Ambrose Bierce  

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.

Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow.

Bibliography

Books

• The Fiend's Delight (1873) (novella)
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874) (short story collection)
• The Dance of Death (with Thomas A. Harcourt and William Rulofson, as William Herman) (1877)
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) (short story collection)
• Black Beetles in Amber (1892) (poetry)
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892) (novella)
• Can Such Things Be? (1893) (short story collection)
• Fantastic Fables (1899) (short story collection)
• The shadow on the dial, and other essays (1909) (nonfiction)
• The Devil's Dictionary (1911) (first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906) (nonfiction)
• Collected Works (1909) (short story collection)
• Write It Right (1909) (nonfiction)
• A Horseman in the Sky, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake (1920) (novella)
• A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980) (poetry)

Short stories

• The Haunted Valley (1871)
• An Unfinished Race (1873)
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1887)
• One of the Missing (1888)
• The Boarded Window (1891)
• Chickamauga (1891)
• The Eyes of the Panther (1891)
• Haita the Shepherd (1891)
• The Man and the Snake (1891)
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1891)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
• The Suitable Surroundings (1891)
• A Tough Tussle (1891)
• A Watcher by the Dead (1891)
• An Adventure at Brownville (1893)
• A Baby Tramp (1893)
• Bodies of the Dead (1893)
• The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893)
• The Famous Gilson Bequest (1893)
• John Bartine's Watch (1893)
• The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" (1893)
• A Psychological Shipwreck (1893)
• The Realm of the Unreal (1893)
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1893)
• The Damned Thing (1894)
• A Vine on a House (1905)
• The Moonlit Road (1907)
• The Time the Moon Fought Back (1911)

• Beyond the Wall (1909)
• A Diagnosis of Death (1909)
• A Jug of Sirup (1909)
• Moxon's Master (1909)
• Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1909)
• The Stranger (1909)
• The Way of Ghosts (1909)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch
• An Affair of Outposts
• The Applicant
• An Arrest
• The Baptism of Dobsho
• A Bottomless Grave
• The City of the Gone Away
• The Coup de Grace
• The Crime at Pickett's Mill (1888)
• Curried Cow
• The Failure of Hope and Wandel
• George Thurston
• A Holy Terror
• A Horseman in the Sky
• The Hypnotist
• An Imperfect Conflagration
• The Ingenious Patriot
• Jo. Dunfer. Done for
• John Mortonson's Funeral
• Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
• Killed at Resaca

• An Heiress from Redhorse
• The Little Story
• The Major's Tale
• The Man Out of the Nose
• The Mocking-Bird
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
• Three and One Are One
• Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap
• My Favourite Murder
• Mysterious Disappearances
• Oil of Dog
• One Kind of Officer
• One of Twins
• One Officer, One Man
• One Summer Night
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher
• Perry Chumly's Eclipse
• A Providential Intimation
• The Race at Left Bower
• A Resumed Identity
• Revenge
• A Revolt of the Gods
• Some Haunted Houses
• A Son of the Gods
• The Story of a Conscience
• The Tail of the Sphinx
• Visions of the Night
• The Widower Turmore

See also

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• Bolesław Prus (career similarities).
• Fable
• John P. Irish, mentioned in Bierce's book, Black Beetles in Amber
• List of horror fiction authors
• List of people who have mysteriously disappeared