Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate,” wrote the sardonic writer Ambrose Bierce. Bierce was ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...

A few months ago, a journalist friend in New York City turned me on to a little-known story by that “American original” writer, Ambrose Bierce, famous for his bleakly cynical, fatalistic tales, such ...

To merely die would have been average. But to disappear completely and assure one's immortality as a literary mystery betrays a black genius and has Ambrose Bierce's fingerprints all over it. When the ...

In his voluminous work "The Devil's Dictionary," incurably iconoclastic writer Ambrose Bierce suggests a scenario only he ...

Buried on Page 24 of The Indianapolis News on Sept. 19, 1914, was the headline: "INDIANA AUTHOR LAST HEARD FROM IN MEXICO." Ambrose Bierce, a veteran of the Civil War and former journalist who would ...

Set alongside other fiction about the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce’s stories can seem brutal and terse, mocking the culture that romanticized the conflict and grew fat with pride. “Death upon a field of ...

THERE is as yet book on Am brose Bierce that can really be said to come to grips with its prickly and puzzling subject. “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer,” by Paul Fatout (University of ...