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This collection of eerie stories explores the darkest regions of the mind. Included in the selections are Bierce's most famous tale, "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", "A Watcher By the Dead", "The Death of Halpin Frayser", "A Cold Greeting", "A Wireless Message", "An Arrest", "The Isle of Pines", "A Fruitless Assignment", "At Old Man Eckert's", "The Spook House", "The Other Lodgers", "The Thing At Nolan", "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field", "An Unfinished Race", "Charles Ashmore's Trail", "Science to the Front", "The Famous Gilson Bequest", and more.

Scary Stories for Kids presents two classic chillers certain to spark the imaginations of boys and ghouls everywhere. "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" tells the story of a murderer and the ghostly image of the victim's loyal dog that seeks unspeakable revenge. "The Bottle Imp" recounts the story of Keawe, a young Hawaiian who comes into possession of a bottle that grants his every wish, but at a cost that may be higher than he wants to pay.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’. Success and further works including poetry followed.

Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and...

An eclectic compendium of the finest short fiction of the last 150 years, featuring works by Paul Theroux, Joseph Conrad, James Ellroy, Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A party of men are camped for the night in the Arizona desert, their fire burning low, when a stranger walks out of the darkness and sits down among them without a word of greeting. He tells them a story about four prospectors who came into that country...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Haïta is a young shepherd who has lived all his life in a green valley at the foot of the mountains, keeping his flock, honouring the god Hastur and asking nothing more than the days bring. One evening a beautiful maiden appears beside him on the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. John Mortonson is dead. His body lies in the parlour in an open coffin with a glass plate over the face, and the mourners file past in the heavy air of a summer afternoon. His widow and daughter sit close by, weeping as the service goes on around them...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. John Bartine is pleasant company and good at cards, but he has one peculiarity his friends have learned not to question: between eleven o’clock and midnight he will not look at the time, and he becomes strange, irritable and afraid. Pressed by a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Driving home from a country visit on a July evening, a doctor meets a man on the dark road near Stony Creek: a strange, courteous stranger who speaks of hypnotism and of the power of one mind to govern another’s senses entirely. What follows is a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a stormy night in San Francisco, the narrator visits Mohun Dampier, an old friend he has not seen in years. He finds him living alone in a strange tower on a hill, pale, aged beyond his years and waiting for something. Then a soft knocking comes from...

Behind every battle fought during the American Civil War stood ordinary men and women whose lives were forever changed by extraordinary circumstances. In these seventeen classic stories and historical sketches, young soldiers confront the harsh realities of war, families are divided by loyalty...

The American Civil War was fought not only by armies, but by extraordinary individuals whose courage, ingenuity, and determination shaped the course of history. In these seventeen classic stories and historical accounts, daring raiders steal a locomotive deep behind enemy lines. Prisoners tunnel...

A chilling collection of classic cosmic horror that explores humanity’s terrifying place in an indifferent universe. Essential Cosmic Horror Story Collection brings together three unforgettable tales of the unknown: “The Colour Out of Space” by H. P. Lovecraft, “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce, and “The Man Who Found Out” by Algernon Blackwood.

A man stands on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama with a rope around his neck. The soldiers are in place. The captain nods. The sergeant steps aside.

A dead man lies on a cabin table. A witness has a story so strange he first wrote it up as fiction. And the coroner has a diary he won't let anyone read. In the California hills, Hugh Morgan has been torn apart in a field of wild oats. His friend William Harker saw it happen, and he swears to the inquest that nothing visible touched him. The local jury would rather blame a mountain lion. But Morgan's diary tells another story: a dog that barks at empty air, stars that vanish along a ridge at night, fresh footprints by morning, and a hunter who would not be driven from his land.

A chilling tale of terror.

Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you 25 tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination.