Ambrose Bierce has 21 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 40 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 1,011 ratings. The most-rated is Anxious People.
Anxious People
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A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
©2020 Fredrik Backman (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio
50 Classic Horror Short Stories 2
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CONTENTS: The Imp of the Perverse [Poe], The Devil in the Belfry [Poe], The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft], Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould], The Outsider [Lovecraft], The Hound [Lovecraft], The Disinterment [Lovecraft], The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft], The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft], The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan], The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft], The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft], Berenice [Poe], The Angel Of The Odd [Poe], Black Ram [Baring-Gould], The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe], Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker], The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould], On The Leads [Baring-Gould], McAlister [Baring-Gould], Mustapha [Baring-Gould], The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu], The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu], The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen], The Merewigs [Baring-Gould], Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel], Solange [ Alexandre Dumas], The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe], The Assignation [Poe], The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe], Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu], Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe], The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit], An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu], The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold], The Dualists [Bram Stoker], Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu], The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu], The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy], Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker], The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard], The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen], Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu], Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak], Ibid [Lovecraft], The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan], The Moon Bog [Lovecraft], An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu], Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu], The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 50, The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 52.
©2019 H. P. Lovecraft (P)2019 Doom Classics
Mitternachtsstories von Ambrose Bierce
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Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung "Nur für starke Nerven" (ab 1987 unter dem Namen "Die Mitternachtsstory") aus. Der Schauspieler Friedrich Schoenfelder las darin Grusel- und Kriminalgeschichten für Erwachsene zur guten Nacht vor. Bezeichnenderweise schlug er selbst 1972 der Unterhaltungsabteilung des SFB vor, eine Sendereihe zu starten, in der von ihm redaktionell ausgewählte Gruselgeschichten zu Gehör kommen sollten. Namhafte Autoren, von denen Geschichten zum Vortrag kamen, waren Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, E. A. Poe oder auch zeitgenössische deutschsprachige AutorInnen. Die Sendereihe umfasste mehr als 500 Folgen. Friedrich Schoenfelder konnte in mehr als 140 TV- und Kinofilmen, in mehr als 50 Hörspielen und als Synchronsprecher seine schauspielerische Leistung als distinguierter Gentleman aber auch als Charakterdarsteller unter Beweis stellen. In dieser Folge liest Friedrich Schoenfelder die Geschichten "Der Witwer Turmore", "Hundeöl", "Der Zwilling", "Das vernagelte Fenster" und "Traumgebilde".
©Gemeinfrei. Übersetzung: u.a. K. Leder (P)1974/1976/1983 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)
100 citations d'Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce est un écrivain et journaliste américain, assez peu connu en France. Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du Dictionnaire du Diable et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment du genre fantastique. Bierce a écrit près d'une centaine de nouvelles, très souvent sur la mort de l'individu et son absurdité. Notamment les nouvelles du recueil Morts violentes consacré aux horreurs de la guerre de Sécession. Ces 100 citations visent à donner accès à son œuvre monumentale par une sélection de ses pensées les plus marquantes, dans un format accessible à tous. Une citation est plus qu'un extrait d'un propos, ce peut être un trait d'esprit, un résumé d'une pensée complexe, une maxime, une ouverture sur une réflexion plus profonde.
©2020 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2020 Compagnie du Savoir
Great Half Hour Stories
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A gripping collection of 30 minute stories by some of the greatest storytellers in the English language. 'Mrs. Amworth' by E. F. Benson 'The Trade Wind' by Morgan Robertson. 'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs 'The Grinding of the Mills' by Morgan Robertson 'Aepyornis Island' by H. G. Wells 'The Last Trump' by Hugh Walpole 'Count Magnus' by E. F. Benson 'Marsyas in Flanders' by Vernon Lee 'The Death of Halpin Frayser' by Ambrose Bierce 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 'Haunted' by G. Ranger Wormser 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker 'The Moth' by H. G. Wells 'The Young Lady in Black' by Amyas Northcote 'The Valley of Spiders' by H. G. Wells 'The Nature of the Evidence' by May Sinclair 'The Sea-Raiders' by H. G. Wells 'Room 53' by J. S. Fletcher 'The Star' by H. G. Wells 'The Beard' by Hugh Walpole ...and many more gripping half hour stories.....
