The isle of pines A fruitless assignment A vine on a house At old man Eckert's The spook house The other lodgers The thing at Nolan - "Mysterious disappearances".1 THE BOARDED WINDOW by-Amborse Bierce “The Boarded Window” was first published in the San Francisco Examiner on April 12th, 1891 Bierce made some revisions before including it in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1892). A man with two lives Three and one are one A baffled ambuscade Two military executions - Some haunted houses. Present at a hanging A cold greeting A wireless message An arrest - Soldier folk. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance.Ĭan such things be? The death of Halpin Frayser The secret of Macarger's Gulch One summer night The moonlit road A diagnosis of death Moxon's master A tough tussle One of twins The haunted valley A jug of sirup Staley Fleming's hallucination A resumed identity A baby tramp The night-doings at "Deadman's" Beyond the wall A psychological shipwreck The middle toe of the right foot John Mortonson's funeral The realm of the unreal John Bartine's watch The damned thing Haïta the shepherd An inhabitant of Carcosa The stranger - The way of ghosts.
The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath.
The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists.
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