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The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even…
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The Mockingbird by Ambrose Bierce
The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest’s heart in the mountain…
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The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
Bierce’s story, The Moonlit Road was published in Bierce’s collection, Can Such Things Be? (1893). 1. Statement of Joel Hetman,…
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The Night Doings At ‘Deadman’s’ by Ambrose Bierce
A Story that is UntrueIt was a singularly sharp night, and clear as the heart of a diamond. Clear nights…
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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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