Author
Ambrose Bierce
1842–1914
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.
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Books by Ambrose Bierce
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The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce, 1911
The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell, Stephen King & others, 1987
Scary!
Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine & others
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken & others, 1992
40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition
Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz & others
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Shorter Eighth Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill & others
Scary Stories
Barry Moser, Dean Koontz & others
The Book of fantasy
Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo & others, 1940
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce, 1980
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition
Kennedy, X. & Gioia & others
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1978
![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition by James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers.openlibrary.org%2Fb%2Fid%2F9158710-L.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952
Machines That Think
Isaac Asimov, Patricia S. Warrick & others, 1984
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
Barrett Harper Clark, Barrett H. Clark & others, 1922
Mystery Stories
Helen Cresswell, Joan Aiken & others
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Bill Pronzini, Barry Malzberg & others, 1981
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others, 2010
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
Dorothy Scarborough, Algernon Blackwood & others
MASTERPIECES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
Marvin Kaye, Orson Scott Card & others, 1985
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle & others, 1982
Literature, A Portable Anthology -- Fifth edition
Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn & others
Points of View
James Moffett, Kenneth R. McElheny & others, 1960
65 Great Spine Chillers
Mary Danby, Joan Aiken & others, 1982
The Norton anthology of American literature. Volume 2, 1865 to present--shorter tenth edition
Robert S. Levine, Ambrose Bierce & others
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous & others, 1984
The Norton introduction to literature--ninth edition
Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter & others
Flight or Fright
Stephen King, Bev Vincent & others
![Cover of The Language of Literature -- American Literature [Grade 11] by Arthur N. Applebee, Ambrose Bierce & others](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers.openlibrary.org%2Fb%2Fid%2F14542988-L.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Language of Literature -- American Literature [Grade 11]
Arthur N. Applebee, Ambrose Bierce & others
Murder Most Foul
Ray Bradbury, Jack London & others, 1984
100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories
Al Sarrantino, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1993
Literature, a portable anthology -- Second edition
Janet E. Gardner, Beverly Lawn & others
The Nightmare Reader
Peter Haining, Matthew Gregory Lewis & others, 1973
The Story and Its Writer
Ann Charters, Ambrose Bierce & others, 1983
Treasury of American Horror Stories
Frank Mcsherry, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1985
Ghost Stories
Joan Aiken, Ruth Ainsworth & others, 1956
21 Great Stories
Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman & others, 1969
![Cover of Can Such Things Be? [24 stories] by Ambrose Bierce](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcovers.openlibrary.org%2Fb%2Fid%2F8754067-L.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]
Ambrose Bierce, 1924
Fantastic Fables
Ambrose Bierce, 1970
The Horror hall of fame
Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg & others, 1991
100 Creepy Little Creatures
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg & others, 1994
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others
Dead of Night
Peter Haining, E. F. Benson & others, 1981
Write It Right
Ambrose Bierce, 1909
The Moral Life
Louis P. Pojman, Ambrose Bierce & others
The Hounds of Hell
Michel Parry, H.P. Lovecraft & others, 1974
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others, 1989
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill & others
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