About the book: 2016 / Famous American writer Ambrose Bierce is one of the pioneers of the genre of "scary story" - a thriller that has gained wide popularity today. The plots of many of his stories were based on the indelible impressions of the American Civil War - a war in which Bierce rose from private to major. In the stormy stream of “terrible” literature that has poured into our reader, the stories of the “king of California journalism” Ambrose Bierce stand out for their undeniable literary and artistic merits and deep psychologism.