Title: A Watcher by the Dead
Description: In San Francisco, three physicians discuss man's hereditary, and superstitious, fear of the dead. Dr. Mancher wonders if it is, indeed, universal. Dr. Helberson says it is; it is all a matter of circumstance. And what would happen if a man were locked up with a corpse overnight.


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Contained in:

 - [The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863244W/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_Ambrose_Bierce)
 - [Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973339W/Ghost_and_Horror_Stories_of_Ambrose_Bierce)
 - [A Horseman in the Sky / A Watcher by the Dead / The Man and the Snake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863214W/A_Horseman_in_the_Sky_A_Watcher_by_the_Dead_The_Man_and_the_Snake)
 - [In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15369595W/In_the_Midst_of_Life)
 - [In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084540W/In_the_Midst_of_Life_Tales_of_Soldiers_and_Civilians)
 - [The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863216W/The_Moonlit_Road_and_Other_Ghost_and_Horror_Stories)
 - [Tales of Soldiers & Civilians](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16048306W/Tales_of_Soldiers_Civilians)
 - [Tales of Soldiers and Civilians](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863262W)
Subjects: fiction, literature, American literature, short stories
Places: San Francisco
People: Dr. Helberson, Dr. Mancher
Time periods: 19th century