Public Domain (P)2017 Red Door Audiobooks
Scary Stories for Kids
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Scary Stories for Kids presents two classic chillers certain to spark the imaginations of boys and ghouls everywhere. "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" tells the story of a murderer and the ghostly image of the victim's loyal dog that seeks unspeakable revenge. "The Bottle Imp" recounts the story of Keawe, a young Hawaiian who comes into possession of a bottle that grants his every wish, but at a cost that may be higher than he wants to pay.
©2006 PC Treasures, Inc. (P)2006 PC Treasures, Inc.
Classic Ghost Stories, Volume 2
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Some of the greatest ghost stories of all time, here to send chills down your spine. This second collection of the world's best ghost stories includes: "The Hall Bedroom" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle" and "The Haunted House" by Charles Dickens "The Familiar" by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu "Stacy Fleming's Hallucinaton" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskill "The Philosophy of Relative Existences" by Frank Stockton "The Phantom Hag" by Guy de Maupassant "The Doll's Ghost" by F. Marion Crawford "Hertford O'Donnell's Warning" by Charlotte Riddell "Ghost Story" by E.T. Hoffman "A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde "The Phantom Woman", "The Spectre Bride", and "The Old Mansion", all three by anonymous
©1988 Jimcin Recordings
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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A man stands on Owl Creek Bridge with his hands tied, preparing to face death by hanging. Then the ground slips out from under him, the rope breaks, and he has a moment to reimagine his future. Praised for its experimental shifts in time and surprise ending, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is not one to miss. It has been hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as “the greatest American short story.”
Public Domain (P)2018 Audio Sommelier
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Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek (traducido) [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Translated)]
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¡Saludos! Bienvenido a la serie de aprendizaje bilingüe Language Magic. Después de que hayas aprendido lo básico del aula o en alguno de los excelentes programas de aprendizaje de idiomas que hay por ahí, ¡es hora de dominar el idioma! Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek de Ambrose Bierce es uno de los cuentos más famosos de la literatura estadounidense. Esta versión bilingüe de Language Magic es una traducción original optimizada para ayudar a los aprendices de idiomas a avanzar por la vía rápida hacia la fluidez. Descubre que puedes relajarte y disfrutar de la historia al mismo tiempo que absorbes el idioma mientras lo escuchas, y puedes escucharlo una y otra vez hasta que descubras que puedes entenderlo completamente en el idioma que estás aprendiendo. Es cierto que ganar fluidez en un idioma es una gran cuesta para escalar. Pero también es cierto que hay diferentes maneras de subir esa colina. La forma más rápida es la inmersión total. Vivir en el país que habla la lengua. Pero la mayoría de nosotros no podemos hacer eso. ¿Cuál es el siguiente mejor enfoque? Cuentos. Audiolibros. Pero eso es una lucha si no sabes lo que se dice. Con nuestros libros de audio en dos idiomas, Language Magic se cubre la brecha entre dónde te encuentras y dónde quieres estar. El cuento alterna continuamente entre tu idioma nativo y el idioma que estás aprendiendo. ¡Habla fluidamente de manera divertida y fácil! Esta versión bilingüe de “Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek” de Ambrose Bierce es parte de la serie de aprendizaje Language Magic de LinguaDisco. Esta versión es para hispanohablantes que deseen ganar fluidez en inglés leyendo y, con el audiolibro, al escuchar una historia entretenida, frase por frase en español e inglés. Si estás aprendiendo español, te recomendamos que utilices la versión que es liderada inglés para que escuches cada oración en inglés, seguido por español. También incluimos una nueva escala de dificultad en nuestras portadas. Un diamante negro en la portada es para estudiantes de idiomas más avanzados. Para libros de nivel principiante, busque un círculo verde en la portada. Los libros de nivel intermedio se identifican con un cuadrado azul. Grado de dificultad de este libro: Diamante negro (avanzado). Todos los traductores, editores y narradores de idiomas extranjeros son hablantes nativos. Público objetivo: niños y adultos de todas las edades que están aprendiendo inglés. Please note: This audiobook is in English and Spanish.
©2020 LinguaDisco Publishing, LLC (P)2020 LinguaDisco Publishing, LLC
Staley Fleming's Hallucination
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A murderer is haunted by the specter of the dog whose master he killed. The wicked Staley calls for a doctor, hoping to cure himself of the disturbing visions, only to discover the hellish fate faced by all murderers.
