The Parenticide Club

The Parenticide Club, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short-story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War warrior. The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration selected his book The Devil's Dictionary one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature". His narrative "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been regarded as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature," and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians has been chosen by the Grolier Club as one of the top 100 American books published before 1900. Bierce was born on June 24, 1842, in a log cabin on Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio, to Marcus Aurelius Bierce (1799-1876) and Laura Sherwood Bierce. He was descended solely from English ancestors who arrived in North America as part of the Great Puritan Migration between 1620 and 1640. He frequently criticized "Puritan values" and those who "made a fuss" over ancestry. He was the tenth of thirteen children, all of them were named by their father with the letter "A": Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert, Ambrose, Arthur, Adelia, and Aurelia. His mother was descended from William Bradford.