The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce

The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce, edited by Mike Ashley / From the British Library's "Tales of the Weird" series / ISBN 9780712354974 / 318-page paperback published in 2023 / minor wear from inbound shipping *** Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch. Seen by contemporaries as a natural successor to Edgar Allan Poe but with the added dimensions of a man who had witnessed true horror fighting in some of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Ambrose Bierce was one of America’s leading convention-defying writers, critics and essayists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – but still remains relatively unknown by many fans of the genre. This new collection not only brings together some of Bierce’s best and most unusual stories (such as ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, ‘The Moonlit Road’ and ‘The Death of Halpin