Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce has written at least 202 books. Their most popular book is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge with 34 saves with an average rating of 3.69⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres one, asdfsa, and Asdfsa.

mone, asdfsa, and Asdfsa are their most common moods.

Author Bio

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.

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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  • Ambrose Bierce
3.6920 reads
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
    4.2911 reads
    The Dark descent
    The Dark descent
    • David G. Hartwell
    • Shirley Jackson
    • Joyce Carol Oates
    • Stephen King
    • Clive Barker
    • Ray Bradbury
    • John Collier
    • King, Stephen
    • M. R. James
    • Lucy Clifford
    • Russell Kirk
    • H. P. Lovecraft
    • Harlan Ellison
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • Michael Shea
    • Edith Nesbit
    • Karl Edward Wagner
    • Robert Aickman
    • Fritz Leiber
    • Robert Bloch
    • Charles L. Grant
    • Manly Wade Wellman
    • Disch, Thomas M.
    • Theodore Sturgeon
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    • William Faulkner
    • Robert Hichens
    • Richard Matheson
    • Joanna Russ
    • Dennis Etchison
    • David Herbert Lawrence
    • Tanith Lee
    • Flannery O'Connor
    • Ramsey Campbell
    • Henry James Jr.
    • Gene Wolfe
    • Charles Dickens
    • Walter De la Mare
    • Ivan Turguenev
    • Robert Chambers
    • Oliver Onions
    • Fitz-James O'Brien
    • Ambrose Bierce
    • Edith Wharton
    • Algernon Blackwood
    • Philip K. Dick
    • Thomas M. Disch
    • D. H. Lawrence
    • Robert W. Chambers
    43 reads
    The Devil's Dictionary
    The Devil's Dictionary
    • Ambrose Bierce
    4.334 reads
    The Complete Short Stories
    The Complete Short Stories
    • Ambrose Bierce
    4.255 reads
    Cover 5

    Shadows of Carcosa

    Shadows of Carcosa
      42 reads
      Civil War Stories
      Civil War Stories
      • Ambrose Bierce
      01 read
      The Damned Thing
      The Damned Thing
      • Ambrose Bierce
      3.54 reads
      Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
      Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
      • Phyllis Cerf
      01 read
      Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
      Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
      • Ambrose Bierce
      3.53 reads
      American Supernatural Tales
      American Supernatural Tales
      • S.T. Joshi
      • Thomas Ligotti
      • Fritz Leiber
      • Fitz-James O'Brien
      • Richard Matheson
      • Charles Beaumont
      • Washington Irving
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Henry James
      • August Deleth
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Robert Bloch
      • Dennis Etchison
      • Karl Edward Wagner
      • Caitlín R. Kiernan
      • Norman Partridge
      • David J. Schow
      • Stephen King
      • H.P. Lovecraft
      • Shirley Jackson
      • Ray Bradbury
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • Clark Ashton Smith
      • T.E.D. Klein
      • Robert E. Howard
      • Robert W. Chambers
      • Joyce Carol Oates
      00 reads
      The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
      The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
      • Ambrose Bierce
      2.51 read
      American Fantastic Tales
      American Fantastic Tales
      • Alice Brown
      00 reads
      Antología de la literatura fantástica
      Antología de la literatura fantástica
      • Jorge Luis Borges
      • Silvina Ocampo
      • Adolfo Bioy Casares
      • Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
      • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
      • Leonid Andreyev
      • John Aubrey
      • J. G. Ballard
      • Sir Max Beerbohm
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Ah'med Ech Chiruani
      • Léon Bloy
      • Delia Ingenieros
      • Ray Bradbury
      • Bringsværd, Tor Åge.
      • Martin Buber
      • Sir Richard Burton
      • Arturo Cancela
      • Pilar de Lusarreta
      • Thomas Carlyle
      • Lewis Carroll
      • G. K. Chesterton
      • Zhuangzi
      • Jean Cocteau
      • Julio Cortázar
      • Santiago Dabove
      • Alexandra David-Néel
      • Lord Edward Dunsay
      • Macedonio Fernandez
      • James George Frazer
      • Elena Garro
      • Herbert Allen Giles
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • I. A. Ireland
      • W. W. Jacobs
      • James Joyce
      • Don Juan Manuel
      • Franz Kafka
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Leopoldo Lugones
      • Arthur Machen
      • Walter De La Mere
      • Guy de Maupassant
      • Edwin Morgan
      • H. A. Murena
      • Niu Chiao
      • Papini, Giovanni
      • Carlos Peralta
      • Barry Perowne
      • Petronius Arbiter
      • Manuel Peyrou
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Pu Songling
      • François Rabelais
      • Saki
      • May Sinclair
      • W.W. Skeat
      • Olaf Stapledon
      • Emanuel Swedenborg
      • B. Traven
      • Tsao Hsueh-Chin.
      • Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
      • Voltaire
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • White, Edward Lucas
      • Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Richard Wilhelm
      • G. Willoughby-Meade
      • Mary Shelley
      • Wu, Cheng'en
      • William Butler Yeats
      • Jose Zorilla
      • Chuang-tzǔ
      • Macedonio Fernández
      • Petronius
      • Pu Sung-Ling
      • H.H. Munro
      • Juan Rudolfo Wilcock
      • Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy
      00 reads
      Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
      Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
      • H.P. Lovecraft
      • Robert W. Chambers
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Bram Stoker
      • M.P. Shiel
      • Arthur Machen
      • Algernon Blackwood
      • Henry James
      • Walter de la Mare
      2.51 read
      Gothic Short Stories
      Gothic Short Stories
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • M.R. James
      • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
      • Ralph Adams Cram
      • S. Carleton
      • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
      • Richard Barham Middleton
      • E.F. Benson
      • Nathan Drake
      • Charles Maturin
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Charles Dickens
      • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
      • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • Elizabeth Gaskell
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Walter Scott
      31 read
      The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
      The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
      • Ambrose Bierce
      01 read
      Cover 1

