Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
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Classic American Short Stories
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1978
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
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1978
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
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1978
![Great American Short Stories [34 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9378337-M.jpg)
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
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1977
The Road to Science Fiction From Gilgamesh to Wells
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1977
The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce
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1977
The Hounds of Hell
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1974
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
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1973
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
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1973
A spectrum of worlds
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1972
Nightfrights
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1972
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
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1971
![Tales of Terror [12 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1956629-M.jpg)
Tales of Terror [12 stories]
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1971
The Ghouls
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1971
![The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce [93 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12676451-M.jpg)
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce [93 stories]
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1970
The sea-green horse
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1970