Ambrose Bierce

An adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce, follows the grim fortunes of a rebel sniper who becomes trapped in the rubble of a bombed-out house.

A man waiting to be hanged, escapes by killing his jailer and flees deep into the woods where he is capture by the jailer's ghost.

Apocalyptic tale of a monstrous force which devastates Sheriff Kevin Reddle's family and his small Texas town. Sheriff Reddle thinks there's a connection between this mysterious, invisible force which made his father kill his mother back in 1981, and he sets out to uncover and stop the so-called "damned thing" before it decimates the whole town by forcing the residents to kill each other and then finally... themselves.

An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.

A Civil War story by Ambrose Bierce of a Union Army soldier who, in the cover of night, kills a Confederate soldier, only to discover the next day that the soldier is his twin brother.

An intimate drama taking place in a small house lost in the forest, inhabited by two people: a woman suffering from anxiety neurosis and persecution mania and a powerless husband against her terrible illness.

Royds wants to buy a property that has been empty for twenty years and has a sinister past. He insists on spending the night in the wedding chamber. He dies from fright during an apparently solitary night-time vigil. It transpires that he was the original owner of the house who murdered his wife twenty years previously.

Takes an arty approach which stresses the metaphysical dread of a man encountering an invisible entity which slaughters people in the marshes.

"Oil of Dog" - Boffer Bings was born of honest parents, his father was a manufacturer of dog-oil and his mother had a small studio in the shadow of the village church, where she disposed of unwelcome babes. One evening while passing my father's oil factory with the body of a foundling from my mother's studio I saw a constable who seemed to be closely watching my movements.

A stranger challenges the rituals of some members of a secret society for unknown reasons.

A college grad student challenges his professor to prove that he fears the "dead".

A painter in Washington Square in New York. He dreams of a mysterious, black-plumed hearse and is obsessed with a loathsome man with a white, puffy face who inhabits the steps of the church outside his apartment window.

A young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.

Looking for change late in life, Harriet travels for a job as teacher in Mexico. The revolutionaries use her to gain access to a fortified estate. There she meets General Arroyo and befriends Old Gringo, a writer.

Famed American writer Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico during the revolution of 1913-1914 and was never heard from again. This short film interweaves a thread from Bierce's most famous story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" with speculation as to a possible scenario for Bierce's fate.

William Randolph Hearst has big plans to make The Examiner the most successful newspaper in San Francisco. But big plans have a high price tag, and although he increases circulation Hearst still finds it difficult to turn a profit.

Set 100 years ago in Mexico, this horror/western is the story of the birth of the vampire princess Santanico Pandemonium.

In the Civil War, Union soldiers hang a Confederate farmer for sabotage. The rope breaks and he falls into a river. He swims to safety and begins walking home. Disoriented, he's glad to see plantation staff who guide his befogged travel.

During the American Civil War in 1862, a condemned Confederate prisoner, Peyton Farquhar, is due to be hanged by Union troops.

A battered woman wanders upon a mysterious, isolated mountain, where she meets an enigmatic man who seems to be hiding something sinister.

Under the insane leadership of two mysterious figures, an underground support group for sufferers of 'reverse deja-vu' starts to fall apart at the seams, pulling the group members down into a fractured world of strange visions and surreal flashbacks, as they try to make sense of the city around them.

A tourist takes an audio guide tour of the iconic city of Carcosa.

Nine men are the embodiment of good and face up against nine Kali worshippers, who sow confusion and masquerade as the true sages. The story surrounds a priest called Father Cyprian who is in possession of the books but who wants to destroy them out of Christian piety, and a number of other characters who are interested in learning their contents.