O jornalista e escritor Ambrose Bierce escreveu, ao longo dos anos, centenas de verbetes engraçados que expõem a soberba da humanidade. Aqui reunidos, formam um mosaico repleto...

Monk Ambrosius arrives at a rural monastery and the last thing he expects to happen is to be drawn into sympathy with a young girl. Her name is Benedicta, the local hangman’s...

Humor negro e sarcasmo caracterizam o estilo de Ambrose Bierce, mestre da literatura gótica ao lado de Edgar Allan Poe e H.P. Lovecraft. Esta coletânea reúne 21 contos com seus...

Ambrose Bierce foi considerado um mestre do inglês puro por seus contemporâneos, e praticamente tudo o que produziu era notável por sua formulação criteriosa e economia de...

A man named Manton killed his wife and his two children and managed to get away with it. Ten years later he returns to the house where the crime was committed. He is recognized by...

Halpin Frayser awakes from a dreamless sleep and the only thing in his mind was the words "Catherine Larue". Frayer feels a shiver down his spine because this was not the first...

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself.

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy...

In "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography," Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted...

Joel Hetman Jr. is summoned home because his mother was found dead. The only thing his father saw was an unknown man fleeing their home. The murderer was never found and the crime...