      Cuentos breves para leer en el bus

      Cuentos breves para leer en el bus
      • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
      • Leonid Andreyev
      • Guillaume Apollinaire
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Anton Chekhov
      • Kate Chopin
      • Bret Harte
      • O. Henry
      • Franz Kafka
      • Giacomo Leopardi
      • Jack London
      • Katherine Mansfield
      • Guy de Maupassant
      • Herman Melville
      • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Saki
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Mark Twain
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Luz Freire (Translator)
      • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
      41 read
      Great Ghost Stories
      Great Ghost Stories
        22 reads
        Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
        Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
          31 read
          Can Such Things Be?
          Can Such Things Be?
          • Ambrose Bierce
          41 read
          The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
          The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
          • Various
          00 reads
          Il dizionario del diavolo
          Il dizionario del diavolo
          • Ambrose Bierce
          42 reads
          The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
          The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
          • Anonymous
          • Ambrose Bierce
          • M.R. James
          • H. G. Wells
          • William Hope Hodgson
          • Perceval London
          • John Russell
          • Franz Kafka
          • E.F. Benson
          • Augustus Muir
          • James Hogg
          • John Metcalfe
          • William Faulkner
          • D.K. Broster
          • Lord Dunsany
          • Evelyn Waugh
          • Geoffrey Household
          • L.P. Hartley
          • Gerald Kersh
          • Prosper Mérimée
          • Yvor Winters
          • Monica Dickens
          • Robert Graves
          • Ray Bradbury
          • Muriel Spark
          • John Lennon
          • Dawn Muscillo
          • Dorothy K. Haynes
          • Patricia Highsmith
          • Roald Dahl
          • Edgar Allan Poe
          • Will F. Jenkins
          • J.N. Allan
          • Vilas Sarang
          • Honoré de Balzac
          • Henry James
          • Guy de Maupassant
          • Robert Louis Stevenson
          • Émile Zola
          • Various
          • Carl Stephenson
          • Alfred McClelland Burrage
          • William Fryer Harvey
          01 read
          Haunted House Short Stories
          Haunted House Short Stories
          • Ramsey Campbell
          • John Everson
          • Rebecca Buchanan
          • H.B. Diaz
          • Tom English
          • Marina Favila
          • Shannon Fay
          • Adele Gardner
          • Gwendolyn Kiste
          • Bill Kte'pi
          • Kurt Newton
          • M. Regan
          • Zach Shephard
          • Morgan Sylvia
          • Mikal Trimm
          • E.F. Benson
          • Ambrose Bierce
          • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
          • Rhoda Broughton
          • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
          • Bernard Capes
          • Ralph Adams Cram
          • B.M. Croker
          • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
          • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
          • Elizabeth Gaskell
          • O. Henry
          • William Hope Hodgson
          • W.W. Jacobs
          • M.R. James
          • Rudyard Kipling
          • H.P. Lovecraft
          • Guy de Maupassant
          • Edith Nesbit
          • Vincent O'Sullivan
          • Mrs. Oliphant
          • Edgar Allan Poe
          • Arthur Quiller-Couch
          • Charlotte Riddell
          • Mark Twain
          • Hugh Walpole
          • Edith Wharton
          • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
          00 reads
          Cover 6

          The Hastur Cycle

          The Hastur Cycle
          • James Blish
          • Lin Carter
          • Ambrose Bierce
          • Robert W. Chambers
          • Karl Edward Wagner
          • Arthur Machen
          • H.P. Lovecraft
          • Richard A. Lupoff
          • Ramsey Campbell
          • James Wade
          • August Derleth
          51 read
          Cover 8

          The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

          The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths, and the Stories That Started It All
            00 reads
            Cover 1

