Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale

Description:

**Tales of the civil war: --** Killed at Resaca -- George Thurston -- One of the missing -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General -- Chickamauga -- A son of the gods -- A tough tussle -- A horseman in the sky -- One officer, one man -- An affair of outposts -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- The coup de grâce -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) One kind of officer -- A baffled ambuscade -- The major's tale -- The story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, Philosopher -- The mocking-bird -- A man with two lives -- Two military executions -- A resumed identity -- Three and one are one. **Tales of supernatural and psychological horror: --** The haunted valley -- The night-doings at "Deadman's" -- The famous Gilson bequest -- An inhabitant of Carcosa -- Bodies of the dead -- Present at a hanging -- A psychological shipwreck -- A holy terror -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- The isle of pines -- A cold greeting -- One of twins -- The spook house -- The suitable surroundings -- The man and the snake -- The man out of the nose -- The death o Hlapin Frayser -- As adventure at Brownville -- [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) An unfinished race -- [A Watcher by the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084267W/A_Watcher_by_the_Dead) The realm of the unreal -- The middle toe of the right foot -- Haita, the shepherd -- The boarded window -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch -- The thing at Nolan -- A baby tramp -- The applicant -- Moxon's master -- John Bartine's watch -- A jug of sirup -- A diagnosis of death -- A wireless message -- The moonlit road -- Perry Chumly's eclipse -- An imperfect conflagration -- At Old man Eckert's -- A vine on a house -- [The Eyes of the Panther](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084430W/The_Eyes_of_the_Panther) An arrest -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- Beyond the wall -- The other lodgers -- The stranger -- Authenticating a ghost -- A story at the club -- The hypnotist -- A bottomless grave -- My favorite murder -- Oil of dog -- The widower Turmore -- One summer night -- John Mortenson's funeral. **Tall tales, comic and political fantasies:** The aborigines of Oakland -- A scientific dream -- For the Ahkoond -- Ashes of the beacon -- John Smith, liberator --

subjects: History,  Fiction,  United States Civil War,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  hanging,  Confederacy,  Union,  werepanthers,  spirit possession,  panthers,  literature,  American literature,  Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, horror,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction

People: Peyton Farquhar,  Dr. Helberson,  Dr. Mancher,  Irene Marlowe,  Jenner Brenning,  Charles Marlowe

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  San Francisco

Times: 19th century,  1861-1865