Ambrose - Libros y biografía

Ambrose Bierce's 'Fantastic Fables' is a fascinating collection of satirical and witty short stories that provide moral lessons through clever and imaginative scenarios. Written in a concise and lucid...

Ambrose Bierce's 'Epigrams' is a collection of witty and insightful one-liners that showcase the author's razor-sharp wit and keen observation of human nature. Written in a concise and impactful style,...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Land Beyond the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional...

Ambrose Bierce's 'Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults' is a comprehensive guide addressing common writing errors and providing practical advice on how to improve one's writing style....

In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English...

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Dallas Corso is on top of the world. With millions of adoring subscribers, devilish good looks and business savvy as developed as his six-pack abs,...

"They say the Jackal Man lives in that house..."Months after a family is forced to flee the beachfront property on 100 Winthrop Road, three young travelers lost outside of Cutler, Maine find themselves...

Erich Tellier died. Then, he came back to life...On the night of a long-awaited comet sighting, Erich, a university student, comes back from the dead. Making a miraculous recovery after a horrific car...

A FACE FROM THE PASTOnce upon a time, Jonathan West lost his best friend, Ansel, under horrific circumstances.Or, at least, he thought he had.On a warm summer night, he finds himself reunited with the...

"A powerful story can inspire both health workers and concerned readers to take heart and believe in our ability to cope with changing times."– David Brin, author of The Postman and EARTH "Let's make...

What connects an ancient map carved in a cane, a disgraced descendant of Chinggis Khan, and a secret Chinese society?1257 AD, Kaifeng, China: Dailus, a European bronzecaster taken as a slave by the Mongols,...

Parues dans divers recueils américains dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, traduites dans divers volumes chez Grasset à partir de 1957, ces Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de Sécession...

The Spirits Of Exeter House Are Restless...Facing tough times, private investigator Harlan Ulrich takes a job looking after a historic downtown building as a favor to an old acquaintance who's out on...

Something has always lived in Winthrop House...After his book becomes a best-seller, novelist Jack Ripley moves into a house on the edge of Cutler Harbor with his wife and two daughters. Nearly a century...

Would you like to speak to the dead?When Tori moves into a studio at the rundown Lamplight apartment complex, she gets more than she bargained for. The faucet leaks, the water heater barely functions...

Beware the spirits of Lake Manuxet..."Don't look out towards Knob Island at night." That was the warning Douglas' grandfather gave him as a boy. Returning to the shores of Lake Manuxet as a grown man,...

Fear is a place.When struggling concert pianist Emil inherits a house from his late uncle, he thinks all of his problems are solved. Absconding to the mysterious Weatherby House in the suburbs of Portland...

"Ghosts don't simply latch onto places, investigator. People can become haunted, too."A missing person. A city plunged into unforgiving winter. A dangerous spirit.

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"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men...

A WOMAN'S LOVE… A MOTHER'S SECRET Rachel Hartwell, just a kid when she gave up her daughter for adoption, now yearned to be part of Megan's life and fulfill her motherly role. But...

"TELL ME, LAURA, DOESN'T IT GET LONELY UP THERE IN YOUR IVORY TOWER?" Upon her return home, Jake Logan made Laura see how the perfect life she'd ordered (with a little denial on the...

HOW TO DESCRIBE BECKY ROTH: UNEMPLOYED, STRESSED, PREGNANT After losing her job at a greasy diner, Becky needed to support herself, but no one was looking for a pregnant vegetarian...

Horse trainer and stable manager T.J. Grady has little patience for anything that doesn’t involve her beloved animals. She’s been burnt before by men who breeze through Barringer’s Pass and think she’ll...

 The Larkin sisters are used to hearing whispers behind their backs. Being raised by hippie parents in the small resort town of Barringer’s Pass, Colorado, they were always considered oddballs, and for...

Sa participation à la guerre civile américaine le convertit à une forme de scepticisme teinté de misanthropie qui ne fit que se renforcer au fil du temps. Plus tard, son métier de journaliste acheva de...

"Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories" features fifteen ghost and horror stories. Included in this collection are: "The Way of Ghosts", "Soldier Folk", "Some Haunted Houses" and "Mysterious Disappeances"....

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century's masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories,...

Dr. Helberson and his friends, Harper and Mancher, are enjoying a night of smoking and drinking in the good doctor's office when a question arises. Is a fear of the dead curable? The doctor believes it...

This gripping short, powered by stunning imagery, will have you questioning everything right up to the final brutal twist.In the midst of the Civil War, Jerome Searing is given the task of scouting ahead...

Buried treasure. An abandoned cemetery. An inexperienced gravedigger. What could go wrong? When Jefferson Doman learns of a generous treasure left by an old friend, he locates the supposed burial site...