            The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories

            The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume
            • Cynthia Asquith
            • Leonid Andreyev
            • E.F. Benson
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Algernon Blackwood
            • Marjorie Bowen
            • John Buchan
            • Robert W. Chambers
            • Myla Jo Closser
            • Wilkie Collins
            • Richard Connell
            • Aleister Crowley
            • F. Marion Crawford
            • Rebecca Harding Davis
            • Walter de la Mare
            • Charles Dickens
            • Arthur Conan Doyle
            • Lord Dunsany
            • Amelia B. Edwards
            • Anatole France
            • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
            • Elizabeth Gaskell
            • Nikolai Gogol
            • William Fryer Harvey
            • L.P. Hartley
            • Nathaniel Hawthorne
            • Lafcadio Hearn
            • O. Henry
            • Robert Smythe Hichens
            • William Hope Hodgson
            • E.T.A. Hoffmann
            • Robert E. Howard
            • Violet Hunt
            • Washington Irving
            • W.W. Jacobs
            • Henry James
            • M.R. James
            • Franz Kafka
            • Rudyard Kipling
            • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
            • Vernon Lee
            • H.P. Lovecraft
            • Arthur Machen
            • Guy de Maupassant
            • John Metcalfe
            • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
            • Mrs. Oliphant
            • Oliver Onions
            • Vincent O’Sullivan
            • Edgar Allan Poe
            • Saki
            • M.P. Shiel
            • Clark Ashton Smith
            • Mark Twain
            • H. Russell Wakefield
            • Edith Wharton
            • Oscar Wilde
            • Virginia Woolf
            • Alfred McClelland Burrage
            • Edith Nesbit
            • Bram Stoker
            • Robert Louis Stevenson
            • Willa Cather
            • Walter Scott
            • H. G. Wells
            00 reads
            100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
            100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
            • Charles Dickens
            • Steve Rasnic Tem
            • Donald A. Wollheim
            • Henry Slesar
            • Richard Chizmar
            • Avram Davidson
            • Gary Raisor
            • E.F. Benson
            • Saki
            • Frances Garfield
            • Rudyard Kipling
            • Phyllis Eisenstein
            • William F. Nolan
            • Ed Gorman
            • Eric Frank Russell
            • Melissa Mia Hall
            • Ruth Berman
            • Edward D. Hoch
            • James E. Gunn
            • Robert Sheckley
            • Mark Twain
            • Barry Pain
            • Fritz Leiber
            • Richard Laymon
            • Jerome K. Jerome
            • Ramsey Campbell
            • Nathaniel Hawthorne
            • Edgar Allan Poe
            • Joe R. Lansdale
            • H.P. Lovecraft
            • Washington Irving
            • Chet Williamson
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Norman Partridge
            • Juleen Brantingham
            • Robert Barr
            • Barry N. Malzberg
            • Thomas F. Monteleone
            • Robert Fox
            • James M. Schmitz
            • Frank A. Javor
            • E.G. Swain
            • Bernard Capes
            • Nancy Holder
            • Jack Dann
            • William Hope Hodgson
            • David Drake
            • Mort Castle
            • Bill Pronzini
            • Dennis Etchison
            21 read
            Cover 0

            Chilling Horror Short Stories

            Chilling Horror Short Stories
            • Flame Tree Studio
            00 reads
            Cover 4

            An Inhabitant of Carcosa

            An Inhabitant of Carcosa
            • Ambrose Bierce
            02 reads
            Cover 3

            Pawn to Infinity

            Pawn to Infinity
            • Victor Contoski
            • Daniel Gilbert
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Robert Frazier
            • Gene Wolfe
            • Roger Zelazny
            • Poul Anderson
            • Fritz Leiber
            • George R.R. Martin
            • Joanna Russ
            • Alfred Stewart
            • Ruth Berman
            00 reads
            An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
            An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
            • Ambrose Bierce
            01 read
            Cover 2

            The Phantom Coach

            The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories
            • Elizabeth Gaskell
            • Amelia B. Edwards
            • Arthur Conan Doyle
            • Henry James
            • Robert W. Chambers
            • W.W. Jacobs
            • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
            • Rudyard Kipling
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • William Fryer Harvey
            • Margaret Oliphant
            • Charles Dickens
            • Michael Sims
            00 reads
            The Damned Thing, Deluxe Edition: Weird and Ghostly Tales
            The Damned Thing, Deluxe Edition: Weird and Ghostly Tales
            • Ambrose Bierce
            51 read
            Cover 4

            The Parenticide Club

            The Parenticide Club
            • Ambrose Bierce
            31 read
            Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar
            Cuentos inolvidables según Julio Cortázar
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Jorge Luis Borges
            • Truman Capote
            • Leonora Carrington
            • Felisberto Hernández
            • Katherine Mansfield
            • Juan Carlos Onetti
            • Edgar Allan Poe
            • Leo Tolstoy
            52 reads
            In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914
            In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
            • Arthur Conan Doyle
            • Lafcadio Hearn
            • M.R. James
            • F. Marion Crawford
            • E.T.A. Hoffmann
            • Théophile Gautier
            • W.C. Morrow
            • Sarah Orne Jewett
            • Kate Chopin
            • Robert W. Chambers
            • George MacDonald
            • Dick Donovan
            • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
            • Hanns Heinz Ewers
            • L.T. Meade
            • Saki
            • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
            • Bram Stoker
            00 reads
            Cover 8

