The Konformist Blog: Ambrose Bierce and Strange Disappearances

I first learned of Ambrose Bierce and his pioneering journalistic forays into mysterious shadow worlds in 1949, when, at age thirteen, I bought Tales of Haunted Houses, a collection of his newspaper articles that had been published .... It seemed to Bierce that the theory of Dr. Hern of Leipzig, which was expounded in the scientist's own book, Verschwindend und Seine Theorie, might offer an explanation for the subject of mysterious disappearances, “... of which every ...