21 Free Ambrose Bierce Books [PDF]
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Looking for Ambrose Bierce books? Bierce was an American satirist who fought for the Union in the Civil War and turned what he saw at Shiloh into dark, unforgettable fiction.
Here you'll find An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Devil's Dictionary, Can Such Things Be? and 18 more of his books. He wrote most of them as a newspaper columnist in San Francisco, with a sharp style that broke with the Realism of his time.
Every book is free to read online or download as PDF. If you're new to Bierce, start with Owl Creek Bridge, since it takes 20 minutes and you'll read the ending twice.
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Ambrose Bierce Civil War Stories
Stephen Crane imagined his war, but Bierce fought at Shiloh and Chickamauga, and his stories show it without a trace of glory. Start with Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, the collection that holds An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
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The collection that holds An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga and A Horseman in the Sky, written by a writer who fought at Shiloh. Its soldier stories show the war without glory, and its civilian tales, like The Boarded Window, turn quietly to horror.
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Ambrose Bierce Horror and Ghost Stories
Bierce's horror reads like a court report, with calm witnesses and something nobody can explain, like the invisible creature in The Damned Thing. His story An Inhabitant of Carcosa inspired Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow, and through him H.P. Lovecraft, so if you like Edgar Allan Poe, start here.
The Devil's Dictionary, Fables and Satire
Bierce spent decades writing newspaper columns in San Francisco, many for William Randolph Hearst, and The Devil's Dictionary collects the definitions that earned him the name "Bitter Bierce." Fantastic Fables and his early books signed as Dod Grile show that his black humor was there from the start.
Ambrose Bierce Essays, Poems and Letters
Bierce was the most feared critic on the West Coast, and Write It Right lists the writing mistakes he couldn't stand. This section adds his essays, two books of satirical verse and his letters to younger writers, the best way to hear his voice outside the fiction.
In late 1913, at 71, Bierce crossed into Mexico to follow Pancho Villa's revolution and was never seen again. Writers from Lovecraft to Kurt Vonnegut have kept going back to the books he left behind.
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