            An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

            An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
            • Ambrose Bierce
            22 reads
            H. P. Lovecraft's Book Of Horror
            H. P. Lovecraft's Book Of Horror
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • F. Marion Crawford
            • Robert W. Chambers
            • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
            • Ralph Adams Cram
            • Irvin S. Cobb
            • Edward Lucas White
            • Clark Ashton Smith
            • Rudyard Kipling
            • E.F. Benson
            • Hugh Walpole
            • William Hope Hodgson
            • Arthur Machen
            • M.R. James
            • Charles Dickens
            • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
            • Robert Louis Stevenson
            • Hanns Heinz Ewers
            • Théophile Gautier
            • Guy de Maupassant
            • Edgar Allan Poe
            42 reads
            The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows
            The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows
            • E.T.A. Hoffmann
            • Edgar Allan Poe
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Guy de Maupassant
            • Anton Chekhov
            • Edith Wharton
            • Franz Kafka
            • Marjorie Bowen
            • H.P. Lovecraft
            • Bruno Schulz
            • Felisberto Hernández
            • Robert Aickman
            • Shirley Jackson
            • Joan Aiken
            • Joyce Carol Oates
            • John Herdman
            • Steven Millhauser
            • Steve Stern
            • Jonathan Carroll
            • Dean Paschal
            • Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris
            • Yōko Ogawa
            • Kate Bernheimer
            • Kelly Link
            • Aimee Bender
            • Chris Adrian
            • China Miéville
            • Mansoura Ez-Eldin
            • Karin Tidbeck
            • C. Namwali Serpell
            • Karen Russell
            31 read
            Cover 7

            Un Cittadino di Carcosa

            Un Cittadino di Carcosa
            • Ambrose Bierce
            • Dafne Munro (Translator)
            00 reads
            Cover 7

            Owls' Watch

            Owls' Watch
              00 reads
              The City of the Goneaway
              The City of the Goneaway
              • Ambrose Bierce
              31 read
              Felices pesadillas: Los mejores relatos de terror aparecidos en Valdemar, 1987-2003
              Felices pesadillas: Los mejores relatos de terror aparecidos en Valdemar, 1987-2003
              • Charles Nodier
              • Wilkie Collins
              • Claude Vignon
              • Ambrose Bierce
              • Bram Stoker
              • Guy de Maupassant
              • Robert Louis Stevenson
              • F. Marion Crawford
              • Washington Irving
              • Arthur Conan Doyle
              • M.R. James
              • W.W. Jacobs
              • Arthur Quiller-Couch
              • Arthur Machen
              • Rudyard Kipling
              • W.B. Yeats
              • H. G. Wells
              • E.F. Benson
              • Honoré de Balzac
              • William Hope Hodgson
              • Horacio Quiroga
              • Richard Barham Middleton
              • Henry S. Whitehead
              • Franz Kafka
              • H.P. Lovecraft
              • Robert E. Howard
              • Richard Matheson
              • Pilar Pedraza
              • Alexandre Dumas
              • Nathaniel Hawthorne
              • Edgar Allan Poe
              • Théophile Gautier
              • Charles Dickens
              • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
              • Fitz-James O'Brien
              • Hugh Harvey
              • Saki
              00 reads
              Ghosts of the Heartland
              Ghosts of the Heartland
              • Robert Adams
              • Craig Kee Strete
              00 reads
              Os 100 Melhores Contos de Humor da Literatura Universal
              Os 100 Melhores Contos de Humor da Literatura Universal
              • Homer
              • Aesop
              • Saadi
              • Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
              • Giovanni Boccaccio
              • Franco Sacchetti
              • Niccolò Machiavelli
              • Marguerite de Navarre
              • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
              • Otto Melander
              • Francisco de Quevedo
              • Charles Sorel
              • Jonathan Swift
              • Voltaire
              • Marquis de Sade
              • Mary Lamb
              • Edgar Allan Poe
              • Nikolai Gogol
              • Mór Jókai
              • Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
              • Mark Twain
              • Machado de Assis
              • Alphonse Daudet
              • Ambrose Bierce
              • Guy de Maupassant
              • Emilia Pardo Bazán
              • I.L. Peretz
              • Oscar Wilde
              • Alphonse Allais
              • Artur Azevedo
              • Georges Courteline
              • Anton Chekhov
              • O. Henry
              • Israel Zangwill
              • João Simões Lopes Neto
              • Tristan Bernard
              • Stephen Leacock
              • Saki
              • G.K. Chesterton
              • Damon Runyon
              • João do Rio
              • Lima Barreto
              • Arkady Averchenko
              • Monteiro Lobato
              • Jaroslav Hašek
              • Franz Kafka
              • Karel Čapek
              • Groucho Marx
              • Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
              • Dorothy Parker
              • José de Almada Negreiros
              • Aníbal Machado
              • F. Scott Fitzgerald
              • Paulo Corrêa Lopes
              • Antônio de Alcântara Machado
              • João Alphonsus
              • Felisberto Hernández
              • Witold Gombrowicz
              • Charles Lamb
              • Graham Greene
              • Dino Buzzati
              • Alberto Moravia
              • Carlo Manzoni
              • Nelson Rodrigues
              • Julio Cortázar
              • José Cândido de Carvalho
              • Vlas Doroshevich
              • Augusto Monterroso
              • Fernando Sabino
              • Millôr Fernandes
              • Dalton Trevisan
              • Julio Ramón Ribeyro
              • Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares
              • Victor Giudice
              • Luis Fernando Verissimo
              • Moacyr Scliar
              • João Ubaldo Ribeiro
              51 read
              Great Classic Stories III: 22 Unabridged Classics
              Great Classic Stories III: 22 Unabridged Classics
              • Herman Melville
              • Kate Chopin
              • Willa Cather
              • Mark Twain
              • Anton Chekhov
              • Ambrose Bierce
              • Bret Harte
              • Jack London
              51 read
              Cover 0

