Ambrose Bierce, one of the lone wolves of American letters, was a San Francisco journalist, a sardonic lexicographer, and the author of jarring, brilliant and gruesomely unsentimental stories of ...

"Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce," a book co-edited by Dr. David Klooster of the Hope College English faculty, has just been published by the ...