Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) was a Civil War veteran turned journalist whose bitter wit earned him the name ‘Bitter Bierce’. His supernatural and psychological tales, ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, ‘The Damned Thing’, ‘The Moonlit Road’, are landmarks of American horror, and The Devil’s Dictionary is a classic of cynicism. His mysterious disappearance into revolutionary Mexico in 1913 became a legend in itself.