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Product Description From the scholarly to the playful, this mélange of essays, humor, biography, history, fiction, self-reflection, even a short play, is built around the author’s decades-long predilection for all things Bierce. Don Swaim launched the definitive website dedicated to the myth and mind of Bierce in 1996, and his novel The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story conceptualizes the Bierce saga in unpredictable ways. Review Praise for The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce: A Love Story by Don Swaim: Like Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo, this absorbing novel tracks Bierce south of the border as the American journalist and short story writer journeys with Pancho Villa into the maelstrom of the Mexican Revolution. Fans of Bierce's writing should enjoy this semibiographical tale with a suspenseful plot as wild as some of his more fantastical works. — Publishers Weekly Expect to be entertained—to laugh and sneer and shiver; expect to think - on life, on death, on love; and expect to feel - pain, anger, desire; but most importantly, expect to find out what happened to Ambrose Bierce when he left his home without looking back, and faded into the white dust of Mexico. —Michael G. Kellermeyer, Oldstyle Tales Press "Surprise book of the week: Don Swaim's Deliverance of Sinners: Essays & Sundry on Ambrose Bierce. Hmm, I mused when I opened it -- I wonder if this one is going to be a complex, heavy read? Instead, a delightful and fascinating range of observations, snippets of literary and political history, imagined conversations, witty Biercian musings, drifts into supernatural matters, and more. Enough that we will have to feature it on greydogtales." -- John Linwood Grant, publisher of greydogtales and co-editor of Occult Detective Quarterly. "A terrific, bracing, entertaining read!!!" -- Bob Lape, fo