The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

Works

Volumes published

Published during Bierce's lifetime

  • The Fiend's Delight (as by "Dod Grile"). (London: John Camden Hotten, 1873). Stories, satire, journalism, poetry.
  • Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California (as by "Dod Grile"). (London: Chatto & Windus, 1873). Stories, satire, epigrams, journalism.
  • Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (as by "Dod Grile"). (London and New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1874). Fables, stories, journalism.
  • (with Thomas A. Harcourt) The Dance of Death (as by "William Herman"). (San Francisco: H. Keller & Co., 1877). Satire.
  • Map of the Black Hills Region, Showing the Gold Mining District and the Seat of the Indian War (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1877). Nonfiction: map.
  • Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891; many subsequent editions, some under the title In the Midst of Life). Fiction: stories.
  • (with G. A. Danziger) The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co., 1892). Fiction: novel (translation of Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden by Richard Voss).
  • Black Beetles in Amber (San Francisco and New York: Western Authors Publishing, 1892). Poetry.
  • Can Such Things Be? (New York: Cassell, 1893). Fiction: stories.
  • How Blind Is He (San Francisco: F. Soulé Campbell, c. 1896). Poetry.
  • Fantastic Fables (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899). Fiction: fables.
  • Shapes of Clay (San Francisco: W. E. Wood George Sterling, 1903). Poetry.
  • The Cynic's Word Book (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906). Satire.
  • A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky (San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1907). Fiction: stories.
  • Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults (New York and Washington, D.C.: Neale Publishing, 1909). Nonfiction: precise use of words.
  • The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays S. O. Howes, ed. (San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909). Collected journalism.
  • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (New York and Washington, D.C.: Neale Publishing, 1909–1912):
    • Volume I: Ashes of the Beacon
    • Volume II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
    • Volume III: Can Such Things Be?
    • Volume IV: Shapes of Clay
    • Volume V: Black Beetles in Amber
    • Volume VI: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter; Fantastic Fables
    • Volume VII: The Devil's Dictionary
    • Volume VIII: Negligible Tales; On with the Dance; Epigrams
    • Volume IX: Tangential Views
    • Volume X: The Opinionator
    • Volume XI: Antepenultimata
    • Volume XII: In Motley

Published posthumously

Fiction
  • My Favorite Murder (New York: Curtis J. Kirch, 1916)
  • A Horseman in the Sky: A Watcher by the Dead: The Man and the Snake (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1920)
  • Ten Tales (London: First Edition Club, 1925)
  • Fantastic Debunking Fables (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1926)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1926)
  • The Horseman in the Sky and Other Stories (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1926)
  • Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • Tales of Haunted Houses (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • My Favorite Murder and Other Stories (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • Ghost and Horror Stories, E. F. Bleiler, ed. (New York: Dover, 1964)
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins, ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970)
  • The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce, Edward Wagenknecht, ed. (Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House, 1977)
  • For the Ahkoond (West Warwick, RI: Necromomicon Press, 1980)
  • A Horseman in the Sky (Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1983)
  • One Summer Night
  • One of the Missing: Tales of the War Between the States (Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1991)
  • Civil War Stories (New York: Dover, 1994)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (London: Penguin, 1995)
  • The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Mineola, NY: Dover, 1998)
  • A Deoderizer of Dead Dogs, Carl Japikse, ed. (Alpharetta, GA: Enthea Press, 1998)
  • The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, ed. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2000)
  • The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition (3 vols.), S. T. Joshi, Lawrence I. Berkove, and David E. Schultz, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2006)
  • Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale, S. T. Joshi, ed. (Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2013)
Satire
  • Extraordinary Opinions on Commonplace Subjects (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • A Cynic Looks at Life (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce, George Barkin, ed. (New York: Dover, 1963)
  • The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 2000)
Poetry
  • An Invocation (San Francisco: John Henry Nash/Book Club of California, 1928)
  • The Lion and the Lamb (Berkeley: Archetype Press, 1939)
  • A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce , Donald Sidney-Fryer, ed. (West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher 1980)
  • Poems of Ambrose Bierce, M. E. Grenander, ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1995)
Journalism
  • Selections from Prattle, Carroll D. Hall, ed. (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1936)
  • The Ambrose Bierce Satanic Reader, Ernest Jerome Hopkins, ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968)
  • Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898 to 1901, Lawrence I. Berkove, ed. (Ann Arbor: Delmas, 1980)
Autobiography
  • Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography (Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, c. 1927)
  • Battle Sketches (London: First Editions Club, 1930)
  • A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1998)
Collections of mixed types of content
  • The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce (New York: Citadel Press, 1946)
  • Ambrose Bierce's Civil War, William McCann, ed. (Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1956)
  • The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader, Brian St. Pierre, ed. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Selected Works (Des Moines: Perfection Form Co., 1991)
  • Shadows of Blue and Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Brian M. Thomsen, ed. (New York: Forge, 2002)
  • Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Russell Duncan and David J. Klooster, eds. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2002)
  • Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs, S. T. Joshi, ed. (Boone, IA: Library of America, 2011)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 1: 1867–1869, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 2: 1869–1870, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 3: 1870–1871, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 4: 1871–1872, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 5: 1872–1873, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 6: 1873–1874, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 7: 1874–1875, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 8: 1875–1876, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 9: 1877–1878, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 10: 1878–1880, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 11: 1881, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 12: 1882, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 13: 1883, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 14: 1833–1884, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 15: 1884–1885, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 16: 1885, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
  • Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 17: 1886, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2023)
Letters
  • Containing Four Ambrose Bierce Letters (New York: Charles Romm, 1921)
  • The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, Bertha Clark Pope [and George Sterling, uncredited], eds. (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1922)
  • Twenty-one Letters of Ambrose Bierce, Samuel Loveman, ed. (Cleveland: George Kirk, 1922)
  • A Letter and a Likeness (n.p.: Harvey Taylor, [1930?])
  • Battlefields and Ghosts (Palo Alto: Harvest Press, 1931)
  • Ambrose Bierce: "My Dear Rearden": a Letter. (Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 1997)
  • A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds. (Columbus: Ohio State University, 2003)
  • My Dear Mac: Three Letters (Berkeley: Bancroft Library Press, 2006)

Short stories

Ambrose Bierce was a prolific writer of short fiction. He wrote 249 short stories,[92] 846 fables,[93] and more than 300 humorous Little Johnny stories.[94] The following list provides links to more information about notable stories by Bierce.[95]

War stories
  • Killed at Resaca (1887)
  • One of the Missing (1888)
  • A Tough Tussle (1888)
  • A Horseman in the Sky (1889)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
Supernatural stories
  • A Psychological Shipwreck (1879)
  • An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886)
  • An Unfinished Race (1888)
  • One of Twins (1888)
  • The Spook House (1889)
  • The Man and the Snake (1890)
  • The Realm of the Unreal (1890)
  • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1890)
  • The Boarded Window (1891)
  • The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891)
  • The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1891)
  • John Bartine's Watch (1893)
  • The Eyes of the Panther (1897)
  • The Moonlit Road (1907)
  • Beyond the Wall (1907)
Science fiction
  • The Damned Thing (1893)
  • Moxon's Master (1899)

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