              The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1

              The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
              • Ambrose Bierce
              00 reads
              Book of the Werewolf
              Book of the Werewolf
                00 reads
                Cover 5

                The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

                The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
                  00 reads
                  Cover 3

                  Fantastic Fables

                  Fantastic Fables
                  • Ambrose Bierce
                  00 reads
                  Classic Tales of Hauntings
                  Classic Tales of Hauntings
                    01 read
                    Cover 5

                    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce Volume 2

                    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
                    • Ambrose Bierce
                    00 reads
                    Cover 5

                    Great American Short Stories

                    Great American Short Stories: Volume 2
                    • Mark Twain
                    50 reads
                    Piccola guida tascabile agli animali pericolosi in letteratura. Ovvero la zoologia come espediente per la letteratura
                    Piccola guida tascabile agli animali pericolosi in letteratura. Ovvero la zoologia come espediente per la letteratura
                      00 reads
                      Cover 8

                      Warlock's Play

                      Warlock's Play
                      • S. Mukerji (Translator)
                      • J.T. Bealby (Translator)
                      • Keene Wallace (Translator)
                      • Samuel Henley (Translator)
                      • C.J. Hogarth (Translator)
                      00 reads
                      50 Great American Short Stories
                      50 Great American Short Stories
                        01 read
                        Cover 7

                        Fantastic Fables - Classic Illustrated Edition

                        Fantastic Fables - Classic Illustrated Edition
                        • Ambrose Bierce
                        31 read
                        Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
                        Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
                          00 reads
                          Cover 7

                          21 Great Stories

                          21 Great Stories
                          • Frank R. Stockton
                          01 read
                          The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
                          The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          01 read
                          Cover 3

                          The Haunted Valley

                          The Haunted Valley
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          21 read
                          Cover 8

                          The Big Book of Ghost Stories

                          The Big Book of Ghost Stories: Big Book Series
                          • Andrew Klavan
                          • M. Rickert
                          • Chet Williamson
                          • David Morrell
                          00 reads
                          Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
                          Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
                          • Roald Dahl
                          • Reader's Digest Association
                          • C.S. Forester
                          • Shirley Jackson
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Truman Capote
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • John Russell
                          • Algernon Blackwood
                          • John Collier
                          • G. K. Chesterton
                          • Alfred Noyes
                          • M. R. James
                          • Ray Bradbury
                          • Leslie Charteris
                          • Lord Dunsany
                          • Ellery Queen
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Daphne Du Maurier
                          • Thomas Burke
                          • Robert Barr
                          • John Dickson Carr
                          • André Maurois
                          • Richard Barham Middleton
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          • Cornell Woolrich
                          • Gilbert Highet
                          • A.M. Burrage
                          • Ian Fleming
                          • Gertrude Atherton
                          • Carl Stephenson
                          • W. W. Jacobs
                          • George Hitchcock
                          • William Hope Hodgson
                          • Ross McDonald
                          • Rudyard Kipling
                          • Georges Simenon
                          • Robert Bloch
                          • Stanley Ellin
                          • H. G. Wells
                          • Eric Stanley Gardner
                          • Saki
                          • Arthur C. Clarke
                          • Agatha Christie
                          • Evelyn Waugh
                          00 reads
                          Cover 2

                          The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

                          The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          31 read
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 5
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 5
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          51 read
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 6
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 6
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Rudyard Kipling
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          51 read
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 9
                          Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 9
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • M.R. James
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          51 read
                          Cover 0

                          A Fruitless Assignment

                          A Fruitless Assignment
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          01 read
                          Cover 2

                          Supernatural Mysteries

                          Supernatural Mysteries: 60+ Horror Tales, Ghost Stories & Murder Mysteries
                          • Théophile Gautier
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                          • Wilkie Collins
                          • Anton Chekhov
                          • Arthur B. Reeve
                          • Anna Katherine Green
                          • Robert Anderson
                          • Thomas W. Hanshew
                          • Mary E. Hanshew
                          • Cleveland Moffett
                          • Florence Marryat
                          • William Archer
                          • Fitz-James O'Brien
                          • Robert Louis Stevenson
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • Pliny the Younger
                          • M.R. James
                          • Katherine Rickford
                          • Ralph Adams Cram
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Rudyard Kipling
                          • Daniel Defoe
                          • Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
                          • Leopold Kompert
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Vincent O'Sullivan
                          • Ellis Parker Butler
                          • E.T.A. Hoffmann
                          • Thomas Hardy
                          • Arthur Quiller-Couch
                          • Mrs. Oliphant
                          • Erckmann-Chatrian
                          • Fiona Macleod
                          • Amelia B. Edwards
                          • Frederick Marryat
                          • Jack London
                          • William T. Stead
                          • Gambier Bolton
                          • Andrew Jackson Davis
                          • Nizida
                          • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
                          • Walter F. Prince
                          • Mark Twain
                          • Chester Bailey Fernald
                          • William Melmoth (Translator)
                          • Julian Hawthorne (Translator)
                          • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
                          • William Fryer Harvey
                          00 reads
                          Cover 5

                          Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

                          Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          00 reads
                          Cover 1

