Today’s Quote of the Day by Ambrose Bierce explores how people view reality, beliefs, and intelligence through a ...

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate,” wrote the sardonic writer Ambrose Bierce. Bierce was unafraid of death; in fact, he welcomed it with open arms and a good ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...

I was pondering Bierce’s stories and his own tortured existence when the strangest thing happened. I was driving down the main street in St. Helena, when I spied a cheery, butter yellow and ...

Hall's spirited, if slightly muddled, fifth Ambrose Bierce mystery (after 2004's Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls) has more of an Old West flavor than previous entries, as young Tom Redmond and ...

Ebenezer Scrooge took only one night to change his tune from “Bah! Humbug!” to “God bless us, every one!” Ambrose Bierce was made of sterner stuff. He reviled the holiday (and just about everything ...

Buried on Page 24 of The Indianapolis News on Sept. 19, 1914, was the headline: "INDIANA AUTHOR LAST HEARD FROM IN MEXICO." Ambrose Bierce, a veteran of the Civil War and former journalist who would ...

A few months ago, a journalist friend in New York City turned me on to a little-known story by that “American original” writer, Ambrose Bierce, famous for his bleakly cynical, fatalistic tales, such ...