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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

  • In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include

    • “A Horseman in the Sky,”
    • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”
    • “Chickamauga,”
    • “A Son of the Gods,”
    • “One of the Missing,”
    • “Killed at Resaca,”
    • “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch,”
    • “The Coup de Grâce,”
    • “Parker Adderson, Philosopher,”
    • “An Affair of Outposts,”
    • “The Story of a Conscience,”
    • “One Kind of Officer,”
    • “One Officer, One Man,”
    • “George Thurston,” and
    • “The Mocking-Bird.”

    Bierce’s stories about the lives of civilians during the Civil War period include

    • “The Man Out of the Nose,”
    • “An Adventure at Brownville,”
    • “The Famous Gilson Bequest,”
    • “The Applicant,”
    • “A Watcher by the Dead,”
    • “The Man and the Snake,”
    • “A Holy Terror,”
    • “The Suitable Surroundings,”
    • “The Boarded Window,”
    • “A Lady from Red Horse,” and
    • “The Eyes of the Panther.”

  • A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators

    This recording includes the following stories:

    • “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville

    • “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce

    • “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London

    • “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte

    • “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    • “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin

    • “My Watch” and “The Widow’s Protest” by Mark Twain

    • “An Ideal Family” by Kate Mansfield

    • “A Painful Case” by James Joyce

    • “Small Fry” by Anton Chekhov

    • “The Road from Colonus” by E. M. Forster

    • “Silhouettes” by Jerome K Jerome

    • “The Voice of the City” by O. Henry

    • “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • “The Diamond Mine” by Willa Cather

    • “The Man with the Golden Brain” by Alphonse Daudet

    • “Morella” by Edgar Allan Poe

    • “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

    • “The Portrait” by Edith Wharton

    • “The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard” by Anthony Hope

    • “Monkey Nuts” by D. H. Lawrence

  • Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination. Spooky thrills and mind-bending mysteries await all who dare to open the cover of Can Such Things Be?

  • These ten treasured stories from the most influential authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic, oral qualities. The following stories are included in this collection:

    • “The One-Million-Pound Bank Note” by Mark Twain

    • “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain

    • “A Visit to Niagara” by Mark Twain

    • “Mysterious Visit” by Mark Twain

    • “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane

    • “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane

    • “The Eyes of the Panther” by Ambrose Bierce

    • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce

    • “The Love of Life” by Jack London

    • “To Build a Fire” by Jack London