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Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico....

Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico. Fue un maestro en la recreación de tensas atmósferas desasosegantes en medio de las cuales detona repentinamente un horror «físico», absorbente y feroz....

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce nació el 24 de junio de 1842 en Ohio, Estados Unidos. De padres granjeros, Ambrose fue el décimo de 13 hijos. Luchó en la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, llegando al grado de comandante....

Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek de Ambrose Bierce es uno de los cuentos más famosos de la literatura estadounidense....

A federal officer's best friend is mortally wounded but still alive and suffering terribly. He just euthanized an injured horse, but the rules are quite different and specific regarding humans. They are alone with no sign of help for the dying man....

A child wanders away from home playing war and becomes lost in the woods. He falls asleep and finds himself in the midst of retreating wounded troops. He believes these wounded men to be part of his game until he arrives at his home....

A friend of the narrator, a very brave but sometimes reckless lieutenant, is killed in action. The narrator becomes the possessor of a letter that he returns to the sender after the war ends. He finds the sender of the letter to be a very beautiful, sophisticated, but self-centered woman....

This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier. Ambrose Bierce wrote many fictional short stories about the Civil War. This is his experience at Shiloh....

Award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge a short story by Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"....

Originally published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1891 as "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" and retitled in Britain as "In the Midst of Life", this audiobook is a collection of 11 short stories from the tales of civilians....