Ambrose Bierce is one of American literature's great originals: a Civil War veteran turned journalist whose fiction is as haunting as his wit is savage. This comprehensive collection brings together his most celebrated work, The Devil's Dictionary, a satirical lexicon still quoted for its acid definitions of human folly, alongside In the Midst of Life, the story collection containing his masterpiece "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and the eerie supernatural tales of Can Such Things Be? Also included are his early satirical sketches, epigrams, ghost stories, and the language guide Write It Right. Bierce vanished into revolutionary Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again, but his fiction's blend of horror, irony, and clear-eyed cynicism about war and human nature has never stopped unsettling readers. This Chronicle Vault edition presents his collected works complete and unabridged, in a clean, fully reflowable format for all e-readers.
