Classic Reader: "Beyond the Wall" by Ambrose Bierce

This is the full text of the short story "A Baffled Ambuscade," a story about an ambush gone wrong, by Ambrose Bierce.

This site features the full text of the short story "An Arrest" by Ambrose Bierce.

This is the full text of the short story "A Baby Tramp" by Ambrose Bierce. The story is about a boy who was sent away to be protected from the strange occurrences in his town.

This is the text of the short story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H. P. Lovecraft. An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally...

This is the text of the short story "Beyond the Bayou" by Katherine Chopin, a story of La Folle leaving the boundaries of the Bayou.

Read the full text of the short story "Haita the Shepherd" by Ambrose Bierce about a shepherd who is visited by an elusive maiden.

This is the text of the short story "A Bivouac of the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce, a story with an ironic twist set in the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia.

Read the short story "A Cold Greeting" by Ambrose Bierce.

A man accepted a bet that he could run 11 miles and disappears while running. Read the full text of the short story "An Unfinished Race" by Ambrose Bierce.

The full text of the short story "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" by Ambrose Bierce. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.