Ambrose Bierce is an American prose writer and journalist, one of the founders of the American short story genre, and the most significant writer in the “horror” genre after Edgar Allan Poe. Bierce’s stories are filled with mysterious and blood-chilling events: in them, good suddenly turns into evil, joy becomes misfortune, and within the interweaving of a tense plot, reality merges with fiction—while the ending is, in fact, unexpectedly dizzying.