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Ambrose Bierce Ghost and Horror Stories (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
- Publication Name
- Ghost and Horror Stories
- Title
- Ghost and Horror Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0486207676
- EAN
- 9780486207674
- ISBN
- 9780486207674
- Publisher
- Dover Publications, Incorporated
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost, Mystery & Detective / General
- Release Date
- 28/03/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1964
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Ambrose Bierce was one of the strangest phenomena of American letters. The adjectives used to describe his writing -- and character -- tend to have a rather uncomplimentary ring: "venomous," "vindictive," "paranoid," "rancorous," "malevolent"; yet few would deny his brilliance of intellect and style. About half of his fiction output consisted of stories of horror and the supernatural, a genre which appealed to his psychic constitution and may have reflected a deep inner torment. This volume contains 24 of Bierce's best tales of the unknown. Morbid, cynical, eerie, they take you to a twilight region of flesh and spirit -- and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. These are unusual constructions of terror and grim irony, reminiscent of Poe, the Gothic novel, and the Romantic short story, but having the unmistakable individual stamp of a man who knew first-hand something of the fears and specters which haunt men. In this volume you will come across a number of old favorites: "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "An Adventure at Brownville," and such classics as "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," "The Damned Thing," and "Moonlit Road," a minor masterpiece in which events of the story are told from three different points of view, including that of the victim as spoken through a medium. You will also find some less familiar, but equally fascinating stories and pieces not available elsewhere, including "Visions of the Night," in which Bierce gives us a rationale for his "reverse holiness" and the surrealistic morality that permeates these writings. Bierce's characters -- possessed poets, shabby aristocrats, grimy professional men, revived corpses, haunted malefactors -- live in a spare, perverse world. Patricide, the revenge of the dead, inexplicable disappearances, dreadful ironies, hypnotism and second sight, and the like, form much of the substance of these unsettling tales.
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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486207676
ISBN-13
9780486207674
eBay Product ID (ePID)
368391
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
1964
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
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Pz3.B479gh
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Trade
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