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• Introduction (Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale) • essay by S. T. Joshi
•  Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale • interior artwork by Jason C. Eckhardt [as by Jason Eckhardt]
• Killed at Resaca • non-genre • (1887) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• George Thurston • non-genre • (1883) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One of the Missing • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General • non-genre • (1885) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Chickamauga • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Son of the Gods • non-genre • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One Officer, One Man • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Affair of Outposts • non-genre • (1897) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Coup de Grâce • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One Kind of Officer • non-genre • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Baffled Ambuscade • [Soldier-Folk] • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Major's Tale • non-genre • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Story of a Conscience • non-genre • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher • non-genre • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Mocking-Bird • non-genre • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Man with Two Lives • [Soldier-Folk] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Two Military Executions • [Soldier-Folk] • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Resumed Identity • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Three and One Are One • [Soldier-Folk] • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Haunted Valley • (1871) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" • (1874) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Famous Gilson Bequest • (1878) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Bodies of the Dead • [Bodies of the Dead] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Present at a Hanging • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Psychological Shipwreck • (1879) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Holy Terror • (1882) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Charles Ashmore's Trail • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Difficulty of Crossing a Field • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Isle of Pines • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Cold Greeting • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One of Twins • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Spook House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Suitable Surroundings • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Man and the Snake • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Man Out of the Nose • non-genre • (1887) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Death of Halpin Frayser • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Adventure at Brownville • (1892) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Unfinished Race • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Watcher by the Dead • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Realm of the Unreal • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Haïta the Shepherd • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Thing at Nolan • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Baby Tramp • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Applicant • non-genre • (1892) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• John Bartine's Watch • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Jug of Sirup • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Wireless Message • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Perry Chumley's Eclipse • (1984) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Imperfect Conflagration • non-genre • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• At Old Man Eckert's • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Vine on a House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Eyes of the Panther • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Arrest • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Staley Fleming's Hallucination • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Beyond the Wall • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Other Lodgers • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Stranger • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Hypnotist • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Bottomless Grave • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• My Favorite Murder • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Oil of Dog • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Widower Turmore • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• One Summer Night • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• John Mortonson's Funeral • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• For the Ahkoond • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Ashes of the Beacon • (2012) • novella by Ambrose Bierce (variant of Ashes of the Beacon: An Historical Monograph Written in 4930 1909)
• John Smith Liberator: (From a Newspaper of the Far Future) • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Authenticating a Ghost • short fiction by Ambrose Bierce
• A Story at the Club • short fiction by Ambrose Bierce
• A Scientific Dream • short fiction by Ambrose Bierce