Can Such Things be? - Couverture souple

Bierce, Ambrose

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853265705 ISBN 13 : 9781853265709

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This work is a collection of tales of the uncanny and of the effects of the supernatural horror. Several are concerned with episodes of the American Civil War and the California frontier. The tales are full of psychological realism which accentuate Bierce's sardonic humour.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce

24 tales of the supernatural penned by the Master of the Mysterious. From ghosts looking for revenge, long lost lovers that roam the in-between realm of shadows, Can Such Things Be? is a compendium of the strange and the supernatural.
This 'special' edition contains the original Denneker (De Nekker) engravings from the 1544 Augsberb version of the 'Dance of Death' depicting Death himself walking among mortals while he beckons them to their graves - a rare book referred to twice by Bierce in 'Can Such Things Be'. So turn the lights down low, pour yourself a drink, and prepare to be taken into a world that only the brave or the foolish dare go.

• The death of Halpin Frayser
• The secret of Macarger’s Gulch
• One summer night
• The moonlit road
• A diagnosis of death
• Moxon’s master
• A tough tussle
• One of twins
• The haunted valley
• A jug of sirup
• Staley Fleming’s hallucination
• A resumed identity
• Hazen’s brigade
• A baby tramp
• The night-doings at “Deadman’s”
• A story that is untrue
• Beyond the wall
• A psychological shipwreck
• The middle toe of the right foot
• John Mortonson’s funeral
• The realm of the unreal
• John Bartine’s watch
• A story by a physician
• The damned thing
• Haïta the shepherd
• An inhabitant of Carcosa
• The Stranger

Biographie de l'auteur

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?), American journalist, short-story writer, and poet, was born in Ohio, served in the Civil War, and then settled in San Francisco. He wrote for Hearst's Examiner, his wit and satire making him the literary dictator of the Pacific coast and strongly influencing many writers. He disappeared into war-torn Mexico in 1913.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853265705
• ISBN 13: 9781853265709
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible