The Diagnosis of Death

The literary legacy of the famous American writer Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) has received high praise from contemporaries and followers. He is considered a magnificent master of short prose. The collection you are holding includes forty-five short stories, precise as a bullet, written in the style of the legendary master of horror Edgar Allan Poe, of whom Ambrose Bierce is considered a successor.  All the stories are characterized by the tension of the plot, which usually unfolds in extremely unusual circumstances…