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Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
This classic short story of a Southern plantation owner facing execution by Union soldiers is "a flawless example of American genius" (Kurt Vonnegut).
Alabama planter Peyton Farquhar was loyal to the Confederate cause. Now, as the Union Army overtakes the South, he is brought to the edge of a railroad bridge-hands tied behind his back-sentenced to hang for attempting to burn down the bridge on which he stands. As he ponders the events both large...
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Language
English
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Description
The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into...
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Journalist, short story writer, poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America's greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote unsparingly and with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered in this volume of six essays and twenty stories, including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "What I Saw of Shiloh," and "A Horseman in the Sky." Edited and introduced by...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xxix, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce's satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions...
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
496 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is one of the most famous and fascinating figures in all of American literature. He led an adventurous and eventful life, beginning with his birth in a log cabin, to his time as a Civil War soldier, and followed by his career as an author and journalist, to finally his mysterious disappearance during the Mexican Revolution at age 71. Bierce is perhaps best known for his short stories about the American...
10) The moonlit road
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Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
GN 450L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic version of the story by Ambrose Bierce, Joel Jr. arrives home to find that his mother has been strangled--what follows is told from the perspective of Joel Jr., his father, and his mother's ghost.
11) Flight or fright
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like--gulp!--a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before...but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and...
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A supernatural selection of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires, and a hose of weird creatures. From the artful pens of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Hope Hodgson, and more, these tales of woe and malice are joined by several unpublished pieces from fantastic, modern writers" -- Page [4] cover.
