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Author Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

Title The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce / compiled with commentary by Ernest Jerome Hopkins ; foreword by Cathy N. Davidson.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1984]
©1970

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Location Call No. Status
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  813.4 BIERCE    Check Shelf
Description 496 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
Note "A Bison book"--Spine.
Contents Haïta the shepherd -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- Eyes of the panther -- Stranger -- Inhabitant of Carcosa -- Applicant -- Death of Halpin Frayser -- Watcher by the dead -- Man and the snake -- John Mortonson's funeral -- Moxon's master -- Damned thing -- Realm of the unreal -- Fruitless assignment -- Vine on a house -- Haunted valley -- One of twins -- Present at a hanging -- Wireless message -- Moonlit road -- Arrest -- Jug of sirup -- Isle of pines -- At old man Eckert's -- Spook house -- Middle toe of the right foot -- Thing at Nolan -- Difficulty of crossing a field -- Unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- Night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Baby tramp -- Psychological shipwreck -- Cold greeting -- Beyond the wall -- John Bartine's watch -- Man out of the nose -- Adventure at Brownville -- Suitable surroundings -- Boarded window -- Lady from redhorse -- Famous Gilson bequest -- Holy terror -- Diagnosis of death -- One of the missing -- Baffled ambuscade -- Affair at Coulter's notch -- Son of the gods -- One kind of officer -- Tough tussle -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Chickamauga -- Coup de Grâce -- One officer, one man -- Story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- Affair of outposts -- Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general -- Horseman in the sky -- Mocking-bird -- George Thurston -- Killed at Resaca -- Three and one are one -- Two military executions -- Major's tale -- Resumed identity -- Man with two lives -- Other lodgers -- Bivouac of the dead -- Imperfect conflagration -- Bottomless grave -- City of the gone away -- Curried cow -- Revolt of the gods -- Oil of dog -- Widower Turmore -- Baptism of Dobsho -- Race at left bower -- Failure of Hope & Wandel -- Providential intimation -- Mr. Swiddler's flip-flap -- Little story -- My favorite murder -- Hypnotist -- Mr. Masthead, journalist -- Why I am not editing "The stinger" -- Corrupting the press -- "The bubble reputation" -- Shipwreckollection -- Captain of the "camel" -- Man overboard -- Cargo of cat.
Local Note Some of the Simsbury Public Library items are are part of the Hayes Collection.
Subject Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Added Author Hopkins, Ernest Jerome, 1887-1973.
Added Title Short stories. 1984
ISBN 0803260717 paperback
9780803260719 paperback
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