tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post8530662357181059607..comments2024-03-28T08:27:51.420-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: Happy Birthday, Ambrose Bierce!Terence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-22283979764261052562013-06-25T09:09:56.193-04:002013-06-25T09:09:56.193-04:00Aonghus,
Although Bierce is known for his Civil W...Aonghus,<br /><br />Although Bierce is known for his Civil War stories, he actually wrote more fantasy, horror, and stories of the supernatural (in terms of numbers of stories). It's fitting that he would simply disappear, as if he were David Lang.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-24377415376066065772013-06-25T06:00:11.766-04:002013-06-25T06:00:11.766-04:00We studied "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...We studied "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' when I was in secondary school. I read an anthology of Bierce's stories subsequently. A few in particular really stuck in my mind - one about a group of people waiting for a train in a state of ominous expectancy(?). I think the mc in this story recurred in several others, and they were all supernatural in tone - and the best stories in the collection, for my money. I would have liked to have read more of the same.Aonghus Fallonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09434527113873901741noreply@blogger.com