The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs (Library of America )
by Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Series
- In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians).
- Soldiers.
- A horseman in the sky ;
- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ;
- Chickamauga ;
- A son of the gods ;
- One of the missing ;
- Killed at Resaca ;
- The affair at Coulter's Notch ;
- The coup de grâce ;
- Parker Adderson, philosopher ;
- An affair of outposts ;
- The story of a conscience ;
- One kind of officer ;
- One officer, one man ;
- George Thurston ;
- The mocking-bird
- Civilians.
- The man out of the nose ;
- An adventure at Brownville ;
- The famous Gilson bequest ;
- The applicant ;
- A watcher by the dead ;
- The man and the snake ;
- A holy terror ;
- The suitable surroundings ;
- The boarded window ;
- A lady from Redhorse ;
- The eyes of the panther
- Can 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 tow of the right foot ;
- John Mortonson's funeral ;
- The realm of the undead ;
- John Bartine's watch ;
- The damned thing ;
- Haïta the shepherd ;
- An inhabitant of Carcosa ;
- The stranger
- The way of ghosts.
- Present at a hanging ;
- A cold greeting ;
- A wireless message ;
- An arrest
- Soldier folk.
- A man with two lives ;
- Three and one are one ;
- A baffled ambuscade ;
- Two military executions
- Some haunted houses.
- 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".
- The difficulty of crossing a field ;
- An unfinished race ;
- Charles Ashmore's trail
- The Devil's dictionary
- Bits of autobiography.
- On a mountain ;
- What I saw of Shiloh ;
- A little of Chickamauga ;
- The crime at Pickett's Mill ;
- Four days in Dixie ;
- What occurred at Franklin ;
- 'Way down in Alabam' ;
- Working for an Empress ;
- Across the plains ;
- The mirage ;
- A sole survivor
- Selected stories.
- Mrs. Dennison's head ;
- The man overboard ;
- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ;
- A bottomless grave ;
- For the Ahkhoond ;
- My favorite murder ;
- Oil of dog ;
- Ashes of the beacon.