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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. The most famous was due to his talent in satiric stories. Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction...

Orrin Brower killed his brother-in-law and was a fugitive from justice. He escaped the jail where he had been confined to await his trial. He knocked down the unarmed jailer with an iron bar, robbed a key of his jail, opened the outer door, walked out into the dark night with neither moon nor stars...

One man said to a physician that he was disturbed by hallucinations. Every night he awoke and saw in his room a big black dog. It seemed to him sinister. The doctor said that the patient looked allright, and suggested that it could be just a dream. But the man reassured the physician that the dog...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer of the 19th century. Ambrose Bierce's literary reputation is based primarily on his short stories about the Civil War and the supernatural—a body of work that makes up a relatively small part of his total output.His style often embraces...

“Three and One are One” is a story of a twenty-two years old young man Barr Lassister, who lived with his parents and elder sister near Carthage, Tennessee in 1861. When the war came on it found in the family, as in so many others in that State, a divided sentiment; the young man was loyal to...

“The Isle of Pines” story is a very interesting and fascinating. It tells us about the man whose name was Herman Deluse. Very little was known of his story, for he would neither speak of it himself nor suffer others. Somebody thought that he was a pirate because in his house there was a collection...

Ambrose Bierce was an american writer who worked in the field of humorous and horror fiction. As Bierce took part in the American Civil War it made a major effect on his perception of the world and his style of writing. Nowadays Ambrose Bierce is considered to be the master of a short story. 'One...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. The most famous was due to his talent in satiric stories. Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction...

One day when I was fourteen, I opened that I had the unusual ability. That day I forgot my lunch and I gazed longingly at that of a small girl who was preparing to eat hers. I looked at her eyes and she couldn’t focus on everything but me. After several seconds, she gave me her food, stood and walked...

Last at night a stranger approaches to a group of people around a campfire, telling them that they are not the first to explore the region. The man starts to narrate a harrowing tale of four men who thirty years ago crossed the Santa Catalina mountains to explore the area. He explains that they were...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. His creation is individualized by sardonic view of human nature and criticism. Participated the American Civil War, he composed the writing style with an abrupt beginnings, dark imagery, vague...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially...

Ambrose Bierce was an american writer who worked in the field of humourous and horror fiction. Nowadays Ambrose Bierce is considered to be the master of a short story. 'John Bartine's Watch' is a short horror story, centered about the misterious watch that terrifies their owner. John Bartine can look...

I was very tired because of I have traveled for two days. I stayed in Atlanta and preferred to rent an apartment in a local hotel. It was the most abominable hotel that I’ve ever been. I’ve got a room on the ground floor and a night-clerk gave me a pair of candles. Rather than look for better...