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.
I think that the edition I had may have included some of his Devil’s Dictionary; but I’m not sure anymore and the book is boxed away somewhere.
I checked a little more and I think that what I had is “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman”. That introduction is the tipoff for me, and it looks like there was a 1973 reprint of a 1946 book. 1973 sounds like when I purchased it.
Being something of a misanthrope, Bierce appeals to me. As does Florence King, who’s a misanthrope and funny as hell.
Somehow I’ve never read Harlan Ellison and Road Dahl that I can remember. I have been on a Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Black Mask kick with Audible, I’ll see if they have some Ellison and Dahl.