Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

By Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

“Present at a Hanging, and other Ghost Stories” collects some of Ambrose Bierce’s finest tales of the supernatural and eerie side of life. Regarded by his 19th century peers as a master of the English language, his economical yet florid style shines in these compact stories concerning time, war, and impossible events. Mentioned in the same breath as Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, Bierce is thought to be a master of short horror fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Sep 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781974997572

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction.

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Reviews for Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

[lydiasbooks · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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.

[mstrust · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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.

[aliceanna-1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

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.