Ambrose Bierce,Tom Quirk
Questing after Pancho Villaâ€™s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevilâ€™s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierceâ€™s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions â€˜An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgeâ€˜ and â€˜Chickamaugaâ€˜, his macabre masterpieces "The Damned Thing" and "Moxon's Master", and his hilariously horrific "Oil of Dog" and "My Favorite Murder".,--back cover,TABLE OF CONTENTS,Introduction,Suggestions for Further Reading,A Note on the Text,From In the Midst of Life,Soldiers:,A Horseman in the Sky,An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,Chickamauga,A Son of the Gods,One of the Missing,Killed at Resaca,The Affair at Coulterâ€™s Notch,The Coup de GrÃ¢ce,Parker Adderson, Philosopher,An Affair of Outposts,The Story of a Conscience,One Kind of Officer,The Mocking-Bird,Civilians:,The Man Out of the Nose,The Man and the Snake,The Boarded Window,From Can Such Things Be?,Can Such Things Be?:,Moxonâ€™s Master,A Tough Tussle,A Resumed Identity,The Night-Doings at â€œDeadmanâ€™sâ€,The Realm of the Unreal,The Damned Thing,HaÃ¯ta the Shepherd,The Ways of Ghosts:,Present at a Hanging,A Wireless Message,Soldier Folk:,Three and One Are One,From Negligible Tales,Negligible Tales:,A Bottomless Grave,Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General,The City of the Gone Away,The Majorâ€™s Tale,Curried Cow,A Revolt of the Gods,The Parenticide Club:,My Favorite Murder,Oil of Dog,From Antepenultimata,A Bivouac of the Dead,From The Opinionator,The Controversialist:,The Short Story,Explanatory Notes,Glossary of Military Terms,Battle Sites and Battle Leaders
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