Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS FANTASTIC FABLES AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK ## THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ## THE PARENTICIDE CLUB ## THE FIEND'S DELIGHT ## A SON OF THE GODS, AND A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY WRITE IT RIGHT ## COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL ## THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE, Vol. I ## THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE, Vol. II A CYNIC LOOKS AT LIFE ## THE DAMNED THING ## THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL, AND OTHER ESSAYS THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCE THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER ## THE CYNIC'S WORD BOOK CAN SUCH THINGS BE PRESENT AT A HANGING AND OTHERS ## SHAPES OF CLAY ## BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by Ambrose Bierce CONTENTS AUTHOR'S PREFACE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z THE PARENTICIDE CLUB By Ambrose Bierce CONTENTS My Favorite Murder Oil of Dog An Imperfect Conflagration The Hypnotist THE FIEND'S DELIGHT By Dod Grile CONTENTS PREFACE. SOME FICTION. The Glad New Year. The Heels of Her. CURRENT JOURNALINGS. MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL. POESY. A SON OF THE GODS and A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY By Ambrose Bierce CONTENTS The Introduction A SON OF THE GODS A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL By Dod Grile ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY DALZIEL BROTHERS. CONTENTS Fables of Zambri, the Parsee. 1 Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation. 90 DIVERS TALES 1. The Grateful Bear. 101 2. The Setting Sachem. 106 3. Feodora. 107 4. The Legend of Immortal Truth. 111 5. Converting a Prodigal. 115 6. Four Jacks and a Knave. 119 7. Dr. Deadwood, I Presume. 124 8. Nut-Cracking 126 9. The Magician's Little Joke 130 10. Seafaring. 135 11. Tony Rollo's Conclusion. 139 12. No Charge for Attendance. 143 13. Pernicketty's Fright. 148 14. Juniper. 152 15. Following the Sea. 157 16. A Tale of Spanish Vengeance. 162 17. Mrs. Dennison's Head. 167 18. A Fowl Witch. 171 19. The Civil Service in Florida. 176 20. A Tale of the Bosphorus. 179 21. John Smith. 184 22. Sundered Hearts. 187 23. The Early History of Bath. 192 24. The Following Dorg. 196 25. Snaking. 202 26. Maud's Papa. 205 27. Jim Beckwourth's Pond. 209 28. Stringing a Bear. 213 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE Volume 1 1909 CONTENTS ASHES OF THE BEACON THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW Thither Sons of the Fair Star An Interview with Gnarmag-Zote The Tamtonians Marooned on Ug The Dog in Gangewag A Conflagration in Ghargaroo An Execution in Batrugia The Jumjum of Gokeetle-Guk The Kingdom of Tortirra Hither FOR THE AHKOOND JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY On a Mountain What I Saw of Shiloh A Little of Chickamauga The Crime at Pickett’s Mill Four Days in Dixie What Occurred at Franklin ‘Way Down in Alabam’ Working for an Empress Across the Plains The Mirage A Sole Survivor