©2006 PC Treasures, Inc. (P)2006 PC Treasures, Inc.
Great American Stories
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Here are 10 unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries were selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic oral qualities. Included in this collection are: Mark Twain: "The One-Million Pound Bank Note", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "A Visit to Niagara", and "A Mysterious Visit" performed by Patrick Fraley. Stephen Crane: "The Blue Hotel" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" performed by Patrick Hagan. Ambrose Bierce: "The Eyes of the Panther" and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" performed by Russ Holcomb. Jack London: "The Love of Life" and "To Build a Fire" performed by Bruce Robertson.
(P)1994 by The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.
Classic Short Stories with a Twist
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As the title suggests, this is a collection wonderful classic short stories with a twist at the end!
©2012 Saland Publishing (P)2012 Saland Publishing
100 citaten van Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce was een Amerikaanse schrijver en journalist, weinig bekend in Frankrijk. Het is vooral bekend als de auteur van het Woordenboek van de Duivel en zwarte humor nieuwe frequent in het fantasy genre. Bierce schreef bijna honderd nieuwe, heel vaak over de dood van het individu en absurditeit. Inclusief nieuwe collectie van de gewelddadige dood gewijd aan de verschrikkingen van de Burgeroorlog. 100 Deze citaten zijn bedoeld om de toegang tot zijn monumentale werk van een selectie van de belangrijkste gedachten in een formaat dat voor iedereen toegankelijk te bieden. Een citaat is een uittreksel van een manier, kan dit een verstand, een samenvatting van een complexe gedachte, een spreuk, een opening naar een diepere reflectie.
©2020 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2020 Compagnie du Savoir
Can Such Things Be?
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Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you 25 tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination. Spooky thrills and mind-bending mysteries await all who dare to open the cover of Can Such Things Be?
Public Domain (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
HorrorBabble's Ultimate Weird Tales Collection, Volume II
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This collection comprises another 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From White's seminal body-shocker, Lukundoo, through to Howard's dastardly Pigeons from Hell, and Benson's nightmarish The Room in The Tower. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable. Contents: Lukundoo (E. L. White) Sredni Vashtar (Saki) The Oval Portrait (E. A. Poe) The Vampire Maid (H. Nisbet) The People of the Pit (A. Merritt) The Red God Laughed (T. McClusky) The Shining Pyramid (A. Machen) The Shunned House (H. P. Lovecraft) The Horror in the Museum (H. P. Lovecraft) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (H. P. Lovecraft) The Hounds of Tindalos (F. B. Long) The Red One (J. London) I, the Vampire (H. Kuttner) The Shattered Timbrel (W. J. Knapp) The Wailing Well (M. R. James) A School Story (M. R. James) The Haunted Dolls' House (M. R. James) Pigeons from Hell (R. E. Howard) Dig Me No Grave (R. E. Howard) The Black Stone (R. E. Howard) The Whistling Room (W. H. Hodgson) The House Among the Laurels (W. H. Hodgson) Demons of the Sea (W. H. Hodgson) Old Rambling House (F. Herbert) They've Got a Killer View (I. Gordon) Pieter Craft - Model Citizen (I. Gordon) The Day They All Forgot (I. Gordon) The Horror of the Heights (A. C. Doyle) The Eyes Have It (Dick) The Screaming Skull (F. M. Crawford) The White Villa (R. A. Cram) The Ocean Ogre (D. Carroll) The Shadow from the Steeple (R. Bloch) The Night They Crashed the Party (R. Bloch) Catnip (R. Bloch) Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp (A. Blackwood) The Dance of Death (A. Blackwood) A Case of Eavesdropping (A. Blackwood) The Death of Halpin Frayser (A. Bierce) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson)
©2019 Ian Gordon (P)2019 Ian Gordon
Famous Modern Ghost Stories
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Ghosts have always haunted literature, and it seems that they always will. Spectres seem never to wear out or to die, but renew their tissue both of person and of raiment, in extravagant fashion, so that their number increases voluminously and continuously. Today we have ghosts that haunted our ancestors, as well as our own modern revenants, and there appears to be no earthly use trying to banish or exorcise them by such a simple strategy as refusing to believe in them. Since man knows that whether or not he has seen a ghost, presently he will become one, and thus he has become fascinated with the subject. Therefore he creates ghosts, not merely in his own image, but according to his dreams of power. Contents 1. Introduction - "The Imperishable Ghost" by Dorothy Scarborough 2. "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood 3. "The Shadows on the Wall" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 4. "The Messenger" by Robert W. Chambers 5. "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev 6. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W.F.Harvey 7. "The Mass of Shadows" by Anatole France 8. "What Was It?" By Fitz-James O'Brien 9. "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" by Ambrose Bierce 10. "The Shell of Sense" by Olivia Howard Dunbar 11. "The Woman at Seven Brothers" by Wilbur Daniel Steele 12. "At the Gate" by Myla Jo Glosser 13. "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe 14. "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard le Gallienne 15. "The Bowmen" by Arthur Machen 16. "A Ghost" by Guy de Maupassant
