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    Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
    Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
    Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
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    Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

    By Ambrose Bierce

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    Ambrose Bierce

    Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce’s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Boarded Window,” “Chickamauga,” and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa’s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.

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    • 3/5
      This is a collection of ghost stories, most just three to six or seven pages long. In Bierce's ghost stories, there tends to be a really interesting set-up, a bit of a chilling ghostly sighting, then an anti-climactic ending. So you'll have a little town, a house that everyone knows is haunted, a person or pair of witnesses who see a ghost walking in and out the house, then a refusal to speak of it and that's the end. So many of the stories were of this formula that things got repetitive, yet it's Bierce, so it's still worthy.
    • 1/5
      Aaarrrrgggghhhhh! Absolutely completely devoid of any life or interest. I'm sure that the conceits he used were, at the time, new and fresh and all that, but his writing style was awful and the conceits he did use now look quaint and old-fashioned (not in the good way). His ghost stories reminded me of the old hook hanging on the car door canard. As told by someone who didn't know how to tell a story. Blech.
    • 3/5
      I found this interesting. Not something I would generally read, but it was an LT member giveaway that looked good. It's a lovely edition and a short, quick, fascinating read. The stories are very short. I've not really come across this style before - halfway between fiction and non-fiction.

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