Rabu, 04 April 2018

‘Bitter Bierce’ and the macabre side of war

Chilling, unpredictable war stories were the forte of Ambrose Bierce. Before there was Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Serling, there was Ambrose Bierce. Misanthrope is probably the best way to characterize this turn-of-the-century journalist and prodigious short-story writer, who, in the words of one editor, was “an angry young man who got angrier as he got …

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