One of my prized books was The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce- I see that a similar edition is available on Kindle for $3, prolly half what I paid for the big paperback 45 yrs ago.
His writing holds up well. Although soldier that he was, in some stories he used Civil War military terminology that at first was unfamiliar to me.
A lot of people will know Bierce from his ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’ that a French filmmaker and Twilight Zone turned into a gem:
Do you also have his other works as well? I have a couple of others and especially enjoyed THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY.
Yes, that TWILIGHT ZONE episode sent me off to find and read his works.
Watching ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, sent me off to search out and read books and stories by Harlan Ellison and the adult books by Roald Dahl, who I had NO idea had written/was writing books for kids.