<div>A collection of short fiction portraying all phases of the war from Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, and others. Civil War Memories is a compilation of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800s, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history and in the lives of those who lived through it. Authors include: Bret Harte, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, W. C. Morrow, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Albion W. Tourgée, George Cary Eggleston, Mark Twain, Henry James, Grace E. King, Harold Frederic, John William De Forest, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson Page, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edward Lucas White, Henry Timrod.</div>

Civil War Memories

<div>Classic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to this volume: &ldquo;Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.&rdquo; The deceased and their mysterious spirits prove to be a source of endless fascination in the stories collected here, including Leonid Andreyev&rsquo;s biblical speculation Lazarus; Fitz-James O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s gothic evocation of a New York City boarding house, What Was It?; Mary. E. Wilkins Freeman&rsquo;s haunting narrative of three sisters, The Shadows on the Wall; and others.</div>

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Famous Modern Ghost Stories

<div>This classic short story of a Southern plantation owner facing execution by Union soldiers is &ldquo;a flawless example of American genius&rdquo; (Kurt Vonnegut). Alabama planter Peyton Farquhar was loyal to the Confederate cause. Now, as the Union Army overtakes the South, he is brought to the edge of a railroad bridge&mdash;hands tied behind his back&mdash;sentenced to hang for attempting to burn down the bridge on which he stands. As he ponders the events both large and small that brought him to this moment, Farquhar also contemplates a daring escape. First published in 1890, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is one of the most celebrated short stories in American literature. Included in Ambrose Bierce&rsquo;s anthology, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, its unique structure and stream of consciousness style have inspired numerous adaptions and countless imitators.</div>

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

<div>This timeless work of biting satirical wit presents an A-to-Z lexicon of common English terms, and what we actually mean by them. The renowned author Ambrose Bierce produced classic works in a range of genres, from fantasy and horror to realistic tales drawn from his experience in the Civil War. Among his most beloved books is The Devil&rsquo;s Dictionary, a work of wry humor that remains one of the funniest assessments of American language and manners. Through epigrams, essays, vignettes, and verse, Bierce skewers religion, class, politics, romance, and more. Included, you&rsquo;ll find such pithy definitions as: &middot; Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to. &middot; Bride, n.: A woman with a great future behind her. &middot; Consult, v.: To seek another&#39;s approval of a course already decided on. And many others.</div>

The Devil's Dictionary

<div>Frightful fiction by masters from Lovecraft to Stoker to Crowley to Poe. Packed with stories selected and introduced by one of todays leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths and forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from: Aleister Crowley * Ambrose Bierce * Arthur Machen *Edgar Allan Poe * Robert W. Chambers * Ralph Adams Cram * H.P. Lovecraft * Dion Fortune * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton *Bram Stoker As Lon Milo DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows. Don&rsquo;t say we didn&rsquo;t warn you&hellip;</div>

The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

<div>The authors publishing under the Hellbender Books imprint have gathered together to produce a volume of short stories. Enjoy these spine-tingling tales of horror and suspense by established and emerging writers in the genre. Included in this volume:<ul><li><ul><li>Foreword &ndash; Thomas M. Malafarina</li><li>Introduction &ndash; Catherine Jordan</li><li>Parallelism &ndash; Thomas M. Malafarina</li><li>Panty Lines &ndash; Catherine Jordan</li><li>A Modern Fable &ndash; John B. Kachuba</li><li>Delerium Tremens &ndash; Kyle Alexander Romines</li><li>Chirurgeon &ndash; Chris Pisano &amp; Brian Koscienski</li><li>Suspect Number Twelve &ndash; Michael L. Hawley</li><li>Escalation &ndash; J. B. Toner</li><li>Chihuahuas &ndash; Will Falconer</li><li>The Mimics &ndash; Travis Leibert</li><li>Laney &ndash; Thomas M. Malafarina</li><li>Mean Streak &ndash; Catherine Jordan</li><li>Heaven Scent &ndash; John B. Kachuba</li><li>The Torment of the Crows &ndash; Kyle Alexander Romines</li><li>Icelus &ndash; Chris Pisano &amp; Brian Koscienski</li><li>The Day in the Life of a Navy Helicopter Pilot, 1989 &ndash; Michael L. Hawley</li><li>The Kindly Dark &ndash; J. B. Toner</li><li>The Hangin&#39; Tree &ndash; Thomas M. Malafarina</li><li>Burning For You &ndash; Will Falconer</li><li>... and a handful of horror classics</li><li>Biographies </li></ul></li></ul></div>

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