The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce: Ninety-Three Tales of War, Horror, and the Absurd

Introduction Ambrose Bierce, Nonconformist I THE WORLD OF HORROR Foreword Haïta the Shepherd The Secret of Macarger's Gulch The Eyes of the Panther The Stranger An Inhabitant of Carcosa The Applicant The Death of Halpin Frayser A Watcher by the Dead The Man and the Snake John Mortonson's Funeral Moxon's Master The Damned Thing The Realm of the Unreal A Fruitless Assignment A Vine on a House The Haunted Valley One of the Twins Present at a Hanging A Wireless Message The Moonlit Road An Arrest A Jug of Sirup The Isle of Pines At Old Man Eckert's The Spook House The Middle Toe of the Right Foot The Thing at Nolan The Difficulty of Crossing a Field An Unfinished Race Charles Ashmore's Trail Staley Fleming's Hallucination The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" A Baby Tramp A Psychological Shipwreck A Cold Greeting Beyond the Wall John Bartine's Watch The Man out of the Nose An Adventure at Brownville The Suitable Surroundings The Boarded Window A Lady from Redhorse The Famous Gilson Bequest A Holy Terror A Diagnosis of Death II THE WORLD OF WAR Foreword One of the Missing A Baffled Ambuscade The Affair at Coulter's Notch A Son of the Gods One Kind of Officer A Tough Tussle An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge Chickamauga The Coup de Grâce One Officer, One Man The Story of a Conscience Parker Adderson, Philosopher An Affair of Outposts Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General A Horseman in the Sky The Mocking-Bird George Thurston Killed at Resaca Three and One Are One Two Military Executions The Major's Tale A Resumed Identity A Man with Two Lives The Other Lodgers A Bivouac of the Dead III THE WORLD OF TALL TALES Foreword An Imperfect Conflagration A Bottomless Grave The City of the Gone Away Curried Cow A Revolt of the Gods Oil of God The Widower Turnmore The Baptism of Dobsho The Race at Left Bower The Failure of Hope & Wandel A Providential Intimation Mr. Swiddler's Flip-Flap The Little Story My Favorite Murder The Hypnotist Mr. Masthead, Journalist Why Am I Not Editing "The Stinger" Corrupting the Press "The Bubble Reputation" A Shipwreckollection The Captain of the "Camel" The Man Overboard A Cargo of Cat