The Parenticide Club (My Favorite Murder + Oil of Dog + An Imperfect Conflagration + The Hypnotist)

Ambrose Bierce, born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran whose sharp wit and sardonic view of human nature were expressed in his laconic and often macabre tales. Bierce's literary reputation is largely based upon his grim and ironically twisted short stories contained in his seminal collection, 'Tales of Soldiers and ...