The Damned Thing

His collection of supernatural tales, with The Damned Thing, The Moonlit Road and An Inhabitant of Carcosa, the story that gave a name to the world of The King in Yellow. Ghosts, doubles and the dead told in a calm, almost legal voice.

Ambrose Bierce

Short ghost stories told like newspaper reports: haunted houses, soldiers who return from the dead, and people who vanish in the middle of a field. Most take five minutes to read and stay with you much longer.

Ambrose Bierce

A young monk in the Bavarian Alps falls for the daughter of the town executioner, an outcast everyone avoids. Bierce rewrote this Gothic novella from a German original, and its dark ending is pure Bierce.

Ambrose Bierce and Adolphe Danziger