Author:Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
(1842–1914)

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

Works

• The Fiend's Delight (1873) [1]
• Nuggets and Dust (1873) (external scan)
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874) a collection [2] [3]
  • Fables of Zambri, the Parsee
  • Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation
  • The Grateful Bear
  • The Setting Sachem
  • Feodora
  • The Legend of Immortal Truth
  • Converting a Prodigal
  • Four Jacks and a Knave
  • Dr. Deadwood, I Presume
  • Nut-Cracking
  • The Magician's Little Joke
  • Seafaring
  • Tony Rollo's Conclusion
  • No Charge for Attendance
  • Pernicketty's Fright
  • Juniper
  • Following the Sea
  • A Tale of Spanish Vengeance
  • Mrs. Dennison's Head
  • A Fowl Witch
  • The Civil Service in Florida
  • A Tale of the Bosphorus
  • John Smith
  • Sundered Hearts
  • The Early History of Bath
  • The Following Dorg
  • Snaking
  • Maud's Papa
  • Jim Beckwourth's Pond
  • Stringing a Bear
• The Dance of Death (1877) (external scan)
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) (external scan)
• In the Midst of Life (1892) (external scan)
• Black Beetles in Amber (1892) (external scan)
• Can Such Things Be? (1893) (external scan)
• Fantastic Fables (1899) (external scan)
• Shapes of Clay (1903) (external scan)
• The Cynic's Word Book (1906) (external scan) (transcription project)
• The Shadow on the Dial (1909) (external scan)
• The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
• The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1909-1912), in 12 volumes
• The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (external scan)

Short Stories

• The Discomfited Demon (1870)
• The Haunted Valley (1871)
• The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" (1874)
• The Little Story (1874) [4]
• The Famous Gilson Bequest (1878)
• A Psychological Shipwreck (1879)
• A Holy Terror (1882)
• George Thurston (1883)
• A Cargo of Cat (1885) [5]
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886)
• A Revolt of the Gods (1886) [6]
• The Bubble Reputation (1886) [7]
• The City of the Gone Away (1888) [8]
• One of the Missing (1888)
• One of Twins (1888)
• A Tough Tussle (1888)
• Four Days in Dixie (1888)
• My Favourite Murder (1888)
• The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (1888)
• An Unfinished Race (1888)
• Charles Ashmore’s Trail (1888)
• Present at a Hanging (1888)
• A Cold Greeting (1888)
• The Isle of Pines (1888)
• A Fruitless Assignment (1888)
• A Bottomless Grave (1888) [9]
• One Officer, One Man (1889)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch (1889)
• A Watcher by the Dead (1889)
• The Suitable Surroundings (1889)
• Chickamauga (1889)
• The Boarded Window (1889)
• The Spook House (1889)
• A Horseman in the Sky (1889)
• Oil of Dog (1890)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
• The Man and the Snake (1890)
• The Realm of the Unreal (1890)
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1890)
• An Heiress from Redhorse (1891)
• Haïta the Shepherd (1891)
• A Baby Tramp (1891)
• The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891)
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1891)
• The Thing at Nolan (1891)
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892) [10]
• An Adventure at Brownville (1892)
• Bodies of the Dead (1893)
• The Damned Thing (1893)
• John Bartine's Watch (1893)
• A Jug of Sirup (1893)
• An Affair of Outposts (1897)
• The Eyes of the Panther (1897)
• A Little of Chickamauga (1898)
• Moxon's Master (1899)
• A Diagnosis of Death (1901)
• At Old Man Eckert’s (1901)
• A Bivouac of the Dead (1903)
• A Wireless Message (1905)
• An Arrest (1905)
• A Man with Two Lives (1905)
• A Vine on a House (1905)
• A Baffled Ambuscade (1906)
• John Mortonson's Funeral (1906)
• One Summer Night (1906)
• Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1906)
• Two Military Executions (1906)
• The Moonlit Road (1907)
• Beyond the Wall (1907)
• The Other Lodgers (1907)
• Three and One Are One (1908)
• A Resumed Identity (1908)
• On a Mountain (1909)
• The Stranger (1909)
• The Mystery of the Ultimate Hills (1913) [11]

Works about Bierce

• "Bierce, Ambrose," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (v. Supplement), New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)