Cogito ergo cogito sum:
I think; therefore, I think I am.
—Ambrose Bierce
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by Don Swaim
a novel
Deliverance of Sinners
Essays & Sundry on Ambrose Bierce
Return to Carcosa
21st Century Road Trip
fiction
World's Funniest Humanist
essay
Ambrose Bierce and
The Little Johnny Stories
article
The First Bierce Scholar
Vincent Starrett
article
Poet of the Skies,
Prophet of the Sun
Bierce, Hearst, Sterling
fiction
Ambrose Bierce &
the Little Blue Books
article
Stephen Vincent Benét, Ambrose Bierce, and Me
Two Fabulists
article
The Blasphemer Robert G. Ingersoll
Why He Mattered to Bierce
article
Ambrose & Henry
H.L Mencken's debt to Bierce
article
Edwin Markham: The Man Who Irked Bierce
(and wrote about zombies)
article
Bierce's Typewriter
article
Ambrose Bierce Alley
Photo-essay
Bierce Assails Politicos
Speculation
Ambrose Bierce on the
on the Trump election
article
My Dossier
article
Bierce on Terrorism
Speculation
Bierce on the Notion of
God
Mysticism
A Bierce Glossary of Religious Terms
Mysticism
Bierce vs Jack London
A Reconstruction
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
The Pseudonyms of
Ambrose Bierce
Satire
Marfa Lights Mystery
Solved
Speculation
Let There Be Light: kaleidoscopes
Essay
Ambrose & Gertrude
Bierce vs. Gertrude Atherton
One-act play
THE DEFINITIVE
INTERVIEW
Don Swaim's exhaustive interview with S.T. Joshi, world's leading authority on Lovecraft, Bierce, sci-fi, horror, and weird fiction in general: READ
 Jack Matthews &
Don Swaim Debate
Ambrose Bierce
WOUB G University
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ORIGINAL BIERCE ART
Kathryn Landis
Tom Redman
FOUR BIERCE OPERAS:
St. Ambrose
Rodney Waschka II
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Thea Musgrave
Mocking Bird
Thea Musgrave
Difficulty of Crossing a Field
David Lang
Mac Wellman
Gregory Peck as Bierce
(In Old Gringo)
EXCLUSIVES
Bierce's First Love
Article by Cary McWilliams 1932
Sleep as Trauma
Bierce's Civil War Head Wound
Article by Kyle Keeler
Bierce & People's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos
Podcast by DB Spitzer
The Last Dream
(For Ambrose Bierce)
Poetry by Leigh Blackmore
Occurrence at Ojinaga
Fiction by Ron Hefner
And As to Drink
Fiction by K. A. di'Gaetano
My Hunt for Ambrose Bierce
by Leon Day
Bierce is Buried Here
by James Leinert
Ohio Honors Native Son
by Don Swaim
Rob Holmes as Bierce
Finding Bierce's Ohio's Birthplace
by Margaret Parker
Bullet,Grave, Memory
Bierce Meets Billy the Kid
Fiction by Wayne MacDonald
Ambrose Bierce and the Joy of Outrage
Essay by Jack Matthews
The Poetry of Ambrose Bierce
Essay by Jack Matthews
The Last Stand
of Ambrose Bierce
Two-act play by Rob Foster
Two-act play by Ed Scutt
For the Ahkoond
Science-fiction by Ambrose Bierce
Bierce Journalism Artchives
Archives of American
Journalism site
Project Guttenberg}
Includes first book,
A Fiend's Delight (1872)
Ambrose Bierce at Home
by Helen Bierce
American Mercury
Dec. 1933
Walter Neale Bierce Bio
Reviewed by H.L. Mencken, American Mercury
Sept. 1929
Not Famous?
Bierce Magazine Covers
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April 21, 2024
“Camels and Christians receive their burdens kneeling.” —Ambrose Bierce
Bierce as adapted from the artist Sanjin Masic of Sarajevo.
AMBROSE BIERCE AND
THE DANCE OF DEATH!
1877. That new, hideous, unholy dance craze known as the waltz was everywhere -- according to a best-seller attributed to a "William Herman." But rumors abounded that the book was a hoax, perpetrated by Ambrose Bierce, as explored by David Balfour. HERE
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BIERCE CORRECTS MARK TWAIN
In his San Francisco Examiner column of Aug. 26, 1888, Bierce takes to task his acquaintance Mark Twain for erring about Bierce's biography:
Read HERE
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A GREAT FIND
You open an old desk that had been in your family for decades -- and inside: an original letter from Ambrose Bierce to his niece Lora. HERE
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THE SCHULTZ INTERVIEW
S.T. Joshi, David E. Schultz
With word that David E. Schultz and his literary partner S.T. Joshi had published the twelfth volume of Bierce's Collected Essays and Journalism, I cornered Schultz to find out about the scholarship involved.
I pose the questions, Schultz the answers. HERE
The latest issue Collected Essays and Journalism
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EXCLUSIVE
HOW AMBROSE BIERCE DISAPPEARED (MAYBE)
by Leon Day
Once upon a time, there was a brave soldier. His specialty was going in front of the Union armies with small units and making maps and sketches of the tricky spots on the proposed route, under fire. But he is not famous for this.
Then he went West, exploring, and made the first maps of the Black Hills that were useful. He taught himself to write by reading the classics at a boring job at the San Francisco Mint, and broke into newspaper work. He became the top columnist in San Francisco in a time when the writer stood behind his work with a gun, not a lawyer. He married rich, went to England, learned a lot from the writers there, and taught some tricks himself. But this is just a footnote.
He wrote the first Civil War fiction that included the terror and put the glory in its place. It was so good that a whole generation of professional officers became abject fans. And every time the press fomented a war fever, he wrote on military subjects with a stark clarity that never forgot that the final result would be flowing blood and shattered bone. But this is poorly remembered.
continue reading CHAPTER ONE
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Leon Day
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About Leon Day
This amateur historian sought to locate Bierce's remains in the Mexican desert -- and published his findings on The Ambrose Bierce Site. Unfortunately, he came up short. The colorful, eccentric Day -- whose coffee cup was often filled with more than coffee -- died in 2011 without proving his theory.
His obituary is in the Austin, Texas, Statesman HERE
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San Francisco Bulletin, March 24, 1920
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WORLD'S FUNNIEST HUMANIST
Drawing of Ambrose Bierce by David Levine used with permission.
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Ambrose Bierce may not have used the term “humanism” back in his day—but we can now safely say he was the funniest humanist of all. My essay on Bierce and humanism: Read HERE
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EDITOR MEETS
THE MASTER Composite illustration by K.A. Silva. Don Swaim meets Ambrose Bierce in the library of William Randolph Hearst's Castle, San Simeon, California. click to enlarge
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