![]() in an entry of The Devils Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: Pray, v. ![]() His arms hung helpless at his sides of his eyes only he retained control, and these he dared not remove from the lusterless orbs of the apparition, which he knew was not a soul without a body, but that most dreadful of all existences infesting that haunted wood-a body without a soul! In its blank stare was neither love, nor pity, nor intelligence-nothing to which to address an appeal for mercy. In children, young people, such exercises help develop the body adequately, evenly. This collection of more than twenty Ambrose Bierce short stories offer an intriguing glimpse of what can be described as early supernatural Americana. He tried to turn and run from before it, but his legs were as lead he was unable to lift his feet from the ground. The apparition confronting the dreamer in the haunted wood-the thing so like, yet so unlike his mother-was horrible! It stirred no love nor longing in his heart it came unattended with pleasant memories of a golden past-inspired no sentiment of any kind all the finer emotions were swallowed up in fear. A collection of ghostly and strange short stories: The Death of Halpin Frayser The Secret of Macargers Gulch One Summer Night. ![]() Helena, awaiting news and remittances from home, that he had gone gunning and dreaming. ![]()
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