The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, David Herbert Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick
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Can Such Things Be? [24 stories] by Ambrose Bierce
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65 Great Spine Chillers by Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [6 stories] by Ambrose Bierce
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100 Creepy Little Creatures by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton
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Ghost and horror stories of Ambrose Bierce [24 stories] by Ambrose Bierce, E.F. Bleiler
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The Horror hall of fame by Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King
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The best ghost stories by Daniel Defoe, Montague Rhodes James, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton, Leopold Kompert, E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Rudyard Kipling, Brander Matthews, Ambrose Bierce, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler
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Great American Short Stories [48 stories] by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Jack London, John Steinbeck
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Campfire Chillers by Edith M. Freeman, E.M. Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Ambrose Bierce
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Chilling Horror Short Stories by Laura Bulbeck, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
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Subjects

coroners, inquests, mountain lions, horror, horror tales, short stories, Fiction, Juvenile audience, American Civil War, Classic Literature, Confederate States of America, History, Union, civil war, hanging, American literature, first-person narrative, American Horror tales, Short Stories, lynx

Places

Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Carcosa, San Francisco, Massachusetts, New England, Salem Village, India, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, Italy, Macarger's Gulch, Macarger’s Gulch, Padua, Toledo, University of Padua, Calcutta, England

People

William Harker, Peyton Farquhar, Charles Marlowe, Irene Marlowe, Jenner Brenning, Dr. Helberson, Dr. Mancher, Ethelred, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown

Times

1861-65, 19th century, 1600s, 1861-1865, Antebellum era, 1860s, Carnival, Civil War,1861-1865

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Ambrose Bierce, 39 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 12 books
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 8 books
Edith Wharton, 6 books
Arthur Conan Doyle, 5 books
Herman Melville, 5 books
Jack London, 5 books
Martin H. Greenberg, 4 books
William Faulkner, 4 books
Mark Twain, 3 books
Stephen King, 3 books
Ray Bradbury, 3 books
Charles Dickens, 3 books
John Steinbeck, 3 books
Isaac Asimov, 3 books
Fitz-James O'Brien, 2 books
Washington Irving, 2 books
Richard Matheson, 2 books
Henry James, 2 books
Ramsey Campbell, 2 books
Frederik Pohl, 2 books
Stephen Crane, 2 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2 books
Algernon Blackwood, 2 books
David G. Hartwell, 2 books