Ambrose Bierce Whatever happened to Ambrose Bierce? is one of the questions of his life. On the literary side, he is best known for his short stories and as a pioneer in realist fiction. But he was…| The Classics Club
Swan River Press has just launched a major three-volume collected works of Fitz-James O’Brien. It’s the most complete presentation of O’Brien’s fantastic literature to date,…| John Kenny
The jaguar was the most feared – and revered – animal in ancient Mesoamerica. Members of pre-Columbian societies like the Maya and Aztec coexisted with jaguars in the jungles, bearing witness to their size, cunning, and aggression and incorporating them into their mythologies. Most of these cultures depicted the big cat in its natural form […]| The History Bandits
Ambrose Bierce, if we take him at his word, was unfazed by death. As a young Union soldier in the Civil War, he escaped it many times, seeing action at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he received an almost fatal head wound. After the war, he built a career as a writer and journalist, […]| The History Bandits
Many decades ago, before I started reading science fiction regularly, my preferred reading when young was Alistair Maclean novels and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. I don’t read many thrillers or…| MarzAat
