Ambrose Bierce (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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Until recently, Ambrose Bierce was labeled a misanthrope or pessimist, and his short stories dealing with murder were misunderstood as the work of a man who, obsessed with the idea of death, showed himself incapable of compassion. A less moralistic and biographical reevaluation of the work of Bierce, however, discovers his intellectual fascination with the effect of the supernatural on the human imagination. Further, his morally outrageous murder stories, collected by the author under the title of “The Parenticide Club” in The Collected Works of Ambrose...
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