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Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the
moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those
devilish eyes maintained their watch. Ambrose Bierce was one of
America’s leading writers of the nineteenth century, seen by
contemporaries as a successor to Edgar Allan Poe with an authentic
grasp of horror based on his experiences fighting for the Union in
the American Civil War. Despite his contributions to the genre of
supernatural and weird tales, today his name remains unknown to
many readers. This new collection presents over thirty of
Bierce’s most terrifying and unusual stories, from essential
classics such as ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and ‘The
Eyes of the Panther’ to the writer’s lesser-known series
recounting macabre local legends of haunted houses, mysterious
disappearances and chilling encounters with the dead.
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country In 1881
Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in
the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San
Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's San
Francisco Examiner. Bierce was launched on a journalistic career
that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure - and earn
him the title of 'the wickedest man in San Francisco'. In his
column, Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain, brought his biting
black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words,
writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the
establishment, the Church and the politics of his day, and shining
a sardonic light on hypocrisy and deception. These columns formed
the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as The
Cynic's Word Book. Over 100 years later, Bierce's redefinitions
still give us pause for thought - REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses
his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words;
UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish; POLITICS, n. The
conduct of public affairs for private advantage - making for a
timely new edition of this irreverent and provocative satire.
A bone-chilling collection of uncanny tales from one of the great
masters of the ghost story A murder is relived from three startling
perspectives; a hunter is driven out of his mind by an invisible,
malevolent entity; a man meets a terrifying end in an abandoned
house; a werepanther creeps through a window in the dead of
night... Any lover of the dark and unsettling tale will be
enthralled by the stories in this collection, all from the pen of
the great Ambrose Bierce. Bierce is often seen as the link between
Poe and Lovecraft in the American fantastical tradition, and this
collection showcases his mastery of the macabre. Contains: The
Damned Thing; The Moonlit Road; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge;
The Death of Halpin Frayser; The Suitable Surroundings; The Middle
Toe of the Right Foot; Moxon's Master; An Adventure at Brownville;
The Eyes of the Panther; The Spook House; An Inhabitant of Carcosa
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated
by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection,
perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original
introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and
brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill. Stephen King
hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share
this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an
anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when
you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at
more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like - gulp! - a
coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the
friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet
you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time
you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a
total stranger. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen
King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes
of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and
many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane
reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on
the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a
flight for this terrifying new anthology that will have you
thinking twice about how you want to reach your final destination.
Table of Contents: Introduction by Stephen King Cargo by E. Michael
Lewis The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Nightmare
at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson The Flying Machine by Ambrose
Bierce Lucifer! by E.C. Tubb The Fifth Category by Tom Bissell Two
Minutes Forty-Five Seconds by Dan Simmons Diablitos by Cody
Goodfellow Air Raid by John Varley You Are Released by Joe Hill
Warbirds by David J. Schow The Flying Machine by Ray Bradbury
Zombies on a Plane by Bev Vincent They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald
Dahl Murder in the Air by Peter Tremayne The Turbulence Expert by
Stephen King Falling by James L. Dickey Afterword by Bev Vincent
Sixteen dark and vivid selections by great satirist and short-story writer. "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," "Four Days in Dixie" and 10 more. Masterly tales offer excellent examples of Bierce's dark pessimism and storytelling power. Note.
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A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began
circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in
his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several
years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock
dictionary originally published as The Cynic's Word Book. One of
the most popular satirical works of American literature, The
Devil's Dictionary - here published in its most complete 1911
version - brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society
and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce's
contemporary Mark Twain.
American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is probably best
known for his short stories about the American Civil War. The
author's craft for story-telling is exemplified by his famous "An
Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge," which is the story of Peyton
Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to die by hanging
upon the Owl Creek Bridge. That great short story along with 96
others forms this exhaustive edition of "The Complete Short Stories
of Ambrose Bierce."
23 modern horror stories by American master. "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," 21 more. "These pieces are not dated, nor are they lacking any of the narrative elements necessary to attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the horror genre."-SF Booklog.
An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".
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