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LITERARY BIERCE
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Bierce vs. Edwin Markham

Ambrose Bierce and the Joy of Outrage
Essay by Jack Matthews


Fiction by Ron Hefner


Fiction by K. A. di'Gaetano, in which Bierce returns to walk the streets of Montgomery, Alabama as...a vampire! Go to AND AS TO DRINK.



Original watercolor of the Vampire Bierce by Kathryn Landis
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Jack London
Legendary Bierce, Jack London
Drinking Bout Reconstructed

Fiction by Don Swaim. Based on actual events taking place in the summer of 1910, as Bierce engaged in a legendary drinking bout with Socialist Jack London at the Bohemian Club's summer camp on the Russian River, Sonoma County, California. While the specific details of the debate are lost to history, Swaim attempts to reconstruct them using the actual words of Bierce and London. Read here





A Bullet, A Grave, A Memory

Fiction by Wayne MacDonald. In this story, set in 1879, Ambrose Bierce, while on a mining expedition to New Mexico, hooks up with Jesse James and Billy the Kid. In the form of a letter from Bierce to H.L. Mencken.


Billy the Kid

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click to read: Another Way
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Four Short Stories About Ambrose Bierce
by Don Swaim


Bierce & Pancho Villa
Fiction

The Wickedest Man in
San Francisco

Fiction

Love and Kisses:
Bierce & Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Bierce Duels with
H.L. Mencken

Fiction



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