Title: Terror by Night

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Genre: Horror

Pages: 292

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: T4MC - A Author; Genre - Horror; What's in a Name - Emotion; TBR Pile

How I Got It: I own it!

'Nothing is so improbable as what is true' Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction. And in his death, or rather his disappearance, he created a mystery as strange and unresolved as any that he penned himself. But more of that later.

Previously I have read Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (such fun) and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (for school), but never moved to his other short stories.  These stories remind me of a poor man's Poe.  They have the unexpected elements of supernaturalbut none of the psychological horror so present in Poe's work.  I did pass an enjoyable afternoon with Bierce's stories.  My favorites were the stories of an encounter with a ghost, but not knowing it was a ghost.  Good collection of stories.