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The Parenticide Club

By: Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club By Ambrose is a short work that is collection of four stories, each with a narrator that kills at least one parent. This book holds you right from the beginning to the end to keep the suspense moreover. Ambrose Bierce best known as journalist, and short story writer.Bierce is always a great study when you want to see how the author has shaped conspiracy and suspense. Much of his work, including The Parenticide Club, is bizarre and haunting. This short collection is a fascinating example from him.

Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that it was one of the most ghastly crimes that he had ever been called upon to explain away.

 

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Ambrose Bierce

United States

Bierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 24, 1842, to Marcus Aurelius Bierce (1799-1876) and Laura Sherwood Bierce. His parents were a poor but literary couple...

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