Ambrose Bierce

writer
Short Story

An Inhabitant of Carcosa

  • by Ambrose Bierce
  • in the San Francisco Newsletter and California Advertiser, 25 December 1886

The ghost of a man from the ancient, fictional city of Carcosa seems destined to wander the city’s ruins, meeting wildlife and perhaps one even older ghost. Although we detected no definitive time phenomena, the time frame of the story is nebulous and intriguing, and the city’s mythos provided a fertile ground for 20th-century writers including Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, and George R. R. Martin. —Michael Main
In one kind of death the spirit also dieth, and this it hath been known to do while yet the body was in vigour for many years. Sometimes, as is veritably attested, it dieth with the body, but after a season is raised up again in that place where the body did decay.
An impressionistic painting of the ruins of the ancient, fictional city of
                Carcosa with a small gathering of people in the foreground.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

Mysterious Disappearances


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  • Science Fiction
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge


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  • Undetermined
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

John Bartine’s Watch

  • by Ambrose Bierce
  • in Can Such Things Be? (Cassell Publishing Company, 1893)

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  • Undetermined
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

The Damned Thing


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  • Undetermined
  • No Time Phenomena