Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Short Stories

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Short Stories - Paperback

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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Short Stories

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Short Stories - Paperback

by Ambrose Bierce
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Book Overview

This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into what he believes is a hotel only to discover it is an abandoned hospital, and Mysterious Disappearances, including "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," in which a man disappears in full view of witnesses while crossing a field.

ISBN9781598189940
Author Ambrose Bierce
PublisherAegypan
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages108
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Ambrose Bierce

Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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