                          Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror

                          Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
                          • C.E. Bechhofer Roberts
                          • E.C. Bentley
                          • Eden Phillpotts
                          • Robert Barr
                          • L.T. Meade
                          • Robert Eustace
                          • R. Austin Freeman
                          • Edgar Jepson
                          • Anthony Wynne
                          • Raymund Allen
                          • Mrs. Henry Wood
                          • Percival Wilde
                          • Victor L. Whitechurch
                          • G.K. Chesterton
                          • H.C. Bailey
                          • Basil Thomson
                          • Aldous Huxley
                          • Marie Belloc Lowndes
                          • E.W. Hornung
                          • Charles Dickens
                          • Hedley Barker
                          • Charles Collins
                          • M.R. James
                          • Oliver Onions
                          • Robert Smythe Hichens
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Emmuska Orczy
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • J. Storer Clouston
                          • Ernest Bramah
                          • F.A.M. Webster
                          • Mrs. Oliphant
                          • Arthur Machen
                          • Sax Rohmer
                          • W.W. Jacobs
                          • A.J. Alan
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Jerome K. Jerome
                          • Robert Hugh Benson
                          • Marjorie Bowen
                          • J.F. Sullivan
                          • William Fryer Harvey
                          • Morely Roberts
                          • Joseph Conrad
                          • May Sinclair
                          • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
                          • Saki
                          • J.D. Beresford
                          • John Metcalfe
                          • Arthur Quiller-Couch
                          • N. Royde-Smith
                          • Walter de la Mare
                          • Michael Arlen
                          • R. Ellis Roberts
                          • Violet Hunt
                          • Barry Pain
                          • Ethel Colburn Maine
                          • Alfred McClelland Burrage
                          • Robert Louis Stevenson
                          • H. G. Wells
                          • Bram Stoker
                          00 reads
                          The Suitable Surroundings
                          The Suitable Surroundings
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          41 read
                          Terror by Night
                          Terror by Night
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          00 reads
                          Cover 2

                          San Francisco Noir 2

                          San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics
                          • Peter Maravelis
                          00 reads
                          Cover 8

                          An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge Illustrated

                          An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge Illustrated
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          51 read
                          The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
                          The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          01 read
                          Cover 0

                          The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written

                          The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1
                          • M.R. James
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Saki
                          • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
                          • Franz Kafka
                          • Robert W. Chambers
                          • W.W. Jacobs
                          • Lafcadio Hearn
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Walter de la Mare
                          • Vernon Lee
                          • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
                          • F. Marion Crawford
                          • William Hope Hodgson
                          • Arthur Machen
                          • Algernon Blackwood
                          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                          • Oliver Onions
                          • Clark Ashton Smith
                          • John Metcalfe
                          • Leonid Andreyev
                          • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
                          00 reads
                          Cover 0

                          A Century of Creepy Stories

                          A Century of Creepy Stories
                          • Hugh Walpole
                          • Arthur Machen
                          • Barry Pain
                          • Cynthia Asquith
                          • J.M. Barrie
                          • D.H. Lawrence
                          • M.R. James
                          • L.P. Hartley
                          • W.B. Maxwell
                          • C.H.B. Kitchin
                          • Hilda Hughes
                          • Charles Dickens
                          • Flavia Richardson
                          • May Sinclair
                          • Marie Belloc Lowndes
                          • Daniel Defoe
                          • Dennis Mackail
                          • Clemence Dane
                          • Edgar Wallace
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • Charles Whibley
                          • Enid Bagnold
                          • Desmond MacCarthy
                          • Christine Campbell Thomson
                          • H. G. Wells
                          • Washington Irving
                          • Mary Webb
                          • Ann Bridge
                          • W.S. Morrison
                          • William Gerhardi
                          • Philip MacDonald
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Michael Joseph
                          • A.J. Alan
                          • Oscar Cook
                          • Honoré de Balzac
                          • Algernon Blackwood
                          • Elizabeth Bowen
                          • Walter de la Mare
                          • Oliver Onions
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Shane Leslie
                          00 reads
                          Cover 6

                          Ambrose Bierce

                          Ambrose Bierce: A Diagnosis of Death
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          41 read
                          Cover 0

                          Halloween Boxed Set

                          Halloween Boxed Set
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          • Théophile Gautier
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Grant Allen
                          • M.P. Shiel
                          • Ralph Adams Cram
                          • John William Polidori
                          • Thomas Hardy
                          • Charles Dickens
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • M.R. James
                          • Wilkie Collins
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Arthur Machen
                          • William Hope Hodgson
                          • Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
                          • Walter Hubbell
                          • Washington Irving
                          • F. Marion Crawford
                          • James Malcolm Rymer
                          • Thomas Peckett Prest
                          • W.W. Jacobs
                          • Wilhelm Hauff
                          • Harriet Beecher Stowe
                          • Daniel Defoe
                          • Jack London
                          • George MacDonald
                          • Mark Twain
                          • Pliny the Younger
                          • Mrs. Oliphant
                          • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
                          • Fergus Hume
                          • Florence Marryat
                          • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
                          • William Archer
                          • William F. Harvey
                          • Katherine Rickford
                          • Leopold Kompert
                          • Vincent O'Sullivan
                          • Ellis Parker Butler
                          • Arthur Quiller-Couch
                          • Fiona Macleod
                          • Lafcadio Hearn
                          • William T. Stead
                          • Gambier Bolton
                          • Andrew Jackson Davis
                          • Nizida
                          • Walter F. Prince
                          • Chester Bailey Fernando
                          • Brander Matthews
                          • Leonard Kip
                          • Frank R. Stockton
                          • B.M. Croker
                          • Catherine Louisa Pirkis
                          • Anatole France
                          • Richard Le Gallienne
                          • Henry James
                          • John Buchan
                          • William Melmoth (Translator)
                          • Julian Hawthorne (Translator)
                          • Bram Stoker
                          • Mary Shelley
                          00 reads
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                          Halloween Mysteries

