[Gutenberg 3715] • The Parenticide Club

THE PARENTICIDE CLUB by Ambrose Bierce This popular classic work by Ambrose Bierce is in the English language

Contents

MY FAVORITE MURDER

OIL OF DOG

AN IMPERFECT CONFLAGRATION

THE HYPNOTIST

About the Author

Ambrose Bierce

Born June 24, 1842(1842-06-24)

Meigs County, Ohio, United States

Died disappeared 1913,

last seen in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico

Occupation Journalist, Writer

Genres Satire

Literary movement Realism

Notable work(s) "The Damned Thing", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", The Devil's Dictionary, "Chickamauga"

Books

• The Fiend's Delight (1873) (novella)

• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874) (short story collection)

• The Dance of Death (with Thomas Arundel Harcourt and William Rulofson, as William Herman) (1877) (satyric work)

• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) (short story collection)

• Black Beetles in Amber (1892) (poetry)

• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892) (with Adolphe De Castro) (novella)

• Can Such Things Be? (1893) (short story collection)

• Fantastic Fables (1899) (short story collection)

• The shadow on the dial, and other essays (1909) (nonfiction)

• The Devil's Dictionary (1911) (first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906) (nonfiction)

• Collected Works (1909) (short story collection)

• Write It Right (1909) (nonfiction)

• A Horseman in the Sky, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake (1920) (tales)

• A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce (1980) (poetry)

• The Best of the Devil's Dictionary (2011) (nonfiction)

• "Civil War Stories" [8] (2011) (short stories with autobiographical essay)