30 stories from the pen of Ambrose Bierce, favoring dark fantasies and haunted tales. Many were originally written for newspapers.
The stories included are: The Night-Doings at Deadman’s, An Inhabitant of Carcosa, A Fruitless Assignment, Present at a Hanging, The Isle of Pines, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, An Unfinished Race, Charles Ashmore’s Trail, A Cold Greeting, A Watcher by the Dead, The Spook House, The Suitable Surroundings, The Realm of the Unreal, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, The Thing at Nolan, A Baby Tramp, The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch, The Damned Thing, A Jug of Sirup, Moxon’s Master, At Old Man Eckert’s, A Diagnosis of Death, A Vine on a House, A Wireless Message, An Arrest, John Mortonson’s Funeral, Staley Fleming’s Hallucination, Beyond the Wall, The Moonlit Road, and The Stranger.