Essential Bierce

**Stories**
The Haunted Valley --
[A Watcher by the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084267W/A_Watcher_by_the_Dead)
The Man and the Snake --
Chickamauga --
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)
A Son of the Gods --
The Affair at Coulters Notch --
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General --
From The Devil's Dictionary --
Preface --
Law & Society --
Religion & Politics --
Love & Marriage --
Science & Philosophy --
Language & Literature --
Morals & Manners --
Essays and Journalism --
What I Saw of Shiloh --
Wit and Humor --
Thought and Feeling --
To Train a Writer --
Aims and the Plan (preface to Write It Right) --
Bierce on the Funding Bill (San Francisco Examiner, February 1, 1896) --
A Freak War (San Francisco Examiner, August 7, 1898) --
A Thumb-Nail Sketch.