Black Beetles in Amber

Author(s): Ambrose Bierce

The Order in Which the Beetles Are Shown
In Explanation
The Key Note
Cain
An Obituarian
A Commuted Sentence
A Lifted Finger
Two Statesmen
Matter For Gratitude
Three Kinds of a Rogue
   I
   II
   III
A Man
Y'e Foe to Cathaye
Samuel Shortridge
Surprised
Posterity's Award
An Art Critic
The Spirit of a Sponge
Ornithanthropos
To E.S. Salomon
Dennis Kearney
Finis ÆTernitatis
The Veteran
An “Exhibit”
The Transmigrations of a Soul
An Actor
Famine's Realm
The Mackaiad
A Song in Praise
A Poet's Father
A Coward
To My Liars
“Phil” Crimmins
Codex Honoris
To W.H.L.B.
Emancipation
Johndonkey
Hell
By False Pretenses
Lucifer of the Torch
The “Whirligig of Time”
A Railroad Lackey
The Legatee
A Literary Hangman
At the Eleventh Hour
A Controversialist
Mendax
The Retrospective Bird
The Oakland Dog
The Unfallen Brave
A Celebrated Case
Couplets
A Retort
A Vision of Resurrection
Master of Three Arts
Thersites
A Society Leader
Expositor Veritatis
To “Colonel” Dan. Burns
George A. Knight
Unarmed
A Political Violet
The Subdued Editor
A “Scion of Nobility”
The Night of Election
The Convicts' Ball
A Prayer
To One Detested
The Boss's Choice
A Merciful Governor
An Interpretation
A Soaring Toad
An Undress Uniform
The Perverted Village
Mr. Sheets
A Jack at All Views
My Lord Poet
To the Fool Killer
One and One Are Two
Montague Leverson
The Woful Tale of Mr. Peters
Twin Unworthies
Another Plan
A Political Apostate
Tinker Dick
Bats in Sunshine
A Word to the Unwise
On the Platform
A Dampened Ardor
Adair Welcker, Poet
To a Word Warrior
A Culinary Candidate
The Oleomargarine Man
Genesis
Llewellen Powell
The Sunset Gun.
The “Viduate Dame”
Four of a Kind
Alfred Clarke Jr.
Judge Rutledge
W.H.L. Barnes
Reconciliation
A Vision of Climate
A “Mass” Meeting
For President, Leland Stanford
For Mayor
A Cheating Preacher
A Crocodile
The American Party
Uncoloneled
The Gates Ajar
Tidings of Good
Arboriculture
A Silurian Holiday
Rejected
Judex Judicatus
On the Wedding of an AËRonaut
A Hasty Inference
A Voluptuary
Ad Cattonum
The National Guardsman
The Barking Weasel
A Rear Elevation
In Upper San Francisco
Nimrod
Censor Literarum
Borrowed Brains
The Fyghtynge Seventh
Indicted
Over the Border
One Judge
To an Insolent Attorney
Accepted
A Promised Fast Train
One of the Saints
A Military Incident
Substance Versus Shadow
The Committee on Public Morals
California
De Young—A Prophecy
To Either
The Valley of the Shadow of Theft
Down Among the Dead Men
The Last Man
Arbor Day
The Piute
Fame
One of the Redeemed
A Critic
A Question of Eligibility
Fleet Strother
Californian Summer Pictures
At Anchor
The in Coming Climate
A Long Felt Want
To the Happy Hunting Grounds
Slander
James L. Flood
Four Candidates For Senator
A Growler
Ad Moodium
An Epitaph
A Spade
The Van Nessiad
A Fish Commissioner
To a Stray Dog
In His Hand
A Demagogue
From Top to Bottom
An Idler
The Dead King
A Patter Song
A Caller
The Shafter Shafted

The Mummery
The Two Cavees
Metempsychosis
Slickens
“Peaceable Expulsion”
Aspirants Three
The Birth of the Rail
A Bad Night

On Stone
A Wreath of Immortelles

Ruby on Rails