“Book Descriptions: Questing after Pancho Villa’s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil’s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierce’s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‘ and ‘Chickamauga‘, his macabre masterpieces "The Damned Thing" and "Moxon's Master", and his hilariously horrific "Oil of Dog" and "My Favorite Murder". --back cover
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Text From In the Midst of Life Soldiers: A Horseman in the Sky An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Chickamauga A Son of the Gods One of the Missing Killed at Resaca The Affair at Coulter’s Notch The Coup de Grâce Parker Adderson, Philosopher An Affair of Outposts The Story of a Conscience One Kind of Officer The Mocking-Bird
Civilians: The Man Out of the Nose The Man and the Snake The Boarded Window From Can Such Things Be? Can Such Things Be?: Moxon’s Master A Tough Tussle A Resumed Identity The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” The Realm of the Unreal The Damned Thing Haïta the Shepherd
The Ways of Ghosts: Present at a Hanging A Wireless Message
Soldier Folk: Three and One Are One From Negligible Tales Negligible Tales: A Bottomless Grave Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General The City of the Gone Away The Major’s Tale Curried Cow A Revolt of the Gods
The Parenticide Club: My Favorite Murder Oil of Dog From Antepenultimata A Bivouac of the Dead From The Opinionator The Controversialist: The Short Story
Explanatory Notes Glossary of Military Terms Battle Sites and Battle Leaders” DRIVE