Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" – earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. This style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, the theme of war, and impossible events. Bierce disappeared in December 1913 at the age of 71. He is believed to have traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. Despite an abundance of theories, Bierce's ultimate fate remains a mystery. He wrote in one of his final letters: "Good-bye. If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia!"
Series
Books
A Baby Tramp
1893
Chilling Horror Short Stories
2015
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
The Grasshopper and The Ant
2023
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край - Т. I
2017
The Boarded Window
1891
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 001
2009
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
2003
John Mortonson's Funeral
2003
Cuentos de soldados y civiles
1891
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror
1989
A Holy Terror
1996
A Bivouac of the Dead
2013
An Affair of Outposts
2012
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
1913
An Unfinished Race
2019
Can Such Things Be?
1893
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw
Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library
1998
The Complete Short Stories 2
1970
Parker Adderson, Philosopher
1891
One Summer Night
1893
What I Saw at Shiloh
2012
A Son of the Gods
2015
The Best of Ambrose Bierce
1946
The Mocking Bird
1976
The City of the Goneaway
2014
Classic Horror Stories
2015
The Flying Machine
2023
A Tough Tussle
1888
Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar
2006
A Watcher by the Dead
1889
Great American Stories
1994
Spettri di frontiera
2019
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
1891
American Gothic Tales
1996
The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce
1963
Civil War Stories
1956
Cuentos breves para leer en el bus
2004
Essential Bierce
A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce
2007
Los mitos de Cthulhu
1969
The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories
1890
Shapes of Clay
1903
Oil of Dog
2010
Black Beetles in Amber
1842
The Damned Thing
1894
Haïta the Shepherd
1891
The Uncanny Reader
Stories from the Shadows
2015
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
1892
A Diagnosis of Death
1901
The King in Yellow and Other Stories
Tales of the Carcosa Mythos
2014
My Favorite Murder
1979
The Complete Short Stories
2000
The Hastur Cycle
13 Horror Tales Defining Hastur, the King in Yellow, Yuggoth, and the Dread City of Carcosa
1993
A Watcher By The Dead and Other Stories
2015
Tutti i racconti dell'orrore
2005
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
1890
Moxon's Master
1893
The Thing at Nolan
2023
The Coup de Grace
1889
The Ghost Stories of Ambrose Bierce
2012
Revenge
2023
The Hare and The Tortoise
2023
Civil War
1956
The Spook House
Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
1889
The Eyes of the Panther
1928
A Horseman in the Sky
1898
Shadows of Blue & Gray
The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
2002
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1890
The Moonlit Road
2012
A Cold Greeting
2019
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
1969
The King in Yellow and Other Stories Featured on True Detective
2014
The Haunted Valley
2009
Ambrose Bierce
The Complete Supernatural Stories
2019
The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
1988
An Inhabitant of Carcosa
1886
A Resumed Identity
2010
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce Volume 2
1966
Beyond the Wall
1909
A Cynic Looks at Life
2007
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1. The World of Horror
1999
Chickamauga
1984
El puente sobre el río del Búho y otros relatos
1994
Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period
The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
2001
The Devil’s Dictionary / Tales, & Memoirs
2011
One of the Missing
1888
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
1995
Killed at Resaca
2003
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
1911
Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
1964
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
2004
The Famous Gilson Bequest
2003
The Fiend's Delight
1873
Fantastic Fables
1899
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot and Other Strange Stories
2012
A Vine on a House
1905
An Adventure at Brownville
2003
The Death of Halpin Frayser
1891
The Affair at Coulter's Notch
2011
John Bartine's Watch
1893
The Colour Out of Space
Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
2002
A Psychological Shipwreck
2010
One of Twins
1888
The Devil's Dictionaries
The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary
2004
Terror by Night
Classic Ghost and Horror Stories
2006
The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
volume 1
2018
B. J. Harrison Reads The Moonlit Road
1907
The Suitable Surroundings
2023
Kısa Öykünün Büyük Ustaları
2016
