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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett

June 24, 1842 (age 183)

Birth place: Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA

66 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 1905 618 Short Fiction A Man with Two Lives Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1905
October 1905 617 Short Fiction A Vine on a House Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1905
October 1905 620|620.2 Short Fiction A Wireless Message Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1905
October 1905 622 Short Fiction The Arrest Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1905
December 1905 240 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1905) Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1905
January 1906 359 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, January 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, January 1906
February 1906 457 Short Fiction The Conflagration in Ghargaroo Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1906
February 1906 473 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1906
March 1906 214 Short Fiction John Mortonson's Funeral Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906
March 1906 543|543.2 Short Fiction One Summer Night Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906
March 1906 545|545.2 Short Fiction Staley Fleming's Hallucination Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906
March 1906 595 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1906
April 1906 736 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1906
May 1906 116 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, May 1906
June 1906 233 Essay The Passing Show (Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1906) Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1906
September 1906 555 Short Fiction Insurance in Ancient America: Translated from the Work of the Future Historian Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1906
November 1906 37|37.2 Short Fiction A Baffled Ambuscade Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1906
November 1906 38 Short Fiction Two Military Executions Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1906
January 1907 334 Short Fiction The Moonlit Road Cosmopolitan Magazine, January 1907
March 1907 581 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1907) Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1907
April 1907 692 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1907) Cosmopolitan Magazine, April 1907
August 1907 445 Short Fiction The Other Lodgers Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1907
September 1907 579 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1907) Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1907
December 1907 222 Essay An Insurrection of the Peasantry Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1907
December 1907 184 Short Fiction Beyond the Wall Cosmopolitan Magazine, December 1907
March 1908 439 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1908) Cosmopolitan Magazine, March 1908
August 1908 331 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1908) Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1908
August 1908 221 Essay Some Neglected First Principles Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1908
September 1908 404 Short Fiction The Man Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1908
October 1908 565 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1908) Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1908
October 1908 550 Short Fiction Three and One Are One Cosmopolitan Magazine, October 1908
February 1909 350 Short Fiction A Stranger Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1909
February 1909 360 Essay Small Contributions (Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1909) Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1909
September 1923 126 Short Fiction The Damned Thing Weird Tales, September 1923
August 1926 201 Short Fiction The Man and the Snake The Argosy, August 1926
April 1927 115 Short Fiction An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Argosy, April 1927
December 1948 101 Short Fiction An Inhabitant of Carcosa Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 8
December 1953 34 Short Fiction A Horseman in the Sky Playboy, December 1953
September 1960 97 Short Fiction A Bottomless Grave Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales, September 1960
May 1961 38 Short Fiction Killed at Resaca Adam, May 1961
August 1963 58 Short Fiction The Death of Halpin Frayser Magazine of Horror, August 1963
November 1963 57 Short Fiction A Tough Tussle Magazine of Horror, November 1963
January 1965 123 Review Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce Fantastic Stories of Imagination, January 1965
January 1965 86 Review Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1965
November 1965 12 Short Fiction A Psychological Shipwreck Magazine of Horror, November 1965
1967 71 Short Fiction John Bartine's Watch Startling Mystery Stories, Winter 1967/1968
November 1968 49 Short Fiction A Diagnosis of Death Magazine of Horror, November 1968
July 1969 51 Short Fiction A Revolt of the Gods Magazine of Horror, July 1969
March 1971 76 Short Fiction My Favorite Murder Bizarre Fantasy Tales, March 1971
March 1984 14 Poem Another Way Fantasy & Terror, #3
1986 36 Poem Ghost Fantasy & Terror, #9
1987 60 Short Fiction The Boarded Window Night Cry, Fall 1987
1987 83 Short Fiction The Middle Toe of the Right Foot Night Cry, Summer 1987
1990 94 Review Can Such Things Be? Science Fiction Review, Autumn 1990
July 1990 38|38.7 Review Can Such Things Be? Science Fiction Chronicle, #130 July 1990
September 1990 37 Review Can Such Things Be? Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1990
June 1997 53 Essay Visions of the Night Cenotaph, Summer 1997
September 1998 47 Short Fiction The Secret of Macarger's Gulch Dread, Fall 1998
2007 54 Review The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition Dead Reckonings, Fall 2007
December 2007 9 Short Fiction A Holy Terror Jim Baen's Universe, December 2007
December 2007 128 Short Fiction A Watcher by the Dead Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 2007
November 2008 |6 Short Fiction The Ingenious Patriot Mythaxis, November 2008
June 2010 Short Fiction Oil of Dog Pseudopod, #200
April 2019 Short Fiction The City of the Gone Away Pseudopod, #643
May 2024 Short Fiction Chickamauga PseudoPod, 27 May 2024
October 2025 |1 Short Fiction The Suitable Surroundings PseudoPod, 3 October 2025

