Bierce
Ambrose (Gwin·nett) [gwi-net], /gwɪˈnɛt/, 1842–1914?, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.
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The word “Carcosa,” which Chambers borrowed from Ambrose Bierce, and which later showed up in the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Here he picks his five favorite horror novels, from Ambrose Bierce to Stephen King.
Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics | Carsten Stroud | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDrabelle writes about all this, but only to brush it aside and insist that Bierce was some sort of morally rigorous truth teller.
Occupy Railroads: Dennis Drabelle’s ‘The Great American Railroad War’ | Eric Herschthal | August 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSo why did Bierce, finally, in 1896, become a populist champion?
Occupy Railroads: Dennis Drabelle’s ‘The Great American Railroad War’ | Eric Herschthal | August 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut this to Bierce was mostly "journalism, a thing so low that it cannot be mentioned in the same breath with literature."
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce
A partial answer to both questions is to be found in a certain discord between Bierce and his setting.
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceBierce, paradoxically, combined the bizarre in substance, the severely restrained and compressed in form.
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceBut to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceAs a satirist Bierce was the best America has produced,xxiv perhaps the best since Voltaire.
The Letters of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for Bierce
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Ambrose (Gwinett). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)
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