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The Damned Thing and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce (Oldstyle Tales Press, January 23, 2019, 978-1-79455-749-9, $21.20, 258pp, tp, co) [edited by M. Grant Kellermeyer]
Collection of 38 stories, edited, annotated and illustrated by M. Grant Kellermeyer.
Details taken from Table of Contents.

10 · Concerning What You Are About to Read… · M. Grant Kellermeyer · in

· Haunted Houses: Dark Happenings in Evil Places

21 · Some Haunted Houses · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_21 · The Isle of Pines · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 26 1888

_25 · A Fruitless Assignment · Ambrose Bierce · ss Current Literature July 1889, as “An Assignment”

_28 · A Vine on a House · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

_31 · At Old Man Eckert’s · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner November 17 1901

_32 · The Spook House · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 7 1889

_36 · The Other Lodgers · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine August 1907

_38 · The Thing at Nolan · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 2 1891, as “A Queer Story”

43 · The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave April 25 1891

51 · The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” · Ambrose Bierce · ss London Sketch-Book March 1874, as “The Strange Night-Doings at Deadman’s”

· Wartime Traumas: Grisly Tales of Men at War

59 · Soldier-Folk · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_59 · A Man with Two Lives · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

_61 · Three and One Are One · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1908

_64 · A Baffled Ambuscade · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine November 1906

_67 · Two Military Executions · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine November 1906

71 · Chickamauga · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 20 1889

79 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· Aggressive Ghosts: Cold Greetings from Beyond

91 · The Ways of Ghosts · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_91 · Present at a Hanging · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 24 1888

_93 · A Cold Greeting · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 26 1888

_94 · A Wireless Message · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

_97 · An Arrest · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

99 · The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1907

111 · The Middle-Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890

121 · The Death of Halpin Frayser · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave December 19 1891

139 · Beyond the Wall · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine December 1907

· Inhuman Encounters: Meetings with Otherworldly Invaders

147 · The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890

155 · The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897

165 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s”

176 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893

187 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891

195 · A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889

207 · The Suitable Surroundings · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 14 1889

· Stranger Things: Visions of a Mysterious Universe

215 · An Adventure at Brownville · Ambrose Bierce & Ina Lillian Peterson · ss San Francisco Examiner April 3 1892, as “An Occurrence at Brownville”

225 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

231 · Visions of the Night · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner July 24 1887

239 · John Bartine’s Watch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 22 1893

247 · Mysterious Disappearances · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_247 · The Difficulty of Crossing a Field · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_249 · An Unfinished Race · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_249 · Charles Ashmore’s Trail · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_252 · Science to the Front · Ambrose Bierce · ar The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume III by Ambrose Bierce, Neale, 1910

255 · Further Reading: Critical, Literary, and Biographical Works · M. Grant Kellermeyer · ms

Eyes of the Panther: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce (Jonathan Cape, 1928, 3/6d, 282pp, hc, co)

· Introduction · Martin Armstrong · in

· The Affair at Coulter’s Notch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 20 1889

· The Applicant · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave December 17 1892

· The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891

· Chickamauga · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 20 1889

· Coup de Grâce · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 30 1889

· Curried Cow · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tom Hood’s Comic Annual 1874, as by Dod Grile

· The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897

· George Thurston: Three Incidents in the Life of a Man · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wasp September 29 1883

· A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889

· An Imperfect Conflagration · Ambrose Bierce · vi The Wasp March 27 1886

· Killed at Resaca · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 5 1887

· The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890

· Mr. Swiddler’s Flip-Flap · Ambrose Bierce · ss Fun August 15 1874

· The Mocking-Bird · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner May 3 1891

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· One Kind of Officer · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 1 1893

· One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888

· Parker Adderson, Philosopher · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner February 22 1891

· A Providential Intimation · Ambrose Bierce · ss Fun March 7 1874

· A Shipwrecollection · Ambrose Bierce · ss (r)

· A Son of the Gods · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 29 1888

· The Story of a Conscience · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 1 1890

· The Suitable Surroundings · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 14 1889

· A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889

Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce (Dover, 1964, $1.00, 199pp, tp, co) [edited by E. F. Bleiler]

· Introduction · E. F. Bleiler · in

· The Death of Halpin Frayser · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave December 19 1891

· Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s”

· Beyond the Wall · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine December 1907

· The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893

· A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Ways of Ghosts · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

· Some Haunted Houses · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

· “Mysterious Disappearances” · Ambrose Bierce · gp San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_ · The Difficulty of Crossing a Field · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_ · An Unfinished Race · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_ · Charles Ashmore’s Trail · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

· The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890

· The Suitable Surroundings · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 14 1889

· The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897

· The Famous Gilson Bequest · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Argonaut October 26 1878

· An Adventure at Brownville · Ambrose Bierce & Ina Lillian Peterson · ss San Francisco Examiner April 3 1892, as “An Occurrence at Brownville”; given as by Ambrose Bierce alone.

· An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

· The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave April 25 1891

· The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1907

· The Haunted Valley · Ambrose Bierce · ss Overland Monthly July 1871

· A Jug of Sirup · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 17 1893

· Night Doings at “Deadman’s” · Ambrose Bierce · ss London Sketch-Book March 1874, as “The Strange Night-Doings at Deadman’s”

· The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890

· John Bartine’s Watch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 22 1893

· The Stranger · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine February 1909

· Visions of the Night · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner July 24 1887

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce (E.L.G. Steele, 1891, hc, co)
Publication date given as 1891, but probably published in early 1892.

