Ambrose Bierce

In Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories, humor and horror paint a bleak picture of war, marked by violence, isolation and looming madness. Despite the subject matter, the macabre tone is balanced by the author’s satirical prose and signature levity. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories is a literary collection from writer and veteran Ambrose Bierce. The leading title focuses on the realities of battle and various conflicts in the field. Stories such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “One of the Missing” and “Chickamauga,” are heavily influenced by the American Civil War. Others focus on civilians who experience a different kind of tragedy in a domestic setting. Ambrose Bierce is considered one of the most prolific and influential short story writers of all-time. His works have left an indelible mark on countless authors including Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. Bierce is often considered a master of realistic fiction, alongside Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories is both modern and readable.

In Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories, humor and horror paint a bleak picture of war, marked by violence, isolation and looming madness. Despite the subject matter, the macabre tone is balanced by the author’s satirical prose and signature levity. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories is a literary collection from writer and veteran Ambrose Bierce. The leading title focuses on the realities of battle and various conflicts in the field. Stories such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “One of the Missing” and “Chickamauga,” are heavily influenced by the American Civil War. Others focus on civilians who experience a different kind of tragedy in a domestic setting. Ambrose Bierce is considered one of the most prolific and influential short story writers of all-time. His works have left an indelible mark on countless authors including Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Crane. Bierce is often considered a master of realistic fiction, alongside Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories is both modern and readable.

Näiden aiemmin suomentamattomien ja hyvin erilaisten tarinoiden maailma kuhisee yliluonnollisia ja kammottavia vieraita: eloon herääviä kuolleita, aavemaisia ilmestyksiä, irvisteleviä pääkalloja, paholaismaisia hirviöitä, kuolettavia rakastettuja ja muuta klassisen kauhukirjallisuuden kuvastoa. Kokoelman ehdoton helmi on Middlemarchin ja Daniel Derondan kirjoittajan George Eliotin ainoa hairahdus kauhukirjallisuuden puolelle: niminovelli Kohotettu huntu kuvaa päähenkilönsä, romanttisen antisankarin Latimerin yritystä ymmärtää yliluonnollisia kykyjään ja saavuttamatonta rakkautensa kohdetta Berthaa. Latimer joutuu kuitenkin huomaamaan liian myöhään, että jotkut salaisuudet on syytä jättää tietämättömyyden hunnun taakse. Antologian muita kirjoittajia ovat Ambrose Bierce, Jerome K. Jerome, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Barry Pain, J. Y. Akerman ja E. F. Benson, jonka novelli Mies joka meni liian pitkälle on romantiikan kauhutarinoiden klassikko. Novelliantologian on toimittanut Jussi Tuomas Kivi.

Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the excesses of the press; the corruption endemic in business; the absurdities of class distinctions; and so on. Several tales depict buffooneries on the open sea ("The Jeannette and the Corwin, " "The History of Windbag the Sailor"), while others expose the crudities of life in the American West ("A Mirage in Arizona"). A distinctive facet of Bierce's work is a series of political fantasies, several of them taking place in the future, where his skewering of social and political institutions-the dominance of "trusts" or monopolies; the evils of insurance; and the very principle of democracy-are pungently satirized. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was the leading American writer of weird fiction between Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Having served in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Bierce settled in San Francisco, where he became a fearless journalist and satirist, attacking corrupt politicians, long-winded clerics, wretched poetasters, and others who incurred his wrath. The stories in this volume are presented in definitive texts based on a consultation of manuscripts and early publications. They are edited by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Bierce and weird fiction.

From the beginning of his career, Ambrose Bierce wrote stories of all different types-humorous sketches, satirical squibs, and weird tales. This volume prints some of his most memorable fiction-his tales of psychological and supernatural horror. Bierce was a profound student of the psychology of fear, and his tales depicted human beings succumbing to the fear of death ("A Watcher by the Dead"), fear of wild animals ("The Man and the Snake," "The Eyes of the Panther"), and the inhumanity of human beings against their own kind ("A Holy Terror," "A Baby Tramp"). Other tales venture into the supernatural, introducing the notion of revenants ("The Death of Halpin Frayser"), ghosts ("The Moonlit Road"), and haunted houses ("The Boarded Window"). Some stories are forward-looking tales of science fiction ("The Damned Thing," "Moxon's Master"), while others appear to be parodies of the fashionable spiritualism of the day. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was the leading American writer of weird fiction between Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Having served in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Bierce settled in San Francisco, where he became a fearless journalist and satirist, attacking corrupt politicians, long-winded clerics, wretched poetasters, and others who incurred his wrath. The stories in this volume are presented in definitive texts based on a consultation of manuscripts and early publications. They are edited by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Bierce and weird fiction.

It took Ambrose Bierce some time to process his Civil War experiences and transmute them into fiction, but when he did so, beginning in the 1880s, he produced some of the most memorable stories to emerge out of that conflict. Many of these tales border on the weird, as in the celebrated "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," a masterful tale of psychological terror; the grisly "Chickamauga"; "One of the Missing," a grim account of the fear of death; and "A Horseman in the Sky," which mingles realism and fantasy. Another side of Bierce is revealed in his tales of the grotesque, where outrageous scenarios and broad humor are the keynotes. Many of these tales are set in the Wild West, where encounters with bears, Native Americans, and others can lead to horror and death. Particularly memorable are a quartet of stories that Bierce labelled "The Parenticide Club." Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was the leading American writer of weird fiction between Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Having served in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Bierce settled in San Francisco, where he became a fearless journalist and satirist, attacking corrupt politicians, long-winded clerics, wretched poetasters, and others who incurred his wrath. The stories in this volume are presented in definitive texts based on a consultation of manuscripts and early publications. They are edited by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on Bierce and weird fiction.

A trav s de esta oscura antolog a, sir Walter Scott nos lleva, en La c mara de los tapices, a un viejo castillo perturbado por una aparici n; John Polidori se desangra por un verdadero demonio byroniano en El vampiro; Edgar Allan Poe nos hunde con Berenice en el alucinado mundo de un monoman aco; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu se interna, en Ultor de Lacy, por entre los melanc licos bosques de las leyendas irlandesas, ricos en hadas, fantasmas, duendes y ruinas; Ambrose Bierce nos presenta el inexplicable sortilegio que envuelve a Un habitante de Carcosa; M. R. James nos hace v ctimas del inmortal rigor del Conde Magnus; Arthur Machen nos deleita y estremece por igual con la exuberante belleza y la inconsciente maldad pagana que a n sobrevive en El pueblo blanco; M. P. Shiel se regodea en grotescas im genes de muerte y de corrupci n en la refinada X lucha; H. P. Lovecraft nos revela, en El extra o, horrores internos de los que nunca podremos escapar; y Clark Ashton Smith nos sacude con las luctuosas tragedias personales que proceden de La estirpe sin nombre.

Ambrose Bierce's haunting 1890 short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a modern twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, something happens. The rope breaks and the man escapes. Or the man imagines he escapes. Which is it?

Ambrose Bierce's haunting Civil War story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as Union soldiers are hanging him. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, something happens. The rope breaks, and the man escapes. Or the man imagines he escapes. Which is it? This new edition of An Occurrence of Owl Creek Bridge includes a biography of Ambrose Bierce.

Reproduction of the original: The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce

Reproduction of the original: The Shadow of the Dial and Other Essays by Ambrose Bierce

Reproduction of the original: The Shadow of the Dial and Other Essays by Ambrose Bierce