Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist (1842–1914). Born in Meigs County.
Our catalogue lists 23 books by Ambrose Bierce, mostly horror, ghost story and gothic fiction. They span 1874 to 2017. The most-read is Can Such Things Be? [24 stories] (1924). 6 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 6 have free LibriVox audiobooks.
Books by Ambrose Bierce
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Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce
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The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 02
Ambrose Bierce
65 Great Spine Chillers
Mary Danby, Joan Aiken
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
The House of the Nightmare, and Other Eerie Tales
Kathleen Lines, Ambrose Bierce
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The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce
The Hounds of Hell
Michel Parry, H.P. Lovecraft
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Ghost and horror stories of Ambrose Bierce [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce, E.F. Bleiler
The Anthology of Ghost Stories
Richard Dalby, Robert Aickman
Nightfrights
Pete Haining, Ambrose Bierce
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Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Ambrose Bierce, Adolphe Danziger de Castro
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Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
Ambrose Bierce
Chilling Horror Short Stories
Laura Bulbeck, Ambrose Bierce
Great American Ghost Stories
Bill Bowers, Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
Haunted America
Marvin Kaye, Isaac Asimov
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Tales of Terror [12 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Classic Horror Stories
Honoré de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
R. V. Cassill, Ernest Hemingway
Haunted
Victoria Parker, Edgar Allan Poe
Fictions--Second Edition
Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade Jennings
Awards
- ✦Locus Awards 2010 — Best Anthology, American Fantastic Tales (nominee)
Biography
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.