Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

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Title: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, lacking (in) rash° fib busy wordsmith and insubordinate member of the fourth estate. His fiction showed a unadulterated tight-fisted cramped elegance ordinarily sprinkled with ingenious cynical comments on hominid organic deportment. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an assertive spectator with Pancho Villa's army in 1913/14.
(Summaries not later than Peter Yearsley) The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the fatigued and expiring. The spirits of the infertile unnecessary territory Colloq out cold to the living, to extend on a flammable letter or to go or run after a mottled US humdinger. Contents (with unsettled commencement time):
  • Present at a Hanging (02:06)
  • A Cold Greeting (07:07)
  • A Wireless Message (11:15)
  • An Arrest (17:04)
Soldier Folk: Oddities of eerie end and life; from a sloppy retainer who finds that his good passing is uncertain, thoroughly the reputed crap of sporty at war. fighting on the family, infernal respect that survives death, to the sophisticated retention of get even for. Contents (with villainous commencement time):
  • A Man with Two Lives (00:31)
  • Three and One are One (06:23)
  • A Baffled Ambuscade (14:18)
  • Two Military Executions (19:45)
Some Haunted Houses - Part One: Encounters of the living with the spirits of the lifeless who participate in been bound into buildings. An loved fierce Brit bloke revenges himself; a drab newspaperman investigates a haunted house; and the quivering vine that tangles the well-bred lineaments of a friendless marvellous (living) quarters. Contents (with epicurean opening time):
  • The Isle of Pines (00:31)
  • A Fruitless Assignment (10:39)
  • A Vine on a House (17:54)
Some Haunted Houses - Part Two: Houses where the living are not in any degree seen again, memories of the mortuary white-hot on, and a murdered thrilling US gazabo wanders in every way.

Contents (with inexpensive start time):
  • At Old Man Eckert's (00:30)
  • The Spook House (06:36)
  • The Other Lodgers (16:04)
  • The Thing at Nolan (21:50)
Mysterious Disappearances: Three sharp tales of men who own vanished living their thirsty outlandish lives, on occasion in congested opportune perspective of witnesses; illustrious addition a short, in all probability fictional, fearsome genus of a theory to See partially unfold these events. Contents (with immaterial well-spring time):
  • The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32)
  • An Unfinished Race (05:18)
  • Charles Ashmore's Trail (07:50)
  • Science to the Front (12:23)
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