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词条 安布罗斯·比尔斯
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人物简介

姓名 Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 译名 安布罗斯·葛温奈特·比尔斯

出生时间  1842年6月24日 失踪时间 1913年12月26日

职业 种植园主,铁路企业家,南北战争士兵 籍贯 美国俄亥俄州的梅格斯郡

成就 著名作家 风格 黑色幽默,科幻,灵异

生平概况

安布罗斯·葛温奈特·比尔斯(英语:Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce;1842年6月24日-1913年或之后)是一位美国记者、短篇小说、传说与讽刺小说作家。著名作品有短篇小说《鹰溪桥上》(An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)和讽刺小说《魔鬼辞典》(The Devil's Dictionary)等。

他对人类有着非常悲观的看法,以致于被人们称为“辛辣比尔斯”(Bitter Bierce)。

他的《愤世嫉俗者的词典》(The Cynic's Word Book)(1906年)—1911年再版,更名为《魔鬼辞典》(The Devil's Dictionary),尖锐辛辣又不失机智和幽默。

通过《士兵和百姓的故事》(Tales of Soldiers and Civilians)(1891年)和《这种事情可能吗?》(Can Such Things Be?)(1893年),比尔斯证明了自己还是恐怖和灵异小说的大师。

比尔斯出生在俄亥俄州的梅格斯郡(Meigs County)。南北战争期间,他加入联邦军队,且颇有声望。战争结束后,他在旧金山从事新闻记者的工作。

1872年,他离开旧金山来到伦敦,为《娱乐》(Fun)杂志撰写文章。

1876年,比尔斯回到加州,重新干起新闻工作的老本行。

1913年,他到墨西哥跟踪采访潘丘 维拉(Pancho Villa)的叛军,但最后失踪。

失踪事件

1913年10月26日,为朋友寄出最后一封信之后,71岁的比尔斯神秘失踪。这是美国文学史上最著名的失踪事件,在美国近年来拍摄电影《从黄昏到黎明》第三集《刽子手之女》(From Dusk Till Dawn 3 The Hangman's Daughter)中,布尔斯在美、墨边境失踪后,闯入阿兹特克吸血圣坛,上演了一系列传奇故事。其实,布尔斯失踪后,警察百般调查,均无结果,人们只能把他的死亡年代估计为1914。《鬼东西》(1894)是他的一个短篇恐怖小说,篇幅虽短,但悬念迭起,写法与构思均不同凡响,曾被选入美国博尼和莱乌赖特出版公司1919年版《最好的鬼故事》一书。

作品目录

出版书目

The Fiend's Delight(1873) (novella)

Cobwebs from an Empty Skull(1874) (short story collection)

The Dance of Death(with Thomas Arundel Harcourtand William Rulofson, as William Herman) (1877) (satyric work)

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians(1891) (short story collection)

Black Beetles in Amber(1892) (poetry)

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter(1892) (with Adolphe De Castro) (novella)

Can Such Things Be?(1893) (short story collection)

Fantastic Fables(1899) (short story collection)

The shadow on the dial, and other essays[16](1909) (nonfiction)

The Devil's Dictionary(1911) (first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906) (nonfiction)

Collected Works(1909) (short story collection)

Write It Right(1909) (nonfiction)

A Horseman in the Sky, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake(1920) (tales)

A Vision of Doom: Poems by Ambrose Bierce(1980) (poetry)

The Best of the Devil's Dictionary[17](2011) (nonfiction)

"Civil War Stories" [18](2011) (short stories with autobiographical essay)

短篇小说

The Haunted Valley(1871)

An Unfinished Race(1873)

An Inhabitant of Carcosa(1887)

Four Days in Dixie

One of the Missing (1888)

The Boarded Window(1891)

Chickamauga(1891)

The Eyes of the Panther (1891)

Haita the Shepherd(1891)

The Man and the Snake(1891)

The Middle Toe of the Right Foot(1891)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge(1891) 鹰溪桥上

The Suitable Surrounding (1891)

A Tough Tussle(1891)

A Watcher by the Dead(1891)

An Adventure at Brownville (with Ina Lillian Peterson)(1893)

A Baby Tramp(1893)

Bodies of the Dead (1893)

The Death of Halpin Frayser(1893)

The famous Gilson bequest (1893)

John Bartine's Watch(1893)

The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"(1893)

A Psychological Shipwreck(1893)

The Realm of the Unreal(1893)

The Secret of Macarger's Gulch(1893)

The Damned Thing(1894)

A Vine on a House(1905)

The Moonlit Road(1907)

The Time the Moon Fought Back (1911)

Beyond the Wall(1909)

A Diagnosis of Death(1909)

A Jug of Sirup(1909)

Moxon's Master(1909)

Staley Fleming's Hallucination(1909)

The Stranger(1909)

The Way of Ghosts (1909)

The Affair at Coulter's Notch

An Affair of Outposts

The Applicant

An Arrest

The Baptism of Dobsho

A Bottomless Grave

The City of the Gone Away

The Coup de Grace

The Crime at Pickett's Mill(1888)

Curried Cow

The Failure of Hope and Wandel

George Thurston

A Holy Terror

A Horseman in the Sky

The Hypnotist

An Imperfect Conflagration

The Ingenious Patriot

Jo. Dunfer. Done for

John Mortonson's Funeral

Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general

Killed at Resaca

An Heiress from Redhorse

The Little Story

The Major's Tale

The Man Out of the Nose

The Mocking-Bird

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (with Adolphe De Castro)

Three and One Are One

Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap

My Favourite Murder

Mysterious Disappearances

Oil of Dog

One Kind of Officer

One of Twins

One Officer, One Man

One Summer Night

Parker Adderson, Philosopher

Perry Chumly's Eclipse

A Providential Intimation

The Race at Left Bower

A Resumed Identity

Revenge

A Revolt of the Gods

Some Haunted Houses

A Son of the Gods

The Story of a Conscience

The Tail of the Sphinx

Visions of the Night

The Widower Turmore

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