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· A Tough Tussle · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner September 30 1888

· The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890

· A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889

· The Suitable Surroundings · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 14 1889

· An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

· The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891

· The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890

· Haïta the Shepherd · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave January 24 1891

· The Affair at Coulter’s Notch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 20 1889

· Chickamauga · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 20 1889

· Coup de Grâce · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 30 1889

· An Heiress from Redhorse · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 15 1891

· A Holy Terror · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wasp December 23 1882

· A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889

· Killed at Resaca · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 5 1887

· Parker Adderson, Philosopher · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner February 22 1891

· A Son of the Gods · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 29 1888

Three Tales of Horror by Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Louis Stevenson--- see under Edgar Allan Poe.

The Ways of Ghosts and Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce (The British Library, April 13, 2023, 978-0-7123-5497-4, £9.99, 320pp, tp, co) [British Library Tales of the Weird] [edited by Mike Ashley]

7 · Dark Thoughts · Mike Ashley · in

21 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889

30 · A Tough Tussle · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner September 30 1888

41 · A Resumed Identity · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine September 1908, as “The Man”

49 · One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888

65 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

78 · Mrs. Dennison’s Head · Ambrose Bierce · ss Fun July 12 1873

82 · A Jug of Sirup · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 17 1893

91 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886

96 · A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889

111 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890

123 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891

129 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893

141 · Bodies of the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_141 · That of Granny Magone · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

_143 · The Light Sleeper · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

_145 · The Mystery of Charles Farquharson · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

_147 · Dead and Gone · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

_148 · A Cold Night · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

_150 · A Creature of Habit · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner April 22 1888

153 · The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave April 25 1891

163 · The Death of Halpin Frayser · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave December 19 1891

184 · John Bartine’s Watch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 22 1893

192 · The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897

205 · Staley Fleming’s Hallucination · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine March 1906

209 · The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1907

222 · Beyond the Wall · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine December 1907

233 · Some Haunted Houses · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_235 · The Isle of Pines · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 26 1888

_241 · A Fruitless Assignment · Ambrose Bierce · ss Current Literature July 1889, as “An Assignment”

_245 · The Spook House · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 7 1889

_250 · The Thing at Nolan · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 2 1891, as “A Queer Story”

_256 · At Old Man Eckert’s · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner November 17 1901

_259 · A Vine on a House · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

_264 · The Other Lodgers · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine August 1907

269 · The Ways of Ghosts · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_271 · Present at a Hanging · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 24 1888

_274 · A Cold Greeting · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 26 1888

_277 · A Wireless Message · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

_280 · An Arrest · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905

283 · Mysterious Disappearances · Ambrose Bierce · gp (r)

_285 · The Difficulty of Crossing a Field · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_288 · An Unfinished Race · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_290 · Charles Ashmore’s Trail · Ambrose Bierce · ar San Francisco Examiner October 14 1888

_292 · Science to the Front · Ambrose Bierce · ar The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume III by Ambrose Bierce, Neale, 1910

295 · The Fate of Ambrose Bierce · Mike Ashley · aw

The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. ed. Kenneth Biggle & Donna Biggle Emerson--- see under Lloyd Biggle, Jr..

The Grandfather Rastin Mysteries by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (Crippen & Landru, April 2007, 978-1-932009-57-6, $19.00, 227pp, tp, co, cover by Barbara Mitchell) [Grandfather Rastin] [edited by Kenneth Biggle & Donna Biggle Emerson]
Collection of 14 Grandfather Rastin stories, two new. A hardcover edition (-56-9, $29.00) was announced but not seen. In the “Lost Classics” series.

7 · Introduction · Kenneth Biggle & Donna Biggle Emerson · in

9 · A Note on the Prefaces · [uncredited] · ms

11 · Preface to “The Knave of Hearts” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

12 · The Knave of Hearts [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1998

25 · Preface to “The Phantom Thief” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

26 · The Phantom Thief [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1968, as “Grandfather and the Phantom Thief”

46 · Preface to “The Mother Goose Murder” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

47 · The Mother Goose Murder [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1972, as “Grandfather and the Little Bone”

66 · Preface to “A Matter of Friendship” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

67 · A Matter of Friendship [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss

80 · Preface to “The Fabulous Fiddle” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

80 · The Fabulous Fiddle [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1963, as “Have You a Fortune in Your Attic?”

96 · Preface to “The Gentle Swindler” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

96 · The Gentle Swindler [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1960, as “Grandfather and the Gentle Swindler”

109 · Preface to “The Great Horseshoe Mystery” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

109 · The Great Horseshoe Mystery [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1962, as “Grandfather and the Great Horseshoe Mystery”

124 · Preface to “The Pair of Knaves” · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · is

124 · The Pair of Knaves [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965, as “Grandfather and the Labor Day Mystery”

140 · The Automation Mystery [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1969, as “Grandfather and the Automation Mystery”

152 · A Case of Heredity [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1959

161 · The Unmurdered Professor [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1964, as “The Great Alma Mater Mystery”

179 · The Lesser Thing [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1960, as “Grandfather Predicts a Murder”

199 · The Unasked Question [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1971, as “Grandfather and the Right Question”

220 · The Face Is Familiar [Grandfather Rastin] · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1957, as “The Greatest Robbery on Earth”

228 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi

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