75 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1891 Collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce
1892 Collection In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce
1893 Collection Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce
1899 Collection Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce
1906 Nonfiction The Cynic's Word Book Ambrose Bierce
1909 Collection Ashes of the Beacon / The Land Beyond the Blow / For the Ahkoond / John Smith, Liberator / Bits of Autobiography Ambrose Bierce
1910 Collection Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce
1911 Collection Tangential Views Ambrose Bierce
1911 Nonfiction The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce
1918 Collection In the Midst of Life Ambrose Bierce
1922 Nonfiction The Letters of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1922 Nonfiction Twenty-One Letters of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1925 Collection Ten Tales Ambrose Bierce
1926 Collection An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce
1926 Collection Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts Ambrose Bierce
1926 Collection Tales of Haunted Houses Ambrose Bierce
1927 Nonfiction A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce
1927 Collection Fantastic Debunking Fables Ambrose Bierce
1927 Collection My Favorite Murder and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce
1928 Collection Eyes of the Panther: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Ambrose Bierce
1946 Omnibus The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1947 Anthology Ghost Stories (selected) Rudyard Kipling & E. F. Benson & Ambrose Bierce
1955 Collection The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce
1961 Collection In the Midst of Life and Other Tales Ambrose Bierce
1964 Collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1967 Collection Tales of Horror and Suspense Ambrose Bierce
1967 Collection Tales of Horror and Suspense: Vol. II Ambrose Bierce
1968 Collection A Little Book of Humor, Horror, and the Supernatural Ambrose Bierce
1970 Collection The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1971 Collection The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume I: The World of Horror Ambrose Bierce
1971 Collection The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ambrose Bierce
1972 Anthology Two Terror Tales Ambrose Bierce & W. W. Jacobs
1973 Collection An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce
1973 Collection Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce: The Irreverent Humor of the Great Satirist Ambrose Bierce
1974 Collection Ambrose Bierce: Master of the Macabre Ambrose Bierce
1974 Collection Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce
1977 Collection The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1980 Collection A Vision of Doom Ambrose Bierce
1980 Chapbook For the Ahkoond Ambrose Bierce
1984 Omnibus The Best of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1987 Omnibus The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader Ambrose Bierce
1989 Nonfiction The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce
1994 Collection Civil War Stories Ambrose Bierce
1995 Chapbook An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce
1995 Collection Poems of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
1998 Nonfiction A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography Ambrose Bierce
2000 Collection The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
2000 Nonfiction The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires Ambrose Bierce
2002 Collection Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce
2002 Collection Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce
2002 Collection Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
2002 Nonfiction The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce
2003 Nonfiction A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
2004 Collection Cobwebs from an Empty Skull Ambrose Bierce
2004 Collection Shapes of Clay Ambrose Bierce
2004 Collection The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume One Ambrose Bierce
2006 Collection Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories Ambrose Bierce
2006 Nonfiction The Fiend's Delight Ambrose Bierce
2006 Collection The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition Ambrose Bierce
2007 Chapbook The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce
2008 Collection An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce
2008 Collection An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce
2008 Collection Black Beetles in Amber Ambrose Bierce
2008 Collection The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter and Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce
2008 Collection The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre Ambrose Bierce
2009 Collection Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
2011 Collection The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs Ambrose Bierce
2012 Chapbook A Watcher by the Dead Ambrose Bierce
2012 Collection Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
2012 Chapbook Moxon's Master Ambrose Bierce
2012 Collection Moxon's Master and Other Tales of Murder Most Foul Ambrose Bierce
2012 Chapbook The Death of Halpin Frayser Ambrose Bierce
2012 Chapbook The Haunted Valley Ambrose Bierce
2014 Chapbook The Eyes of the Panther Ambrose Bierce
2023 Collection The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales Ambrose Bierce

See also the biography of this author by Richard O'Connor.
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