Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa’s army in 1913/14. (Summaries by Peter Yearsley)The Ways of Ghosts: Stories of encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer.Contents (with beginning time):Present at a Hanging (02:06)A Cold Greeting (07:07)A Wireless Message (11:15)An Arrest (17:04)Soldier Folk: Oddities of death and life; from a man who finds that his death is uncertain, through the effects of war on the family, duty that survives death, to the memory of revenge.Contents (with beginning time):A Man with Two Lives (00:31)Three and One are One (06:23)A Baffled Ambuscade (14:18)Two Military Executions (19:45)Some Haunted Houses – Part One: Encounters of the living with the spirits of the dead who have been bound into buildings. An old man revenges himself; a journalist investigates a haunted house; and the quivering vine that tangles the face of a deserted home.Contents (with beginning time):The Isle of Pines (00:31)A Fruitless Assignment (10:39)A Vine on a House (17:54)Some Haunted Houses – Part Two: Houses where the living are never seen again, memories of the mortuary live on, and a murdered man wanders through. Contents (with beginning time):At Old Man Eckert’s (00:30)The Spook House (06:36)The Other Lodgers (16:04)The Thing at Nolan (21:50)Mysterious Disappearances: Three short tales of men who have vanished living their ordinary lives, sometimes in full view of witnesses; plus a short, probably fictional, description of a theory to partly explain these events. Contents (with beginning time):The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32)An Unfinished Race (05:18)Charles Ashmore’s Trail (07:50)Science to the Front (12:23)