During the U.S. Civil War, Peyton Farquhar, a southern gentleman and a Confederate sympathizer, is being summarily hanged to death on Owl Creek Bridge by Union forces, after trying to sabotage the bridge. Unexpectedly the rope breaks! and he's off on a desperate swim and run, trying to evade recapture.

Ambrose Bierce emerges here as one of American literature's sharpest and most uncompromising voices, a writer of savage wit, exacting prose, and Civil War fiction that turns battlefield experience into unforgettable drama. These two compact stories show him at his best: psychologically acute, vividly imagined, and haunted by the price of heroism. In "A Son of the Gods," a lone horseman rides into deadly danger on a mission that demands courage, composure, and sacrifice, only to become a ne...

EVERY COUNTRY HAS RULES. DOES YOUR HOME?Every nation on earth writes down its laws — so anyone who crosses the border knows exactly where they stand. But most people run the most important country they'll ever have, their own home, with no written rules at all. Then they wonder why it falls apart.Titus Ambrose Gibson refused to live that way.Sitting in a guard tower in Kosovo, a world traveler and retired military veteran wrote down the laws of his own land — 52 rul...

Ambrose Bierce is one of American literature's great originals: a Civil War veteran turned journalist whose fiction is as haunting as his wit is savage. This comprehensive collection brings together his most celebrated work, The Devil's Dictionary, a satirical lexicon still quoted for its acid definitions of human folly, alongside In the Midst of Life, the story collection containing his masterpiece "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and the eerie supernatural tales of Can Such Things Be...

Meet Frank - a personal robot who's life is about to change forever when he meets another robot named Shelley. As their relationship grows, and outside forces conspire against them, how far will they go to stay together? From the bestselling author of Zero Hour.

MYSTICISM IS THE NEW MINDFULNESSElevate Mindfulness. Expand Awareness.Become a Modern Mystic.We often feel separate and isolated, cut off from the deeper connection that gives life meaning. Repressed emotions, fear, distraction, and unconscious patterns can block our inner light, leaving us unable to fully express who we are or to create the life we sense is possible. We may feel disconnected from ourselves, others, ...

Procrastination isn't a time management problem-it's an emotional avoidance system, and the longer you treatthe symptom instead of the source, the more elaborate your defenses become. Ambrose Rourke's insightfulbook explores the psychological mechanisms that turn simple tasks into sources of dread, and why yourproductivity tools keep failing you.When a task triggers avoidance, it stops being about deadlines and becomes about the discomfort you'reunwi...

Fans of Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots will love this darkly comic tale. Nokyo, a downtrodden, mischievous and slightly psychotic office robot hatches a scheme to escape from the drudgery of office life with deadly consequences, setting in motion a chilling cycle of events.Soon to be a major motion picture!

"Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."Bierce's groundbreaking Devil's Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in t...

Enter the dark, strange, and brilliantly satirical world of Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce brings together the distinctive fiction, satire, essays, and poetry of one of America's most uncompromising literary voices. Known for his dark humor, sharp wit, psychological insight, and fascination with death and the supernatural, Bierce created stories that remain both unsettling and thought-provoking. His writing frequently explores the darker sides of war, violence, ambit...

"Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."Bierce's groundbreaking Devil's Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in t...

Daphne Mercer has built her career on studying the edges of society-urban folklore, riverfront rituals, and the myths people tell after dark. But in Louisville's supernatural underbelly, the monsters aren't just stories. And the most dangerous man she meets isn't in her field notes.Elias Crowe is a street-magician with flexible morals, a talent for curses, and a desperate need to pay his rent. When Daphne's academic curiosity collides with his latest retrie...