{"product_id":"2940170367603","title":"Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmbrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. Nothing is known of his death, as he went missing while an observer with Pancho Villa¿s army in 1913\/14. \u003cbr\u003e(Summaries by Peter Yearsley)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ways of Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents (with beginning time):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePresent at a Hanging (02:06)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Cold Greeting (07:07)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Wireless Message (11:15)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Arrest (17:04)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoldier Folk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents (with beginning time):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Man with Two Lives (00:31)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree and One are One (06:23)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Baffled Ambuscade (14:18)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Military Executions (19:45)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome Haunted Houses - Part One\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents (with beginning time):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Isle of Pines (00:31)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Fruitless Assignment (10:39)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Vine on a House (17:54)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome Haunted Houses - Part Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: Houses where the living are never seen again, memories of the mortuary live on, and a murdered man wanders through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eContents (with beginning time):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt Old Man Eckert¿s (00:30)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spook House (06:36)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Other Lodgers (16:04)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Thing at Nolan (21:50)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eMysterious Disappearances\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents (with beginning time):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Difficulty of Crossing a Field (00:32)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Unfinished Race (05:18)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Ashmore¿s Trail (07:50)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience to the Front (12:23)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123238355184,"sku":"2940170367603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170367603_p0.jpg?v=1772801984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170367603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}