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‘I lost a mule near there once,’ I replied, 'and the mischance has - has quite - upset me.’

Ambrose Bierce, from “The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch”

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The Damned Thing and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Ambrose Bierce: Annotated and Illustrated (Oldstyle Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horrors, and Hauntings), edited, annotated and illustrated by M. Grant Kellermeyer, Old Style Tales, 2019. Cover art by Michael Grant Kellermeyer, info: oldstyletales.com.

He was the successor of Edgar Allan Poe and a harbinger of H.P. Lovecraft, penning some of the most shocking, savage horror stories in the English language. His dark, literary universe was haunted by shadowy monsters who never quite revealed themselves, only stalking in the dim background like woodland predators around a campfire. And what better stories for any campfire’s company: he wrote twilight tales of seductive werewolves, zombie resurrections, nights spent with corpses in empty houses, haunted cabins, killer robots, wartime ghost stories, invisible predators, reincarnated spirits, family curses, ghoul-haunted graveyards, jilted ghosts’ violent revenges, mysterious disappearances, spectral visions, guilt-maddened murderers, and battlefield carnage. There was never a better author to read around the snapping flare of a lonely campsite than the rustic, existential horror stories of Ambrose Bierce. In death, as in life, Bierce is defined by contradictions. He was a mystical materialist, a cynical idealist, and a compassionate curmudgeon. His stories – especially those which we can classify as horror or fantasy – illustrate a world which fails to live up to its promises. As he wrote in “The Devil’s Dictionary,” a ghost is the outward sign of an inward fear – a visual signifier of a spiritual sickness. His stories are loaded with spooks of this sort. These are the ghosts of what should be. They are the ghosts of a murdered potential: the potential to do life well – properly, as it should be. His stories are haunted by monsters of automated technology (“Moxon’s Master”), intellectual insecurity (“The Damned Thing”), sexual anxiety (“Eyes of the Panther”), and hereditary corruption. Failure is the chief of all these phantoms, however. Failure to do what one ought, and become what one should. This was a deeply personal boogeyman for Bierce. One which cast its shadow over his life and stamped its footprints into his fiction. What he left behind him, after vanishing into the dusty Mexican air, was a universe bedeviled by disappointment – in mankind, in the universe, and in himself. It is a raw and savage universe, but one dimly illuminated by Bierce’s frustrated idealism. We can see the shadows for that light, but in those shadows, what monsters lurk.

Contents: Concerning What You Are About to Read – M. Grant Kellermeyer The Isle of Pines A Fruitless Assignment A Vine on a House At Old Man Eckert’s The Spook House The Other Lodgers The Thing at Nolan The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” A Man with Two Lives Three and One are One A Baffled Ambuscade Two Military Excursions Chickamagua An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Annotated) Present at a Hanging A Cold Greeting A Wireless Message An Arrest The Moonlit Road (Annotated) The Middle-Toe of the Right Foot The Death of Halpin Frayser (Annotated) Beyond the Wall The Man and the Snake The Eyes of the Panther Maxon’s Master The Damned Thing (Annotated) The Boarded Window (Annotated) A Watcher by the Dead The Suitable Surroundings An Adventure at Brownville An Inhabitant of Carcosa Visions of the Night John Bartine’s Watch The Difficulty of Crossing a Field An Unfinished Race Charles Ashmore’s Trail Science to the Front

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seriously guys if you want some good spooky tales that are short and fun to read, go check out his short stories.  if you aren’t aware, ambrose bierce is an american author who was heavily influenced by the civil war.  his most famous story is “a strange occurrence at owl creek” which is more of a civil war tall tale, but he has some great horror stories. i really enjoy his way of telling stories. his ghost stories are phenomenal.

here i’ll give you my favorites:

the stranger - a group of men resting by a fire meet a mysterious stranger.

the damned thing - a man dies by mysterious circumstances only revealed by his journal.

the difficulty of crossing a field - what’s the worst that could happen?

the secret of macarger’s gulch - a man spends the night in a gulch that terrifies him.

a vine on a house - this house has an overgrown porch and that is a problem.

a wireless message - a man sees something strange on a long walk.

a lady from redhorse - a young woman is convinced a magician has cast a spell on her.