In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang.

The Dictionary of the Devil

Seven American Short Stories

Il se passe des choses étranges dans les forêts de virginie, au fond des canyons de la sierra nevada, dans les camps des chercheurs d'or, au sein de la meilleure société de san francisco et même dans la boutique la plus ordinaire d'une bourgade du massachussets.
 Si l'on en croit ambrose bierce, on ne peut même plus se fier à la mort pour faire se tenir tranquilles les gens, qu'on les ait assassinés ou non.  et même chez les vivants, les inventeurs et les médecins vont au-delà des limites de la science, les jumeaux communiquent mystérieusement, les hypnotiseurs ont d'inquiétants pouvoirs. 
Vingt-quatre nouvelles fantastiques, drôles ou terrifiantes, inédites pour la plupart, pour poursuivre la découverte du plus acerbe des humoristes américains.

De telles choses sont-elles possibles ?

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (26 Stories:   includes Chickamauga + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The   Mocking-Bird)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and   detailed table of contents.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories written by   Ambrose Bierce. Published in 1891, the 26 stories detail the lives of   soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. His famous story   "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this   collection.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist,   journalist, short-story writer and satirist. His short stories are considered   among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on   his roots. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many   of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic   views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter   Bierce."

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (26 Stories: includes Chickamauga + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Mocking-Bird)

William Harker is the only witness to the death of his friend, Hugh Morgan. Morgan's body suggests that he has died traumatically, but when Harker tries to explain what he saw of his friend's last moments, the men in charge of determining Morgan's cause of death find his testimony too bizarre to be true. Written by Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing" is a story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the television series Masters of Horror. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Damned Thing - Short Story

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories +   poetry)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Fiend's Delight, a compilation of Bierce's articles; essays, stories,   poems and reflection, was published in London in 1873 by John Camden Hotten   under the pseudonym "Dod Grile". This was Bierce's first book when   he lived and wrote in England from 1872 to 1875, contributing to Fun   magazine.
Ambrose Bierce (born June 24, 1842; assumed to have died sometime after   December 26, 1913) 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. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters",   and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him   the nickname "Bitter Bierce".
Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage   younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C.   Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his   stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague   references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of   war.
Content:
Some Fiction.
1. "One More Unfortunate."
2. The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
3. The Glad New Year.
4. The Late Dowling, Senior.
5. "Love's Labour Lost."
6. A Comforter.
7. Little Isaac.
8. The Heels of Her.
9. A Tale of Two Feet.
10. The Scolliver Pig.
11. Mr. Hunker's Mourner.
12. A Bit of Chivalry.
13. The Head of the Family.
14. Deathbed Repentance.
15. The New Church that was not Built.
16. A Tale of the Great Quake.
17. Johnny.
18. The Child's Provider.
19. Boys who Began Wrong.
20. A Kansas Incident.
21. Mr. Grile's Girl.
22. His Railway.
23. Mr. Gish Makes a Present.
24. A Cow-County Pleasantry.
25. The Optimist, and What He Died Of.
26. The Root of Education.
27. Retribution.
28. Margaret the Childless.
29. The Discomfited Demon.
30. The Mistake of a Life.
31. L. S.
32. The Baffled Asian.
Tall Talk.
1. A Call to Dinner.
2. On Death and Immortality.
3. Music-Muscular and Mechanical.
4. The Good Young Man.
5. The Average Parson.
6. Did We Eat One Another?
7. Your Friend's Friend.
8. Le Diable est aux Vaches.
9. Angels and Angles.
10. A Wingless Insect.
11. Pork on the Hoof.
12. The Young Person.
13. A Certain Popular Fallacy.
14. Pastoral Journalism.
15. Mendicity's Mistake.
16. Picnicking considered as a Mistake.
17. Thanksgiving Day.
18. Flogging.
19. Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press.
20. Charity.
21. The Study of Human Nature.
22. Additional Talk-Done in the Country.
Current Journalings.
Obituary Notices.
1. Christians.
2. Pagans.
Musings, Philosophical and Theological.
Laughorisms.
"Items" from the Press of Interior California.
Poesy.
1. Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus.
2. Epitaph on George Francis Train.
3. Jerusalem, Old and New.
4. Communing with Nature.
5. Conservatism and Progress.
6. Inter Arma Silent Leges.
7. Quintessence.
8. Resurgam.

The Fiend´s Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)

Parmi les nouvelles incluses dans ce livre, Un incident au pont d’Owl-Creek est sans doute celle qui a reçu les plus grands éloges de la part de la critique et d’autres écrivains. Elle suit le parcours d’un homme sur le point d’être exécuté par pendaison, en pleine guerre de Sécession, et qui déclenche en lui-même un mécanisme de défense psychologique abolissant les lois temporelles. Gommant la frontière entre la vie intérieure du sujet et le monde extérieur, le récit parvient à confondre l’esprit du lecteur par un habile jeu de miroirs. Avec cette nouvelle, Bierce signe une composition moderne, à portée philosophique, sur la porosité entre réalité et fiction.

An Occurrence at  Owl Creek Bridge and Other Short Stories / Un incident au pont d'Owl-Creek et autres nouvelles

Célèbre pour son savoureux Dictionnaire du Diable, Bierce fut aussi un nouvelliste prolixe, qui s'essaya au genre fantastique avec brio. Tel Edgar Allan Poe, il manie l'humour noir et le surnaturel dans ce recueil de contes, classique de la littérature. Sépultures profanées, revenants, histoires de fantômes, Bierce s'empare de toutes les thématiques liées à l'horreur ou au fantastique pour en proposer sa version, du comique grand-guignolesque à la sensibilité la plus pure, prouvant la largeur de sa palette et son incontestable génie.

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