The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Great American Suspense: Five Unabridged Classics

The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

The Old Gringo: A Novel

Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography

Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades

Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
By Ambrose Bierce

The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce, Volume I: A Comprehensive Edition

The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: A Comprehensive Edition

Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots

From Wikipedia
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow.(more)

From ForCarl
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer, characterized by his caustic wit and sense of realistic horror. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce", and is best know for his book "The Devil's Dictionary" After serving in the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce worked as a writer for William Randolph Hearst when Hearst was starting to build his newspaper empire at a young age. After 20 years working for Hearst in San Francisco, Ambrose yearned to revisit some of the civil war battlefields for one last time and write the stories from his memories of that tragic era. Ambrose never returned to San Francisco, instead he was last noted to cross over into revolutionary torn Mexico, at the age of 72 and was never heard from since. His fate is still unknown to this day. A movie by the name of "Old Gringo" made in 1989 starring Gregory Peck as Ambrose Bierce was a speculative account of the mysterious disappearance of Ambrose. An article by Glenn Willeford on the movie can be found Here. The most recent movie made about Ambrose Bierce is titled: Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Strories and features Campbell Scott as Ambrose, reading several of the most popular civil war accounts with that special unexpected twist at the end of each of the three stories, "One Kind of Officer", "Story of a Conscience" and "Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge". This movie will allow the viewer to get inside the mind of Ambrose Bierce.

“Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumption and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure.”

Ambrose Bierce Chronogy, Life and disappearance

The Ambrose Birece Site

The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society

The Life of Bierce

The Death of Bierce

Bierce on Screen

Bierce on Stage

Can Such Things Be

The Devil's Dictionary

Write it Right

The Ambrose Birece Project

STEPHEN G. RHODES
Recurrency
The main event is a double-screen video based on Ambrose Bierce’s macabre short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Set during the Civil War, the story revolves around a hanging that is aborted when the rope breaks. The prisoner escapes and makes it back home to his wife, at which point Bierce yanks us back to the gallows: the rope, it turns out, didn’t break, after all; the escape was the man’s dying fantasy.

Hangman’s Noose
A graphic insight into the topical subject of hanging and execution by our in-house director
by Mohamed Khan
At once repulsive yet darkly fascinating, executions are a recurrent theme on the big screen. In French Director Robert Enrico’s An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge (based on Ambrose Bierce’s short story, written in 1891), a man is sentenced to death by the Confederate Army and hung from the side of a bridge. Far from dying, the rope snaps and the man falls into the river below. He manages to free himself and swims downstream, escaping to safety. He runs through the woods and finally reaches home; but as his wife comes out to meet him and her arms go around him, his neck snaps at the end of the rope.

The Misanthrope
Late in November of 1913, Ambrose Bierce, 71, afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished.
And so, in a sense, has Bierce's considerable literary reputation. No one reads him any more. His name rings louder than his works, which fill twelve volumes. In his brisk but superficial new biography Richard O'Connor (Jack London, Bret Harte) does not unwrap the mystery of Bierce's disappearance. But the book does constitute one more testament of faith in the man whose bitter messages to mankind have faded scarcely at all since he set them down.

Golden Era
When Ambrose Bierce landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first realistic descriptions of war, was one of the few who did not sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice the Anglophile of any of the others. He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy. What prompted him to walk across the Mexican border into mysterious oblivion, Author Walker does not venture to say.

Ambrose Bierce Civil War Stories Trailer

Ambrose Bierce Project