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Hippocampus Press - Collected fiction volume 2: tales of the civil war and tales of the grotesque, paperback/ambrose bierce

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It took Ambrose Bierce some time to process his Civil War experiences and transmute them into fiction, but when he did so, beginning in the 1880s, he produced some of the most memorable stories to emerge out of that conflict.

Many of these tales border on the weird, as in the celebrated Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a masterful tale of psychological terror; the grisly Chickamauga; One of the Missing, a grim account of the fear of death; and A Horseman in the Sky, wh.