This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce’s writings. As a short story writer-whether drawing on wartime experiences or exploring realms of supernatural and psychological horror-he used extreme situations to give voice to his uniquely engrossing brand of pessimism. A prolific journalist who made himself a dominant figure in the emerging literary culture of postwar san Francisco, Bierce developed a style of slashing sarcasm that made him a feared antagonist. A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the civil War-among them Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Kennesaw Mountain-Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death-haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists.
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