories (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
A Century of Ghost Stories (1936)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Spine Chillers (1961)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
Best Horror Stories 2 (1965)
Black Tales (1965)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (1966)
Terror! (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Famous Monster Tales (1967)
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales (1967)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Mind in Chains (1970)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
A Century of Horror (1971)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
The Undead (1971)
Beware of the Cat (1972)
Victorian Tales of Terror (1972)
Book of the Werewolf (1973)
The Edge of Never (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
The 10th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1975)
Fear (1975)
The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
The Ghostmasters (1976)
Tales of the Dark 2 (1977)
Victorian Nightmares (1977)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume Two (1989)
Classic Ghost Stories II (1990)
The Open Door: And Other Ghost Stories (1990)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
Great American Ghost Stories, Volume Two (1993)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Bodies of the Dead: And Other Great American Ghost Stories (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

Short stories

	The Haunted Valley (1871)
	An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1887)
	One of the Missing (1888)
	The Boarded Window (1891)
	Chickamauga (1891)
	The Eyes of the Panther (1891)
	Haita the Shepherd (1891)
	The Man and the Snake (1891)
	The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1891)
	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
	The Suitable Surroundings (1891)
	A Tough Tussle (1891)
	A Watcher by the Dead (1891)
	An Adventure at Brownville (1893)
	A Baby Tramp (1893)
	Bodies of the Dead (1893)
	The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893)
	The Famous Gilson Bequest (1893)
	John Bartine's Watch (1893)
	The Night-Doings at 'Deadman's' (1893)
	A Psychological Shipwreck (1893)
	The Realm of the Unreal (1893)
	The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1893)
	The Damned Thing (1894)
	A Vine on a House (1905)
	The Moonlit Road (1907)
	Beyond the Wall (1909)
	A Diagnosis of Death (1909)
	A Jug of Syrup (1909)
	Moxon's Master (1909)
	Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1909)
	The Stranger (1909)
	The Way of Ghosts (1909)
	The Affair at Coulter's Notch
	An Affair of Outposts
	The Applicant
	The Baptism of Dobsho
	A Bottomless Grave
	The City of the Gone Away
	The Coup de Grace
	Curried Cow
	The Failure of Hope and Wandel
	George Thurston
	A Holy Terror
	A Horseman in the Sky
	The Hypnotist
	An Imperfect Conflagration
	The Ingenious Patriot
	John Mortonson's Funeral
	Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
	Killed at Resaca
	A Lady from Redhorse
	The Little Story
	The Major's Tale
	The Man Out of the Nose
	The Mocking-Bird
	The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
	Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap
	My Favourite Murder
	'Mysterious Disappearances'
	Oil of Dog
	One Kind of Officer
	One of Twins
	One Officer, One Man
	One Summer Night
	Parker Adderson, Philosopher
	Perry Chumly's Eclipse
	A Providential Intimation
	The Race at Left Bower
	A Resumed Identity
	A Revolt of the Gods
	Some Haunted Houses
	A Son of the Gods
	The Story of a Conscience
	The Tail of the Sphinx
	Visions of the Night
	The Widower Turmore

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