                          Halloween Mysteries
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                          • Wilkie Collins
                          • Anton Chekhov
                          • Arthur B. Reeve
                          • Anna Katherine Green
                          • Thomas W. Hanshew
                          • Mary E. Hanshew
                          • Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
                          • Cleveland Moffett
                          • Florence Marryat
                          • Robert Anderson
                          • William Archer
                          • Fitz-James O'Brien
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • Pliny the Younger
                          • William F. Harvey
                          • M.R. James
                          • Katherine Rickford
                          • Ralph Adams Cram
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Rudyard Kipling
                          • Daniel Defoe
                          • Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton
                          • Leopold Kompert
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Vincent O'Sullivan
                          • Ellis Parker Butler
                          • E.T.A. Hoffmann
                          • Thomas Hardy
                          • Arthur Quiller-Couch
                          • Mrs. Oliphant
                          • Erckmann-Chatrian
                          • Fiona Macleod
                          • Amelia B. Edwards
                          • Frederick Marryat
                          • Théophile Gautier
                          • Jack London
                          • William T. Stead
                          • Gambier Bolton
                          • Andrew Jackson Davis
                          • Nizida
                          • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
                          • Walter F. Prince
                          • Mark Twain
                          • Chester Bailey Fernald
                          • William Melmoth (Translator)
                          • Julian Hawthorne (Translator)
                          • Robert Louis Stevenson
                          00 reads
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                          The Ultimate Horror Collection

                          The Ultimate Horror Collection
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Saki
                          • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
                          • Franz Kafka
                          • Leonid Andreyev
                          • Edward Lucas White
                          • Lafcadio Hearn
                          • Walter de la Mare
                          • Robert E. Howard
                          • Vernon Lee
                          • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                          • M.R. James
                          • Oliver Onions
                          • Clark Ashton Smith
                          • John Metcalfe
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          • Russell Wakefield
                          • Henry Kuttner
                          • Robert W. Chambers
                          • W.W. Jacobs
                          • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
                          • Gertrude Atherton
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • David H. Keller
                          • F. Marion Crawford
                          • William Hope Hodgson
                          • Perceval Landon
                          • Eleanor Scott
                          • Marjorie Bowen
                          • Wirt Gerrare
                          • Vincent O'Sullivan
                          • Ralph Adams Cram
                          • Arthur Machen
                          • Thomas Burke
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • Algernon Blackwood
                          • Rudyard Kipling
                          • Magaret Oliphant
                          • Hanns Heinz Ewers
                          • Ulric Daubeny
                          • Aleister Crowley
                          • Nikolai Gogol
                          • Mark Twain
                          • Irvin S. Cobb
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Violet Hunt
                          • E.T.A. Hoffmann
                          • O. Henry
                          • Richard Marsh
                          • Émile Erckmann
                          • Alexandre Chatrian
                          • Bernard Capes
                          • Edith Nesbit
                          • Charles Dickens
                          • Francis Stevens
                          • Ludwig Tieck
                          • Fitz-James O'Brien
                          • Harriet Prescott Spofford
                          • Willa Cather
                          • Achmed Abdullah
                          • W.C. Morrow
                          • Henry S. Whitehead
                          • Tod Robbins
                          • H. G. Wells
                          • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
                          • Sax Rohmer
                          • Charlotte Riddell
                          • Bram Stoker
                          • Robert Louis Stevenson
                          • George Allan England
                          • Barry Pain
                          • John William Polidori
                          • Rebecca Harding Davis
                          • Myla Jo Closser
                          • Elia W. Peattie
                          • Washington Irving
                          • Richard Le Gallienne
                          • Edith Wharton
                          • Anatole France
                          • Mary Shelley
                          • Henry James
                          • Paul Spencer
                          • L.P. Hartley
                          • Lord Dunsany
                          • Margaret Ronan
                          • Robert Smythe Hichens
                          • Cynthia Asquith
                          • Amelia B. Edwards
                          • Elizabeth Gaskell
                          • Walter Scott
                          • Wilbur Daniel Steele
                          • M.P. Shiel
                          • Wilkie Collins
                          • Alfred Noyes
                          • Alexander Woollcott
                          • Samuel Blas
                          • Guy Preston
                          • Henry de Vere Stacpoole
                          • George G. Toudouze
                          • H.C. McNeile
                          • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
                          • Alfred McClelland Burrage
                          • William Fryer Harvey
                          00 reads
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                          Vampire Tales

