Ambrose Bierce is an American prose writer and journalist, one of the founders of the American short story genre, the most significant writer of the “scary” genre after Poe. Bierce's stories are filled with mysterious and chilling events - there is good in them... In the preface to one of his collections, the author says: “When I wrote this book, I had to kill a lot of its heroes in one way or another, but the reader will notice that among them there is no people who deserve to be kept alive.”