THERE is as yet book on Am brose Bierce that can really be said to come to grips with its prickly and puzzling subject. “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer,” by Paul Fatout (University of ...

Set alongside other fiction about the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce’s stories can seem brutal and terse, mocking the culture that romanticized the conflict and grew fat with pride. “Death upon a field of ...

To merely die would have been average. But to disappear completely and assure one's immortality as a literary mystery betrays a black genius and has Ambrose Bierce's fingerprints all over it. When the ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...

Ebenezer Scrooge took only one night to change his tune from “Bah! Humbug!” to “God bless us, every one!” Ambrose Bierce was made of sterner stuff. He reviled the holiday (and just about everything ...

Buried on Page 24 of The Indianapolis News on Sept. 19, 1914, was the headline: "INDIANA AUTHOR LAST HEARD FROM IN MEXICO." Ambrose Bierce, a veteran of the Civil War and former journalist who would ...

A few months ago, a journalist friend in New York City turned me on to a little-known story by that “American original” writer, Ambrose Bierce, famous for his bleakly cynical, fatalistic tales, such ...

A professor, who has written a book on Ambrose Bierce, and is considered an expert on the subject, suddenly has doubt cast upon his work. An old man turns up at his home, saying he is Ambrose Bierce ...