Hall's spirited, if slightly muddled, fifth Ambrose Bierce mystery (after 2004's Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls) has more of an Old West flavor than previous entries, as young Tom Redmond and ...
“Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer,” by Paul Fatout (University of Oklahoma Press), has a certain importance for students of Bierce, because it contains new information, but it is otherwise a ...
A few months ago, a journalist friend in New York City turned me on to a little-known story by that “American original” writer, Ambrose Bierce, famous for his bleakly cynical, fatalistic tales, such ...
Set alongside other fiction about the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce’s stories can seem brutal and terse, mocking the culture that romanticized the conflict and grew fat with pride. “Death upon a field of ...
Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...
Buried on Page 24 of The Indianapolis News on Sept. 19, 1914, was the headline: "INDIANA AUTHOR LAST HEARD FROM IN MEXICO." Ambrose Bierce, a veteran of the Civil War and former journalist who would ...
Ebenezer Scrooge took only one night to change his tune from “Bah! Humbug!” to “God bless us, every one!” Ambrose Bierce was made of sterner stuff. He reviled the holiday (and just about everything ...
A few months ago, a journalist friend in New York City turned me on to a little-known story by that “American original” writer, Ambrose Bierce, famous for his bleakly cynical, fatalistic tales, such ...
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