Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.

1 What I Saw of Shiloh
2 Four Days in Dixie
3 A Horseman in the Sky
4 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
5 Chickamauga
6 A Son of the Gods
7 One of the Missing
8 Killed at Resaca
9 The Affair at Coulter's Notch
10 The Coup de Grâce
11 Parker Adderson, Philosopher
12 An Affair of Outposts
13 The Story of a Conscience
14 One Kind of Officer
15 George Thurston
16 The Mocking-bird

Journalist, short story writer, and satirist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was equally adept in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to poetry to political commentary. Bierce's fiction is particularly distinguished by its realistic depictions of the author's Civil War experiences.