Ambrose Bierce/Literary History

Collections

• 1874 – Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
• 1891 – Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
• 1893 – Can Such Things Be?
• 1899 – Fantastic Fables
• 1903 – Shapes of Clay
• 1909 – Ashes of the Beacon/The Land Beyond the Blow/For the Ahkoond/John Smith, Liberator/Bits of Autobiography
• 1911 – Tangential Views
• 1918 – In the Midst of Life
• 1925 – Ten Tales
• 1926 – Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts
• 1926 – Tales of Haunted Houses
• 1946 – The Parenticide Club
• 1946 – Negligible Tales
• 1961 – In the Midst of Life and Other Tales
• 1964 – Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
• 1967 – Dat Vervloekte Ding en Andere Griezelverhalen
• 1968 – A Little Book of Humor, Horror, and the Supernatural
• 1970 – The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
• 1971 – The Complete Short Stories 2: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales
• 1971 – The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume I: The World of Horror
• 1977 – The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce
• 1980 – A Vision of Doom
• 2000 – The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce
• 2002 – Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
• 2002 – Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
• 2008 – The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
• 2009 – Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce
• 2011 – The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
• 2012 – Ambrose Bierce

Short Stories

• 1869 – Differences Resolved
• 1869 – The Provocations of the Pious
• 1870 – The Discomfited Demon
• 1870 – Inglorious Soup
• 1870 – Nurse Wanted
• 1871 – The Haunted Valley
• 1871 – Theological Questions Answered
• 1871 – Wanted: One Virgin
• 1874 – Fables of Zambri, the Parsee
• 1874 – Sundered Hearts
• 1874 – John Smith
• 1874 – A Tale of the Bosphorus
• 1874 – The Civil Service in Florida
• 1874 – A Fowl Witch
• 1874 – Mrs. Dennison's Head
• 1874 – Dr. Deadwood, I Presume
• 1874 – A Tale of Spanish Vengeance
• 1874 – The Grateful Bear
• 1874 – Converting a Prodigal
• 1874 – The Magician's Little Joke
• 1874 – Four Jacks and a Knave
• 1874 – Brief Season of Intellectual Dissipation
• 1874 – Pernicketty's Fright
• 1874 – No Charge for Attendance
• 1874 – Feodora
• 1874 – Tony Rollo's Conclusion
• 1874 – Following the Sea
• 1874 – The Legend of Immortal Truth
• 1874 – Seafaring
• 1874 – The Setting Sachem
• 1874 – Nut-Cracking
• 1874 – Juniper
• 1874 – The Early History of Bath
• 1874 – The Following Dorg
• 1874 – Snaking
• 1874 – Maud's Papa
• 1874 – Jim Beckwourth's Pond
• 1874 – Stringing a Bear
• 1874 – Curried Cow
• 1874 – Why I am Not Editing "The Stinger"
• 1874 – Corrupting the Press
• 1874 – The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"
• 1874 – A Providential Intimation
• 1874 – The Baptism of Dobsho
• 1874 – The Race at Left Bower
• 1874 – A Shipwreckollection also titled "Cruise of the "Mudlark"
• 1874 – Mr. Masthead, Journalist
• 1874 – Mr. Swiddler's Flip-Flap
• 1874 – The Little Story
• 1874 – The Failure of Hope & Wandel also titled "Cool Correspondence"
• 1875 – The Captain of the "Camel" also titled "A Nautical Novelty"
• 1876 – The Man Overboard also titled "Some Unusual Adventures"
• 1878 – The Famous Gilson Bequest
• 1879 – A Psychological Shipwreck
• 1881 – Mike deYoung's Ambition
• 1881 – The Show Business
• 1882 – A Holy Terror
• 1883 – George Thurston
• 1883 – Very Lucky Baldwin
• 1885 – A Cargo of Cat
• 1885 – Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
• 1886 – An Imperfect Conflagration
• 1886 – A Revolt of the Gods also titled "The Ancient City of Grimaulquin: A Record of Industrial Discontent
• 1886 – "The Bubble Reputation"
• 1886 – Judicial Homicide
• 1886 – An Inhabitant of Carcosa
• 1887 – Killed at Resaca
• 1887 – The Man Out of the Nose also titled "John Hardshaw" The Story of a Man Who May Be Seen Coming out of the Nose
• 1887 – The Christian Serpent
• 1887 – An Officer and a Thug
• 1888 – A Bottomless Grave
• 1888 – One of the Missing
• 1888 – Bodies of the Dead
• 1888 – A Son of the Gods
• 1888 – My Favorite Murder
• 1888 – A Tough Tussle
• 1888 – One of Twins
• 1888 – The City of the Gone Away
• 1888 – Present at a Hanging
• 1888 – A Cold Greeting
• 1888 – A Fruitless Assignment also titled "The Haunting at Vine Street"
• 1888 – The Isle of Pines also titled "Deluse's Golden Curse"
• 1888 – The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
• 1888 – An Unfinished Race
• 1888 – Charles Ashmore's Trail
• 1889 – The Spook House
• 1889 – Chickamauga
• 1889 – One Officer, One Man
• 1889 – A Horseman in the Sky
• 1889 – The Coup de Grâce
• 1889 – The Suitable Surroundings
• 1889 – The Affair at Coulter's Notch
• 1889 – A Watcher by the Dead
• 1890 – The Major's Tale also titled "A Practical Joke: Major Broadwood Recalls the Heroic Past"
• 1890 – The Story of a Conscience
• 1890 – The Man and the Snake
• 1890 – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• 1890 – The Realm of the Unreal
• 1890 – The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
• 1890 – Oil of Dog
• 1891 – The Thing at Nolan
• 1891 – Incident at Owl Creek
• 1891 – The Widower Turmore
• 1891 – Haïta the Shepherd
• 1891 – Parker Adderson, Philosopher also titled James Adderson, Philosopher and Wit
• 1891 – The Boarded Window
• 1891 – A Lady from Redhorse aslo titled An Heiress from Redhorse
• 1891 – The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
• 1891 – The Mocking-Bird
• 1891 – A Baby Tramp
• 1891 – The Ingenious Patriot
• 1891 – The Death of Halpin Frayser
• 1892 – The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
• 1892 – An Adventure at Brownville also titled "An Occurrence at Brownville"
• 1892 – The Applicant
• 1893 – That of Granny Magone
• 1893 – A Light Sleeper
• 1893 – The Mystery of John Farquharson
• 1893 – Dead and "Gone"
• 1893 – A Cold Night
• 1893 – A Creature of Habit
• 1893 – Mysterious Disappearances
• 1893 – The Witch's Steed
• 1893 – The Tail of the Sphinx
• 1893 – One Kind of Officer
• 1893 – John Bartine's Watch
• 1893 – The Hypnotist also titled "John Bolger, Hypnotist"
• 1893 – The Damned Thing
• 1893 – A Jug of Sirup
• 1897 – The Eyes of the Panther
• 1897 – An Affair of Outposts
• 1899 – The Flying Machine
• 1899 – Moxon's Master
• 1901 – A Diagnosis of Death
• 1901 – At Old Man Eckert's
• 1903 – A Bivouac of the Dead
• 1905 – A Wireless Message
• 1905 – An Arrest
• 1905 – A Vine on a House
• 1905 – A Man with Two Lives
• 1906 – A Baffled Ambuscade
• 1906 – Two Military Executions
• 1906 – Staley Fleming's Hallucination
• 1906 – One Summer Night
• 1906 – John Mortonson's Funeral
• 1907 – The Other Lodgers
• 1907 – The Moonlit Road
• 1907 – Beyond the Wall
• 1908 – A Resumed Identity
• 1908 – Three and One Are One
• 1909 – The Ways of Ghosts
• 1909 – Ashes of the Beacon: An Historical Monograph Written in 4930
• 1909 – For the Ahkoond
• 1909 – John Smith Liberator: (From a Newspaper pf the Far Future)
• 1909 – The Stranger
• 1913 – The Mystery of the Ultimate Hills
• 1925 – A Sole Survivor
• 1964 – Some Haunted Houses

