On This Day in Weird, January 1...
1914: Author and critic Ambrose Bierce last seen alive in
Chihuahua, Mexico, sparking controversy over his continued life or death that
continues to the present day. His grimly realistic short stories describing
war, sometimes verging on the otherworldly, include "An Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge," "A Horseman in the Sky," "One of the Missing,"
and "Chickamauga." According to Milton Subotsky, Bierce helped
pioneer the psychological horror story. Another of his famous works is the is
the much-quoted Devil's Dictionary, originally an occasional newspaper
item, first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. In
life, Bierce was also known for the motto, "Nothing matters."
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