Death; destruction; crawling, bloody men without jaws; and a child in the middle of it is just a glimpse of the grotesque short narrative “Chickamauga” by Ambrose Bierce. Chickamauga Creek is an area near Chattanooga, Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, plagued by war, suffering, and bloodsh...
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The Swede must have decided that the hour of his death had come. His mouth dropped open and his teeth showed like a dead man’s. He at last followed Scully across the hall, but he had the step of one hung in chains. “Now,” said the old man. He dropped suddenly to the floor ...
Book Summary:This is a story of psychological terror. Something that resembles the tales of Ambrose Bierce and some narratives of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A story that points to our cognitive processes and memory, where a simple childish fear can become a cruel reality. Book Reviews: No reviews...
However, during the story there is never a name mentioned, the lieutenant is simply referred to his title and soldiers as men. Crane deliberately wrote in such a manner to create a blob of people fighting for a cause they may not believe in. When the lieutenant was finding his way to th...
“Green Tea,”Wilkie Collins’sThe Moonstone,andBram Stoker’svampiretaleDracula.The influence was revived in the 20th century by science-fiction andfantasywriters such asMervyn Peakein his Gormenghast series. Other masters of the horror tale wereAmbrose Bierce,Arthur Machen,Algernon Blackwood,H.P....