Title: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs
Description: Contains:

[In the Midst of Life (Tale of Soldiers and Civilians)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973352W)

Soldiers
A Horseman in the Sky
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/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
A Lady from Red Horse
[The Eyes of the Panther](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084430W/The_Eyes_of_the_Panther)

Can Such Things Be?

[Can Such Things Be?](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973356W)
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 Watc
[Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W)
Haýýti the Shepherd
[Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W)
The Stranger

The Ways of Ghosts
Present at a Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest

Soldier-Folk
A Man with Two Lives
Three and One Are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions

Some Haunted Houses
The Isle of Pines
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
At Old Man Eckert’s
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
The Thing at Nolan

“Mysterious Disappearances”
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
An Unfinished Race
Charles Ashmore’s Trail

The Devil’s Dictionary

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

Selected Stories
Mrs. Dennison’s Head
The Man Overboard
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
A Bottomless Grave
For the Ahkoond
My Favorite Murder
Oil of Dog
Ashes of the Beacon
Subjects: Social life and customs, Humor, Journalists, Vocabulary, American Short stories, Dictionaries, English language, Fiction, American Authors, Personal narratives, Semantics, Biography, History, American wit and humor, Fiction, short stories (single author), Bierce, ambrose, 1842-1914, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Classic Literature, Short Stories, hanging, Confederacy, Union, American fiction, manners and customs, literature, American literature, werepanthers, spirit possession, panthers, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Juvenile audience, civil war, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, first-person narrative, lynx, owls, Criticism and interpretation, Paranormal fiction, Récits d'horreur, Nouvelles américaines, Fiction, horror
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, San Francisco, Carcosa
People: Peyton Farquhar, Irene Marlowe, Jenner Brenning, Charles Marlowe, Dr. Helberson, Dr. Mancher, Hugh Morgan, William Harker
Time periods: 19th century