Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914?)

From The Devil's Dictionary: Love - A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Diplomacy - The art and business of lying for one's country. Alone - In bad company. Birth - The first and direst of all disasters. Patience - A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Monday - In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game. War - A by-product of the arts of peace. Happiness - An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Novel - A short story padded.

Internet Resource: The Ambrose Bierce Site

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HOPPENSTAND, Gary. “Ambrose Bierce and the Transformation of the Gothic Tale in the Nineteenth Century American Periodical” (pp. 220-38). In Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America, eds. Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press , 1995.

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JOSHI, S.T. and David E. SCHULTZ. Ambrose Bierce: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

LLOYD SMITH, Allan. “Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)” (pp. 23-25). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

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RUBENS, Philip M. “The Gothic Foundations of Ambrose Bierce’s Fiction.” [GGI: 1748]. 

STARK, Cruce. “The Color of ‘The Damned Thing’: The Occult as the Suprasensational.” In The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. [GGII: 1004]. 

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