Public Domain (P)2020 Voices of Today
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Cuentos de Terror [Terror by Night]
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El miedo es una de las sensaciones más intensas que puede sentir el hombre. Desde las épocas más remotas, las historias de terror le permitieron poner bajo control sus emociones más profundas. Situaciones que sobrepasan las leyes naturales, fenómenos desconocidos, fuerzas ocultas, seres imaginarios o reales, pero siempre enigmáticos, siempre monstruosos. Porque la incertidumbre es atractiva, el relato de horror genera nuevos sentimientos, y devela luces allí donde sólo habitan las sombras. Cuatro obras maestras del género se dan cita y, de la mano del extraño bibliotecario, desenredan la madeja de lo incomprensible, lo ajeno a la vida cotidiana. “La Pata de Mono” de W.W. Jacobs, descubre, a través de un talismán, el peligro de jugar con el destino. “El Horla” de Guy de Maruppassant, nos invita a un paseo por las praderas de la locura y la muerte. “El Usurpador de Cadáveres”, de Robert Louis Stevenson, devela el costado más aterrador de la muerte. “Al otro lado de la pared” de Ambrose Bierce, atraviesa los muros de la realidad para entrar en contacto con los misterios del espíritu.La alta calidad de los efectos de sonido, la soberbia musicalización y las magníficas actuaciones son el motivo necesario para dejarse llevar por el sentimiento primigenio e insertarse de lleno en las Historias de Terror. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2013 Mediatek S.A (P)2013 Mediatek S.A
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection. Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American. Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" leaves echoes in the imagination; the stories by Crane and London recall the themes of the Civil War and the Klondike for which they are well known. Twain's humor is to the fore in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and O. Henry's sharp observations make his neat tales a joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection!
Public Domain (P)2001 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.
A Diagnosis of Death - A Short Story Volume
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We sit. We lie. We wait. We are examined. We are left alone. Emotions fritter. The door reopens. The face. Is it tinged with sadness or reassuring and open? The words. Are they easy to comprehend? Is it good news or bad? We can answer that. It’s bad. Undeniably bad. None of our authors have good news for you. The diagnosis? You already know that. Death.
©2018 Deadtree Publishing (P)2018 The Copyright Group
The Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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Horror and the supernatural are the background of Bierce's short stories. His style is marked by vivid description, grim situations, and sardonic twists of fate. In terms of technique, he was far ahead of his time and his short stories are among the very best in American literature. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 ¿ 1914?) was the tenth child in a family of thirteen born on a simple farm in Meigs County, Ohio. He joined the Union army as a private and distinguished himself in many engagements throughout the War Between the States, including the horrific battle of Shiloh. By war's end, he had been commissioned a major. But Bierce despised war and grew to see in it nothing but pain and wasted lives. He moved to San Francisco in the 1870s and drifted into a career as a journalist and then as a writer of short stories. To his friends he was known as "Bitter" Bierce. A well-traveled and troubled man, he constantly relived the horror of war, and was obsessed by the specter of sudden death. Disappearing into Mexico in 1913, he was never seen again. Included in Volume 1 is "The Moonlit Road", one of the most unforgettable ghost stories ever written. Other examples in this volume of his power to chill are "Beyond the Wall", "An Adventure at Brownville", and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa". "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" draws on Bierce's war experiences and the ever-present reality of death. Masterpieces of this genre include "One of the Missing", "Parker Adderson", and "A Baffled Ambuscade".
©2004 Audio Connoisseur (P)2004 Audio Connoisseur