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  • PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY
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    PRESCRIPTION FOR ADVERSITY

    A Prescription for Adversity makes the revolutionary case that Ambrose Bierce, far from being a bitter misanthrope, was instead both a compassionate and moral author. Berkove, focusing on Bierce's...
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  • Collected Fiction Volume 3 Collected Fiction Volume 3
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    Collected Fiction Volume 3

    Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the excesses of the press; the corruption endemic in...
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  • Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
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    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories written by Ambrose Bierce. Published in 1891, the 26 stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War...
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  • Collected Fiction Volume 2 Collected Fiction Volume 2
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    Collected Fiction Volume 2

    It took Ambrose Bierce some time to process his Civil War experiences and transmute them into fiction, but when he did so, beginning in the 1880s, he produced some of the most memorable stories to...
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  • The Haunted Valley The Haunted Valley
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    The Haunted Valley

    A seemingly love triangle that involves murder and betrayal but is really a fascinating insight into the mind of Ambrose Bierce and his radical politics that condemn the nation building and racist...
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  • The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays
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    The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays

    Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) was a short story writer, an editorialist, a satirist and a journalist. He is best known for his Devil's Dictionary. His sardonic view of human nature and his tough...
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  • Collected Fiction Volume 1 Collected Fiction Volume 1
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    Collected Fiction Volume 1

    From the beginning of his career, Ambrose Bierce wrote stories of all different types-humorous sketches, satirical squibs, and weird tales. This volume prints some of his most memorable fiction-his...
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  • The Collected Works, Volume 4... The Collected Works, Volume 4...
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    The Collected Works, Volume 4...

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...
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  • The Collected Works, Volume 1... The Collected Works, Volume 1...
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    The Collected Works, Volume 1...

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...
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    California's Daughter
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    California's Daughter

    This is the first biography of Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948), one of the most famous, outspoken, and successful novelists of her time. It emphasizes her place in the emergent debate on the place of...
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  • The Devil's Dictionary
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    The Devil's Dictionary

    Bierce's dictionary, first published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words. Over 100 years later, Bierce's redefinitions...
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  • War & the Dead War & the Dead
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    War & the Dead

    Ambrose Bierce: journalist, veteran, legend, was as familiar with death as could be a writer of his time. Whether consulting tribulations experienced in the American Civil War, or pulling onto pages...
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    The Ways of Ghosts

    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...
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  • The Shadow on the Dial, and Other Essays The Shadow on the Dial, and Other Essays
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    The Shadow on the Dial, and Other Essays

    This is a collection of essays by Ambrose Bierce, considered one of America's most important writers of the 19th century. The essays included in this volume provide a powerful critique of society and...
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  • Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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    Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - c. 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100...
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  • The Cosmic Cafe The Cosmic Cafe
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    The Cosmic Cafe

    The Cosmic Cafe: Science Fiction a la Carte is an anthology of speculative short stories from before, during, and after (but with special focus on) The Radium Age. It includes writing from Johannes...
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    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
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    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

    In Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories, humor and horror paint a bleak picture of war, marked by violence, isolation and looming madness. Despite the subject matter, the macabre tone is...
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    The Devil's Dictionary The Devil's Dictionary
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    The Devil's Dictionary

    The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized...
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  • Famous Modern Ghost Stories Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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    Famous Modern Ghost Stories

    This is an anthology of famous and chilling ghost stories compiled by Dorothy Scarborough. She was a lecturer in English for Columbia University, as well as author who producing such notable works as...
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  • Ghost Stories
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    Ghost Stories

    From North to South, coast-to-coast, Lyons Press Classics deliver stories rooted in their time, place, and topic. Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true American classics, both long-forgotten...
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  • Suspense Magazine, Summer 1951 Suspense Magazine, Summer 1951
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    Suspense Magazine, Summer 1951

