Literature
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The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce
This is another immensely popular short story that uses the American Civil War as its setting. There is an interesting…
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The Crime at Pickett’s Mill by Ambrose Bierce
There is a class of events which by their very nature, and despite any intrinsic interest that they may possess,…
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The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
Bierce’s story, The Damned Thing was published in Bierce’s collection, Can Such Things Be? (1893). I By the light of…
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The Death Of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
H.P. Lovecraft, a master of gothic horror stories, referred to Bierce’s The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893) as “the most…
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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Ambrose Bierce
One morning in July, 1854, a planter named Williamson, living six miles from Selma, Alabama, was sitting with his wife…
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The Dog and the Bees by Ambrose Bierce
Bierce’s amusing morality tale was published in the anthology, Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (1903), A dog being…
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The Eyes of the Panther by Ambrose Bierce
Between our convictions and our feelings there is no good understanding.IONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE A man and…
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The Famous Gilson Request by Ambrose Bierce
It was rough on Gilson. Such was the terse, cold, but not altogether unsympathetic judgment of the better public opinion…
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The Haunted Valley by Ambrose Bierce
I. How Trees Are Felled in ChinaA half-mile north from Jo. Dunfer’s, on the road from Hutton’s to Mexican Hill,…
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The Hypnotist by Ambrose Bierce
By those of my friends who happen to know that I sometimes amuse myself with hypnotism, mind reading and kindred…
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