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A Resumed Identity by Ambrose Bierce
I The Review As A Form Of Welcome One summer night a man stood on a low hill overlooking a…
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At Old Man Eckert’s by Ambrose Bierce
Philip Eckert lived for many years in an old, weather-stained wooden house about three miles from the little town of…
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A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce
One night in the autumn of 1861 a man sat alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.…
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A Vine on a House by Ambrose Bierce
This work appears in Bierce’s 1913 collection of short stories, Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, but it’s…
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A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce
IIn an upper room of an unoccupied dwelling in the part of San Francisco known as North Beach lay the…
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Beyond the Wall by Ambrose Bierce
Many years ago, on my way from Hongkong to New York, I passed a week in San Francisco. A long…
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Charles Ashmore’s Trail by Ambrose Bierce
The family of Christian Ashmore consisted of his wife, his mother, two grown daughters, and a son of sixteen years.…
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Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
“He had slept through it all, grasping his little wooden sword with perhaps a tighter clutch in unconscious sympathy with…
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Four Days in Dixie by Ambrose Bierce
During a part of the month of October, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies of Sherman and Hood respectively, having…
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