    A replica of the Summer 1951 issue of SUSPENSE MAGAZINE digest featuring Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Crime, The Macabre, and Fantasy. OPERATION PEEP by John Wyndham, WORLD WITHIN by Thomas A...
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  • The Halloween in Me The Halloween in Me
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    The Halloween in Me

    Welcome to Texas, where the things that go bump in the night are bigger and badder than anywhere else.Thirteen spine-tingling tales await, including Pendulum Grim, a chilling look at the...
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  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
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    When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

    When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again tells the stories of three soldiers in three wars.Three soldiers. Each someone's Johnny. Father, son. Brother, cousin. Husband, lover. Just plain buddy.Three...
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  • Great American Civil War Stories
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    Great American Civil War Stories

    The Civil War Relived in 40 Stories! Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed,...
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  • Some Corrections of Life on the Plains Some Corrections of Life on the Plains
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    Some Corrections of Life on the Plains

    “[General W.B. Hazen] is the best hated man I ever knew.” —Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American 19th-century writerIn his book My Life on the Plains (also available from Cosimo...
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  • EcoGothic
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    EcoGothic

    This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home,...
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  • The Guidon The Guidon
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    The Guidon

    A facsimile reprint of the complete run of the San Francisco literary journal The Guidon, published by the city's prestigious Onward Club. Includes contributions from such luminaries as Jack London...
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  • Tales of Horror
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    Tales of Horror

    Here is a collection of classic stories that deserve to be celebrated, and others that are less well known but deserve recognition from modern readers. Some of these stories have practically defined...
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  • Write It Right... Write It Right...
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    Write It Right...

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,...
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  • 7 best short stories by Edgar Allan Poe 7 best short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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    7 best short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

    This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most read horror, detective and science fiction authors ever to have been published, Edgar Allan Poe. This selection contains the...
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  • Liberwocky Liberwocky
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    Liberwocky

    Laid out like a dictionary A-to-Z (much like Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary), Liberwocky takes a close and comedic look at how liberals use and abuse language to manipulate the citizenry and...
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  • Diary of a Sorceress Diary of a Sorceress
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    Diary of a Sorceress

    The young poet Ashley Dioses has already established herself as a leading voice in contemporary weird poetry. Known for her meticulous use of rhyme and meter, her deft melding of the strange and the...
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  • Lost Carcosa and the Yellow Sign Lost Carcosa and the Yellow Sign
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    Lost Carcosa and the Yellow Sign

    The Lost City of Carcosa, ancient and mysterious, is barely described in Ambrose Bierce's short story 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' (1891). In Robert W Chambers's "Yellow Mythos' stories, and within the...
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  • Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others
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    Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others

    The world of amateur journalism that H. P. Lovecraft entered in 1914 introduced him to a variety of interesting and accomplished individuals, some of whom remained his colleagues for the rest of his...
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  • The Handbook to Gothic Literature
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    The Handbook to Gothic Literature

    From Anne Rice's best-selling novels to our recurrent interest in vampires and the occult, the Gothic has an unyielding hold on our imagination. But what exactly does "Gothic" mean? How does it...
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  • Dual Narrative Dynamics
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    Dual Narrative Dynamics

    Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the...
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  • Unutterable Horror Unutterable Horror
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    Unutterable Horror

    S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to...
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  • The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction
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    The Essential Anthology of Short Fiction

    Sabino Falls literary texts are the new standard for discerning scholars throughout the world. Our Essential anthologies are designed with students and instructors in mind. Thorough without being...
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  • If the Dead Knew If the Dead Knew
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    If the Dead Knew

    This volume contains the weird stories of May Sinclair (1863–1946), a British writer whose many novels and tales established her as a leading figure in English literature in her time. Her two...
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  • Back There in the Grass Back There in the Grass
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    Back There in the Grass

    This volume contains the weird stories of two leading American short story writers of the early 20th century, Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944) and Gouverneur Morris (1876–1953). Both are known...
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  • Wry Harvest Wry Harvest
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    Wry Harvest

    If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere...
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