Poetry

• 1980 – The Foot-Hill Resort
• 1980 – To the Happy Hunting Ground
• 1980 – Basilica
• 1980 – A Mystery
• 1980 – The Passing Show
• 1980 – Geotheos
• 1980 – Invocation
• 1980 – Religion
• 1980 – T. A. H.
• 1980 – Contemplation
• 1980 – The Golden Age
• 1980 – A Learner
• 1980 – A Possibility
• 1980 – J. F. B.
• 1980 – The Death of Grant
• 1980 – Laus Lucis
• 1980 – Nanine
• 1980 – To My Laundress
• 1980 – Reminded
• 1980 – Another Way
• 1980 – To One Across the Way
• 1980 – To Maude
• 1980 – Tempora Mutantur
• 1980 – To Nanine
• 1980 – Restored
• 1980 – Presentiment
• 1980 – A Study in Gray
• 1980 – Montefior
• 1980 – Francine
• 1980 – One Morning
• 1980 – The King of Bores
• 1980 – Something in the Papers
• 1980 – The Bride
• 1980 – Again
• 1980 – Oneiromancy
• 1980 – Justice
• 1980 – Creation
• 1980 – Avalon
• 1980 – A Vision of Doom
• 1980 – The Perverted Village
• 1980 – To Dog
• 1980 – A Rational Anthem
• 1980 – A Voluptuary
• 1980 – Arbor Day
• 1980 – Light Lie the Earth Upon His Dear Dead Heart
• 1980 – Saralthia's Soliloquy
• 1980 – Song of the Dead Body
• 1980 – On Stone
• 1980 – Dead
• 1980 – Man is Long Ages Dead

Non-Fiction

• 1887 – Visions of the Night
• 1902 – The Clothing of Ghosts
• 1911 – The Devil's Dictionary
• 1998 – A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography
• 2000 – The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires
• 2003 – A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce
• 2006 – The Friend's Delight
• 2007 – A Cynic Looks at Life