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A man stands on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama with a rope around his neck. The soldiers are in place. The captain nods. The sergeant steps aside.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A party of men are camped for the night in the Arizona desert, their fire burning low, when a stranger walks out of the darkness and sits down among them without a word of greeting. He tells them a story about four prospectors who came into that country...

Ambrose Bierce est un écrivain et journaliste américain, assez peu connu en France. Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du "Dictionnaire du Diable" et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment du genre fantastique. Bierce a écrit près d'une centaine de nouvelles, très souvent sur la mort de l'individu et son absurdité. Notamment les nouvelles du recueil Morts violentes consacré aux horreurs de la guerre de Sécession.

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own. Within this melting pot of styles, genres and wordplay one fact stands out: In the American short story, Literary tradition has a strong, vibrant and almost inclusive history, if you know where to look.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Henry Armstrong has been buried, yet he doesn’t quite feel dead. In the pitch-black confinement of his grave, he slowly grasps the absurdity of his situation, though his body lies sealed in a tight coffin beneath layers of fresh soil. Above him, on...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Haïta is a young shepherd who has lived all his life in a green valley at the foot of the mountains, keeping his flock, honouring the god Hastur and asking nothing more than the days bring. One evening a beautiful maiden appears beside him on the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. John Bartine is pleasant company and good at cards, but he has one peculiarity his friends have learned not to question: between eleven o’clock and midnight he will not look at the time, and he becomes strange, irritable and afraid. Pressed by a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. John Mortonson is dead. His body lies in the parlour in an open coffin with a glass plate over the face, and the mourners file past in the heavy air of a summer afternoon. His widow and daughter sit close by, weeping as the service goes on around them...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Driving home from a country visit on a July evening, a doctor meets a man on the dark road near Stony Creek: a strange, courteous stranger who speaks of hypnotism and of the power of one mind to govern another’s senses entirely. What follows is a...

First published in 1909, this compact yet powerful manual exposes the most common blunders of language and style, offering Bierce’s signature blend of precision, humor, and biting critique. From misused words and illogical phrases to lazy constructions and pompous diction, Bierce spares no one in his mission to defend the integrity of English prose.

Selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.

Die Kurzgeschichte ist das Genre der Vielfalt. Sie kann alles sein: heiter, abenteuerlich, nachdenklich, frivol, erotisch, schauerlich, satirisch und vieles andere mehr. Sie ist immer spannend und auf den Punkt genau erzählt. Lassen Sie sich von unserer Auswahl weltberühmter Kurzgeschichten in unbekannte und bunte Welten entführen.

This collection comprises another 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From White's seminal body-shocker, Lukundoo, through to Howard's dastardly Pigeons from Hell, and Benson's nightmarish The Room in The Tower. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable.

A veritable library of listening in this splendid collection of American Short Stories! This boxed set includes all stories from Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the summer of 1874, a young American merchant sails from Liverpool to New York aboard the ship Morrow. Among the few passengers is a quiet young woman travelling with her guardian, and from the first moment he sees her he feels an inexplicable bond...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Una colección de doce historias breves del famoso escritor Ambrose Bierce. Este volumen reúne sus cuentos característicos, narrados en español con voz de IA. Las obras de Bierce se destacan por su ingenio irónico, giros inesperados y reflexiones...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Timeless Psychological Masterpieces by America's Greatest Storyteller Ambrose Bierce revolutionised the short story form, and these eight tales prove why. Each story operates on multiple levels—as entertainment, as philosophical inquiry, and as...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a stormy night in San Francisco, the narrator visits Mohun Dampier, an old friend he has not seen in years. He finds him living alone in a strange tower on a hill, pale, aged beyond his years and waiting for something. Then a soft knocking comes from...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a quiet bridge in northern Alabama, Peyton Farquhar stands condemned to death. As Confederate soldiers prepare to execute him, his thoughts turn to his wife, his home, and the events that brought him to this final moment. Ambrose Bierce’s An...

"Um habitante de Carcosa" foi publicado, pela primeira vez, em 25 de dezembro de 1886, no número de Natal do San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) foi um autor, editor e jornalista norte-americano que ficou conhecido pelos seus contos...