                          Vampire Tales: The Big Collection
                          • Edgar Allan Poe
                          • H. G. Wells
                          • Leonid Andreyev
                          • Nikolai Gogol
                          • M.R. James
                          • E.F. Benson
                          • Ambrose Bierce
                          • Algernon Blackwood
                          • Walter de la Mare
                          • F. Marion Crawford
                          • Arthur Conan Doyle
                          • Robert E. Howard
                          • D.H. Lawrence
                          • H.P. Lovecraft
                          • Vernon Lee
                          • Guy de Maupassant
                          • Vincent O’Sullivan
                          • Clark Ashton Smith
                          • Edith Wharton
                          • Victor Roman
                          • Pu Songling
                          • Ludwig Tieck
                          • John William Polidori
                          • Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
                          • Sabine Baring-Gould
                          • William Gilbert
                          • Jan Neruda
                          • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
                          • Eliza Lynn Linton
                          • Edith Nesbit
                          • Bram Stoker
                          • Phil Robinson
                          • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
                          • Julian Hawthorne
                          • Mary Cholmondeley
                          • Anne Crawford
                          • Marsh Richard
                          • Count Stenbock
                          • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
                          • Fred M. White
                          • H.B. Marriott-Watson
                          • Hume Nisbet
                          • F.G. Loring
                          • Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
                          • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
                          • Frank Norris
                          • Louise J. Strong
                          • Luigi Capuana
                          • Théophile Gautier
                          • E.G. Swain
                          • Claude Askew
                          • Hanns Heinz Ewers
                          • Horacio Quiroga
                          • Ulric Daubeny
                          • Uel Key
                          • Dion Fortune
                          • Everil Worrell
                          • Hesketh V. Pritchard
                          • Cynthia Asquith
                          • Robert Louis Stevenson
                          00 reads
                          The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2
                          The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2
                            00 reads
                            Ghosts
                            Ghosts
                              00 reads
                              The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories
                              The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories
                                00 reads
                                I miti di Cthulhu
                                I miti di Cthulhu
                                • H.P. Lovecraft
                                00 reads
                                Horror Classics Collection
                                Horror Classics Collection
                                • Ambrose Bierce
                                • Honoré de Balzac
                                • A.C. Benson
                                • William Black
                                • Algernon Blackwood
                                • Mary Cholmondeley
                                • Arthur Conan Doyle
                                • Charles Dickens
                                • Chester S. Geier
                                • Nathaniel Hawthorne
                                • Washington Irving
                                • Henry James
                                • Rudyard Kipling
                                • Frances Little
                                • H.P. Lovecraft
                                • Guy de Maupassant
                                • Vincent O'Sullivan
                                • Earl Peirce Jr.
                                • Edgar Allan Poe
                                • Saki
                                • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
                                • Bram Stoker
                                • H. G. Wells
                                • Edith Wharton
                                • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
                                • Georgia Wood Pangborn
                                • Arthur Quiller-Couch
                                • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
                                51 read
                                The Eyes of the Panther
                                The Eyes of the Panther
                                • Ambrose Bierce
                                41 read
                                Cover 3

                                Prehistorics & Primevals

                                Prehistorics & Primevals: Short Stories of Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Other Extinct Creatures
                                • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
                                • H. G. Wells
                                • Bernard Capes
                                • Alexander Phillips
                                • Alan Connell
                                • Wardon Allan Curtis
                                • Ambrose Bierce
                                • Eden Phillpotts
                                • Edward Hitchcock
                                00 reads
                                The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time Greats
                                The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time Greats
                                  40 reads
                                  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 4
                                  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 4
                                  • Edgar Allan Poe
                                  • H.P. Lovecraft
                                  • M.R. James
                                  • Charles Dickens
                                  • Ambrose Bierce
                                  00 reads
                                  Famous Ghost Stories
                                  Famous Ghost Stories
                                    00 reads
                                    Masterpieces of terror and the unknown
                                    Masterpieces of terror and the unknown
                                      00 reads
                                      Cover 4

                                      The Folio Book of Ghost Stories

                                      The Folio Book of Ghost Stories
                                      • Arthur Conan Doyle
                                      • F. Marion Crawford
                                      • Ambrose Bierce
                                      • W.W. Jacobs
                                      • R.H. Benson
                                      • M.R. James
                                      • William Fryer Harvey
                                      • Oliver Onions
                                      • E.G. Swain
                                      • Edith Wharton
                                      • E.F. Benson
                                      • Vladimir Nabokov
                                      • Elizabeth Bowen
                                      • Shirley Jackson
                                      • Penelope Fitzgerald
                                      • A.S. Byatt
                                      • George Mackay Brown
                                      • Charles Dickens
                                      • Alfred McClelland Burrage
                                      00 reads
                                      Famous Modern Ghost Stories
                                      Famous Modern Ghost Stories
                                      • Leonid Andreyev
                                      • Arthur Machen
                                      • Guy de Maupassant
                                      • Anatole France
                                      • Richard Le Gallienne
                                      • Myla Jo Closser
                                      • Ambrose Bierce
                                      • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
                                      • Edgar Allan Poe
                                      • Fitz-James O'Brien
                                      • Olivia Howard Dunbar
                                      • Algernon Blackwood
                                      • Robert W. Chambers
                                      • Wilbur Daniel Steele
                                      • William Fryer Harvey
                                      00 reads
                                      The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader
                                      The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader
                                      • Ambrose Bierce
                                      01 read
                                      Il club dei parenticidi
                                      Il club dei parenticidi
                                      • Ambrose Bierce
                                      • Linda Gaia (Translator)
                                      31 read