Born on this day – Ambrose Bierce:

Ambrose Bierce

Writer

Satirist

Civil War veteran

June 24, 1842 – circa. 1914

Exact date of death unknown

Credits:

Written work:

A Cynic Looks at Life (1927); A Deoderizer of Dead Dogs (1998); A Horseman in the Sky (1889); A Horseman in the Sky (1983); A Horseman in the Sky: A Watcher by the Dead: The Man and the Snake (1920); A Letter and a Likeness (1930?); A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce (2003); A Psychological Shipwreck (1879); A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography (1998); A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky (1907); A Tough Tussle (1888); A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980); Ambrose Bierce: “My Dear Rearden”: a Letter (1997); Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale (2013); Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs (2011); Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War (1956); An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886); An Invocation (1928); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1926); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (1995); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Selected Works (1991); An Unfinished Race (1888); Battle Sketches (1930); Battlefields and Ghosts (1931); Beyond the Wall (1907); Black Beetles in Amber (1892); Can Such Things Be? (1893); Civil War Stories (1994); Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 1: 1867–1869 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 10: 1878–1880 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 11: 1881 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 12: 1882 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 13: 1883 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 14: 1833–1884 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 15: 1884–1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 16: 1885 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 17: 1886 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 2: 1869–1870 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 3: 1870–1871 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 4: 1871–1872 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 5: 1872–1873 (2022); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 6: 1873–1874 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 7: 1874–1875 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 8: 1875–1876 (2023); Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 9: 1877–1878 (2023); Containing Four Ambrose Bierce Letters (1921); Extraordinary Opinions on Commonplace Subjects (1927); Fantastic Debunking Fables (1926); Fantastic Fables (1899); For the Ahkoond (1980); Ghost and Horror Stories (1964); How Blind Is He (1896); Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography (1927); John Bartine’s Watch (1893); Killed at Resaca (1887); Map of the Black Hills Region, Showing the Gold Mining District and the Seat of the Indian War (1877); Moxon’s Master (1899); My Dear Mac: Three Letters (2006); My Favorite Murder (1916); My Favorite Murder and Other Stories (1927); Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California (1873); One of the Missing (1888); One of the Missing: Tales of the War Between the States (1991); One of Twins (1888); One Summer Night; Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Poems of Ambrose Bierce (1995); Selections from Prattle (1936); Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002); Shapes of Clay (1903); Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898 to 1901 (1980); Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts (1927); Tales of Haunted Houses (1927); Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / aka In the Midst of Life (1891); Ten Tales (1925); The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader (1968); The Boarded Window (1891); The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce (2000); The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce / Volume I: Ashes of the Beacon / Volume II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians / Volume III: Can Such Things Be? / Volume IV: Shapes of Clay / Volume V: Black Beetles in Amber / Volume VI: The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter; Fantastic Fables / Volume VII: The Devil’s Dictionary / Volume VIII: Negligible Tales; On with the Dance; Epigrams / Volume IX: Tangential Views / Volume X: The Opinionator / Volume XI: Antepenultimata / Volume XII: In Motley (1909–1912); The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (1946); The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1970); The Cynic’s Word Book (1906); The Damned Thing (1893); The Dance of Death (1877); The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891); The Devil’s Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader (1987); The Eyes of the Panther (1897); The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires (2000); The Fiend’s Delight (1873); The Horseman in the Sky and Other Stories (1926); The Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); The Lion and the Lamb (1939); The Man and the Snake (1890); The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1890); The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1892); The Moonlit Road (1907); The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (1998); The Realm of the Unreal (1890); The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce (1963); The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch (1891); The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays (1909); The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition (3 vols.);  (2006); The Spook House (1889); The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce (1977); Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922); Write It Right (1909).

Movies and television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006); Ambrose Bierce’s a Watcher by the Dead (2014); America’s 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); Amerikai anzix (1975); An Arrest (1997); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (2005); Ancient Aliens (2011–2015); Au coeur de la vie (1963); Babybird: Unloveable (2010); Bagoly-folyó (2006); Boarded Window (1971 / 2024); Camera Three (1959); Chickamauga (1962); Cineficción Radio / Stories: Haïta the Shepherd; The Damned Thing; An Inhabitant of Carcosa (2020–2024); Cuvar mrtvaca (1978); Danger (1951–1955); Dead Meat Podcast / Stories: A Tough Tussle; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Boarded Window (2020); Droga w swietle ksiezyca (1973); El pozu (2004); 11 O’Clock: a Sense of Imminent Calamity (2023); Ficciones (1972–1974); Forgotten Sci-Fi (2020); Halucinacije (1975); Huile de chien (2005); Hundeöl (1988); La corsa (2002); L’armoire (1969); Lexicon (2023); L’oiseau moqueur (1962); Masters of Horror (2006); Middle Toe of the Right Foot (2011); Most (2024); My Name Is Boffer Bings (2012); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Nightmare Classics (1989); O Monge e a Filha do Carrasco (1996); Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961); One of the Missing (1969 / 1979); Owl Creek Bridge (2007); Owl Street (2014); Parker Adderson, Philosopher (1974 / 2016); Pedro (2009); Prokletinja (1975); Racconti neri / Stories: An Arrest; One of the Missing (2006); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2022); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022–2024); The Bridge (1929); The Damned Thing (2014 / 2021); The Damned Thing is of Such a Color! (2020); The Eyes of the Panther (2007 / 2019); The Fantasmagori (2017); The Fear (2001); The Inconsolable Widow (2007); The Kiss: A Tale of Two Lovers (1977); The Life and Various Deaths of Ambrose Bierce (2016); The Man and the Snake (1972); The Moonlit Road (2008); The Return (1973); The Short Story (1979); The Twilight Zone (1964); The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (2009); The UnXplained (2021); The Watcher by the Dead (2021); Vampirismus / Stories: The Moonlit Road; A Watcher by the Dead (1980–1981); Whispers of Carcosa (date?); Your Favorite Story (1953–1954).