The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

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

A coroner's inquest tries to explain how a man was torn apart by something nobody could see. One of the first invisible monster stories ever written, and a short, perfect introduction to Bierce's horror.

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