Ambrose Bierce

...-- the mood is more pensive than petrifying. But the short, based on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, is most definitely Halloween material: A Confederate spy, (Roger Jacquet), sentenced to be hanged by...

In this article: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Twilight Zone, Owl Creek Bridge, Halloween, Academy Awards, London Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Robert Enrico

...and his fiction works by restraint, as does Ray Bradbury's famous "The Man Upstairs" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce. "The Vampire Archives" runs to 1,000-plus pages and features a multitude of styles and tones:...

In this article: Otto Penzler, Dracula, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Carmilla, and Popsy

...for the presidency (and even his membership in the Bohemian Club), Hearst neither revealed Bierce as the author of the poem, nor fired him. Bierce was considered a master of "Pure" English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that...

In this article: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, William Randolph Hearst, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, American Civil War, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Babcock Hazen, The Devil's Dictionary, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco

...of America's troubled nation to the south. Many have peered at the interior of Mexico's dark heart - indeed, American writer Ambrose Bierce literally disappeared in it in the middle of a 1914 revolution led by Pancho Villa - but very few...

In this article: Mexico, Jesus Christ, God, Literature, 2666, Roberto Bolano, Cormac McCarthy, Virgin Mary, and Silver

...gold camps, lived among the Wintu Indians, obsessively planted trees in the Oakland hills and spun lies for his pals Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Walt Whitman. Now, Miller's gingerbread...

In this article: Joaquin Miller, Jack London, Oakland, Dog, and God

...in English, for drunkenness. His "Drinker's Dictionary," from 1737, features 228 terms. Thus inspired, Thomas Paine, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, Langston Hughes and H.L. Mencken compiled lists of their own (Mencken, a man of catholic...

In this article: Paul Dickson, Benjamin Franklin, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Paine, Langston Hughes, Charles Dickens, and Guinness world record

Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen More than a hundred years ago, Ambrose Bierce defined an academy as "a modern school where football is taught." He was prescient. Football has become the most popular...

In this article: Kansas, Smith Center, Kansas, Kansas City, and Yoda

...had a list of 228 terms in 1737." Franklin's list was followed by similar tallies by Thomas Paine, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce and Langston Hughes, among others. Two euphemisms that probably didn't make any of those earlier lists?

In this article: Paul Dickson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Langston Hughes, and Charles Dickens

...LaValle's acknowledgments he thanks not just Thomas Paine but also Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson and "my man Ambrose Bierce," all of whom stand as spiritual godparents to this sprawling, fantastical work. "Lurking in toilets...

In this article: Victor LaValle, Vermont, Christianity, Northern California, and East Bay

...Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Washington Irving. The Victorian and Edwardian eras bring Henry James, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. And then, with the pulps, come H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard,...

In this article: Peter Straub, Library of America, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne