The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce

Collection contains: Stories. A psychological shipwreck -- Chickamauga -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A horseman in the sky -- One of the missing -- A wireless message -- The stranger -- The man and the snake -- The coup de grâce -- Curried cow -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch -- A resumed identity -- One kind of officer -- One summer night -- Three and one are one -- The death of Halpin Frayser -- John Bartine's watch -- Staley Felming's hallucination -- Oil of dog -- The hypnotist -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- An arrest -- Moxon's master -- Killed at Resaca -- Haïta the shepherd -- Present at a hanging -- Inhabitant of Carcosa One officer, one man -- Damned Thing Fables. The man with no enemies -- The lifesaver -- Saint and sinner -- Saint and soul -- The lassoed bear -- The Australian grasshopper -- The discontented malefactor -- Two poets -- The austere governor -- The reform school board -- The witch's steed -- Legislator and soap -- The tried assassin -- The bumbo of Jiam -- The city of political distinction -- The tolerant sovereign -- A little learning -- The flying machine -- The incredulous subordinate -- The statue at Bumboogle -- Two politicians -- A fa