Description The stories in this edition include: “What I Saw at Shiloh,” “A Son of the Gods,” “Four Days in Dixie,” “One of the Missing,” “A Horseman in the Sky,” “The Coup de Grace,” “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Story of Conscience,” “One Kind of Officer,” “Chickamauga,” and five more. Bierce’s stories employ a buildup of suggestive realistic detail to produce grim and vivid tales often disturbing in their mood of fatalism and impending calamity. Hauntingly suggestive, they offer excellent examples of the author’s dark pessimism and storytelling power. Contents 1 What I Saw of Shiloh 2 Four Days in Dixie 3 A Horseman in the Sky 4 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 5 Chickamauga 6 A Son of the Gods 7 One of the Missing 8 Killed at Resaca 9 The Affair at Coulter’s Notch 10 The Coup de Grâce 11 Parker Adderson, Philosopher 12 An Affair of Outposts 13 The Story of a Conscience 14 One Kind of Officer 15 George Thurston 16 The Mocking-bird
