Volume I of The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce

Contains:
Includes selected textual variants (p. 461-[498]).
pt. 1. 1868 to 1876.
Letters from a Hdkhoite --
The aborigines of Oakland --
A scientific dream --
Across the continent --
The haunted valley --
Some fiction : from the fiend's delight --
One more unfortunate --
The strong young man of Colusa --
The glad new year --
The late Dowling, Senior --
Love's labor lost --
A comforter --
Little Isaac --
The heels of her --
A tale of two feet --
The Scolliver pig --
Mr. Hunker's mourner --
A bit of chivalry --
The head of the family --
Deathbed repentance --
The new church that was not built --
A tale of the great quake --
Johnny --
The child's provider --
Boys who began wrong --
A Kansas incident --
Mr. Grile's girl --
His railway --
Mr. Gish makes a present --
A cow-county pleasantry --
The optimist, and what he died of --
The root of education --
Retribution --
The faithful wife --
Margaret the childless --
The discomfited demon --
The mistake of a life --
L.S. --
The baffled Asian --
Crazy tales: from nuggets and dust --
A midsummer day's dream --
A mournful property --
The disgusted convert --
The classical cadet --
D.T. --
A working girl's story --
Ex parte omne --
A delicate hint --
Making a clean breast of it --
Paternal responsibility --
Hanner's wit --
Somebody's arms --
A deceptive heading --
The suicide --
Maternal precaution --
Unclaimed luggage --
The pridies --
Dr. Deadwood, I presume --
The magician's little joke --
Nut-cracking --
Sundered hearts --
A fowl witch --
A tale of Spanish vengeance --
Juniper --
Four jacks and a knave --
Seafaring --
No charge for attendance --
Feodora. A tale of the bosphorus --
The grateful bear --
The early history of Bath --
John Smith, liberator --
Converting a prodigal --
The civil service in Florida --
Mrs. Dennison's head --
Pernicketty's fright --
Following the sea --
Tony Rollo's conclusion --
The following dorg --
Maumee's mission --
Snaking --
Maud's papa --
Jim Beckwourth's pond --
How to saw bears --
The new bedder --
Samuel Baxter, M.D --
Jeph Benedick's grandmother --
The sanctity of an oath --
A remarkable adventure --
The Dempsters --
Authenticating a ghost --
Jo Dornan and the ram --
Banking at Mexican Hill --
To Fiji and return --
Concerning balloons --
Two stories about Johnson --
A champion of the sex --
How I came to like dogs --
Mr. Jim Beckwourth's adventure --
Why I am not editing "the Stinger" --
Corrupting the press --
Mr. Barcle's mill --
Little Larry --
My muse --
The night-doings at "Deadman's" --
A providential intimation --
Confessions of a sad dog --
The wreck of the Orion --
The late John Sweetbosh, esq --
Largo al gapperino --
The baptism of Dobsho --
The race at left bower --
A literary riot --
A shipwreckollection --
Perry Chumly's eclipse --
Mr. Masthead, journalist --
Mr. Swiddler's flip-flap --
The lion at bay --
The little story --
The failure of Hope & Wandel --
Curried cow --
Stringing a bear --
The miraculous guest --
A representative inquest --
Storm and sunshine --
An upper class misdemeanant --
A holiday experience --
The captain of the Camel --
The man overboard.

pt. 2. 1877 to 1886.
The famous Gilson bequest --
A psychological shipwreck --
Sam Baxter's eel --
A bad woman --
That dog --
By her own hand --
Infernia --
Boarding a bear --
The following bear --
A holy terror --
George Thurston --
A mirage in Arizona --
A cargo of cat --
Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general --
The history of Windbag the Sailor --
An imperfect conflagration --
My credentials --
A revolt of the gods --
The bubble reputation --
A story at the club --
An Inhabitant of Carcosa