Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce a satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army in 1913.
This edition contains the following stories.
- The Ways of Ghosts
- Present at a Hanging
- A Cold Greeting
- A Wireless Message
- An Arrest
- Soldier-Folk
- A Man with Two Lives
- Three and One are One
- A Baffled Ambuscade
- Two Military Executions
- Some Haunted Houses
- The Isle of Pines
- A Fruitless Assignment
- A Vine on a House
- At Old Man Eckert’s
- The Spook House
- The Other Lodgers
- The Thing at Nolan
- The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
- An Unfinished Race
- Charles Ashmore’s Trail
- Science to the Front
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