Title: The best of Ambrose Bierce [69 stories]
First published: 1946
Description: Contains:
[*In the Midst of Life*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973352W/In_the_Midst_of_Life)
**Soldiers**
"A Horseman in the Sky"
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)
"Chickamauga"
"A Son of the Gods"
"One of the Missing"
"Killed at Resaca"
"The Affair at Coulter's Notch"
"The Coup de Grâce"
"Parker Adderson, Philosopher"
"An Affair of Outposts"
"The Story of a Conscience"
"One Kind of Officer"
"One Officer, One Man"
"George Thurston"
"The Mocking-Bird"
**Civilians**
"The Man Out of the Nose"
"An Adventure at Brownville"
"The Famous Gilson Bequest"
"The Applicant"
[Watcher by the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084267W)
"The Man and the Snake"
"A Holy Terror"
"The Suitable Surroundings"
"The Boarded Window"
"An Heiress from Redhorse"
[Eyes of the Panther](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084430W)

[*Can Such Things Be?*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8962061W/Can_Such_Things_Be)
The death of Halpin Frayser
The secret of Macarger’s Gulch
One summer night
The moonlit road
A diagnosis of death
Moxon’s master
A tough tussle
One of twins
The haunted valley
A jug of sirup
Staley Fleming’s hallucination
A resumed identity
A baby tramp
The night-doings at “Deadman’s”
Beyond the wall
A psychological shipwreck
The middle toe of the right foot
John Mortonson’s funeral
The realm of the unreal
John Bartine’s watch
[The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing)
Haïta the shepherd
[An Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W/An_Inhabitant_of_Carcosa)
The Stranger

*The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter*

*Negligible Tales*

*The Parenticide Club*
Subjects: Short stories, Horror & Supernatural Fiction, History, Fiction, United States Civil War, Classic Literature, hanging, Confederacy, Union, Juvenile audience, civil war, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, literature, American literature, first-person narrative, lynx, owls, werepanthers, spirit possession, panthers
Places: Macarger’s Gulch, Carcosa, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, San Francisco
People: Halpin Frayser, Staley Fleming, John Mortonson, John Bartine, Peyton Farquhar, Irene Marlowe, Jenner Brenning, Charles Marlowe, Hugh Morgan, William Harker, Dr. Helberson, Dr. Mancher
Time periods: 19th century, 1861-65