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Title: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce ISBN: 0-486-40056-5 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chilling Collection of Imaginative Ghost Stories
Comment: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories is another marvelous, inexpensive reprint from Dover Publications. These twelve stories selected from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce are remarkably good. I intend to become much better acquainted with Ambrose Bierce.
Bierce had an inventive imagination, much like Edgar Allan Poe. In this chilling collection we meet angry spirits seeking revenge, humans transformed into wild beasts, and individuals deranged by encounters with apparitions. Although written a century ago, several stories explored subjects that seemed surprisingly modern. The Man and the Snake is a frightening study of the psychology of one man's imagination. Time and space are transformed in A Psychological Shipwreck. And we meet an emotional, possibly unstable, thinking machine in Moxon's Master.
I considered listing the stories that were my favorites. However, as I enjoyed all twelve stories, I decided to forego the exercise. Buy this little collection. You won't be disappointed.
Ambrose Bierce fought at Shiloh and Chickamauga, was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain in 1864, and retired after the war at the rank of major. Later, as a newspaperman in San Francisco, his acerbic wit and penchant for satire made him a significant force in its vibrant literary community. In 1913 he disappeared while traveling in Mexico, possibly a victim of the Mexican Civil war.
Rating: 4
Summary: Something for the reading around the campfire....
Comment: This small book contains 12 of Ambrose Bierce's short stories (The Eyes of the Panther, The Moonlit Road, The Boarded Window, The Man and the Snake, The Secret of Macarger's Gulch, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, A Psychological Shipwreck, A Holy Terror, John Bartine's Watch, Beyond the Wall, A Watcher by the Dead, and Moxon's Master). The stories cover ghosts, revenge, and otherworldly messages. This is by no means a definitive collection of Bierce's work, but it is a good, inexpensive introduction.
The stories are short and do not go into intense detail and background. These are compact and complete enough to be told around the campfire or just around the living room with the lights turned out. Bierce knows his reader and will often give the ending an unexpected twist.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth the read
Comment: This book showcases the fine writing talents of Ambrose Bierce, famous for his "Devil's Dictionary" among other things. These ghost stories are very fine and show a lot of thought and imagination. The title story in particular is extemely powerful in its perspective changes and genuine feeling of sadness experienced by the characters. I recommend this book and edition wholeheartedly.
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining ISBN: 0786707917 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 30 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Great Ghost Stories by John Grafton ISBN: 0486272702 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 30 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: A Bottomless Grave : and Other Victorian Tales of Terror by Hugh Lamb ISBN: 0486415902 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others by John Grafton ISBN: 0486404307 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories by J. Sheridan LeFanu ISBN: 048627795X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 12 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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