The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile

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The Fiend's Delight

(1872)
A novel by

Dod Grile (Ambrose Bierce)

Download DescriptionThe disembodied party sank uninvited into a chair, spread out his knees and stared blankly at a Dutch clock with an air of weariness and profound discouragement. Perceiving that his guest was making himself tolerably comfortable my friend turned again to his figures, and silence reigned supreme. The fire in the grate burned noiselessly with a mysterious blue light, as if it could do more if it wished; the Dutch clock looked wise, and swung its pendulum with studied exactness, like one who is determined to do his precise duty and shun responsibility; the cat assumed an attitude of intelligent neutrality. Finally the spectre trained his pale eyes upon his host, pulled in a long breath and remarked.

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Hardback Editions

November 1989 : Hardback

Title: The Fiend's Delight (The Principle Works of Ambrose Gwinette Bierce)
Author(s): Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 0-7812-1954-X / 978-0-7812-1954-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Reprint Services Corporation
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