Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories [Kindle Edition]

Ambrose Bierce (Author)

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Product Description

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 102 KB
• Print Length: 49 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1419142879
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Public Domain Books (August 1, 2003)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000JQUKD2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,903 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #11 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tap into the mind of one of the greatest ghost story writers of all times, March 12, 2007

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Simon Cleveland "Author of 'Descent: The R. C... (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (Paperback)

This short collection is guaranteed to make you feel eerie in those cold, dark nights when you stayed home alone to read. But then again how else to savor these stories? Here is a pointer. Get your hands on a copy of this book sometime around mid-day Friday. Blow off your friends for the night and go straight home. Wait until the daylight is just a memory and then sit with this book on your favorite old chair, preferably near a window, and delve into it with only the nightstand light on. Take time reading each page, relish each word, don't pay attention to the creepy scratching on you window, or the squeaking in the other rooms, it's all just in your mind. Whether you'll remember about the serial murders in the book, or the ghostly apparitions- it won't matter. What'll matter is how you experience reading about them...give it a try, be brave...

-by Simon Cleveland

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars present at a hanging, December 26, 2011

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T. Cuevas (BRONX, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Present at a Hanging and other Ghost Stories (Large Print) (Paperback)

book is in large print easy to read. i like short stories so this one came up to the bar.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good & creepy, October 26, 2011

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DLT - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (Kindle Edition)

I really liked this book. The stories are presented by the author as "eye-witness accounts" that he collected from other people - so they are short and to the point with very little embellishment. I think this makes the stories more realistic and creepy, because they seem like the kind of tales you would hear around the campfire. It's a fun style to read...who knows, maybe they ARE true ghost stories?!