Primary Works

The Fiend's Delight, 1872 (writing as Dod Grile); Nuggets and Dust, 1872; Nuggets And Dust Panned Out in California, 1872 (writing as Dod Grile); The Fiend's Delight, 1873; Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1874; Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1874 (writing as Dod Grile); The Dance of Death, 1877 (writing as William Herman) (with Thomas A Harcourt); The Dance of Life: An Answer to the Dance of Death, 1877 (writing as Mrs J Milton Bowers); Black Beetles In Amber, 1892; The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter, 1892; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1892; Black Beetles in Amber, 1892; Can Such Things Be? , 1893; Fantastic Fables, 1899; Shapes of Clay, 1903; The Cynic's Word Book, 1906; A Vision of Doom, 1980.

The letters of Ambrose Bierce. edited by Bertha Clark Pope; with a memoir by George Sterling. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1922. PS1097 .Z5 A3

Collected works. NY: Gordian P, 1966. 12 volumes. PS1097 .A1

Skepticism and dissent: selected journalism from 1898-1901. edited with an introduction by Lawrence I. Berkove. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Delmas, 1980. PS1097 .A6

Phantoms of a blood-stained period: the complete Civil War writings of Ambrose Bierce. edited by Russell Duncan & David J. Klooster. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2002. PS1097 .A6

Selected Bibliography: Books

Berkove, Lawrence I. ed. Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism, 1898-1901 by Ambrose Bierce. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor: Univ. Microfilms Internat. P, 1986.

Davidson, Cathy N. Critical Essays on Ambrose Bierce. Boston: Hall, 1982.

- - -. The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1984. PS1097 .Z5 D34 1984

De Castro, Adolphe D. Portrait of Ambrose Bierce. NY: Beekman Publishers, 1974. PS1097 .Z5 D4

Fatout, Paul. Ambrose Bierce, the Devil's lexicographer. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1951. PS1097.Z5 F3

Fuentes, Carlos. Gringo viejo. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1985. PQ7297 .F793 G7

Gale, Robert L. An Ambrose Bierce Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.

Grattan, C. Hartley. Bitter Bierce; a mystery of American letters. NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966 [1929]. S1097.Z5 G7

Grenander, M.E. Ambrose Bierce. NY: Twayne, 1971.

Joshi, S. T., and David E. Schultz. eds. A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 1998.

- - -. Ambrose Bierce: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

- - -. A much misunderstood man: selected letters of Ambrose Bierce. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. PS1097 .Z5 A4

McWilliams, Carey. Ambrose Bierce: A Biography. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1967.

Noel, Joseph. Footloose in Arcadia; a personal record of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce. NY: Carrick & Evans, 1940. PS3523.O46 Z83

Schaefer, Michael W. Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of De Forest and Bierce. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 1997.

Starrett, Vincent. Ambrose Bierce. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1969. PS1097 Z5 S7

Woodruff, Stuart C. The Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, A Study in Polarity. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1964.

Wymer, Thomas L. "Ambrose Bierce." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, 2: A. E. Coppard to Roger Zelazny. Ed. Edward F. Bleiler. NY: Scribner's, 1985. 731-37.

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Aaron, Daniel. "Ambrose Bierce and the American Civil War." Uses of Literature. Ed. Monroe Engel. Cambridge: Harvard U.P, 1973. 115-31.

Bahr, Howard W. "Ambrose Bierce and Realism." Southern Quarterly 1 (1963): 309-331.

Berkove, Lawrence I. "'Hades in Trouble': A Rediscovered Story by Ambrose Bierce." American Literary Realism 25.2 (Wint 1993): 67-84.

- - -. "The Man with the Burning Pen: Ambrose Bierce as Journalist.' Journal of Popular Culture 15.2 (Fall 1981): 34-40.

- - -. "Two Impossible Dreams: Ambrose Bierce on Utopia and America." Huntington Library Quarterly 44.4 (Autm 1981): 283-92.

Brazil, John R. "Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, and George Sterling: Victorians between Two Worlds." San Jose Studies 4.1 (1978): 19-33.

- - -. "Behind the Bitterness: Ambrose Bierce in Text and Context." American Literary Realism 13 (1980); 225-37.

Conlogue, William. "A Haunting Memory: Ambrose Bierce and the 'Ravine of the Dead.'" Studies in Short Fiction 28.1 (Wint 1991): 21-29.

Hoppenstand, Gary. "Ambrose Bierce and the Transformation of the Gothic Tale in the Nineteenth Century American Periodical." Periodical Literature in Nineteenth Century America. Eds. Kenneth M. Price and Susan B. Smith. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 220-38.

O'Brien, Matthew C. "Ambrose Bierce and the Civil War: 1865." American Literature 48 (1976): 377-81.

Rubens, Philip M. and Robert Jones. eds. "Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliographic Essay and Bibliography." American Literary Realism 16.1 (Sprg 1983): 73-91.

Wiggins, Robert A. "Ambrose Bierce: A Romantic in an Age of Realism." American Literary Realism 4 (1971): 1-10.

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