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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.}}
One of American literature's most intriguing, and most overlooked, luminaries... and a man who scared [[H.P. Lovecraft
[[Ambrose Bierce]] (later nicknamed "Bitter Bierce" and the "Old Gringo") was a journalist and editorialist from Meigs County, Ohio, whose deeply cynical opinions on the world [[Humans Are Bastards|and the people living in it]] led him to create his now-famous ([[Needs More Love|though not nearly famous enough]]) series of short stories and other fiction pieces, most notably ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''<ref>Adapted as a French short movie, which was then aired as a [[Twilight Zone]] episode</ref>. Bitter Bierce never gave anyone a reason to wonder about his nickname: he was aggressive and fond of war (though also an anti-imperialist), fascinated by death, ''very'' cynical about love and religion, and perplexed by women. His works are notable for their [[Darker and Edgier|dark, troubled, and haunting]] tone and subject matter. He would have made a fine bedfellow for [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]] and [[H.P. Lovecraft
Later in his life, when the Mexican Revolution was raging down south, Ambrose Bierce decided to leave the United States and contribute to the war effort in Mexico, hoping to meet up with and fight alongside Pancho Villa. After a couple of months (during which time he did indeed meet up with Pancho Villa), his letters to his friends in the States abruptly ceased. He was never heard from again. He may have had something of a death wish; see the Quotes page. The book (and [[The Film of the Book]]) ''Old Gringo'' speculates on what might have happened to him after his famous disappearance, but no one knows what happened for sure.
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** 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
* [[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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