“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce is a haunting piece of literature. Often, stories that dark must come from someone’s haunted mind. Bierce, by some estimation, lived in a haunted world himself, dying under strange circumstances. But, what happened to Ambrose Bierce? And why is his disappearance so strange? Dissecting his death is actually quite revealing: we find a man who lived through traumatic warfare, and a man who committed himself to literary works of bravery, honor, and death.
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“Beyond the Wall” by Ambrose Bierce
“Beyond the Wall” is a supernatural short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. It is a horror story that utilizes some tried and true tropes in the horror genre, and comes from Bierce’s collection of ghost stories titled Can Such Things Be? published Jan. 1, 1893. The horror of this story is a slow burn, and explores gothic elements discreetly, such as slowly creeping questions of sanity and failure to understand ones own guilt, sin, and failure to take action.
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“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce: Analysis
When I was in middle school, I had the privilege of seeing a collection of popular short stories performed as plays for my entire middle school class. The plays were cleverly sequenced: horror/comedy/horror/comedy. These stories included “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, “The Mouse” by Saki, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce and “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O’Henry. My adolescent brain loved these stories and I remember that event fondly.
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