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Title: The Moonlit Road and Other Stories
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Narrator: Roy Macready
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-16
Publisher: Spiders' House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others: "John Mortonson's Funeral", "One Summer Night", "A Baby Tramp", "A Diagnosis of Death", "Staley Fleming's Hallucination", "Moxon's Master", "A Psychological Shipwreck", "John Bartine's Watch", "The Realm of the Unreal", and "The Damned Thing".
Members Reviews:
Love the stories
Can't beat the price! Love the stories. It's amazing how much Bierce has been imitated by other writers.
Ok--fun if you like scary stories
OK--gave some copies to foreign readers who know how to read English fairly well, and they thought the stories were scary but interesting.
Four Stars
Enjoyable.
but they make good re-reading. Bierce is comparable to Poe but easier ...
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was a Victorian author of the weird and macabre specialing in ghost stories. Though during his life he was more renowned as a satirist, journalist, and editorialist. Thankfully, we've remembered him for his eerie tales. I've come across his stories in anthologies several times but this is the first author specific collection I've read. I had come across three of these stories before, but they make good re-reading. Bierce is comparable to Poe but easier to read. The stories in this collection have been selected from the 1909-1912 editions of "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" and show a mix of his ghost and, as the title calls them, "horror" stories (but I wouldn't necessarily give them that classification, but more general simply "weird tales"). I liked the weird, macabre tales the best and I'd recommend him to your reading list for those interested in Victorian ghost stories or tales of the weird.
1) The Eyes of the Panther - A young woman refuses to marry a man repeatedly and he demands to know why so she tells him she is insane and proceeds to tell him a story. It's a good story but it made me think too much of the original movie "Cat People", perhaps they got the idea from this story. (3/5)
2) The Moonlit Road - I hadn't recognized just by the title but it came to me quickly that I've read this one before. A son is called home from college urgently to discover his mother has been brutally murdered. Shortly afterward his father, while out on a walk with him, takes off and disappears forever. Told in three points of view first from the son, then the father and finally the mother, through the aid of a medium. None of them knows the whole truth, only the reader is able put most of it together, but afterthought still leaves a few questions. A creepy story. (4/5)
3) The Boarded Window - This is a creepy shocker that you have no idea where it is going. It starts off easy going enough and you wonder where it is going by the halfway point; it is quite short. Then it starts getting interesting with the tension mounting and pow! it gets you with the ending. (5/5)
4) The Man and the Snake - Another creepy little story with the shocker ending.
