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The Other Lodgers by Ambrose Bierce
“In order to take that train,” said Colonel Levering, sitting in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, “you will have to remain nearly…
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The Realm Of The Unreal by Ambrose Bierce
IFor a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road — first on one side of a creek…
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The Secret Of Macarger’s Gulch by Ambrose Bierce
Northwestwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macarger’s Gulch. It is not much of a…
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The Spook House by Ambrose Bierce
On the road leading north from Manchester, in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away, stood, in 1862, a wooden…
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The Story of a Conscience by Ambrose Bierce
In this Civil War story a Confederate spy, Dramer Brune, is captured behind enemy lines with a forged pass. Anyone…
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The Stranger by Ambrose Bierce
A man stepped out of the darkness into the little illuminated circle about our failing camp-fire and seated himself upon…
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The Suitable Surroundings by Ambrose Bierce
THE NIGHTOne midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle…
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The Thing at Nolan by Ambrose Bierce
To the south of where the road between Leesville and Hardy, in the State of Missouri, crosses the east fork…
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Three and One are One by Ambrose Bierce
In the year 1861 Barr Lassiter, a young man of twenty-two, lived with his parents and an elder sister near…
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Two Military Executions by Ambrose Bierce
In the spring of the year 1862 General Buell’s big army lay in camp, licking itself into shape for the…
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