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{{quote|''Humour is tolerant, tender; its ridicule caresses. Wit stabs, begs pardon - and turns the weapon in the wound.''|Taken from one of Bierce's late essays.}}
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Lovecraft enthusiasts should be familiar with ''An Inhabitant of Carcosa'', his contribution to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]].
{{examples|Appearances in fiction}}▼
* ''Old Gringo'' by Carlos Fuentes▼
* In [[Robert Bloch]]'s story "I Like Blondes" (originally published in ''Playboy'', 1956), the alien tells Shirley that "the body I'm using right now. Its name was Ambrose Beers, I believe. [Ril] picked it up in Mexico a long time ago..."▼
** That was a [[Genius Bonus]] reference, for sure.▼
* [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next|The Well of Lost Plots]]'' claims that he became a book-jumping agent of Jurisfiction.▼
* [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]'' miniseries claims that his horror stories were based on truth, and he staged his own disappearance to avoid an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was coming to complain about his depiction of it. Oddly enough, it also used him as an [[Expy]] of [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].▼
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Lost Legacy]]'' has him going underground and working for a benevolent [[Ancient Tradition]].▼
* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Roadmarks'' concerns a Road that stretches from the past into the future, and the people who travel along it; Bierce is mentioned in passing as one of those who, having found the Road, settled farther along it and never returned to his own time.▼
* Shows up as an old fangless vampire who aids the protagonist in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]''.▼
* ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]] 3: The Hangman's Daughter''. Oddly, the vampires don't get him in the end.▼
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* [[War Is Hell]]: Bierce was 19 when he enlisted in the Union Army, and this certainly explains some of the more nightmarish images in his stories.
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== Anime and Manga ==
▲* Shows up as an old fangless vampire who aids the protagonist in ''[[Dance in the Vampire Bund]]''.
== Comic Books ==
▲* [[Phil Foglio]]'s ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]'' miniseries claims that his horror stories were based on truth, and he staged his own disappearance to avoid an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that was coming to complain about his depiction of it. Oddly enough, it also used him as an [[Expy]] of [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].
== Film ==
▲* ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]] 3: The Hangman's Daughter''. Oddly, the vampires don't get him in the end.
== Literature ==
▲* In [[Robert Bloch]]'s story "I Like Blondes" (originally published in ''Playboy'', 1956), the alien tells Shirley that "the body I'm using right now. Its name was Ambrose Beers, I believe. [Ril] picked it up in Mexico a long time ago..."
▲** That was a [[Genius Bonus]] reference, for sure.
▲* [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next|The Well of Lost Plots]]'' claims that he became a book-jumping agent of Jurisfiction.
▲* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Lost Legacy]]'' has him going underground and working for a benevolent [[Ancient Tradition]].
▲* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Roadmarks'' concerns a Road that stretches from the past into the future, and the people who travel along it; Bierce is mentioned in passing as one of those who, having found the Road, settled farther along it and never returned to his own time.
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