The Best of Ambrose Bierce

Contains:
[*In the Midst of Life*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973352W/In_the_Midst_of_Life)
**Soldiers**
"A Horseman in the Sky"
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863232W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge)
"Chickamauga"
"A Son of the Gods"
"One of the Missing"
"Killed at Resaca"
"The Affair at Coulter's Notch"
"The Coup de Grâce"
"Parker Adderson, Philosopher"
"An Affair of Outposts"
"The Story of a Conscience"
"One Kind of Officer"
"One Officer, One Man"
"George Thurston"
"The Mocking-Bird"
**Civilians**
"The Man Out of the Nose"
"An Adventure at Brownville"
"The Famous Gilson Bequest"
"The Applicant"
[The Eyes of the Panther](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084430W/The_Eyes_of_the_Panther)
"The Man and the Snake"
"A Holy Terror"
"The Suitable Surroundings"
"The Boarded Window"
"An Heiress from Redhorse"
"The Eyes of the Panther"

[*Can Such Things Be?*](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8962061W/Can_Such_Things_Be)
The death of Halpin Frayser
The secret of Macarger’s Gulch
One summer night
The moonlit road
A diagnosis of death
Moxon’s master
A tough tussle
One of twins
The haunted valley
A jug of sirup
Staley Fleming’s hallucination
A resumed identity
A baby tramp
The night-doings at “Deadman’s”
Beyond the wall
A psychological shipwreck
The middle toe of the right foot
John Mortonson’s funeral
The realm of the unreal
John Bartine’s watch
[The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing)
Haïta the shepherd
[An Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W/An_Inhabitant_of_Carcosa)
The Stranger

*The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter*

*Negligible Tales*

*The Parenticide Club*