The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs
(2011)

Nonfiction

Book

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Call Numbers:
813.4/BIERCE,A

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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA), [2011]
©2011
DESCRIPTION

ix, 880 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781598531022 :, 1598531026
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
CONTENTS
In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians).

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 ; Affair at Coulter's Notch ; Coup de grâce ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; An affair of outposts ; Story of a conscience ; One kind of officer ; One officer, one man ; George Thurston ; Mocking-bird --

Civilians.

Man out of the nose ; An adventure at Brownville ; Famous Gilson bequest ; Applicant ; A watcher by the dead ; Man and the snake ; A holy terror ; Suitable surroundings ; Boarded window ; A lady from Redhorse ; Eyes of the panther -- Can such things be? Death of Halpin Frayser ; Secret of Macarger's Gulch ; One summer night ; Moonlit road ; A diagnosis of death ; Moxon's master ; A tough tussle ; One of twins ; Haunted valley ; A jug of sirup ; Staley Fleming's hallucination ; A resumed identity ; A baby tramp ; Night-doings at "Deadman's" ; Beyond the wall ; A psychological shipwreck ; Middle toe of the right foot ; John Mortonson's funeral ; Realm of the unreal ; John Bartine's watch ; Damned thing ; Haïta the shepherd ; An inhabitant of Carcosa ; Stranger --

The way of ghosts.

Present at a hanging ; A cold greeting ; A wireless message ; An arrest --

Soldier folk.

A man with two lives ; Three and one are one ; A baffled ambuscade ; Two military executions --

Some haunted houses.

Isle of pines ; A fruitless assignment ; A vine on a house ; At old man Eckert's ; Spook house ; Other lodgers ; Thing at Nolan -- "Mysterious disappearances". Difficulty of crossing a field ; An unfinished race ; Charles Ashmore's trail -- Devil's dictionary -- Bits of autobiography. On a mountain ; What I saw of Shiloh ; A little of Chickamauga ; Crime at Pickett's Mill ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; Way down in Alabam' ; Working for an Empress ; Across the plains ; Mirage ; A sole survivor -- Selected stories. Mrs. Dennison's head ; Man overboard ; Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ; A bottomless grave ; For the Ahkhoond ; My favorite murder ; Oil of dog ; Ashes of the beacon

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