Black Beetles in Amber Author:Ambrose Bierce
- Introduction
- The Key Note
- Cain
- An Obituarian
- A Commuted Sentence
- A Lifted Finger
- Two Statesmen
- Matter for Gratitude
- Three Kinds of a Rogue
- A Man
- Y'e For to Cathaye
- Samuel Shortridge
- Surprised
- Posterity's Award
- An Art Critic
- The Spirit of a Sponge
- Ornithanthropos
- To E.S. Solomon
- Dennis Kearney
- Finis Æternitatis
- The Veteran
- An 'Exhibit'
- The Transmigrations of a Soul
- An Actor
- Famine's Realm
- The Mackaiad
- A Song in Praise
- A Poet's Father
- A Coward
- To My Liars
- 'Phil' Crimmins
- Codex Honoris
- To W.H.L.B.
- Emancipation
- Johndonkey
- Hell
- By False Pretenses
- Lucifer of the Torch
- The 'Whirligig of Time'
- A Railroad Lackey
- The Legatee
- 'Died of a Rose'
- A Literary Hangman
- At the Eleventh Hour
- A Controversialist
- Mendax
- The Retrospective Bird
- The Oakland Dog
- The Unfallen Brave
- A Celebrated Case
- Couplets
- A Retort
- A Vision of Resurrection
- Master of Three Arts
- Thersites
- A Society Leader
- Expositor Veritatis
- To 'Colonel' Dan. Burns
- George A. Knight
- Unarmed
- A Political Violet
- The Subdued Editor
- Black Bart, Po8
- A 'Scion of Nobility'
- The Night of Election
- The Convict's Ball
- A Prayer
- To One Detested
- The Boss's Choice
- A Merciful Governor
- An Interpretation
- A Soaring Toad
- An Undress Uniform
- The Perverted Village
- Mr. Sheets
- A Jack-at-all-Views
- My Lord Poet
- To the Fool-Killer
- One and One are Two
- Montague Leverson
- The Woeful Tale of Mr. Peters
- Twin Unworthies
- Another Plan
- A Political Apostate
- Tinker Dick
- Bats in Sunshine
- A Word to the Universe
- On the Platform
- A Dampened Ardor
- Adair Welcker, Poet
- To a Word-Warrior
- A Culinary Candidate
- The Oleomargarine Man
- Genesis
- Llewellen Powell
- The Sunset Gun
- The 'Viduate Dame'
- Four of a Kind
- Reconcilliation
- A Vision of Climate
- A 'Mass' Meeting
- For President, Leland Stanford
- For Mayor
- A Cheating Preacher
- A Crocodile
- The American Party
- Uncoloneled
- The Gates Ajar
- Tidings of Good
- Arboriculture
- A Silurian Holiday
- Rejected
- Judex Judicatus
- On the Wedding of an Aëronaut
- A Hasty Inference
- A Voluptuary
- Ad Cattonum
- The National Guardsman
- The Barking Weasel
- A Rear Elevation
- In Upper San Francisco
- Nimrod
- Censor Literarum
- Borrowed Brains
- The Fyghtynge Seventh
- Indicted
- Over the Border
- One Judge
- To an Insolent Attorney
- Accepted
- A Promised Fast Train
- One of the Saints
- A Military Incident
- Substance versus Shadow
- The Committee on Public Morals
- California
- De Young: A Prophecy
- To Either
- Disappointment
- The Valley of the Shadow of Theft
- Down Among the Dead Men
- The Last Man
- Arbor Day
- The Piute
- Fame
- One of the Redeemed
- A Critic
- A Question of Eligibility
- Fleet Strother
- The Foot-Hill Resort
- At Anchor
- The In-Coming Climate
- A Long-Felt Want
- To the Happy Hunting Grounds
- Slander
- James L. Flood
- Four Candidates for Senator
- A Growler
- Ad Moodium
- An Epitaph
- A Spade
- The Van Nessiad
- A Fish Commissioner
- To a Stray Dog
- In His Hand
- A Demagogue
- Ignis Fatuus
- From Top to Bottom
- An Idler
- The Dead King
- A Patter Song
- A Caller
- The Shafter Shafted
- The Two Cavees
- Metempsychosis
- Slickens
- 'Peaceable Expulsion'
- Aspirants Three
- The Birth of the Rail
- A Bad Night
- On Stone
- A Wreath of Immortelles
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