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A Wireless Message

Published On Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Under: Bierce, Ambrose, Featured.
A Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce In the summer of 1896 Mr. William Holt, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, was living temporarily in a little town of central New York, the name of which the writer’s memory has not retained.  Mr. Holt had had ...

A Man With Two Lives by Ambrose Bierce

Published On Sunday, February 13, 2011. Under: Bierce, Ambrose, Featured.
A Man With Two Lives  by Ambrose Bierce   Here is the queer story of David William Duck, related by himself.  Duck is an old man living in Aurora, Illinois, where he is universally respected.  He is commonly known, however, as “Dead Duck.” “In the autumn of 1866 I ...

The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce

Published On Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Under: Bierce, Ambrose, Featured.
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot  by Ambrose Bierce I It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt ...

PRESENT AT A HANGING by Ambrose Bierce

Published On Saturday, September 04, 2010. Under: Bierce, Ambrose, Featured.
PRESENT AT A HANGING by Ambrose Bierce   An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to pass the night at his house.  This was in 1853, when peddling was more common ...

A COLD GREETING by Ambrose Bierce

Published On Wednesday, July 07, 2010. Under: Bierce, Ambrose, Featured.
A COLD GREETING  by Ambrose Bierce  This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco: “In the summer of 1881 I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of Franklin, Tennessee.  He was visiting San Francisco for his health, deluded man, and ...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Published On Monday, February 22, 2010. Under: Bierce, Ambrose.
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to ...