Title: The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce
First published: 1977
Description: Collection contains:
Stories.	
A psychological shipwreck --	
Chickamauga --	
[Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)
A horseman in the sky --	
One of the missing --	
A wireless message --	
The stranger --	
The man and the snake --	
The coup de grâce --	
Curried cow --	
The secret of Macarger's Gulch --	
A resumed identity --	
One kind of officer --	
One summer night --	
Three and one are one --	
The death of Halpin Frayser --	
John Bartine's watch --	
Staley Felming's hallucination --	
Oil of dog --	
The hypnotist --	
The difficulty of crossing a field --	
An arrest --	
Moxon's master --	
Killed at Resaca --	
Haïta the shepherd --	
Present at a hanging --	
[Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W)
One officer, one man --	
[Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W)
Fables. The man with no enemies --	
The lifesaver --	
Saint and sinner --	
Saint and soul --	
The lassoed bear --	
The Australian grasshopper --	
The discontented malefactor --	
Two poets --	
The austere governor --	
The reform school board --	
The witch's steed --	
Legislator and soap --	
The tried assassin --	
The bumbo of Jiam --	
The city of political distinction --	
The tolerant sovereign --	
A little learning --	
The flying machine --	
The incredulous subordinate --	
The statue at Bumboogle --	
Two politicians --	
A faulty performance --	
A defective petition --	
The reformed anarchist --	
Patriot and banker --	
A hasty settlement --	
The crimson candle --	
The foolish woman --	
The fugitive office --	
The eligible son-in-law --	
Highwayman and traveler --	
Policeman and citizen --	
Moral principle and material interest --	
The dutiful son --	
A matter of taste --	
The fabulist --	
Two of the pious --	
The secret of happiness --	
Atonement --	
A part of the wages --	
Sheep and lion --	
Officer and thug --	
Famine versus pestilence --	
The inconsolable widow --	
The mysterious word --	
A plucked goose --	
The tyrant frog --	
Widow and soldier --	
Two sons --	
Consolation --	
The seeker for simplicity --	
Revelation --	
Disappointment --	
The justice and his accuser --	
Wolf and tortoise --	
Alarm and pride --	
Environment --	
A causeway --	
A talisman --	
The shadow of the leader --	
A radical parallel --	
Physicians two --	
The thistles upon the grave --	
Kangaroo and zebra --	
The honest cadi --	
The overlooked factor --	
The returned Californian --	
The no case --	
Two of the damned --	
Religious of error --	
The humble peasant --	
Judge and rash act --	
Deceased and heirs --	
An optimist --	
The compassionate physician --	
A forfeited right --	
Revenge --	
Man and wart --	
An unspeakable imbecile --	
At heaven's gate --	
Fogy and sheik --	
Sportsman and squirrel --	
No irregularity --	
A transposition --	
Old man and pupil --	
Two footpads --	
Dog and doctore --	
The monk and the hangman's daughter.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, first-person narrative, lynx, owls, Manners and customs
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Carcosa
People: Peyton Farquhar, Hugh Morgan, William Harker
Time periods: 1861-65
LC classification: PS1097 .A6 1977