Ambrose Bierce: 382 books

“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...

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...

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...

One night a man stood on the hill. The man looked curiously about him on all sides – he didn’t saw any sign or suggestion of life except the barking of a distant dog, which, repeated with mechanical iteration. But since several minutes he saw the group of horseman who were riding through the road...

A story “The thing at Nolan” is a mysterious story of May family. Mr. May’s family consisted of a wife, an adult son and two young girls. The son’s name was John - the names of the daughters are unknown to the writer of this sketch. John May was of a morose and surly disposition, not easily...

The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and...

A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

Alexandre Dumas ( born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure. Translated into nearly 100 languages, these have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels,...

"The Damned Thing" is written in four parts, each with a comical subtitle. The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death. William Harker, a witness to the death, enters and is sworn...

A short story that speculates on what it is to be intelligent and when artificial intelligence becomes to powerful.

The strange tale of a frontier town and the horrible goings on that haunt the residents.

In San Francisco, three physicians discuss man’s hereditary, and superstitious, fear of the dead. Dr. Mancher wonders if it is, indeed, universal. Dr. Helberson says it is; it is all a matter of circumstance. And what would happen if a man were locked up with a corpse overnight? HarperPerennial...