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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.

Novels

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

Collections

Non fiction

The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
aka The Cynic's Word Book
Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults (1909)
Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922)
A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography (1998)
The Illustrated Devil's Directory (2004)
The Devils Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary (2004) (with Chaz Bufe)
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (2010)

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 Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen (1934)
The Mystery Book (1934)
A Century of Creepy Stories (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)
Medley Macabre (1966)
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (1966)
Terror! (1966)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (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 Undead (1971)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
Beware of the Cat (1972)
Book of the Werewolf (1973)
The Edge of Never (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
The 10th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1974)
Victorian Tales of Terror (1974)
Fear (1975)
The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1975)
The Ghostmasters (1976)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Victorian Nightmares (1977)
The Rivals of Frankenstein (1977)
Tales of the Dark 2 (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (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)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (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)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
Great American Ghost Stories, Volume Two (1993)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (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)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

Short stories

	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 [short story]
	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
	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 [short story] (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)

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