Arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl called Benedicta, shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman. Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous friendship with her and, in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time alone with her....

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce was the author of sardonic, mischievous definitions of words that appeared in various San Francisco newspapers....

Eerily vivid and yet never devoid of the beat of the human heart, Classic Tales of Horror presents the work of some of the world\"s most celebrated horror writers. This compilation is designed to provide both a gripping read and glimpses of life beyond the realm of the everyday....

Unexplained terrors, magical anomalies, and a growing sense of dread fill these pages. Only the brave should risk the stories that lie within. In this collection, werewolves, vampires, and ghosts stalk their victims through the night....

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time....

A collection of essays, stories, poems and reflections, previously printed in American journals. Bierce has created a snapshot of journalism in the United States that is full of wit, gloom and everything in between. ...

"One More Unfortunate."It was midnight-a black, wet, midnight-in a great city by the sea. The church clocks were booming the hour, in tones half-smothered by the marching rain, when an officer of the watch saw a female figure glide past him like a ghost in the gloom, and make directly toward a wharf....

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Captain Abersouth is a recurring character in the short stories of Ambrose Bierce and here are collected the Abersouth tales for the first time. ...

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