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Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius.

Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time.

Readers familiar with the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay by Cathy N. Davidson
• Introduction: Ambrose Bierce, Nonconformist - (1970) - essay by Ernest J. Hopkins
• Foreword Part I - (1970) - essay by Ernest J. Hopkins
• Haïta the Shepherd - (1891)
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch - (1891)
• The Eyes of the Panther - (1897)
• The Stranger - (1909)
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa - (1886)
• The Applicant - (1892)
• The Death of Halpin Frayser - (1891)
• A Watcher by the Dead - (1889)
• The Man and the Snake - (1890)
• John Mortonson's Funeral - (1906)
• Moxon's Master - (1899)
• The Damned Thing - (1893)
• The Realm of the Unreal - (1890)
• A Fruitless Assignment - (1888)
• A Vine on a House - (1905)
• The Haunted Valley - (1871)
• One of Twins - (1888)
• Present at a Hanging - (1888)
• A Wireless Message - (1905)
• The Moonlit Road - (1907)
• An Arrest - (1905)
• A Jug of Sirup - (1893)
• The Isle of Pines - (1888)
• At Old Man Eckert's - (1901)
• The Spook House - (1889)
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - (1890)
• The Thing at Nolan - (1891)
• The Difficulty of Crossing a Field - (1888)
• An Unfinished Race - (1888)
• Charles Ashmore's Trail - (1888)
• Staley Fleming's Hallucination - (1906)
• The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" - (1874)
• A Baby Tramp - (1891)
• A Psychological Shipwreck - (1879)
• A Cold Greeting - (1888)
• Beyond the Wall - (1907)
• John Bartine's Watch - (1893)
• The Man Out of the Nose - (1887)
• An Adventure at Brownville - (1892)
• The Suitable Surroundings - (1889)
• The Boarded Window - (1889)
• A Lady from Redhorse - (1891)
• The Famous Gilson Bequest - (1878)
• A Holy Terror - (1882)
• A Diagnosis of Death - (1901)
• Foreword Part II - (1970) - essay by Ernest J. Hopkins
• One of the Missing - (1888)
• A Baffled Ambuscade - (1906)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch - (1889)
• A Son of the Gods - (1888)
• One Kind of Officer - (1893)
• A Tough Tussle - (1888)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - (1890)
• Chickamauga - (1889)
• The Coup de Grâce - (1889)
• One Officer, One Man - (1889)
• The Story of a Conscience - (1890)
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher - (1891)
• An Affair of Outposts - (1897)
• Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General - (1885)
• A Horseman in the Sky - (1889)
• The Mocking-Bird - (1891)
• George Thurston - (1883)
• Killed at Resaca - (1887)
• Three and One Are One - (1908)
• Two Military Executions - (1906)
• The Major's Tale - (1890)
• A Resumed Identity - (1908)
• A Man with Two Lives - (1905)
• The Other Lodgers - (1907)
• A Bivouac of the Dead - (1903)
• Foreword Part III - (1970) - essay by Ernest J. Hopkins
• An Imperfect Conflagration - (1886)
• A Bottomless Grave - (1888)
• The City of the Gone Away - (1888)
• Curried Cow - (1874)
• A Revolt of the Gods - (1886)
• Oil of Dog - (1890)
• The Widower Turmore - (1891)
• The Baptism of Dobsho - (1874)
• The Race at Left Bower - (1874)
• The Failure of Hope & Wandel - (1874)
• A Providential Intimation - (1874)
• Mr. Swiddler's Flip-Flap - (1874)
• The Little Story - (1874)
• My Favorite Murder - (1888)
• The Hypnotist - (1893)
• Mr. Masthead, Journalist - (1874)
• Why I am Not Editing "The Stinger" - (1874)
• Corrupting the Press - (1874)
• "The Bubble Reputation" - (1886)
• A Shipwreckollection - (1874)
• The Captain of the "Camel" - (1875)
• The Man Overboard - (1876)
• A Cargo of Cat - (1885)

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