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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians [19 stories]	Ambrose Bierce	There are multiple collections with this title. This collection contains: Soldiers [10 stories] A Horseman in the Sky -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1486319…	OL14863262W
American 24-Karat Gold	Yvonne Collioud Sisko,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Kate Chopin,Jack London	Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4…	OL15132668W
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw	W. W. Jacobs,Edith Wharton,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Saki	Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibr…	OL15646130W
Great Ghost Stories	Betty Ann Schwartz,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe	[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) by Edgar Allan Poe A GHOST STORY by Mark Twain THE SECRET OF THE GROWING GOLD by Bram Stoker THE OPEN WINDOW by Saki CAPTAIN MURDERER AN…	OL16041642W
Tales of Soldiers & Civilians [28 stories]	Ambrose Bierce	28 stories: A horseman in the sky -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) A son of the Gods -- One of the missing -- …	OL16048306W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]	Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors	Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombe…	OL16481148W
The Norton anthology of short fiction--Sixth Shorter Edition	Антон Павлович Чехов,Richard Bausch,Ambrose Bierce,Margaret Atwood,Richard Bausch,R. V. Cassill	A bestseller from first publication, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction has been adopted in over 750 schools in its Fifth Edition. From the start, it has offered students the writer's voice, pure …	OL16640908W
Philosophy. A text with readings--Eleventh edition	Ambrose Bierce,Manuel G. Velasquez	Readings include: [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)	OL16986464W
Relatos cortos de terror	Ambrose Bierce,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,Carlos Solana,Pedro Antonio de Alarcón,Théophile Gautier,Manuel Yañez,Victoria Robbins	Contains: La mujer india / Bram Stoker ¿Fue un sueño? / Guy de Maupassant La mujer alta / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón El desconocido / Ambrose Bierce La muerte de Halpyn Frayser / Ambrose B…	OL17671115W
The Horse Story Megapack	Katherine Mayo,F. Anstey,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,Bret Harte,Henry Lawson,William Henry Harrison Murray,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Butler Yeats,Adam White,Amy Steedman,William Dean Howells,Jonathan Swift,Anna Sewell,Thomas Bingley,John Hay,Robert Reginald,Sewell Ford,George Bird Grinnell,Voltaire,Djuna Barnes,H. Beam Piper,A. B. Paterson,Plutarch,Eugene Field,William Hope Hodgson,Mark E. Burgess	The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it'…	OL19336173W
The Damned Thing	Ambrose Bierce	"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Town Topics on December 7, 1893.	OL20084265W
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians [30 stories]	Ambrose Bierce	30 Stories: The Suitable Surroundings A Tough Tussle An Inhabitant of Carcosa The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot Haita The Shepherd A Horseman In The Sky [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](ht…	OL20084540W
The Norton Introduction to Fiction--Fourth Edition	Richard Connell,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,James Joyce,Spencer Holst,Kate Chopin,Gabriel García Márquez,Jerome Beaty,Alice Munro	The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst No one's a mystery / Elizabeth Tallent The jewelry / Guy de Maupassant [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe Sonny'…	OL20501950W
The Best war stories	Arthur Conan Doyle,Ambrose Bierce,Naomi Mitchison	Contains thirty stories by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, James M. Cain, Rudyard Kipling, Geoffrey Household, James A. Michener, and Irwin Shaw.	OL24739402W
Great American Ghost Stories	Peattie, Elia Wilkinson,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Bill Bowers	Collection contains: The crime of Micah Rood / by Elia W. Peattie -- The devil and Tom Walker / by Washington Irving -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/A…	OL26370801W
The Lock and Key Library -- American	Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Julian Hawthorne	F. MARION CRAWFORD (1854-) By the Waters of Paradise MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1862-) The Shadows on the Wall MELVILLE D. POST (1871-) The Corpus Delicti AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-) An Heiress from …	OL27968912W
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James	The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the…	OL3085486W
The Nightmare Reader	John Gawsworth,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Washington Irving,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Arthur C. Clarke,Edgar Allan Poe,Елена Петровна Блаватская,Montague Summers,Thomas De Quincey,Algernon Blackwood,Lord Dunsany,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Aleister Crowley,Peter Haining,Arthur Machen,Montague Rhodes James,Lafcadio Hearn,August Derleth,Matthew Lewis,C.F. Hoffman	CONTENTS: Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley Dream state. …	OL3151660W
Classic American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Vincent Foster Hopper	Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The ambitious guest ; [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) ; Ethan Brand ; Endicott and the Red Cross / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The…	OL3360282W
Creepy Stories	Ambrose Bierce,Edgar Allan Poe,Fred Urquhart	Hugh Walpole ; The snow -- The tarn -- A little ghost -- Mrs. Lunt -- Arthur Machen ; The Islington mystery -- The cosy room -- Opening the door -- Munitions of war -- Flavia Richardson ; The…	OL4507297W