The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Horror

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The Fiend's Delight includes the sections Some Fiction, Current Journaling, Musings, Philosophical and Theological, and Poesy. From the opening of "One More Unfortunate, " first story in the fiction section: "It was midnight -- a black, wet, midnight-in a great city by the sea. The church clocks were booming the hour, in tones half-smothered by the marching rain, when an officer of the watch saw a female figure glide past him like a ghost in the gloom, and make directly toward a wharf. The officer felt that some dreadful tragedy was about to be enacted, and started in pursuit . . .